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  • 30-Second Anthropology

    The 50 most important ideas in the study of being human, each explained in half a minute

    par Simon Underdown ...
    Collection series 30-Second
    Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet? These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on earth. Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organisation of social ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.33

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  • Staying with the Trouble

    Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    par Donna J. Haraway ...
    Collection series Experimental Futures
    In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.82

  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    par David DeGrazia ...
    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.44

  • Anthropology

    A Beginner's Guide

    par Joy Hendry, Simon Underdown ...
    Collection series Beginner's Guides
    In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.80

  • Biology As Ideology

    par Richard Lewontin ...
    Collection series The CBC Massey Lectures
    R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist—a geneticist who teaches at Harvard—yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.20 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Modifié par Jason W. Moore ...
    Collection series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.07 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Artificial Ape

    How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

    par Timothy Taylor ...
    Collection series MacSci
    A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolutionAlthough humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, we are remarkably different from them. Unlike our cousins who subsist on raw food, spend their days and nights outdoors, and wear a thick coat of hair, humans are entirely dependent on artificial things, such as clothing ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.61

  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

    Modifié par Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson ...
    Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.30

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Chris Gosden ...
    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion years. A key aspect of prehistory is that it provides a sense of scale, throwing recent ways of life into perspective. Humans and their ancestors ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.44

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Modifié par Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.30 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Is Science Racist?

    par Jonathan Marks ...
    Collection series Debating Race
    Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.00

  • Mapping Human History

    Unravelling the Mystery of Adam and Eve

    par Steve Olson ...
    150,000 years of human existence have passed, and yet what do we really know about our history before the advent of writing? Some of the most momentous events - including our origins, our migrations across the globe, and our acquisition of language - were lost in the darkness of 'prehistory'. But at last geneticists and other scientists are piecing together a history - the true story of Adam and ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.40