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Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape, Archaeology and Local History
by Michael Aston  Publisher Comments After millenia of human habitation, a majority of places in Britain have had a local history written about them. However, up until the twentieth century these histories have almost exclusively addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the...
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Lucyus Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
by Alison Jolly Publisher Comments Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human--not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one ofcooperation and interdependence, from the first merging of...
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Racial State (01 Edition)
by David Theo Goldberg Publisher Comments "<BR> The Racial State" argues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of modern nation state formation, and to its ongoing management....
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The Mammal in the Mirror: Understanding Our Place in the Natural World
by David P Barash Book News Annotation Father David (zoology, U. of Washington-Seattle) and daughter Ilona (medicine, U. of California-San Diego) offer educated but not scientifically sophisticated readers an overview of human biology on three levels: DNA, viruses, and other tiny things...
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Human Species : an Introduction To Biological Anthropology (6TH 05 - Old Edition)
by John H. Relethford Publisher Comments Now in full color, this biological anthropology text presents balanced coverage of the major components of the field: genetics and evolutionary theory, human biological variation, primate biology and behavior, and human evolution. The relationship...
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Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar (Cognitive Theory of Language & Culture)
by Gilles Fauconnier Publisher Comments 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...
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Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology
by Dawnie Wolfe (edt) Steadman Publisher Comments /*3056G-2, 0-13-030567-7, Steadman, Dawnie Wolfe, A Forensic Anthropology Reader: Case Studies*/" This volume is a unique selection of case studies that demonstrate innovative approaches and practical experiences in forensics anthropology. The reader...
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Advances in Anatomy, Embyrology, and Cell Biology #153: The Mesencephalic Trigeminal Nucleus in the Cat
by N. E. Lazarov Publisher Comments The book summarizes our current understanding of the ultrastructure and synaptic organization of the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (MTN) in the cat as well as the neurochemistry of its neuronal population. Particular emphasis is given to the survey of...
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Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook
by Douglas Ubelaker Book News Annotation Dr. Ubelaker is curator of anthropology at the Smithsonian and regular consultant in forensic anthropology for the FBI laboratories. His collaboration with Scammell has produced a casebook written with verve, without sacrificing science. The two...
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Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa (04 Edition)
by Guyer Publisher Comments 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...
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Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology
by Kathy Schick Publisher Comments In this dramatic reconstruction of the daily lives of the earliest tool-making humans, two leading anthropologists reveal how the first technologies-- stone, wood, and bone tools-- forever changed the course of human evolution. <P>Drawing on two...
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Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings
by Virginia Morell Publisher Comments looks different". says The New York Times Book Review. This fascinating biography of the "First Family" of anthropology reveals how their discoveries, collaborations, and rivalries contributed to our own knowledge of the origins of humankind. Includes 50...
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The Ascent of Man
by Henry Drummond Synopsis In the Ascent of Man Henry Drummond gives his take on Evolution. He sees evolution as divinely guided-a position that made him no friends on either side of the debate. "'The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and...
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Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo
by Car Travis-henikoff Publisher Comments Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, this account takes readers on an astonishing trip around the world and throughout history, painting the incredible, multifaceted realities of cannibalism. Focusing on how cannibalism...
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Explorations in Psychoanalytical Ethnogr
by Jadran Mimica Book News Annotation For anthropologists and psychoanalysts, Mimica (anthropology, U. of Sydney, Australia) brings together nine essays on psychoanalysis and ethnography that focus on the human culture as explored through psychoanalytic practice and ethnographic projects....
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Human Population Biology: A Transdisciplinary Science (Research Monographs on Human Population)
by Michael A. Little Publisher Comments Human Population Biology 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....
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Handbook of Normal Physical Measurements (Oxford Medical Publications)
by Judith Hall Publisher Comments 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...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Prehistory (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Robert J Meier Publisher Comments From the 3.5 million-year-old Lucy-one of our most famous early ancestors-to the rise of Homo sapiens and the spread of our species throughout the globe, this guide explores everything curious readers want to know about prehistory....
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Biological Anthropology and Prehistory : Exploring Our Human Ancestry (2ND 08 Edition)
by Rice Publisher Comments 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. Devoting equal time to biological anthropology and prehistory,...
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Physical Anthropology 06/07 (15TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Dushkin Group Publishing Staff Publisher Comments This fifteenth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web...
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