Hegemony of the Antiquity’ Heritage: Sharing a Common Past?

The Common Heritage of Mankind: Past, Present, and Future

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

The shape of the past: models and Antiquity

The author's aim is to elucidate the nature and function of models. They help to organize masses ofinformation, improve techniques ofreasoning, allow understanding of data broken up by disciplines, and confer mental agility by permitting switching modes of thinking. His book, after describing and discussing models in detail, explores the application of them to history, in this case the period f...

Common vampire bat contact calls attract past food-sharing partners

Animals living with kin and nonkin should make social decisions based on the consequences for both direct and indirect fitness. Common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus, invest in stable cooperative relationships that benefit both components of inclusive fitness. To disentangle these two factors, we conducted two types of playback trials using a captive group of familiar common vampire bats with ...

Virtual Heritage: Living in the Past

Virtual Heritage (VH) is the use of electronic media to recreate or interpret culture and cultural artifacts as they are today or as they might have been in the past (Moltenbrey, 2001; Roehl, 1997). By definition, VH applications employ some kind of three dimensional representation; the means used to display it range from still photos to immersive Virtual Reality. Virtual Heritage is a very act...