Whole Creature. Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture, Paperback - Wendy Wheeler

Arguing that humans are, in a fundamental sense, social beings, this book articulates that this can be grasped from understanding the complex socia...

This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully m...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

This cross-linguistic study explores the role of the ideophone - a single word that conveys an impression of what it describes - in language evolut...

Reducere. For novice astrology students as well as experienced astrologers seeking a holistic look at the foundations of astrology, this accessible and fasci...

Offering an inside look into the world around us, microbiologist Franklin M. Harold makes life intelligible for readers interested in biology. The ...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth.

Reducere. In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing d...

Reducere. Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley d...

This book describes how environmental destruction and extreme inequality are the result of the human economy becoming ultrasocial: a society dedica...

An insightful and engaging insider's look at the real story of the meat industry, from master butcher Pat LaFrieda It all began when Pat LaFrieda's...

This interdisciplinary work will appeal to reproductive biologists, behavioural ecologists and mammalogists with special interests in evolutionary ...

An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level.

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Dustin HansenIllustration(s): black and white images throughoutNumber of pages: 304Collection: Game OnPublic...

The two dominant theories of consciousness argue it appeared in living beings either suddenly, or gradually. Both theories face problems. The solut...

John Archibald chronicles the revolutionary insights provided by modern molecular biology, especially rapid DNA sequencing. These tools demonstrate...

Reducere. In this book, Philipp von Wussow argues that the philosophical project of Leo Strauss must be located in the intersection of culture, religion, and...

Within corporate media industries, adults produce children's entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, m...

Reducere. The Flow System is a holistic FLOW based approach to delivering Customer 1st Value. It is built on a foundation of the Toyota Production System (TP...

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...

Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations su...

John Culliney and David Jones uncover intersections between science and philosophy. Connecting evidence from evolutionary science with early insigh...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

Reducere. In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weave...

Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin's Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual s...

The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive history of an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, Sabbateanism.Publisher: Oxford Unive...

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

Reducere. About the AuthorDavid K. Miller has an extensive background in psychology and psychotherapy. After thirty-five years of conventional practice, Davi...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Publisher: Lotus PressAuthor(s): Mas VidalPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lect...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dr Patrick TreacyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 233 x 156 ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Dr Patrick TreacyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 ...

The forgotten story of Christianity, inward sight and life in all its fullness today.

Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy,...

DescriptionA Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young ...

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity...

Hubert Nowak, who lived and worked in Salzburg for many years, sets out to find the lesser-known side of the city. Through the stories of those who...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolon...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Sacha KaganNumber of pages: 514Collection: ImagePublication date: 2011Dimensions: 225 x 135 x 36Cover type: ...

Reducere. Ask anybody what superpower they wished to possess and odds are the answer just might be "the ability to fly." What is it about soaring through the...

This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as w...

Reducere. How has the game of basketball changed since it was first invented? In more ways than anyone back in 1891 could have ever imagined! Discover how a ...

In this book Paul Geroski explains in a refreshingly clear style how markets develop. In particular he stresses how the early evolution of markets ...

The Internet, World Wide Web, and digital devices have fundamentally changed the way people communicate, affecting everything from business, to sch...