Less Than Human

Social psychology uses clever, even ingenious, research methods to explore the most essential questions of the human psyche: Why do we help some pe...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, Human Geography: A Short Introduction, Second Edition, is an ideal choice for professors who prefer the flexibility...

Reducere. The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of t...

DescriptionThe gull is a familiar sight by the seaside, and one of the most recognisable bird species, but most people know surprisingly little abo...

Reducere. Marriages are in trouble today. That is clear. Effective mothods of combating this trend are less evident. Counselors, pastors and social workers n...

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals' lives ...

Reducere. DescriptionEven in impoverished countries lacking material and human resources, P. T. Bauer argues, economic growth is possible under the right con...

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, ...

Reducere. Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell...

Reducere. This book presents an in-depth discussion of how human disability and parental advocacy have been constructed in American society, including recomm...

Reducere. National Catholic Register Saturday Book Pick: Mike Aquilina's A Year With the Church Fathers (June 4, 2011) Times change, but human nature does no...

DescriptionAnne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her...

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

Reducere. The Best of America-Captured in Print for the First TimeSomething powerful happened in New York. We had a rare opportunity to experience the healin...

Reducere. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secu...

Reducere. A remarkable exploration of naturalized parrots, among the most widely distributed birds in the world There are more than 350 species of parrots in...

Reducere. The cost of collecting, storing, and analyzing data has decreased about 10, 000 times over the last 20 years In addition, technology experts agree ...

DescriptionThe past continues to operate powerfully, wordlessly, in that less conscious part of our human mind and can trip us up unexpectedly. We ...

DescriptionA major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved...

DescriptionWHAT HAS MODERN SCIENCE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG? This pioneering work, which sparked intense controversy when it was first published two dec...

Reducere. What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eugene GendlinContribution by: Robert A. ParkerEugene T. Gendlin (1926-2017) is increasingly recognized as one of the semin...

Reducere. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of pa...

Reducere. The fourth gospel addresses the thirst for life that lies at the depth of every human heart. The life in question is not just physical life but the...

DescriptionThe gull is a familiar sight by the seaside, and one of the most recognisable bird species, but most people know surprisingly little abo...

Philosopher, novelist, dramatist and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the greatest writers of all time. He was fascinated by the role play...

Reducere. Polo Life: Horses, Sport, 10 and Zen delves into the world of high goal polo through the uniquely situated lenses of former 10-goaler Adam Snow and...

DescriptionSince the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked Africa...

Reducere. Very few twenty-century scientists made as a lasting influence on modern society as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Physicists routinely use the...

Reducere. H.P. BLAVATSKY (1831-1891) completed The Key to Theosophy in 1889, less than a year after publication of her monumental work The Secret Doctrine. A...

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. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them--but only through wise regulatio...

Brig Ellis is a private investigator hired to protect an artist who paints using cremated human remains. Many people less than thrilled by his art ...

DescriptionSeeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing scienc...

Reducere. Price theory, often misleadingly labeled "microeconomics, " is the explanation of how individual actors coordinate via markets, prices, and exchang...

Reducere. Description'The opposite of war isn't always peace...' Battlestar Galactica was one of the most impressive American telefantasy series of the 1970s...

Reducere. "The most critical period in Earth's history." -- Gary Seven, Supervisor 194 Even centuries later, the final decades of the twentieth century are s...

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?Are humans defining technology, or is technolo...

Reducere. Dehumanization has led to serious misinterpretation of the Gospels. On the one hand, Christians have often made Jesus so much more than human that ...

Reducere. Historically, it was guns, germs, and steel that determined the fates of people and nations. Now, more than ever, it is electricity.Global demand f...

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Reducere. Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesA Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A Choice Outst...

Reducere. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. ...

From the Preface: This essay outlines a perspective for the study of leadership in administrative organizations. It was written in the conviction t...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you worry about cyber criminals hacking your computers and other digital devices? You should. Connect a new computer to the Internet ...

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone is born curious. So, what happens? Why do some people become less curious than others? For individuals, leaders, and companies ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David BenatarAre our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improve...

Reducere. The More You Do The Better You Feel: How to Overcome Procrastination and Live a Happier Life Paperback]David Parker (Author)This practical book is ...

Description"Nothing less than astonishing..."--Booklist (starred review) From a renowned international journalist comes a galvanizing international...

Reducere. Arie is now the Queen of Hodafez.Alone. Gift-less. Unwanted.The pain from her Severance is suffocating. Struggling to find the will to go on, all t...

Reducere. Stop self-defeating behaviors and act with intention. You'll thank yourself later. What you receive in life is dictated by your self-discipline. Th...

Reducere. Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us...

In this text, that is a celebration of joy as hope, H.A. Williams explores the world of selfhood, of other people, of nature and of the arts. Willi...

A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the agesPublisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Dominic PettmanNumber of...

DescriptionRecognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the sub...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Max HorkheimerAuthor: Theodor W. AdornoEditor: Gunzelin Schmid NoeriDialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most infl...

Reducere. WHAT JERUSALEM MEANS TO US is a unique book. In 23 essays, Palestinian Christians and other Christians of various backgrounds share their personal ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Hans-Christian JaschEditor: Kreutzm�ller Christoph On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended ...

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

Reducere. Living with the Torpedo is the only World War II memoir written by a US Navy officer who fought the years-long Battle of the Atlantic against Hitle...

Reducere. JULY 2021 INDIE NEXT PICK With this novel, Kim Hooper has created magic from the seemingly impossible. In her hands, the gossamer threads that tie ...

Description_The Military History of Late Rome 425-457_ analyses in great detail how the Romans coped with the challenge posed by masses of Huns in ...

From biomechanist and bestselling author Katy Bowman comes her eagerly anticipated guide to getting kids--from babies to preteens--and their famili...

Reducere. Stop self-defeating behaviors and act with intention. You'll thank yourself later.What you receive in life is dictated by your self-discipline. The...

How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and less programmed.

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or M bius strip, twisted to have o...

Reducere. Why do the words "little house" go straight to the heart, as Sir John Summerson observed? Clearly, something beyond economy is at work. For centuri...

Reducere. DescriptionIs it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our childr...

DescriptionTracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and cu...