Human Traces, Paperback

What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces.The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow...

From the British scientific pioneers who struggled to understand the mysteries of transplants to the Swiss zoologist who devised a new method of as...

Nussberger traces the history of the European Court of Human Rights from its political context in the 1940s to the present day, answering pressing ...

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing arch...

What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain - on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean S...

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. New fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past; the new science of anc...

In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney traces the evolution of our modern diet and looks to science to offer solutio...

This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration ...

Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book ...

Reducere. Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in hum...

Reducere. DescriptionRich sourcebook of approximately 500 black-and-white designs traces history and meaning of the shield, symbols, crests, helmets, and bla...

Reducere. The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the s...

Traces our preoccupation with nudity in three distinct areas of human endeavour: religion, politics and popular culture. This book explores new ter...

Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extr...

Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accessio...

Reducere. DescriptionMaking analy(c subjec(vity his life(me focus, these selected papers span four decades of Irwin Hirsch's astute examina(on of the analyst...

Reducere. A profound and deeply personal collection of essays by renowned psychologist Carl RogersThe late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology ...

A comprehensive exploration of Earth's ancient past, the evolution of humanity, the rise of civilization, and the effects of global catastrophes - ...

Reducere. The Socratic injunction, "Know Thyself, " is the foundation for all work on selfdevelopment. Susan Zannos opens an illumination window on human beh...

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software...

This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian emigre psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose ...

Reducere. The Fae have left earth to humankind many millennia ago, dividing the sister worlds of Beluvial and Earth with the Great Veil. While man has long f...

This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his fo...

This book traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. It draws on examples...

Reducere. DescriptionA new narrative for the emergence of human music, drawing from archaeology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary theory.What...

Reducere. In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors t...

The complete DNA molecules comprising the human genome were deciphered two decades ago. With this discovery began a remarkable genomic voyage back ...

Reducere. In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Sci...

Reducere. How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new ...

Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. A world-famous biologist, Sheldrake propos...

Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dosto...

Now a successful mental health professional, leading educator and sought-after public speaker, Lora DeVore's early life was one of extreme vulnerab...

Reducere. The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In stud...

Here is the human potential masterwork that defined the New Age. Called "an exciting vision of the future" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), "a handbook of...

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical deve...

DescriptionReveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world ...

DescriptionCairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It loo...

DescriptionHow and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or...

Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Aw...

DescriptionThe Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relations...

Contributor(s): Author: Michel SerresMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language ...

We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimp...

Reducere. Rocky Mountain National Park: A History is more than just the story of Rocky Mountain in its brief tenure as a national park. Its scope includes th...

For more than two thousand years the art of Greece and Rome has been hugely influential throughout the Western world. This book recaptures the pass...

Reducere. From the peaks of the Continental Divide to the expanse of its eastern prairie, Montana contains some of America's richest wildlife habitat. Wilder...

Contributor(s): Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Adam KotskoWhat does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study,...

DescriptionObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "You are what you eat." Never...

Reducere. Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883) was a famous German philosopher, political economist and theorist, historian and revolutionary whose ideas laid the ...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

Reducere. In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empir...

Reducere. "Steven Riel's Edgemere is gorgeous, heartbreaking, and witty - often at the same time. With exquisite precision and extraordinary musicality, Riel...

Reducere. The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by...

Reducere. In this explosive novel of world-class suspense, former Black Ops veteran Leo J. Maloney traces a lethal conspiracy from the front lines of battle ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Reducere. Considered her finest work and an American classic, Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant far...

Reducere. The Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a "decadent" novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1953), who used the...

Uncover the True History of Ancient Egypt Like the discovery of an unknown mummy's tomb, Katanga A. Bongo's Civilization and the Ancient Egyptians ...

DescriptionHow are today's 'hearts and minds' programs linked to a late-19th century definition of human factors as people's moral and mental defic...

Reducere. Written during the rule of National Socialism in Germany and the rise of the so-called Racial Laws in Fascist Italy, The Myth of the Blood offers a...

Reducere. "FASCINATING . . . MEMORABLE . . . REVEALING . . . PERHAPS THE BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S BOOKS."--The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In ...

Reducere. Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-kn...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the ...

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

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

Reducere. Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.Toward the end of the Middle Ages, med...

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid ...

Reducere. The Tree of Visions brilliantly traces the lineage of thought and practice of western esotericism. Winding throughout our history and within many c...

Reducere. Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Reducere. Sex, The World History: Through Time, Religion, and Culture is a daring exploration of human sexuality, from the ancient to the modern world. Sex, ...

Reducere. This book on Universal Ideology is the second in a trilogy on History, Ideology and Revolution. The first book, in 5 volumes, traces the history of...