Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, Hardcover - Samuel J. Redman

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Nineteenth-century "salvage anthropology" preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable to researchers and the public. ...

This book draws from the author's nearly three-decade career of being "the only one in the room". Cecile Shellman builds a process for individualiz...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Harry BoneAuthor: Dave CourcheneAuthor: Robert GreeneWe, the elders, have done our best to represent our Red Nation as Ojib...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fe...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Fitchburg State University, USA) GordonIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Pu...

From farming, cooking and feasting scenes depicted in the Middle Ages in books of hours to the fish and fruit of ancient frescoes and mosaics, Food...

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Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today?Climate and Society in Ire...

Make every communication count--with a simple, four-step speaking model Whether it's among colleagues at lunch or an audience of a thousand, a lead...

This volume brings together the best presentations from the 8th and 9th Archaeology of the Douro Valley meetings, held in Avila (2018) and Astorga ...

A 2018 Reader Views Choice Award Feathered Quill "Be Kind to Animals" Prize A 2018 Distinguished Favorite Independent Press AwardThomas the Turtle ...

Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel. As two kids give t...

Reducere. The first edition of the monumental book Diseases from Space by Sir Fred Hoyle and N Chandra Wickramasinghe appeared some 40 years ago, encapsulati...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Associate Professor Eugene M. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) AvrutinIllustration(s)...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Associate Professor Eugene M. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) AvrutinIllustration(s)...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom prehistory to postmodernism, the arts in Spain have occupied a central role in the development of Western art. In this wide-ranging...

Revisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures - ranging from Los Angel...

A comprehensive overview of the latest research in hominid evolution, synthesising data and approaches from fields as diverse as physical anthropol...

A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land...

Reducere. More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Ra...

Reducere. The daughter of a prominent Black businessman, Dolores Mae Duncan grew up in New York City during the exhilarating 1930s. A unique and progressive ...

A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.

Reducere. This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in th...

DescriptionContinuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of flow chemistry with th...

This book presents a novel view of intelligence, and of the relationship between machine intelligence and human beings. From this perspective, mach...

DescriptionContemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine an...

Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century - Michael D. Shin, Lee Injae, Owen Miller, Park Jinhoon, Yi Hyun-Hae

DescriptionA One-Stop Guide to Museum Careers People who love art, are fascinated by archaeology, or are history buffs may have considered the idea...

Publisher: Institute for Aegean PrehistoryIllustration(s): 54Number of pages: 210Collection: Prehistory MonographsPublication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Reducere. From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, arguably the first f...

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Explores the archaeology and heritage of the London Gateway site.Publisher: Oxford ArchaeologyAuthor(s): Kirsty SmithIllustration(s): 101Number of ...

Reducere. Educated but untaught, involved but unknowing, Catholic but spiritually reserved, white but unwittingly blinded by the ubiquitous whiteness surroun...

2016 ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB MOTORING BOOK OF THE YEARBrian Redman is one of very few notable British racing drivers whose racing life has yet to be ...

This book examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on t...

A guide to the weirdest and most wonderful museums in the world, from the Currywurst Museum of Berlin to the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum

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