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No Bone Unturned: Inside the World of a Top Forensic Scientist and His Work on America's Most Notorious Crimes and Disasters
ISBN: 9780060958886 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in Croatia to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon -- and has examined historic skeletons tens of thousands of years old. But the discovery of Kennewick Man, a 9,600-year-old human skeleton found along the banks of Washington's Columbia River, was a find that would turn Owsley's life upside down. Days before Owsley was scheduled to study the skeleton,... A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their... |
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70,52 zł |
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The Juvenile Skeleton
ISBN: 9780121028213 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The identification of even the smallest human fetal bone can be vital to the success of a criminal investigation or to the identification of the deceased. This book examines every bone in the human body from its earliest embryological stage through to maturity and is profusely illustrated with superb bone drawings at every stage of development. The ability to identify every component of the developing skeleton is of core relevance not only to the forensic profession but also to clinicians, skeletal biologists and physical anthropologists.
The identification of even the smallest human fetal bone can be vital to the success of a criminal investigation or to the identification of the decea...
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688,38 zł |
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The Spectral Tarsier
ISBN: 9780131893320 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Part of the Primate Field Studies series. The Spectral Tarier shares the results of long-term field study by Sharon L. Gursky with a broad audience.
Part of the Primate Field Studies series. The Spectral Tarier shares the results of long-term field study by Sharon L. Gursky with a broad au...
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190,92 zł |
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Human Variation : Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups
ISBN: 9780131927650 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Basic text for the sophomore/junior level course in Human Variation or Human Diversity taught anthropology or biology departments.
This classic introduction to human variation, has been thoroughly updated to include the issues and controversies facing the contemporary study of diversity. Basic text for the sophomore/junior level course in Human Variation or Human Diversity taught anthropology or biology departments.
This classic int... |
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654,76 zł |
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Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
ISBN: 9780156006538 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from our ancestors, and the significance of our knowledge. A worldwide tour of discovery, Tattersall takes the reader from 30,000-year-old cave paintings in France and anthropological digs in Africa, to examining human behavior in a New York restaurant. And by offering wisdom gleaned from fossil remains, primate behavior, prehistoric art, and archaeology, Tattersall presents a stunning picture of where humankind evolved, how Darwin's theories have...
In Becoming Human, noted anthropologist and renaissance man Ian Tattersall explores what makes us uniquely human, the qualities that set us apart from...
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66,99 zł |
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Human Population Biology : A Transdisciplinary Science
ISBN: 9780195050165 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is a careful integration of the social and biological sciences, drawing on anthropology, biology, human ecology and medicine to provide a comprehensive understanding of how our species adapts to natural and man-made environments. Part I presents techniques to adapt and apply demographic methods to small populations, particularly important for studying non-Western populations. Part II discusses the relationship of medical genetics to human adaptability and patterns of disease in non-Western populations. Part III covers capacity, climatic stress, and nutrition. Part IV presents...
This book is a careful integration of the social and biological sciences, drawing on anthropology, biology, human ecology and medicine to provide a co...
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809,97 zł |
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Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems
ISBN: 9780195085754 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest, ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry, and...
Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussio...
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1064,70 zł |
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Telling Our Selves : Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
ISBN: 9780195094763 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk abou...
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949,62 zł |
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Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan : Reading Between the Lines
ISBN: 9780195101669 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book challenges the widespread belief that overzealous Americans forced unnecessary script reforms on an unprepared, unenthusiastic, but helpless Japan during the Occupation. Unger presents neglected historical evidence showing that the reforms implemented from 1946 to 1959 were both necessary and moderate. Although the United States Education Mission of 1946 recommended that the Japanese give serious consideration to the introduction of alphabetic writing, key American officials in the Civil Information and Education Section of GHQ/SCAP delayed and effectively killed action on this...
This book challenges the widespread belief that overzealous Americans forced unnecessary script reforms on an unprepared, unenthusiastic, but helpless...
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1005,90 zł |
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Dynamics of Human and Primate Societies : Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes
ISBN: 9780195131680 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies. It also addresses case studies that have applied agent-based modeling approaches in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology, and sociology. Many things set this book apart from any other on modeling in the social sciences, including the emphasis on small-scale societies and the attempts to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social problems and questions. It is an ideal book...
As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, presenting recent advances in ...
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682,50 zł |
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Race Is a Four-Letter Word: The Genesis of the Concept
ISBN: 9780195173512 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A tour de force work by a leading scholar, "Race" Is a Four-Letter Word explores the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and the ways in which it grew to become accepted as an idea that virtually everyone regards as self-evident. An ardent and eloquent opponent of typology, essentialism, and stereotyping, C. Loring Brace has based this engaging study on the "Problems of Race" course that he has taught at the University of Michigan for the past thirty-five years.
Opening with an explanation of why the concept of race... A tour de force work by a leading scholar, "Race" Is a Four-Letter Word explores the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons w...
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506,04 zł |
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The Bridge to Humanity : How affect hunger trumps the selfish gene
ISBN: 9780195179668 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene explores the relationship of biology and culture in the evolution of human behavior. Building upon several of the theoretical issues he first addressed in Man's Way, renowned anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt presents a unique look at how human culture functions through biological mechanisms that have evolved from our distant past.
The Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene explores the relationship of biology and culture in the evolution of human behavior....
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447,24 zł |
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Language Contact in Japan : A Sociolinguistic History
ISBN: 9780198235590 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. If the Japanese are exclusive, why are they now borrowing so many linguistic characteristics from English for their own language? Is there a way to understand language contact that is valid across time and space? By examining the 2000-year-old history of how Japan has been influenced by other language groups, Loveday offers general insights into the social causes and patterns of language contact, as well as the nature of linguistic change.
If the Japanese are exclusive, why are they now borrowing so many linguistic characteristics from English for their own language? Is there a way to un...
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1256,85 zł |
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The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780198240662 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Comrie's and Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period between 1917 and the 1970s. In this new volume the authors, joined by Maria Polinsky, extend the time frame back to 1900 and forward to glasnost in the mid 1980s. They first consider changes in the pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of the language and then examine the effects of social change on the language in chapters on the changing status of women, modes of address and speech etiquette, and orthography. They show that changes...
Comrie's and Stone's The Russian Language since the Revolution (OUP 1978) provided a comprehensive account of the way Russian changed in the period be...
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1173,06 zł |
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Human Biodiversity : Genes, Race, and History
ISBN: 9780202020334 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies--with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative. The study of human biology is different from the study of the biology of other species. In the simplest terms, people's lives and welfare may depend upon it, in a sense that they may not depend on the study of other scientific subjects. Where science is used to validate ideas--four out of five scientists preferring a... Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies--w... |
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218,20 zł |
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Horizons of Anthropology
ISBN: 9780202361406 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The scientifi c study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the volume's contributors include people who have shaped anthropology's future. As Gluckman says in his Preface, the contributions "point to the horizons of increasing understanding of man, his evolution and his social setting, as seen by a rising generation of scholars."
The scientifi c study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally publis...
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218,20 zł |
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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory : Exploring Our Human Ancestry
ISBN: 9780205519262 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced and up-to-date introduction to our human past.
Written specifically for courses that cover biological anthropology and archaeology, this superbly illustrated new text offers the most balanced an... |
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709,33 zł |
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Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar
ISBN: 9780226239248 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In the highly influential mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and to engage in creative thought.
These twelve original papers extend the mental-spaces framework and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. Investigating the ties between mental constructs, they analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals; the metaphor system for conceptualizing the self; abstract... In the highly influential mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to med...
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186,67 zł |
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Marginal Gains : Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa
ISBN: 9780226311166 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically different economies meet and mingle, as they have for centuries in Atlantic Africa?
The answer is a rich diversity of economic practices responsive to both local and global circumstances. In "Marginal Gains," Jane I. Guyer explores and explains these often bewildering practices, including trade with coastal capitalism and across indigenous... In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent ...
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120,61 zł |
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Bones of Contention : Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
ISBN: 9780226476513 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Bones of Contention" is a behind-the-scenes look at the search for human origins. Analyzing how the biases and preconceptions of paleoanthropologists shaped their work, Roger Lewin's detective stories about the discovery of Neanderthal Man, the Taung Child, Lucy, and other major fossils provide insight into this most subjective of scientific endeavors. The new afterword looks at ways in which paleoanthropology, while becoming more scientific
in many ways, remains contentious. " An] un-put-downable book." John Gribbon, "Times Educational Supplement" "Not just another 'stones and... "Bones of Contention" is a behind-the-scenes look at the search for human origins. Analyzing how the biases and preconceptions of paleoanthropologists...
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146,46 zł |
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