Описание: Provides a critique of genetic determinism and reductionism within science while exploring a range of issues including the nature of science, biology, evolution, the environment, public health, and dialectics. This work brings together the essays of two prominent scientists who work to empower the public`s understanding of science and nature.
Solving a marital problem can create bigger problems -ones that lead to murder.
For the love of his boss, Vinnie pays. He should know that benefits don't always accrue to the person paying.
VINNIE BRIGGS will do anything to help his boss DAN LIVORNO at Del Vecchio & Neal, Inc. Dan is the most beautiful and intelligent man Vinnie's ever met, and he has met a lot of men in his short twenty-two years. Dan's problem derives from his wife --GINNY LIVORNO's obsession with super strong, muscular men: sthenolagnia. Jealousy consumes Dan, and for good reason: Ginny's drop-dead gorgeous, the kind of woman you rarely meet, if ever.
Dan's believes to help Ginny he must remove her from the source of her obsession, the champion pro bodybuilder BEN HAUSEN, and Ginny's personal trainer. Out of sight, out of mind. Just because Ben's gay doesn't reduce Dan's jealousy, leading to irrational decisions.
Dan knows his marriage is at stake. Ginny agrees, but not because of her so-called obsession, which she denies. A fortunate circumstance presents Dan his solution: apply for the DV&N's directorship of European Financial Services in Paris.
LINDA LORDS, Dan's rival in financial analysis, has the same goal. With the help of BILL BARRINGTON, the executive vice president at DV&N, she has a better shot at the Paris job. Linda and Bill have their obsession to satisfy-greed. As co-conspirators, with Linda in Paris, they can embezzle enough money to begin new lives. Joining the superrich, they'll abandon family obligations and morality. The have visions of unbridled sex, gambling, and any other vice they choose, not necessarily with each other. All they need do is eliminate Dan as challenger for the directorship.
Lucky for Dan he has Vinnie to help him, and unlucky for Vinnie, Bill has the Brooklyn mob. Dan has no idea his easy solution to resolve Ginny's sthenolagnia will change his understanding of the world. Straight arrow Dan must learn about real passion, gay sex, bodybuilding, and cheaters.
Dan's apparent simple solution begets a complex one. He'll need Ben's help, the very muscle hunk he despises. Dan's new problem is not to solve his marriage, but Vinnie.
Living away from your championship bodybuilder lover seems hard -but nothing like when people die.
How to help someone who doesn't want help, even though they need it?
How to suppress your desires?
How to convince your partner to have a baby they don't want?
VINNIE BRIGGS' methods lead to his friend's murder, and him accused of murder.
Vinnie bonds with SLIDER, a homeless man. They share a sense of justice, and similar teenage experiences: both belittled and disowned by families for being gay. They also join to help Vinnie's neighbors.
GRACE LEE is pregnant and her partner, KAELIN PETERSON, is a midwife, which means nothing can go wrong. Except Kaelin finds out Grace's pregnancy is not a clinical insemination. A rape explains the pregnancy.
Vinnie revives his P.I. skills to expose Grace's rapist, despite Grace's fear to reveal the man's identity. Slider believes the truth closer to home. While Vinnie returns to New York to be with both his massively muscular husband, BEN HAUSEN, Slider uncovers the truth.
And the truth is dangerous. Vinnie returns to reveal more than the rapist -but a murder. Vinnie's investigation leaves him the main suspect for murder. Justice can only prevail if friends help each other.
How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society breaks from the confirms of determinism, offering a dialectical analysis for comprehending a dynamic social and natural world. In Biology Under the Influence, Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins provide a devastating critique of genetic determinism and reductionism within science while exploring a broad range of issues including the nature of science, biology, evolution, the environment, pubic health, and dialectics, They dismantle the ideology that attempts to naturalize social inequalities, unveil the alienation of science and nature, and illustrate how a dialectical position serves as a basis for grappling with historical developments and a world characterized by change. Biology Under the Influence brings together the illuminating essays of two prominent scientists who work to demystify and empower the public's understanding of science and nature.
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