The Gambling Animal

This is a masterful integration of scientific insights on the human path to ecological domination [and] many-faceted scholarly work made accessible to the intelligent non-specialist ... it is behavioral economics at its best -- George Ainslie, behavioural economist and author of Breakdown of Will
This valuable and highly enjoyable book offers a fresh perspective: human evolution as a story of collective risk management, seasoned with a bit of luck. The Gambling Animal takes us on a tour through the gambles of life, from the survival struggles of early hominids to the allure of video poker to our high-stakes wager on climate change. If you are curious about humanity's evolutionary gamble, this book is for you -- Gerd Gigerenzer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Praise for Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised (with James Ladyman) -- :
A book can be important, although its main claims seem to the reader to be as controversial at the end of the book as they were at the beginning ... So it is with Every Thing Must Go ... An enticing work -- Jeremy Butterfield * TLS *
Ross's broadside against traditional analytic metaphysics embodies the most admirable characteristics of a good slap across the face: it is forceful, frank, and delivered in response to sufficient provocation -- P. Kyle Stanford, author of Exceeding Our Grasp