Opposable Thumbs

Opposable Thumbs is Dean Haspiel's stories of a born & bred New Yorker and the trials and tribulations of living in the big bad city which serves as the backdrop for the informed, existential expression in his sociological comics. Even the bleakest and grubbiest settings are lovingly, lusciously rendered by Haspiel's sharp brush.

Get the Summary of Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Opposable Thumbs" by Matt Singer chronicles the careers of film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. Ebert, who began as a reporter, unexpectedly became a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times at 24, winning a Pulitzer Prize and developing a conversational critique style. Siskel, who lost his parents early, found solace in movies and became a critic for the Chicago Tribune, known for his rigorous standards...

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different. Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking probing questions including: What are the causal relationships at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs? Martin also presents a model for strengthening your integrative thinking skills by drawing on different kinds of knowledge including conceptual and experiential knowledge. Integrative thinking can be learned, and The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill.

The first book published by the author of In a Temple of Trees, Opposable Thumbs offers a humor as wry as Flannery O'Connor's, minus the religion, at least as O'Connor viewed that commodity.

The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).

A complete sourcebook for philosophical discussion of the nature of function in biology.

In reviewing introductory texts available to criminologists, one is left with the impression that biological factors are irrelevant to the formulation of criminal behavior. Where biology is mentioned at all, it receives infinitesimal coverage. This dearth of attention could at one time be blamed on shoddy research and the legitimate fear that evide

A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary overview of the hand, from its evolution to assessment of disability.