Social Anthropology and Human Origins - Alan Barnard

Social Anthropology and Human Origins - Alan Barnard

Reducere. In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook...

"The book spells out the great human achievements that have been brought about by humans who hunt and gather - across the millennia. It also shows ...

Reducere. In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart f...

A concise introduction to the Russian Revolution and its origins dating back to the emancipation of the Russian peasant serfs in 1861.

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Duke University) TomaselloNumber of pages: 408Collection: Jean Nicod LecturesPublication date: 2010Dime...

Reducere. The second book in the Benji series from bestselling author Alan. C. Fox In a small shop, Benji sees a beautiful kite. It's huge and it's bright or...

A funny manual on keeping happy and calm, with Wax drawing on the help of a monk and a neuroscientist to advise on emotions, the body, addictions, ...

Reducere. The Kogi people, the "Elder Brothers" of humanity, live hidden on a mountain they call "The Heart of the World." This is the true story of how they...

DescriptionThis Classic Edition of the best-selling textbook offers an in-depth overview of approaches to the study of memory. With empirical resea...

What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring it...

This book should stimulate work and thought rather than impose a new orthodoxy. Its combination of iconoclasm with questioning gives it an interest...

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DescriptionWritten for students training for careers in the helping professions, this Fourth Edition covers all the essential topics central to und...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan G. FieldsUnderstanding the human mind is a complicated array of wirings of the past combined with the physical and che...

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Br...

DescriptionIn an age when we'd rather Instagram our food than eat it, this cheeky, illustrated instruction manual humorously demonstrates how to re...

Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new...

A guide to proper use of thinking operations when it matters.Publisher: CENTRAL BOOKSAuthor(s): OLEK NETZERNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 20...

Reducere. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth--namely, the culture i...

An important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies

Reducere. American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins o...

Reducere. Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, r...

Contributor(s): Author: Jaak PankseppAuthor: Lucy BivenWhat makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What f...

Reducere. Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological reco...

Focused on the life and work of Francis Huxley (1923-2016), this book offers an exploration of the search to understand the human condition, one wh...

An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and...

Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers dri...

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...

Reducere. DescriptionMillions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stab...

Offering a positive view of the family, this book discusses the characteristics of successful intimate relationships, and teaches the decision-maki...

Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This st...

DescriptionSomewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors....

Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the m...

Reducere. Technology is changing all the time, but does it also have the ability to change us and the way we approach religion and spirituality? In Technolog...

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