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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
ISBN: 9780199602001 / Angielski / Twarda / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practiced have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances--archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself: how we might undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present. This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly...
It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practiced have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, a...
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823,18 |
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How to Think Like a Neandertal
ISBN: 9780199742820 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge team up to provide a brilliant account of the mental life of Neandertals, drawing on the most recent fossil and archaeological remains. Indeed, some Neandertal remains are not fossilized, allowing scientists to recover samples of their genes--one specimen had the gene for red hair...
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Nea...
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135,11 |
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Forensic Anthropology Training Manual
ISBN: 9780205022595 / Angielski / Spiralna / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides basic information on successfully collecting, processing, analyzing, and describing skeletal human remains. Forensic Anthropology Training Manual serves as a practical reference tool and a framework for training in forensic anthropology. The first chapter informs judges, attorneys, law enforcement personnel, and international workers of the information and services available from a professional forensic anthropologist. The first section (Chapters 2-11) is a training guide to assist in the study of human skeletal anatomy. The second section (Chapters 12-17) focuses on the... Provides basic information on successfully collecting, processing, analyzing, and describing skeletal human remains. Forensic Anthropology Train... |
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446,87 |
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Evolution of the Vertebrate Auditory System
ISBN: 9780387210933 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The function of vertebrate hearing is served by a surprising variety of sensory structures in the different groups of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. This book discusses the origin, specialization, and functional properties of sensory hair cells, beginning with environmental constraints on acoustic systems and addressing in detail the evolutionary history behind modern structure and function in the vertebrate ear. Taking a comparative approach, chapters are devoted to each of the vertebrate groups, outlining the transition to land existence and the further parallel and... The function of vertebrate hearing is served by a surprising variety of sensory structures in the different groups of fish, amphibians, reptiles, b... |
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603,81 |
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Photographs Objects Histories : On the Materiality of Images
ISBN: 9780415254427 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political, religious and domestic spheres, where physical properties, the nature of their use and the cultural formations in which they function make their 'objectness' central to how we should understand them. The international contributors are drawn from disciplines including the history of photogarphy, visual anthropology and art history, and their...
This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning a...
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194,26 |
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The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania
ISBN: 9780520253421 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably applies his years of research with the Hadza to cover the traditional topics in ethnography--subsistence, material culture, religion, and social structure. But the book's unique contribution is to...
In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Ha...
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145,74 |
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Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions
ISBN: 9780520254312 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas. The global importance of mountains is recognized particularly because they provide critical resources, such as water, food and wood; contain high levels of biological and cultural diversity; and are often places for tourism and recreation and/or of sacred significance.
This major revision of Larry Price's book Mountains and Man (1981) is both timely and highly appropriate. The past three decades have been a period of remarkable progress in our... Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas. The global importanc...
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409,08 |
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Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung: Food, Fatness, and Well-Being Over the Life-Spanvolume 4
ISBN: 9780520262348 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life Histories of the Dobe Kung re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe Kung, the well-known Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how these hunter-gatherers maintain their notably good health from childhood through old age in the Kalahari s harsh environment. She divides the population into life history stages that correlate with estimated chronological ages and demonstrates how and why they survive, even thrive, on a modest...
Life Histories of the Dobe Kung re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe Kung, the well-known Bushmen of the Kalahari D...
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192,29 |
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Rough and Tumble: Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780520274006 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who--in comparison to their large, potentially dangerous prey--were small, weak, and slow-footed. Technology that...
Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that es...
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The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
ISBN: 9780520274464 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider's account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. The first is the Taung child, a two-million-year-old skull from South Africa that led anatomist Raymond Dart to argue that this creature had walked upright and that Africa held the key to the fossil...
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer i...
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149,71 |
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The Origins of Native Americans: Evidence from Anthropological Genetics
ISBN: 9780521004107 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who are the Native Americans? When and how did they colonize the New World? What proportion of the biological variation in contemporary Amerindian populations was "made in America" and what was brought from Siberia? This book is a unique synthesis of the genetic, archaeological, and demographic evidence concerning the Native peoples of the Americas, using case studies from contemporary Amerindian and Siberian indigenous groups to unravel the mysteries. It culminates in an examination of the devastating collision between European and Native American cultures following Contact, and the legacy...
Who are the Native Americans? When and how did they colonize the New World? What proportion of the biological variation in contemporary Amerindian pop...
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222,60 |
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Eat or Be Eaten: Predator Sensitive Foraging Among Primates
ISBN: 9780521011044 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the variables that may play a role in primates' behavioral strategies. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that predator sensitive foraging is relevant to many primates, of various body sizes and group sizes and living in different environments. Eat or be Eaten encourages further discussion and investigation of the subject and will make fascinating reading for researchers and students in primatology, ecology, and animal behavior.
This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the...
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415,89 |
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The Neuron Book
ISBN: 9780521115636 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Assuming no previous knowledge of computer programming or numerical methods, The NEURON Book provides practical advice on how to get the most out of the NEURON software program. Although written primarily for neuroscientists, teachers and students, readers with a background in the physical sciences or mathematics and some knowledge about brain cells and circuits, will also find it helpful. Covering details of NEURON's inner workings, and practical considerations specifying anatomical and biophysical properties to be represented in models, this book uses a problem-solving approach that...
Assuming no previous knowledge of computer programming or numerical methods, The NEURON Book provides practical advice on how to get the most out of t...
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The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials: Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation
ISBN: 9780521519458 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive and authoritative review of the current scientific knowledge of how evolution has shaped the brains of Australian marsupials.
A comprehensive and authoritative review of the current scientific knowledge of how evolution has shaped the brains of Australian marsupials.
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770,26 |
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Modular Evolution: How Natural Selection Produces Biological Complexity
ISBN: 9780521728775 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for the tendency of life to become more complex through evolution, this book offers an introduction to the key debates in evolutionary theory, including the role of genes and sex in evolution, the adaptive reasons for senescence and death and the origin of neural information. The author argues that biological complexity increased through the process of modularity transfer': modular phenotypes (proteins, somatic cells, learned behaviours) evolved into...
Natural selection is more than the survival of the fittest: it is a force engendering higher biological complexity. Presenting a new explanation for t...
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Craniofacial Identification
ISBN: 9780521768627 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The promotion of CCTV surveillance and identity cards, along with ever heightened security at airports, immigration control and institutional access, has seen a dramatic increase in the use of automated and manual recognition. In addition, several recent disasters have highlighted the problems and challenges associated with current disaster victim identification. Discussing the latest advances and key research into identification from the face and skull, this book draws together a wide range of elements relating to craniofacial analysis and identification. It examines all aspects of facial...
The promotion of CCTV surveillance and identity cards, along with ever heightened security at airports, immigration control and institutional access, ...
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333,05 |
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Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
ISBN: 9780674062016 / Angielski / Miękka / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence became rooted in genetically inherited characteristics of the human brain. All study of our evolution starts with one simple truth: human beings take an extraordinarily long time to grow up. What does this extended period of dependency have to do with human brain growth and... This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evo... |
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
ISBN: 9780871403582 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bryan Sykes, one of the world s leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. Sykes embarks on a road trip DNA testing kit in tow interviewing genealogists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans, tracing America s history along a double helix that stretches from the last Ice Age to the present day. What emerges is an unprecedented look into America s genetic mosaic that challenges the very notion of how we perceive race and what it means to be an American."
Bryan Sykes, one of the world s leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most...
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71,54 |
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Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore: Natural History and Culture at Mahale
ISBN: 9781107015784 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whose studies of these apes at Gombe in Tanzania are justly famous. Less well-known, but equally important, are the studies carried out by Toshisada Nishida on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Comparison between the two sites yields both notable similarities and startling contrasts. Nishida has written a comprehensive synthesis of his work on the behavior and ecology of the chimpanzees of the...
Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, ma...
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How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies
ISBN: 9781598745887 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What separates modern humans from our primate cousins--are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two major trends in this field: one that sees us as a logical culmination of primate evolution, arguing that the rudiments of culture exist in primates and even magpies, and another that views the human...
What separates modern humans from our primate cousins--are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive e...
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704,38 |
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