Early state economics (Political and legal anthropology series)

Business & Money

Economics

Transaction Publishers

Money to Burn

Horace Coon

In this new fourth edition, Campbell has revised and updated his classic introduction to the field. Human Evolution synthesizes the major findings of modern research and theory and presents a complete and integrated account of the evolution of human beings. New developments in microbiology and recent fossil records are incorporated into the enormous range of this volume, with the resulting text as lucid and comprehensive as earlier editions. The fourth edition retains the thematic structure and organization of the third, with its cogent treatment of human variability and speciation, primate locomotion, and nonverbal communication and the evolution of language, supported by more than 150 detailed illustrations and an expanded and updated glossary and bibliography. As in prior editions, the book treats evolution as a concomitant development of the main behavioral and functional complexes of the genus Homo – among them motor control and locomotion, mastication and digestion, the senses and reproduction. It analyzes each complex in terms of its changing function, and continually stresses how the separate complexes evolve interdependently over the long course of the human journey. All these aspects are placed within the context of contemporary evolutionary and genetic theory, analyses of the varied extensions of the fossil record, and contemporary primatology and comparative morphology. The result is a primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses, one that will also serve as required reading for anthropologists, biologists, and nonspecialists with an interest in human evolution.

Human Evolution: An Introduction to Man's Adaptations

Science & Math

CAMPBELL, Bernard

Evolution

Homicide

Margo Wilson

Martin Daly

For students interested in a better understanding of social psychology. The authors share their enthusiasm, excitement and teaching experience through a clear and engaging writing style that connects with students. This renowned text maintains its acclaimed storytelling approach to convey the science of social psychology while making research relevant to students.  Introducing Social Psychology; Methodology; Social Cognition; Social Perception; Self-Knowledge; The Need to Justify Our Actions; Attitudes and Attitude Change; Conformity; Group Processes; Interpersonal Attraction; Prosocial Behavior; Aggression; Prejudice; Making a Difference with Social Psychology; Social Psychology and Health; Social Psychology and the Law.    0205773796 / 9780205773794  Social Psychology (with MyPsychLab with E-Book Student Access Code Card), 7/e     Package consists of:      0138144788 / 9780138144784 Social Psychology   0205669093 / 9780205669097 MyPsychLab with E-Book Student Access Code Card      

Social Psychology

Politics & Social Sciences

Robert L. Helmreich

Social Sciences

FROM THE SOMME TO SINGAPORE: A Medical Officer in Two World Wars

History

COSTELLO

Military

A title from the PANORAMA series which examines buildings from prehistoric structure to late twentieth century high-tech buildings. Includes a frieze tracing the chronology of building across Europe, Japan and America. Suitable for National Curriculum Key Stage 2-3. Illustrated in full colour.

History of Buildings From Hut to Highrise (Panorama)

Fiona-Macdonald

A step by step guide to understanding and coping with hayfever, rhinitis and other allergic reactions.  "All you ever wanted to know about hayfever but were too snuffy tonask"

Complete Guide to Hayfever

Brostoff, Jonathan

The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a love-sick angel in City of Angels, to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh God! to Audrey Hepburn in Alwaysto pure white light in Fearless and Flatliners, God is very much present in the movies. Images of angels and God used by movie makers are explored here. This intelligent, insightful volume is an exercise in urban anthropology. Religious imagination is the subject and the movie house is its location. The authors show that the religious imagination is irrepressible, and shows up in our best-known example of popular cultures, movies. Contrary to conservative opinion that suggests that Hollywood is anti-religious, Greeley and Bergesen find just the opposite. Ordinary movies, not explicitly about religion and not made by particularly religious individuals often demonstrate some basic religious theme, point, or message. God in the Movies does not judge or approve, recommend or criticize; the authors simply alert the reader to the great variety of metaphors for God, angels, heaven, and hell, from beautiful women to white light at the end of the tunnel to Groundhog Day. They are not concerned with explicitly religious movies. This is not a study of Ben Huror The Last Temptations of Christ, but rather of ordinary mass-release movies, including Field of Dreams, Always, All That Jazz, Commandments, Babette's Feast, Fearless, Breaking the Waves, Jacob's Ladder, Flatliners, Ghost, Pale Rider, Star Wars, 2001, Dogma, and even Japanimation, like Ghost in the Shell. The authors' vivid explication of various cinematic metaphors for God is accompanied by an analysis of what these movies tell about our sociological attitudes toward life and death. They also discuss the social conditions that give rise to various kinds of imagery and forms of movies. In a real sense, this book is for both the professional concerned with religion, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, media and cinema studies, and the layperson interested in how popular movies also contain religious imagery.

God in the Movies

GREELEY, ANDREW M.

Bergesen, Albert J.

Humor & Entertainment

Austria does not often make political headlines. It has at least twice in recent years: in 1986, when the Waldheim Affair was debated worldwide, and in 1999, when the Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) under Joerg Haider received 27 percent of the vote in national elections. Established by former Nazis for former Nazis, the FPOe entered the mainstream of Austrian politics when it became part of a coalition government. This volume explores whether its rise is a uniquely Austrian phenomenon or corresponds to broader social and political changes in Europe. Parallels to Haider's party can be found in other European countries. It anti-immigration agenda and rhetoric are similar to those of the French FN, the Belgian Vlaams Bloc, and the Italian Lega Nord. And its anti-European Union posture is similar to the sentiments of the anti-Maastrich wing of the British conservative party. However, European reaction to the FPOe's rise derives not only from its policies, but its linkage to past suspicions that the Austrians have not learned the lessons of history as had the Germans. The FPOe's success strengthened that impression. In response, 14 European Union governments downgraded their bilateral relations with the Austrian government to a purely technical level. Although the sanctions were lifted in September 2000, the spotlight is still very much on Austria, and concern about the FPOe remains high. This important volume contains eleven chapters by internationally prominent scholars from a broad spectrum of the social sciences. Its cross-disciplinary approach provides perspective on the Haider phenomenon, its rhetoric, and its impact on daily life in Austria. It also analyzes the influence ofright-wing populism on politics, culture, and society, and its implications in Austria as well as elsewhere in Europe. The Haider Phenomenon will be of interest to historians, political scientists, those in European studies, and scholars in contemporary political extremism.

The Haider Phenomenon

Legal Theory & Systems

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