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The promise of progress
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Daniel Noah Moses |
"A detailed presentation of Lewis Henry Morgan's life from his early work with the Iroquois to his defense of American capitalism to his strange posthumous career among international leftists up to M… |
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Becoming human
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Ian Tattersall |
Taking the reader around the world, stopping in France to examine 30,000-year-old cave paintings, in Africa to see where our earliest ancestors left their bones, and in remote forests to spy on our c… |
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Human natures
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Paul R. Ehrlich |
"A hallmark of Human Natures in Paul Ehrlich's ability to convey lucidly that understanding in the course of presenting an engrossing history of our species. Using personal anecdote, vivid example, a… |
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Beyond culture
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Edward Twitchell Hall,Edward T. Hall |
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The paradox of culture -- Man as extension -- Consistency and life -- Hidden culture -- Rhythm and body movement -- Context and meaning -- Contexts, high and low -- Why context? --… |
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Finding higher ground
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Amy Seidl |
"An ecologist takes the uniquely positive--yet realistic--position that we can adapt and persist despite the inevitable effects of climate change. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl brings us emerg… |
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Innovation in cultural systems
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O'Brien, Michael J.,Stephen Shennan |
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role of innovation in p… |
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Handbook of research on agent-based societies
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Samuel Gerald Collins |
"This volume addresses a variety of issues, in particular the emergence of societal phenomena in the interactions of systems of agents (software, robot or human)"--Provided by publisher. |
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Sex, Time and Power
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Leonard Shlain |
This book offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, Shlain shows how, lon… |
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Human
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Don E. Wilson,Robert M. L. Winston |
Join Robert Winston on a unique journey to discover every aspect of our existence. From how we function to how we think and act, this text reveals the diversity of our lives and explores our extraord… |
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Biohistory
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Penman, Jim (Social theorist) |
"Biohistory is a revolutionary new theory that explores the biological and behavioural underpinnings of social change, including the rise and fall of civilisations. Informed by significant research i… |
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The big ratchet
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Ruth S. DeFries |
"Our species' pervasive presence on the planet is the combined result of two powerful forces: earth's rich natural endowments and humanity's ability to manipulate nature. From our ability to control … |
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The secret of our success
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Joseph Patrick Henrich |
"Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding pr… |
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The ephemeral civilization
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G. D. Snooks |
The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years. Sno… |
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Samen voor ons eigen
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Dirk Draulans |
Analyse vanuit een biologische invalshoek van het succes van de menselijke soort, veroorzaakt door sociaal gedrag en het vermogen van de mens om zich aan te passen aan veranderende omstandigheden. |
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Lewis Henry Morgan
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Luis Guillermo Vasco Uribe |
A mediados del siglo pasado, el norteamericano Lewis Henry Morgan sentó las bases de la antropología científica con sus trabajos de campo entre los iroqueses y sus investigaciones sobre los sistemas … |
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Habermas
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William Outhwaite |
This new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas’s work, from his early writings on the public sphere, through his work on law and the stat… |
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Cannibals and kings
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Marvin Harris |
¿Por qué tantas culturas han permitido el asesinato de las niñas recién nacidas? ¿Por qué los hombres se creen superiores a las mujeres? Marvin Harris responde a estas y muchas otras preguntas demost… |
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Bound Together
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Nayan Chanda |
Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the expl… |
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Nonzero
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Robert Wright |
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the dir… |
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When Culture and Biology Collide
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Euclid O. Smith |
"Why do we do things that we know are bad for us? Why do we line up to buy greasy fast food that is terrible for our bodies? Why do we take the potentially lethal risk of cosmetic surgery to have a s… |
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