RK: The real unity between the books is my abiding and ongoing concern to connect what happens and happened in China in the 19th-21st centuries to a global context, which both informed China's passage and to which China's rise and challenge has been central, in my view.
A guide to the place of evolution in a biological ecological curriculum is provided in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. In these depictions, biology, ecology, and evolution are interwoven and connected with each other, abiding by "Dobzahnsky's dictum".
(I should add that while I have no problem abiding by these rules, especially those connected to food allergies, they are still incredibly annoying).
Look beyond the touchy-feely stuff, however, and you'll find some more compelling reasons why the supermarkets might wish to sell more of their wine in this way, all of them connected to the grocers' real abiding concern: profit.
This is connected, I believe, to Robbins's abiding interest in teen-agers.
His sense of alienation gave him an abiding fascination with what it means to be connected to other people.
The problem of self-deceit is connected to another of Butler's abiding themes, human ignorance of the larger design of God.
This week that image of abiding leaps off the page to me; it connects so strongly to our ideal of The American Family: that we stick together and weather the storms as a blissful unit.
This was a really lonely, soul-destroying period, but culminated in me making a concerted effort to drag myself out of solitude and connect with some of my old law-abiding friends again.
However, staying connected to memories and to the feeling of abiding love is a healthy way to grieve.
