Edition: A Mentor Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc, New York
Date Published: 1945
Description: very worn book, front cover worn, scuffed, creased, shelf worn & fairly large tear in lower corner by spine, spine creased & cocked, back cover yellowed due to age & worn, copy edges faded, pages yellowing due to age, some pages creased, Mass Market (Rack) PB, glued binding, 669 p read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: New American Library, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1959 Mentor paperback. NOT EX LIB! Clean pages with very light tanning near edges, barely creased spine, light edgewear &mild cover scuffing. Nice! A Mentor Book MT248. 669 p. Maps, Illustrations. Originally published-Wiley, 1945. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1959 Mentor paperback. NOT EX LIB! Bright, clean pages with light reading wear, a few bent page corners, creased spine, light edgewear & mild cover scuffing. 669 p. Illustrations. Originally published-Wiley, 1945. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mentor Book
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fair. 1964 3rd printing Mentor Books pub. Paperback. Couple of spine creases. Underlining on one page. Top edge of pages lightly stuck together. Still nice reading copy. Ship same or next day. More history books in our store. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mentor Book
Date Published: 1959
Description: VG Used, Very Good in VG jacket. PAPERBACK, VG/VG, Mentor Book, 1959, 2nd printing, April 1962, 13.3 oz. This copy has visible but minimal creasing of the spine, is in otherwise Very Good condition. Special Notes on this book: small chips at spine ends Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J. Wiley
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good. Hardcover. Modest wear. Pages lightly tanned, clean and unmarked. Binding between pages 20 and 21 has been repaired, pages tight. No dust jacket. read more
Description: Very good. Old book but in good condition; due to age pages are yellow; border of pages are tinted red and in some areas they have time/storage stains. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Date Published: 1945
Description: No dust jacket. Cover worn. Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a study copy., 900grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York
Date Published: 1945
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good. No Jacket Very Good, No DJ Condition very good in blue cloth boards with gold lettering front and spine, discolored spine with black marking, previous owner's name on ffp. This book is an attempt to analyze the role of biological inheritance and physical environment in influencing the course of history. It is part of a still larger plan which includes an interpretation of the main trends of history in the light of these two factors as well as of the cultural ... read more
Publisher: NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Published by NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY in 1959, small size, no D/W, stained, wear to edges, internally good, wear to head & tail of spine, without inscription, illustrated in black & white, a good reading copy. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: MENTOR
Date Published: 1964
Description: Published by MENTOR in 1964. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
"This historic book presented paradigms for ecology as effective toward human culture, along with (imperfect) influence of biology, toward psychology and sociology of the human-being. In the presentation of evidenced hypotheses, Huntington presages much of the modern total-systems model of the human phenotype. I do NOT think that this author was trying to say that he had 'uttered the last word' on his theses; and as his theses have become rather more-testable with the scientific paradigms-cultural and technological in this 21st century, I certainly feel that it is time to look-again at this important book MAINSPRINGS OF CIVILIZATION as a rich potential source for directing human/organismic ecological study. In this vein, of somewhat recent date I have been interested in 'embellishment' of the total-systems-model implied by the term "bio-psycho-social" which appears in medical and other scientific literature. I faulted not the quest for comprehensiveness in this model, but indeed felt that more-was-needed to complete the comprehensiveness. In fine, it occurred to me that beyond the biological pertains the physical interface-- as we are bathed in electromagnetic 'waves,' affected by heat, and 'force' like wind, gravity, physical-pressure, and heat/thermal-dynamics. In other words, one needs to add this 'physical' (medical/scientific Greek: "HYLIC") dimension to a full analysis of totality in systems-- thus inviting my coinage of a HYLE-BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL MODEL(ING). Even in Ellsworth Huntington's time, the molar aspects of what is now assumed in general science as framing the human phenomenon were visible; as a systhesizer with immense flair for presenting complex data in limpidly-clear graphics, and as an explicator for theses which had a factual basis (though not received in a time still having its wars with pan-behaviorism, and [especially here in the South] the pan-biologism fueling racism) this book was for a time a 'flash' on the American scene, resurrected in the dim consciousness of the late 1950s (as a partial justification for some of the hullaballoo then associated under the banner of "civil rights"), and eclipsed after the advent of sociobiology (toward which this work of Huntington would only give qualified endorsement), unto this time, which I esteem to be ripe for looking at the substantiated ideas, 'ideas for further research' then which now we have means:motive:better-opportunity to evidence in a more-vigorous way. CONSIDER: (Life-scenario #1): There was an immense hurricane-- Katrina-- some years ago-- whose PHYSICS depopulated the City of New Orleans-- and the most fragile-- particularly those with mental disorders-- potentiated a greater phenotype of 'illness' from multiple inputs; (Life-Scenario # 2) Global Warming is 'desertify-ing' much of Africa and other parts of the world; the shade made my rich forestation is now reduced to the heat/glare of sun-- and cultures affected (and unaffected by USA 'fixes' of e.g. air-conditioning/refrigeration) are thrown into biological psychological and social turmoil; (Life-Scenario # 3): a pretty young girl is made a quadraplegic by a car-accident (PHYSICAL event) and then after numerous insults to muscularity:neurology:alimentary-system trys to effect suicide (PSYCHOLOGICAL event) and then is shunned by her Fundamentalist church (SOCIAL event); (Life-Scenario # 3): a rooming house in China catches afire in dead-of-winter (PHYSICAL event), death with burning (@ degrees 1, 2, &3) and the converse-- freezing-by-cold-exposure-- affect all levels of BIOLOGY hugely; there is potentiated high incidence of PTSD (post-traumatic-stress-disorder) in PSYCHOLOGY; and the whole nation mourns the catastrophe (SOCIAL event.) In this way, the 'hylic' becomes a real dimension to study in historical (as well as laboratory) time-series. Thus -- for the leading hypotheses-- sustained by best-evidence-then, and for our potential to appreciate Huntington's theses with the new, born-again-ecology-movement, I think this work deserves careful attention."
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