Quaternary Lives

Transforming lives.

Parallel Lives

California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are dotted with populations of checkerspot butterflies that belong to the same species but lead separate lives. The populations are differentiated by the host plants where females lay their eggs, with one type favoring Collinsis torreyi (blue-eyed Mary) and the other favoring Pedicularis semibarbata (pine lousewort). Other than that, the checkerspots are muc...

Jung's lives.

Forty published life histories of C. G. Jung are grouped into eight categories: autobiography, hagiographies, pathographies, professional biographies, intellectual biographies, illustrated biographies, religious biographies, and joint Jung/Freud biographies. Each work is briefly reviewed in terms of its scope, its main contributions to the biographical literature on Jung, and its principal shor...

Georeferenced lives

To give a georeference means to give a reference as existing in the physical space of Earth. This procedure is widely used for the location of archaeological, historical and other sites when geographic information systems (GIS) are used. Here we are proposing to georeference the lives of famous people (in the paper, Newton and Schiaparelli) for teaching purposes, to increase the appeal of some ...

Disordered Lives

Psychological disorder is the business of a large number of professions. The study and treatment cannot be contained within traditional medical concepts, and the writers of this book correctly state that 'Those whose daily preoccupation is with the lives of others? clergymen, teachers, social workers and doctors?continually have to meet and deal with many forms of