The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico: Five Centuries of Change
ISBN: 9781683403500 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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500,09 zł |
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa: Public Health, Anthropological, and Medical Perspectives
ISBN: 9783031063138 / Angielski / Twarda / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor. While obstetric fistula can be prevented with emergency obstetric care, it continues to occur primarily in resource-limited settings. In this volume, specialists in the anthropological, psychological, public health, and biomedical disciplines, as well as health policy experts and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations discuss a scoping overview on obstetric fistula, including prevention, treatment, and reducing stigma for...
This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor. While obs...
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384,63 zł |
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need
ISBN: 9781479814534 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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377,94 zł |
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need
ISBN: 9781479814541 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,52 zł |
Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives
ISBN: 9783030936945 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of centrally involving community members in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number...
The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in com...
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384,63 zł |
A Mental Ethnography: Conclusions from Research in LSD
ISBN: 9783031137440 / Angielski / Twarda / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value. There is an effort to recapture the achievements and failures of past work to guide present use. This book is based around material derived from unpublished scientific research from Dr. Robert Mogar’s laboratory and built upon by forty years of field research by the author. The author Niccolo Caldararo participated in a number of studies of perception, including sensory deprivation and psychotropic drugs, some of recent manufacture or...
There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value. ...
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576,96 zł |
Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu
ISBN: 9781487543211 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,09 zł |
Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu
ISBN: 9781487543204 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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260,46 zł |
Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private Representations: Volume 2
ISBN: 9789004539846 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representations on reliefs, paintings, and statues to preserved textiles, and supplemented by references in ancient texts. It shows the historical evolution of clothing that extends far beyond the Late Period. The book reveals the influence of archaism and innovation, as well as how clothes reflect geography, ethnicity, and social roles. It provides some new criteria for dating and interpretation of representations through careful examination of changes in...
This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representati...
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657,78 zł |
Human Adaptive Strategies: An Ecological Introduction to Anthropology
ISBN: 9781032407166 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. It shows how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their survival mehtods have affected other aspects of their culture.
This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environmen...
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224,67 zł |
Human Adaptive Strategies: An Ecological Introduction to Anthropology
ISBN: 9781032407173 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. It shows how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their survival mehtods have affected other aspects of their culture.
This book introduces students to environmental and evolutionary anthropology, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environmen...
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689,47 zł |
Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private Representations
ISBN: 9789004540262 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representations on reliefs, paintings, and statues to preserved textiles, and supplemented by references in ancient texts. It shows the historical evolution of clothing that extends far beyond the Late Period. The book reveals the influence of archaism and innovation, as well as how clothes reflect geography, ethnicity, and social roles. It provides some new criteria for dating and interpretation of representations through careful examination of changes in...
This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representati...
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1478,94 zł |
Copper in Ancient Egypt: Before, During and After the Pyramid Age (C. 4000 - 1600 Bc)
ISBN: 9789004524088 / Angielski / Twarda / 638 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians and Nubians, from the Predynastic through the Early Dynastic until the end of the Second Intermediate Period (c. 4000–1600 BC). The monograph presents a story, based on the analysis of available evidence, a synchronic and diachronic reconstruction of the development and changes of the chaîne opératoire of copper and copper alloy artefacts. The book argues that Egypt was not isolated from the rest of the ancient world and that popular notions of its “primitive” technology...
The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians and Nubians, from the Predynastic thr...
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855,55 zł |
Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
ISBN: 9780198813781 / Angielski / Twarda / 1128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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780,44 zł |
Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs: Beating the Grog in Australia
ISBN: 9789819904006 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have...
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from...
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192,30 zł |
Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs: Beating the Grog in Australia
ISBN: 9789819904037 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have...
This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from...
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153,83 zł |
Forensic Anthropology: An Introductory Lab Manual
ISBN: 9781683403562 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Key topics and basic laboratory training for beginning students This versatile laboratory manual is designed to support introductory undergraduate courses in forensic anthropology. Usable for both in-person and online classes and suitable to accompany any textbook or for use on its own as a text-lab manual hybrid, it provides basic training for beginner students in relevant methods of biological profile estimation and trauma assessment for use in medico-legal death investigations. Structured in a standard format for classes and existing texts, this manual offers a unique emphasis on lab...
Key topics and basic laboratory training for beginning students This versatile laboratory manual is designed to support introductory undergraduate co...
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290,30 zł |
Species of Contagion: Animal-to-Human Transplantation in the Age of Emerging Infectious Disease
ISBN: 9789811682919 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Species of Contagionexamines the political and social implications of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species. Scientists are demonstrating a renewed interest in developing transplants for humans with tissues from pigs, with the aid of genetic engineering techniques, immunosuppressant drugs, and novel cellular technologies. Yet, some argue that these transspecies promiscuities threaten to enable new viruses to emerge in human populations. Drawing on the later works of Foucault, this book analyses contemporary power relations in animal-to-human transplantation research, ranging...
Species of Contagionexamines the political and social implications of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species. Scientists are demonstrati...
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384,63 zł |
The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan: Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
ISBN: 9780415317030 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity while being, in turn, transformed by it.
The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Cere...
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766,08 zł |
Reproductive Citizenship
ISBN: 9789811694530 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of reproductive citizenship in relation to decision-making about a range of issues: from fertility preservation and the desirability of family creation as a normative expectation of social participation, to how families manage and negotiate engagement with providers of reproductive materials and services around information disclosure and contact, and how they consider their social obligations and responsibilities in relation to the use of assisted...
This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of re...
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500,03 zł |