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Age Estimation in the Living : The Practitioner's Guide
ISBN: 9780470519677 / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practitioners recognize when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or beyond verification depending upon the clinical data available. Each key approach to age evaluation has been allotted a single chapter, written by an international leader in the particular field. The book also includes summary chapters that relay readily accessible data for use by the practitioner, and includes important...
This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness o...
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522,81 zł |
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The Avian Erythrocyte: Its Phylogenetic Odyssey
ISBN: 9780367452247 / Miękka / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The erythrocyte is perhaps the world's single best known cell, an opinion affirmed by its inseparable linkage with the French expression "Le sang c'est la vie" (i.e., Blood is life). The red cell made its debut in a few invertebrates and thereupon conducted a conceptual phylogenetic odyssey through the Classes of poikilothermic vertebrates, onward to the first homeotherms the avians, and thereafter to the mammals including man. The erythrocyte presents morphologic, cytochemical and quantitative adaptations as it progresses through its evolutionary continuum. The specific objective of this...
The erythrocyte is perhaps the world's single best known cell, an opinion affirmed by its inseparable linkage with the French expression "Le sang c'es...
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284,09 zł |
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Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and Experience
ISBN: 9780198866886 / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, the book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behaviour, and experience. The concept of 'affordances'-features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses...
In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a signifi...
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153,64 zł |
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Tattoos and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781839092183 / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. |
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99,40 zł |
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The Patient Multiple: An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
ISBN: 9781789207965 / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious healing, or even more provocative practices. The Patient Multiple delves into this healthcare complexity in the context of patients' daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding new paths to good health among a changing and multifaceted...
In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expandin...
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158,78 zł |
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Reading the Body : Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record
ISBN: 9780812235210 / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Classical and anthropological archaeologists share many of the same interests and confront many of the same problems studying extinct cultures. Despite differences in background and training, scholars in these disciplines are all engaged in analyzing and interpreting the archaeological record. Traditionally, however, there have been few opportunities for classical archaeologists and anthropologists to discuss mutually beneficial perspectives in method and theory. The study of gender and its representations affords an opportunity for archaeologists and anthropologists to share information... Classical and anthropological archaeologists share many of the same interests and confront many of the same problems studying extinct cultures. Des... |
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319,21 zł |
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A Companion to Paleopathology
ISBN: 9781444334258 / Twarda / 626 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.
A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.
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783,95 zł |
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Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power
ISBN: 9780195115796 / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing.... Today everything from a fetishist's dream appears on the fashion runways. Although some people regard fetish fashion as exploitative and misogynistic, others interpret it as a positive Amazonian statement--couture Catwoman. But the connection between fashion and fetishism goes far beyond a few couture collections. For the past thirty years, the iconography of sexual fetishism has been increasingly assimilated into popular culture. Before Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, there was...
Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing.... Today everything from a fetishis...
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174,21 zł |
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Voor de Veearts Kwam... Volksdiergeneeskunde Van Weleer
ISBN: 9789088900136 / Holenderski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. A veritable veterinary museum, a large collection of historical objects used in treating animal diseases in the past brought to life with the stories about their use and collection. Farmer Servais Hutschemakers illuminates a lost world. (Dutch text) Volksdiergeneeskunde is een vrijwel verdwenen, en wat geheimzinnige, wereld van praktische oplossingen, kwakzalverij, toverij, geloof en bijgeloof. Een bijna ontoegankelijke wereld die alleen kan worden betreden door mensen die vertrouwen inboezemen, door intimi. Zon vertrouwens persoon is Servais Hutschemakers, zelf boer geweest en zijn hele...
A veritable veterinary museum, a large collection of historical objects used in treating animal diseases in the past brought to life with the stories ...
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244,86 zł |
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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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67,86 zł |
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The Juvenile Skeleton
ISBN: 9780121028213 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 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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412,82 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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64,52 zł |
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Handbook of Normal Physical Measurements
ISBN: 9780192616968 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive sourcebook of reference data for health professionals involved in evaluating people with abnormal features or syndromes. It includes many graphs, tables, and charts needed by clinicians to define normal patterns of growth and provides standards of comparison for possible congenital abnormalities. Numerous "how-to" illustrations give the step-by-step guidance needed to ensure that standardized measurements are properly taken for accurate recordkeeping. Designed for ease of use, the pocket-sized book has a durable plastic cover, making it ideal for use in the ward or...
This is a comprehensive sourcebook of reference data for health professionals involved in evaluating people with abnormal features or syndromes. It in...
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898,76 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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703,76 zł |
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Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems
ISBN: 9780195085754 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 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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898,76 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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843,05 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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843,05 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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547,76 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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341,34 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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1260,89 zł |