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• Biopolitics

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• Freedom: The End of the Human Condition (second edition, 2019), by Jeremy Griffith (multiple formats with commentary at humancondition.com)
• Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alexander Rosenberg (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Davydd J. Greenwood (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Romanticism and Biopolitics (2012), ed. by Alastair Hunt and Matthias Rudolf (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Edges of the State (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by John Protevi (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2018), by Ari Larissa Heinrich (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016), by Rhiannon Noel Welch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), by Robert Mitchell (PDF files at JSTOR)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Freedom: The End of the Human Condition (second edition, 2019), by Jeremy Griffith (multiple formats with commentary at humancondition.com)

• Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research (c1999), by Catherine Baker (illustrated HTML and PDF at aaas.org)

• The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, c2020), by Mario Alemi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Davydd J. Greenwood (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Steven B. Jan (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior (c1999), by Craig B. Stanford (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Horacio Fabrega (HTML at UC Press)
• Australia and New Zealand as the Home of a New Sub-Race: Four Lectures Delivered Under the Auspices of the Theosophical Society of Sydney in August, 1915 (Sydney: Theosophical Society in Australia, ca. 1915), by C. W. Leadbeater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homo Schizo (2 volumes), by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Meaning of Infancy, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Studies on the Evolution of the Primates (two studies by Gregory, and an appendix by Matthew, extracted from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1916), by William K. Gregory, contrib. by William Diller Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Antiquity of Man, by Charles Lyell, ed. by R. H. Rastall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)
• The River that Flows Uphill, by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Journal of Big History (partial serial archives)

• Evolution: Guilty as Charged, by Frederick C. Kubicek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Tendencies Toward Race Degeneracy (reprinted from the New York Medical Journal by US Senator Townsend; Washington: GPO, 1912), by John Harvey Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Ape and the Child: A Study of Environmental Influence Upon Early Behavior (New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1933), by W. N. Kellogg and Luella Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by John B. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (c1996), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML with commentary at williamcalvin.com)
• A Handbook of Social Psychology (Worcester, MA: Clark University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1935), ed. by Carl Murchison, contrib. by W. C. Allee, Gordon W. Allport, Friedrich Alverdes, Robert Earle Buchanan, Frederic E. Clements, John Frederick Dashiell, Erwin A. Esper, Herbert Friedmann, Edwin Deeks Harvey, Melville J. Herskovits, Catharine Cox Miles, Walter R. Miles, Gardner Murphy, Lois Barclay Murphy, O. E. Plath, Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Victor E. Shelford, Warren Simpson Thompson, Wilson D. Wallis, Frederic Lyman Wells, Raymond Royce Willoughby, Ada W. Yerkes, and Robert M. Yerkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Cat, Her Mind and Manners: An Introduction To Comparative Psychology (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Georgina Stickland Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiences et Remarques Critiques sur les Sensations des Insectes (in French; 5 parts bound together in 1 volume; title varies in later parts; Como: R. Longatti, 1900-1901), by Auguste Forel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872), by Charles Darwin (HTML at Brock)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (London: John Murray, 1872; with other editions), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Senses of Insects (London: Methuen and Co., c1908), by Auguste Forel, trans. by Macleod Yearsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theoretische Biologie (in German; Berlin: Paetel, 1920), by Jakob von Uexküll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Journal of Comparative Psychology (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Animal Behavior (full serial archives)

• Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Agner Fog (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Cultural Selection (c1999), by Agner Fog (HTML with commentary at agner.org)
• Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jonathan Dewald (HTML at UC Press)
• The Fetishism of Liberty (New York: Marxian Philosophical Society, 1917), by Harry Waton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture, by Robert M. Young (HTML in the UK)

• Equity and Growth in a Globalizing World (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2010), ed. by S. M. Ravi Kanbur and Michael Spence (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2017), by Ingrid Robeyns (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• The Diseconomics of Growth (1972), by H. V. Hodson (HTML at Athelstane)
• Keystone Sector Identification: A Graph Theory-Social Network Analysis Approach (c2000), by Maureen Kilkenny and Laura Nalbarte (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Navigating Culture: A Road Map to Culture and Development (2000), by Pekka Seppälä and Arja Vainio-Mattila (PDF in Finland)
• Free-World Growth and Progress (reprinted from the Dept. of State Bulletin; Dept. of State publication 7302 (Economic cooperation series #61); 1961), by George W. Ball (multiple formats at Google)
• Liberalization in the Process of Economic Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Lawrence B. Krause and Kim Kihwan (HTML at UC Press)
• Underdeveloped Lands: "Revolution of Rising Expectations" (Headline Series #119; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Forrest D. Murden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014), by Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez, Alexander Simoes, and Muhammed A. Yildirim (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Abundance to Scarcity: Implications for the American Tradition (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1978), by Kenneth E. Boulding, Michael G. Kammen, and Seymour Martin Lipset (PDF at Ohio State)
• Financial Stability and Growth in Emerging Economies: The Role of the Financial Sector (2003), ed. by Jan Joost Teunissen and Mark Teunissen (PDF with commentary at fondad.org)
• Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Matt Bakker
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development - A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World (2006), by Nah Soo Hoe (PDF at apdip.net)
• Electricity in Economic Growth (1986), by National Research Council Commission on Electricity in Economic Growth (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue, by William F. Ryan (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Development Cooperation in a Fractured Global Order: An Arduous Transition, by Francisco R. Sagasti and Gonzalo Alcade (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Fueling Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Manuale di Economia Politica; con una Introduzione alla Scienza Sociale (in Italian; Milan: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1919), by Vilfredo Pareto (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.