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Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 23.00Shows that it is individual educators who often make critical decisions about what children are taught about evolution. more...
Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 74.00Benoît Dubreuil offers a naturalist account of the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. more...
Repatriierung: Unterstützungsmaßnahmen und Wirkung der Rückanpassung auf unternehmensrelevante Bereiche
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 51.77Hauptbeschreibung Für einen Mitarbeiter eines Unternehmens stellt die Rückkehr aus einem langfristigen Auslandsaufenthalt ein kritisches Element seiner Auslandserfahrung dar. Die Rückanpassung an die neuen Verhältnisse der Arbeit im Heimatland und die Veränderungen des sozialen Umfelds werden von den Repatriates häufig als problematischer empfunden,... more...
Human, Apes and Chinese Fossils
Hong Kong University Press 1985; US$ 14.00The Hong Kong University Press Occasional Paers' Series is an entirely new series of monographs encompassing the best lectures presented to the University of Hong Kong in recent times.The series will cover all disciplines concomitant to full University studies.Items for inclusion in the series will be selected by the University Press Committee,... more...
Recent Advances of Chinese Palaeoanthropology
Hong Kong University Press 1982; US$ 14.00EARLY HOMINOIDS In recent years, we have discovered many pongid and hominid fossils of major importance, covering a time span from the beginning of the hominids, or earliest man, to Homo sapiens or modern man. more...
ON KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDICINE
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 36.95Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that cultures are discrete, bounded, and rule-drive entities, medical anthropology has been slower to develop alternative approaches to understanding cultures of health. This provocative... more...
Fat China
Anthem Press 2010; US$ 24.78'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity and body image in China as urban lifestyles change and a sizeable middle class emerges. Rising obesity rates are examined in relationship to changing diets, modern lifestyles, investment from foreign fast food and supermarket retailers and urban planning. Crucial to this analysis... more...
Lone Survivors
Henry Holt and Co. 2012; US$ 27.99A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ancient... more...
Evolution
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 30.00How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth, capable of sending spaceships to the Moon? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution: The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans.... more...
A Companion to Moral Anthropology
Wiley 2012; US$ 195.00A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities,... more...









