Early Humans

Reducere. This collection of historical documents provides insight into the history of the United States in its pursuit of the peaceful uses of outer space, ...

Did Neanderthals have language, and if so, what was it like? Scientists agree overall that the behaviour and cognition of Neanderthals resemble tha...

DescriptionBeginning with historical background and early approaches to testing, Measuring Humans: Fundamentals of Psychometrics in Selecting and I...

Contributor(s): Author: Jeremy J. SchmidtAn intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological sh...

Reducere. Developmental psychologists coined the term theory of mind to describe how we understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past tw...

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

Reducere. A century of art exploring the ambivalent relationship between humans and machinesFrom the age of the conveyor belt to today's digital revolution, ...

Reducere. Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social a...

DescriptionMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush...

Reducere. The holiday stories you never heard...In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.Short, fat and hairy, they have lived ...

Reducere. What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about wh...

Reducere. DescriptionSpanning the time period from 15, 000 BCE to 1500 CE, Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History (Vol. 1) focuses on creating global connect...

Reducere. Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12, 000 years ag...

Reducere. Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human histor...

Reducere. In this beautifully illustrated study of sculpture, vases, and other cult objects portraying the Goddess, fertility images, and mythical animals, M...

A memoir of a young man's dream of space flight and deep diving, Bending Atmospheres is a dazzling adventure recounting daring, heroic professional...

Reducere. In this seminal study, Hans Kruuk redefines the image of the spotted hyena, not as a common scavenger, but as a complex matriarchal predator with l...

Reducere. The holiday stories you never heard...In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.Short, fat and hairy, they have lived ...

Reducere. This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of...

Pigs were an integral part of society in the medieval West. Historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates how the working relationships between humans and p...

The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts ...

An exploration of the role that dreaming, psychedelic experiences, and mystical visions play in visionary art - Includes discussions with 18 well-k...

Reducere. Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's s...

Reducere. In this seminal study, Hans Kruuk redefines the image of the spotted hyena, not as a common scavenger, but as a complex matriarchal predator with l...

Reducere. Pilgrim, Book Five of the Wayfarer Redemption from Sara DouglassThe Star Gate is destroyed and the Star Dance is dead. Icarii Enchanters, gods, and...

Reducere. In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material...

Reducere. Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper rel...

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catas...

Reducere. This comprehensive look at the first humans in Florida combines contemporary archaeology, the writings of early European explorers, and experiments...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. I...

Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth JohnstonAuthor: Leah OlsonThe authors tackle these questions and more in this "tasting menu" of cutting-edge emot...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it ...

Reducere. This book, The Moon: NASA Images from Space, includes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA), European Space Agency (E...

Reducere. DescriptionOn the Incarnation contains the reflections of Athanasius of Alexandria, upon the subjects of Christ, His purpose on Earth, and the natu...

Reducere. Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

Reducere. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Garth Owen-Smith"Garth Owen-Smith has spent almost his entire working life fighting - not against a conventional enemy but ...

DescriptionSince early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protecti...

Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of ...

DescriptionA provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.Humans are eati...

Reducere. About 13, 000 years ago a man died on the steep banks of Arlington Canyon on Santa Rosa Island, one of California's Channel Islands. The early date...

Reducere. From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the ...

Reducere. The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a masterful, timely, and fully authorized biography of the great and hugel...

Reducere. In early 2008, Dianne Robbins received this message during a time of meditation: "We are the Tree People, and we would like to begin our dictations...

Val rie is a Starlady. Her mission is to speak of the sacred Aborigine Alcheringa Stone, the seven sisters of the Pleiades, the early evolution of ...

What makes human consciousness unique? John Parrington draws on early Russian ideas and the latest neuroscience to argue that humans went through a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fritz ZimmermanThe Encyclopedia of Ancient Giants in North America chronicles two distinct waves of giant humans migrating ...

"I am a dog, " the narrator of Patrice Nganang's novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, howeve...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book sets out to examine the wider concept of magic and mythology being utilised as an early form of social psychoanalysis by the d...

Reducere. Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10, 000 ...

Reducere. It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.Considered one of the father's of Science Fiction, H. G. Wells was a prominent a...

E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods...

DescriptionIn the insatiable quest for natural resources, humans are searching further and deeper into the earth, threatening to unleash monsters t...

Reducere. DescriptionAre ETs healing humans?The answer, of course, is yes In this landmark book, The Healing Power of UFOs, leading UFO researcher, Preston D...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa, then keep reading...Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. Th...

DescriptionWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Associa...

DescriptionIn the insatiable quest for natural resources, humans are searching further and deeper into the earth, threatening to unleash monsters t...

Reducere. There are many stories about superheroes or beings withpowers. In this day and age, they are a dime a dozen butfew have a history that reaches back...

Reducere. This book was written to help parents, early childhood educators, special education teachers, and counselors talk to young children about their emo...

Reducere. In this ground-breaking book, Gregor Maehle shows how the chakras offer a blueprint for the natural evolution of life via single-cell organisms, re...

Reducere. One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. Ancient rites, old deities and savage ...

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is ...

Contributor(s): Author: Eliot SchreferBefore humans, and before human history, there were the apes. Snub is a young gorilla, living in the heart of...

Reducere. In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephe...

Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and se...

The first book to combine the idea that our early ancestors did care for one another in an unselfish way with archaeological evidence. It is the ev...

About Explanatorium of HistoryTake a rollercoaster ride through the past with this fact-packed and visually stunning children's history encyclopedi...

Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard's early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and ...

Reducere. Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and anima...