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Summary
Summary
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today's developing countries--with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man and one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how today's basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.
Drawing on a vast body of knowledge--history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics--Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Contributors | p. xiii |
Chapter 1 The Origin and the Nature of Natural Products | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 Plant-Derived Natural Products in Drug Discovery and Development: An Overview | p. 11 |
Chapter 3 Plant and Brain Cannabinoids: The Chemistry of Major New Players in Physiology | p. 49 |
Chapter 4 Natural Products as Biomarker Tracers in Environmental and Geological Processes | p. 77 |
Chapter 5 Toxins of Marine Invertebrates and Microorganisms | p. 127 |
Chapter 6 Enantiomeric Distribution of Odorous Oxygenated Monoterpenes in Aromatic Plants | p. 155 |
Chapter 7 Recent Trends of Some Natural Sweet Substances from Plants | p. 189 |
Chapter 8 Natural Products for Pest Management | p. 209 |
Chapter 9 Natural Products in Mycelial Microorganisms: Impact of Morphology | p. 253 |
Chapter 10 Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Insect Pheromones | p. 285 |
Chapter 11 Nature Derived Antibiotics | p. 351 |
Chapter 12 Natural Products and Related Compounds of Realized and Potential Use in Treating Neurodegenerative Disease | p. 377 |
Chapter 13 Phytotoxic Compounds with Calmodulin Inhibitor Properties from Selected Mexican Fungi and Plants | p. 427 |
Chapter 14 Potential Anticancer Natural Products from Plant-Associated Fungi | p. 471 |
Chapter 15 Plant Fungal Endophytes: Interactions, Metabolites and Biosyntheses | p. 503 |
Index | p. 581 |