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The Manufacture of Evil: Ethics, Evolution and the Industrial System

3 reviews
Lionel Tiger

Harpercollins, 1987

Off the beaten track
I reviewed this book for a science journal not long after its publication. Rated it four out of five. Why come back eighteen years later? Charting the paths followed over the past three decades toward the goal of a `biosocial science' brought me back. The author is the collaborator with Robin Fox on the best-seller, The Imperial Animal, which explores the evolutionary roots of male behaviour. ...

The imperial animal

3 reviews
Lionel Tiger

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971

One of the millestones of human consciousness
It has been said that Copernicus' treatises on the actual heliocentric nature of the solar system were written more for the friends of his on his unique level of understanding and education. They were more or less accidentally leaked to the Catholic Church years later; hence the unexpected nature of their reaction. The historian of science Giorgio de Santillana wrote in THE CRIME OF GALILEO ...

The Decline of Males: The First Look at an Unexpected New World for Men and Women

39 reviews
Lionel Tiger

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press, 2000

Feminism reduced to a sexual trade union movement
'The Decline of Males' is one of those rare books that, if the argument is understood, promises to radically alter your way of looking at the world. That alone should justify it being described as an important work and undoubtedly should be attracting greater and more serious attention than it so far has. Lionel Tiger, a respected professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, applies his ...

The Racing Tribe

2 reviews
Kate Fox

Transaction Publishers, 2005

Getting in touch with the author, Kate Fox
If Sally Baker would care to get in touch with me (my e-mail address is richardson@tote.co.uk) I would be happy to help her make contact with Kate Fox, the author of The Racing Tribe. I commissioned the original research project undertaken by Kate whilst I was marketing director at the British Horseracing Board, and from which the book came to be written. I can't, therefore, review with any ...

The Pursuit of Pleasure

1 review

Transaction Publishers, 2000

" Pleasure is Political"
Dr. Tiger takes the pulse of society's rules: We tell you what is pleasure... we tell you when you can have it... we will tax it... we will regulate it... and in the end... you may or may not be able to have the experience you intended at a cost that we have predetermined for you to pay. Every function of a human is based on the Pleasure/Pain Principle.. the food we eat, the music we hear... ...

Men in Groups

2 reviews

Transaction Publishers, 2004

Underrated
I just finished reading a first edition hardcover of this book, which is believed to be responsible for popularizing the phrase "male bonding" which is widely in use to this day. A book with that sort of lasting influence could hardly be "obsolete," as another reader suggested. Actually, some of Tiger's suggestions seem fresh and relevant, especially in light of recent trends that take ...

The Apes of New York
Lionel Tiger

Cybereditions, 2003

All I can think of as a personal introduction to this collection of columns is to say: "I wish I were a newspaper columnist." Readers of the lively and provocative essays collected here will readily understand Lionel Tiger's enthusiasm, and probably wish his wish were fulfilled. Written for the New York Press. Daily News, New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal in 1998-2002, they range from condemnation of greedy political and stock-option ...