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  • 30-Second Anthropology

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

    by Simon Underdown ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Staying with the Trouble

    Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    18,96 €

  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David DeGrazia ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    7,27 €

  • Anthropology

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Joy Hendry, Simon Underdown ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    6,87 €

  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Jason W. Moore ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    7,52 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Artificial Ape

    How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

    by Timothy Taylor ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    15,89 €

  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Prehistory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Gosden ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    7,27 €

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    12,29 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Science Racist?

    by Jonathan Marks ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Mapping Human History

    Unravelling the Mystery of Adam and Eve

    by 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 ... Read more

    13,35 €

  • Archaeology: The Key Concepts

    Edited by Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method.Clearly written, and easy to follow, Archaeology: The Key Concepts collates entries written specifically by field specialists, and each entry offers a definition of the term, its origins and ... Read more

    39,07 €