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Based on a decade of collecting and studying skeletal samples from archaeological sites in Croatia, Slaus presents material from 786 skeletons, from 21 sites, dating from the prehistoric to post-medieval periods. Presented by site and synthesised by period, the evidence allows inferences to be drawn as to demographic trends, disease and aspects of lifestyle across this broad period.

This book addresses the survival of humankind. Our world is the best it has ever been, but it is not sustainable. It is self-destructive; it is marked by war, which can destroy the world in a single day, the destruction of natural and human capital within 10 years, and technologies which could be both beneficial and destructive. We have no future if we continue living as we do currently, and even if we do nothing. This book highlights the kinds of changes which are required. Wars are not biologically necessary and are useless; the culture that established wars can eliminate them. Poverty,...

This collection of essays examines the unprecedented reach, magnitude and complexity of global challenges-political, economic, technological, social and environmental. It advocates fundamental changes in theory, research, public policy, and institutions, and advances new thinking on global leadership, human security, human-centered economics, and human rights. The book also proposes measures to break down the barriers between academic disciplines and between research and policy-making, and reconciles the objective facts of science with the subjective truths of the arts and human values. It...

This volume presents practical guidelines for students, professors, and lifelong learners on how to seek, define, and improve our creative role in our common journey to sustainability. It describes innovative ideas for achieving sustainable development goals and global peace by solving pressing societal, environmental, and economic challenges with the development of new knowledge, skills, and technologies. The readers are invited to examine their values and creative purpose, and to realign their minds and hearts toward achieving personal victories on the path to sustainability.