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The evolutionary biology of human body fatness
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Jonathan C. K. Wells |
"This comprehensive synthesis of current medical and evolutionary literature addresses key questions about the role body fat plays in human biology. It explores how body energy stores are regulated, … |
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Nighttime breastfeeding
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Cecília Tomori |
xi, 299 pages : 23 cm |
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Caring for patients from different cultures
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Geri-Ann Galanti |
What happens when a Cherokee patient summons a medicine man to the hospital, or when an Anglo nurse refuses to take orders from a Japanese doctor? Why do Asian patients rarely ask for pain medication… |
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
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Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist Ruth Benedict prepared this study of Japanese culture towards the end of World War II to explain Japan to Americans. It's become a classic. Published in 1946. |
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THE LAND OF ENGLAND
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Dorothy Hartley |
How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead, and carried on all the other tasks and trades of daily rural life. |
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Cultural anthropology
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Felix Maxwell Keesing |
"Cultural anthropology presents the social science and humanities facets of anthropology, in contrast to its biological facet, physical anthropology. ... This text is organized to answer a series of … |
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Man in adaptation
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Yehudi A. Cohen |
"This book contains 36 selections that are intended to serve as an introduction to physical anthropology, archeology and linguistics from the point of view of the processes of adaptation."--Preface. |
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