Origins of Unfairness. Social Categories and Cultural Evolution, Hardback - Cailin O'Connor

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor re...

The Australian Aboriginal art is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past...

Reducere. Neo-Darwinian philosophy claims that random variation plus natural selection are sufficient to explain the emergence of order everywhere in the wor...

This book chronicles the Amsterdam's 17th-century Canal District District's origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future ...

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A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.W...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Gerald E. (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) SchneiderIllustration(s): 243 color illus., 127 b&w...

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of so...

Contributor(s): Author: Cecilia Heyes"This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences... Highly recomme...

Covering a range of topics, including fads, public policy, the spread of religion, and herd behavior in markets, this title shows that human cultur...

DescriptionThe battle of the Atlantic fought by the Allies to maintain lines of communication and vital trade routes for armaments men and basic su...

Wael Hallaq treats the rise of Islamic law from 622 to 950 AD when the law and legal system reached maturity. This is the first book that offers su...

Eighth Sister No MorePublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Paul P. MarthersNumber of pages: 268Collection: History of Schools and Schoolin...

In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan (Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK) BardIllustration(s): 94 Line drawings, ...

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms "categorial thinking." Under this lens, the poli...

Reducere. Much of the modern-day vision of Santa Claus is owed to the Clement Moore poem The Night Before Christmas and his description of Saint Nicholas as ...

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

Reducere. Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. ...

In The Secret Life of Bones, Brian Switek frames the history of our species through the importance of bone from instruments and jewellery, to objec...

Traditional tales with strong messages retold with relevance for the 21st centuryPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Mike O'ConnorIllustrati...

Description*Includes pictures of important places and historic illustrations and art depicting Odin and other important Norse figures. *Explains th...

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DescriptionCultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for ...

Reducere. Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of his...

Reducere. Conventional wisdom traces Tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go back much further in time and draw on a surprisingly rich variety of c...

DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-poll...

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.Illustrations: b/wEditor(s): Natalia Elvira Astoreca

Chinese Small Property presents a persuasive argument for how market transition has succeeded in China without rule of law, and how market norms ha...

This book is a comprehensive exposition of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in both editions of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

The first detailed and comprehensive examination of the role and evolution of the dictatorship as an integral element of the Roman Republic, this w...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do...

This book scrutinizes the current state of evolution education and assesses the recent rise of creationism in Brazil. It provides accounts of class...