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Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. Brilliantly written, The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.
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The Red Queen.......2007-10-16
The book has some interesting ideas, but could probably be summarized in about half the number of pages.
Great Book.......2007-03-27
I can't add very much to the excellent reviews already posted. I'll just say quickly that I enjoyed very much the fresh insight into mating practices among the "lower animals" and among humans. I've read a lot about evolution and biology and so forth, and still found much new material here. I really enjoyed learning about how scientists finally discovered the rampant adultery among birds and how incredible they are at hiding it.
Several reviewers warn about having to "make it through" the first part, and I certainly understand that if your primary interest is in the evolutionary origins of human sexuality. However, I really enjoyed the first part as well, because it provides a broad understanding of sex in evolution and give lots of fun examples about different behaviors and adaptations.
Although I didn't give the book 5 stars (I reserve that for the best of the best), it showed me that Mr. Ridley is a great writer and I'll check out his other books (I think I'll start with Genome).
Worth slogging through Part 1 to get to Part 2.......2007-01-30
Some of the ideas expressed in The Red Queen are brilliant, and their applicability to the nature of human sexuality are quite interesting. However, Ridley's very methodical approach to categorizing and cataloging the varieties during the first 120-150 pages can be painfully slow.
Once Part II kicked in, I was glad I persevered. After the first part apparently sets the stage for some descriptions related to human beings, I found myself unable to put the book down during second half. No need to add on to what has been written by others, but if I had to do it again, I definitely would have skimmed Part 1.
Still worth the effort and quite a conversation piece. In the month since I finished, I find I bring it up in casual conversation regularly, and even during the course of book club conversations about male and female perspectives to similar actions, perceptions, or mating rituals. Definitely recommended!
So interesting..........2006-12-14
I remember flying on an airplane 6 years ago and having the stranger sitting next to me highly recommend this book. It ended up taking me three years before I finally obtained a copy!
This book is phenomenal. Starting from the first organisms on the planet and building up to modern day human beings, this book gives a detailed account of evolution and covers numerous theories, supported in great detail, as to how humans are they way we are.
The only reason this book gets 4 stars from me is because it is written in text book language and it can be hard to follow at some points. But stick with it - the end of the book is where most of the interesting points emerge.
The implications to the future human civilization are staggering.......2006-11-10
Science writer Matt Ridley's book "The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" is outstanding. I have read at least 20 other books by various authors on this subject, and yet Ridley's book contains a vast amount of original work and brilliant viewpoints.
His language is accessible, witty, and moving. His explanations and arguments are well researched, and elegantly written.
Ridley takes you on a journey, for those willing, into nature's infinite world of sexual evolution using existing species as examples. You'll end up realizing how constricted our society is in relation to our nature. The book opened my mind to how diverse our society can be, and how we limit and restrict ourselves. I find this book to be one of his best works.
Experts in every field of living systems should read this book, the implications are staggering. Although written entirely from a biological / genetic / nature point of view, anyone could use the material to develop an improved system. For example, improved political systems, draft laws that make sense, market products more successfully, understand the criminal mind-set, raise children better, better discern the cause of war and violence, etc.
In a nut-shell, if you want to understand the infinite possibility of human potential, this book gives you the "theory of operation" and should be considered the bible on how central sexuality is to the nature of humankind and our modern civilization.
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"Universities exist to transmit understanding and ideals and values to students . . . not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. . . . When I entered a much smaller Rutgers sixty years ago, athletics were an important but strictly minor aspect of Rutgers education. I trust that today's much larger Rutgers will honor this tradition from which I benefited so much." --Milton Friedman, Rutgers '32, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1976
In 1998, Milton Friedman's statement drew national attention to Rutgers 1000, a campaign in which students, faculty, and alumni were resisting the takeover of their university by commercialized Division IA athletics. Subsequently, the movement received extensive coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.
Today, "big-time" college athletics remains a hotly debated issue at Rutgers. Why did an old eastern university that had long competed against such institutions as Colgate, Columbia, Lafayette, and Princeton, choose, by joining the Big East conference in 1994, to plunge into the world of such TV-revenue-driven extravaganzas as "March Madness" and the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl? What is the moral for universities where big-time college sports have already become the primary source of institutional identity?
Confessions of a Spoilsport is the story of an English professor who, having seen the University of New Mexico sink academically in the period of a major basketball scandal, was galvanized into action when Rutgers joined the Big East. It is also the story of the Rutgers 1000 students and alumni who set out against enormous odds to resist the decline of their university--eviscerated academic programs, cancellation of minor sports, loss of the "best and brightest" in-state students to the nearby College of New Jersey--while tens of millions of dollars were being lavished on Division IA athletics. Ultimately, however, the story of Rutgers 1000 is what the New York Times called it when Milton Friedman issued his ringing statement: a struggle for the soul of a major university.
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Triumph of the maggots at New Brunswick.......2007-10-05
To put my cards on the table at the first opportunity: I have recently retired from Rutgers, New Brunswick after 37 years on the Math faculty. For several years, I worked with Bill Dowling and the Rutgers 1000 to try to find a way of diverting the university from the cesspool that is big-time Div 1-A football. I am mentioned in the book in one or two places.
That said, I have to say that I don't miss teaching very much and that the atmosphere created by the dominant jockocracy, especially now that the "program" is a "winner", is an important factor in my indifference. Div 1A football is pure poison when one longs for an atmosphere where serious students predominate and their genuine intllectual curiosity flourishes. I have had such students, of course, and met quite a few of them in the defunct Honors Program, which Dowling accurately describes. These days, they seem like remnants of a doomed race.
Note that it's not jocks, as such, who now flourish in New Brunswick? The best and brightest of them--those who participate in the "non-revenue" sports as free individuals motivated only by their enthusiasm--have, in most cases, been victims of a wholesale purge (unreported in Dowling's book, alas, though it is the saddest and most ironic aspect of the moral rot that concerns him). Fencing, Crew, and Men's Tennis and Swimming have vanished without a trace, despite intense lobbying from outraged parents and alumni and universal bewilderment among undergrads. Why? The pretext is that they are "too expensive". But this happens as more and more cash is poured into a bloated and self-indulgent football program, in the form of luxury accommodations to entice recruits and astronomical pay-scales for coaches and administrators. If you need further reasons, such wholesale aboliton of varsity teams is a cheap and cynical way of "satisfying" Title IX requirements, so that there is no legal obstacle to providing the football team with all the cannon fodder it claims to need.
Likewise, the roster of listed courses continues to decline across the board, especially the small specialized courses that give undergrads access to serious scholarship and research as opposed to once-over-lightly survey courses. The physical plant is ill-maintained. Even the newest buildings, poorly designed to begin with, are allowed to decay in short order. The Banks of the Old Raritan are now tilted so that all the loose cash flows directly into the football program's coffers, with a bit diverted to basketball. The univeristy boasts of the academic success rates of its "student athletes"; funnny thing, though: I've never seen one in any of my classes and I strongly suspect that that if transcripts were on the public record, there would be little sign of anything that deserves to be called higher education.
Alas, the same is true of all too many ordinary students. The student culture has simply plunged into "party school" mode, which is why, as a previous evaluator notes, its a pretty rag-tag bunch, academically, despite the continued presence of a first class faculty. [By the way, to address another point brought up in the previous post, the reason Rutgers outranks such schools as Nebraska is purely a matter of faculty quality; there are still departments at the school that outshine anything in the Ivies. My own department has been consistently listed among the top 15 or so for decades (from a research point of view, of course).] But even the most loyal faculty get pretty disgusted at seeing some lunkhead of a football coach who is making ten times what they are (salary alone, excluding all the little side-deals that fill a coach's pockets when his minions do what they're supposed to and knock their brains out to get a bowl invitation without ever seeing serious money themselves). I know of a few cases where top scholars have gone on to other venues after long Rutgers careers, and I don't think the jockocracy can be let off the hook.
I think Dowling leaves some other factors in the decline of Rutgers (and universities in general) unvisited, since his focus is exclusively on the depradations of the Div 1A program. The snottiness, cynicism, and off-the-shelf nihilism of what may be called the postmodern turn in the humanities convinced many students that their teachers were self-indulgent and out of touch, blind to their own gullibility. So, too, the heavy emphasis on "identity politics" and all the machinery of mandatory righteousness (usually called "political correctness") that came with the package. Academic quirkiness of this kind drove off far more students than it recruited, so far as the life of the mind is concerned.
Equal blame goes to the ethos of pure utilitarianism that colonized much of the academic world utterly indifferent to the vapors of postmodernism. Too many programs and departments, along with their students, came to view their function as credentializing bureaucrats, technocrats, and corporate functionaries, without any concern for deeper cultural values unconcerned with the generation of high incomes and vocational perks.
But, still, there is something about the omniverous football culture that dwarfs everything else in determining the ethics and values that are commonly understood to characterize a campus. If you have a big-time program, you know damned well that sooner or later some high-ranking administrator is going to be caught cheating and lying on a grand scale, and that it will be the chief goal of the top dogs to paper the whole busines over and get back to business as usual. Meanwhile, the program will pass tons of meat on the hoof through the system every year, chewing most of it up past the point of usefulness, and sending the poor kids who signed up for football glory out into the world with no real education and a host of joint problems that will grow worse over the years.
As Dowling points out, the people responsible for this meltdown at Rutgers were for the most part local businessmen and politicians for whom access to a skybox at the stadium of a ranked team is the summum bonum of existence. President Bloustein, who might have known better, wasn't able to hold them off (I think Dowling treats Bloustein too generously, by the way). Presidents Lawrence and McCormick were in their pocket from the getgo. How a decent academic, like McCormick, decays into that forlorn state, I do not know. It's the American version of "Die Blaue Engel", I suppose.
In any case, Dowling has said what needed to be said. The jock-sniffers will howl, either because they are emotional cripples, or because they are cynical parasites who thrive on the crumbs that are dropped from the table of big-time NCAA sports. To hell with them.
A cautionary tale well told..........2007-09-07
Ever since it joined the Big East football conference under former president Francis Lawrence, Rutgers' rankings and admission standards have moved downwards. William Dowling here describes the battles of the Rutgers 1000 group (to which he belonged) against the corruption and cynicism of 'big time' athletics at Rutgers, and details the harm done by 'booster culture' to the intellectual and academic tradititons of America's 8th-oldest university.
For those who believe that universities exist primarily for the transmission of knowledge and free intellectual enquiry, this is not a pretty story. It details how, under a weak president chosen by a board of govenors concerned foremost with 'making it big' in sports, Rutgers withdrew from over a century of competition with schools like Princeton and Cornell and modelled its sports program on institutions like Virginia Tech and Miami. The consequences - including the flight of many of the brightest students, and a run down, crowded, shabby campus offset against the first-class athletic facilities provided for 'student athletes' are well documented in the book.
As a Rutgers student, it angers me that my university has thrown away at least $150 million over the past 15 years on football alone - money that could otherwise have gone into scholarships, new buildings, and facilities for ALL students. In these days of hype and hooplah over a 'winning' football program at Rutgers, it is worth remembering the price Rutgers has paid and continues to pay for such 'success'. I salute Professor Dowling for detailing the numerous reasons why many of us at Rutgers view div 1A football as an expensive sham that does far more harm than good to this great university.
Spoilsport is Somewhat Spoiled.......2007-08-23
The flaws in Professor Dowling's arguments are that he takes much space to equate high SAT scores with high academic achievement. The Rutgers 1000 also weakened their case by mocking the University of Nebraska--inferring that our alma mater would be "lowered" to the academic standards of a "football school." This was naive and ignorant.
The problem with the SAT argument is, at least from my experience in New Jersey, is that the top student will gravitate to the top school, an Ivy League institution for example, if their family can pay the freight. In addition, colleges have moved in the direction of not requiring the SAT because they question its use as an indicator of college success. Not to mention that college applicants with the highese SAT scores tend to come from good to excellent public and private schools and families with high incomes. Dowling mentions his own working class roots, yet the Rutgers 1000 emphasized that the best test takers, based on a test some consider "elitist," are the high achievers they want?
If Rutgers was serious about competing more directly with Ivy League schools it would need to do more than drop scholarship athletics: it have to be a smaller, more selective, more rigorous institution--and practically tuition free to in-state students--just like the University of California before Ronald Reagan became governor. I don't know if this approach is more or less expensive than supporting a Big East football team, but I'd be curious to find out.
Dowling ignores that, under President Lawrence, Rutgers became a member of the Association of American Universities, a roster of the nation's leading research institutions--that already included the University of Nebraska-Lincoln--the "football school." I'm quite sure that Nebraska requires the same academic credentials of its faculty as Rutgers does, otherwise they would not be part of this select association.
I went into two published sources: the Yale Daily News College Guide and the Chronicles of Higher Education to compare Rutgers and Nebraska. Some highlights:
+ Endowment: Nebraska $1.1 billion, Rutgers $540 million
+ In-state tuition: Nebraska $5,867, Rutgers $9,958
+ National Merit Scholars entering in 2006: Nebraska 60, Rutgers less than 30
+ Yield rate (percentage of admitted freshman who choose the school): Nebraska 65%, Rutgers 33%
+ Number of undergraduate students at main campus: Nebraska 17,000, Rutgers 24,000
The year's U.S. News rankings, however, rank Rutgers tied for 20th among national public universities. Putting my comparisons above in context, that's an amazing accomplishment for a school that has a smaller endowment than Nebraska! Other public "football schools" ranked ahead of Rutgers like Berkeley, Michigan, Illinois, Carolina and Texas, also have larger endowments, more merit scholarships and charge less tuition than Rutgers.
I'm glad I went to Rutgers, but the folks who came up with the "Hubie Cornpone" award should be ashamed.
Essential Reading.......2007-08-14
It is difficult to acknowledge the corruption of an ideal, especially when that ideal has been embodied in an institution of higher learning for over two hundred years. Reading this book makes that acknowledgement inevitable.
As a current undergraduate at Rutgers University, I can attest to the accuracy with which Professor Dowling describes the academic and athletic environment that surrounds me from September to May. But the book's greatest value does not lie in its description of the greatest problem that American universities face. The narrative of student, faculty, and alumni opposition to the corruption of ideals that are the symbolic core of their university is what is truly amazing. It is proof that education still exists as an ideal, not just as a means to an end. This book should be read by every student who values education and its promise. I am certain that it will then be a matter of time before we see our university become the builder of men and women that it once was.
A Professor Mourns as Big-Time Football Corrupts His Beloved Rutgers.......2007-07-24
William Dowling is a professor at Rutgers who lives to teach bright, inquisitive students. But since Rutgers opted to move its football team into the Big East conference, he began noticing that the quality of his students was diminishing drastically. Was it possible that big-time football was actually ruining the academic reputation of the college so the best high school students no longer were applying? Was the intellectual elite turned off by the rah rah emphasis on football?
Indeed, he discovered, that was the case. And worse, his current top students began transferring to other colleges for the same reason.
To reverse the trend Professor Dowling attempted to raise the alarm as his RU1000 group sought to do what it could to get the Rutgers chancellor and board of directors to return to small-time football before Rutgers' educational standards fell so low it no longer was rated an elite college.
Alas, the efforts of Dowling and those professors and students who cared so deeply about the academic standards of Rutgers failed, as boosters, corporate sponsors, and football-crazy alums and students painted their faces red and cheered Rutgers to a spectacular season in 2007. As the football budget ballooned, Dowling and his group protested cuts in the academic budget. The betrayal to the core purpose of his beloved university was too much for Dowling to accept without comment.
In a brilliant book that lays bare the high cost to education and educators at sports-crazed colleges, Dowling makes one wonder whether many of our colleges have been corrupted beyond repair.
In the interest of fairness, I must report that part of his description of corruption at other colleges includes a discussion of my book Personal Fouls, which was about the corruption of North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano. The college media machine tried to make mince meat out of me after that book came out. It'll be interesting to see what it tries to do to Professor Dowling.
This book should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in American higher education.
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Forest Tourism and Recreation: Case Studies in Environmental Management (Cabi Publishing)
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Tourism and recreation are set to play an increasing role in the future of forests and woodlands. The increasing demand for outdoor recreation and tourism can be partly catered for in woodlands, since these can be used to screen otherwise conflicitng uses and absorb large numbers of visitors. These recreational uses also drive up the use-value of forests that are visited. At the same time outdoor recreation has the potential to bring extra income to forest owners. This can help offset the extra costs of sustainable timber production and forest conservation. But the use of forests for tourism brings added environmental pressures and requires management responses to ensure the sustainability of this relationship. This book addresses 16 international examples of case studies and concepts and looks at the problems, benefits and ideas relating to tourism and recreation within the context of a forest environment.
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informative, interesting outlook on some issues.......2001-03-19
Interesting case studies in developing countries and established areas of infrastructure. Offers information, statistics, and conclusions drawn in each area. I focused mainly on the case study of Nepal which offered strong counter arguements to the commonly accepted views of conservation and tourism interaction. The authors seem quite well informed and interested in the topic.
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The New Economics of Outdoor Recreation
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This innovative book presents a series of up-to-date analyses of the economics of outdoor recreation. The distinguished group of authors cover real-world recreation management issues and apply economic understanding to these problems. An extensive introduction by the editors details the historical background of economists' interests in this subject, and reveals how economics can provide practical insights into improving how we manage our natural recreation areas.
The book is divided into three parts, each of which focuses on a specific environmental resource: mountains, forests, and rivers and the sea. An array of valuation methods - including stated preference and revealed preference techniques - are then applied to various outdoor recreation activities which occur in these different settings. These include such diverse pursuits as rock climbing, skiing, fishing, hunting and whale watching. The authors clearly demonstrate how recreation modeling can offer a productive link between people (their preferences, and behavior) and the natural environment.
With extensive empirical examples from Europe and North America, this book will be of great value to economists, governments and NGOs who are interested in the environment, development and tourism. It will also be a valuable source of reference for policymakers concerned with land use and natural resource management, and students of environmental and resource economics.
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Characteristics of seventy-two commercial outdoor recreation enterprises in New York State (Leaflet C-40)
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Economic impact of New Mexico state parks: An input-output analysis (Research report / New Mexico State University, Agricultural Experiment Station)
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The economic significance of recreational activities and resources in New Jersey
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