Richerson and Boyd, for instance, state in the introduction to Not by Genes Alone, their general-audience presentation of DIT, that "Population thinking is the core of the theory of culture we defend in this book" (2005: 5).
But Silverstein was continually asked to defend the book, and this seems to have sapped his energy.
After the action on chrysotile, Jeffrey Simpson, a columnist for The Globe and Mail, wrote: "We mine asbestos, we ship it, we make money from it, and we'll use every diplomatic trick in the book to defend this odious practice.
How does Georges Borchardt defend the book's validity as a work of non-fiction?
Documents show how Sir Archibald Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions, feared that the publisher would mobilise eminent writers to defend the book.
The writer Norman Mailer and the poet Allen Ginsberg had to defend the book in court before the ruling could be reversed.
What that shows is that debates over even very specific principles like these can end up grounding out — either the participants will end up defending their favored principles by appealing to those very principles (citing the book to defend the book) or appealing to other specific principles that the other side shares but gives a lower priority.
"I'm very confident that if they were to sue, we would be able to successfully defend the book and its content".
He took out a $10,000 bank loan to outbid another publisher that had offered a $7,500 advance, and enlisted Morris Ernst, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, to defend the book against legal challenges.
Krugman defended the book on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday.
