In How Humans Cooperate, Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher take a new approach to investigating human cooperation, developed from the vantage point of an "anthropological imagination." Drawing on the discipline’s broad and holistic understanding of humans in biological, social, and cultural dimensions and across a wide range of temporal and cultural variation, the authors unite psychological and institutional approaches by demonstrating the interplay of institution building a...

The author presents a large comparative database derived from ethnographic and architectural research in Southeast Asia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other areas; proposes new methodologies for comparative analyses of houses; and critically examines existing methodologies, theories, and data. His work expands on and systematizes comparative and cross-cultural approaches to the study of households and their environments to provide a firm foundation for this emerging line of study.

Over two thousand years ago, Oaxaca, Mexico, was the site of one of the New World's earliest episodes of primary state formation and urbanism, and today it is one of the world's archaeologically best-studied regions. This volume, which thoroughly revises and updates the first edition, provides a highly readable yet comprehensive path to acquaint readers with one of the earliest and best-known examples of Native American state formation and its consequences as seen from the perspectives of ...

In recent years there have been some excellent books written about faith in the workplace.But as I talk to normal, everyday Christians, I've found that very few people seem to really believe and embrace the truth that the Holy Spirit wants to help believers in their daily work just as much as when they contribute at church. He wants to come alongside us at the office, on the building site, in the home, or wherever our workplace is.As we surrender our workplace skills to Him...

Blessing is speaking God's intentions or favour over someone or some situation. When we do that in faith, we activate God's power to change a person (ourselves included), or a situation, from where they are now to where God wants them to be.Every Christian has the authority and power to bless others in the name of the Lord and see lives and situations transformed. The power of a blessing is supernatural; it is the presence and work of the Holy Spirit, producing joy, peace, prosperi...

Bestseller, The Awesome Power of Blessing, now has a sequel: The Blessing Effect.Full of amazing testimonies and stories, this book tells how the blessing message is touching the lives of millions of people around the globe. From places as diverse as New Zealand and Kenya, pastors and ordinary people are being impacted by being blessed and blessing others.Also included are helpful new tips - things Richard Brunton and others have learnt along the way - pro...

Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).

The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectivesBased on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account of the...

First time in ebook format.Sir Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia's founding fathers, was among the most influential figures of the 18th and 19th centuries. As a young man, Sir Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his voyage of discovery to Australia; in later years he was instrumental in establishing Kew Gardens as the greatest botanical centre in the world, and he knew just about everybody who mattered in the scientific circl...

A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.The graphic story of the measurement of a meridian, or longitudinal, arc extending from the tip of the Indian subcontinent to the mountains of the Himalayas.Much the longest such measurement hitherto made, it posed horrendous technical dif...

In "The Lost Lemuria - The Story of the Lost Civilization," William Scott-Elliot delves into the enigmatic narrative of a once-thriving civilization, believed to have existed in the Pacific Ocean during prehistoric times. Blending speculative history with esoteric philosophy, Scott-Elliot employs a vivid literary style filled with evocative imagery and rich detail, inviting readers to explore the cultural, spiritual, and technological achievements of Lemuria. This work is not only a captiv...

Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern na...