Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past (Porr Martin)(Paperback)

Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past (Porr Martin)(Paperback)

Interrogating Human Origins encourages new critical engagements with the study of human origins, broadening the range of approaches to bring in postcolonial theories, and begin to explore the decolonisation of this complex topic. The collection of chapters presented in this volume creates spaces

Human Past - World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies(Paperback / softback)

A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world

Hidden History: Ancient Aliens and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization (Willis Jim)(Paperback)

Investigates and questions the scientific consensus on the origins of civilization Do we, the human species, really know who we are or where we came from or how we originated or our place in the cosmos? Or is much of what we have been taught wrong or misguided or possibly even blatant lies

Origins - How the Earth Shaped Human History (Dartnell Lewis)(Paperback / softback)

Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces.Ancient Greece developed democracy because of its mountainous terrain.Voting behaviour in the United States today follows the bed of an ancient sea.Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to

Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction (Hantzopoulos Maria)(Paperback)

Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content,

Before Atlantis: 20 Million Years of Human and Pre-Human Cultures (Joseph Frank)(Paperback)

A comprehensive exploration of Earth's ancient past, the evolution of humanity, the rise of civilization, and the effects of global catastrophes - Explores biological evidence for the aquatic ape theory and 20-million-year-old evidence of pre-human cultures from which we are not descended - Traces

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Pinker Steven)(Paperback)

A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. 'Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive.' --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeUpdated with a new afterwordOne of the

Origins of Human Communication (Tomasello Michael)(Paperback)

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Peterson Dale)(Paperback)

'Remarkable and utterly fascinating' (Jane Goodall), author Dale Peterson and Harvard University biological anthropology professor Richard Wrangham's Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence is a groundbreaking study on human violence.Whatever their virtues, men are more violent than

Human Neuropsychology (Martin G.)(Paperback / softback)

Introduces the relationship between brain structure and activity, its function and behaviour. This book covers topics in the field of human neuropsychology, simultaneously introducing students to developments in the area. It provides a balance between theory and application, enabling students to

Human Metabolism: A Regulatory Perspective (Evans Rhys)(Paperback)

The updated bestselling guide to human metabolism and metabolic regulation The revised and comprehensively updated new edition of Human Metabolism (formerly Metabolic Regulation - A Human Perspective) offers a current and integrated review of metabolism and metabolic regulation. The authors explain

Deep Thinking - Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Kasparov Garry)(Paperback / softback)

Human Rights and the Internet (Liddicoat Joy)(Paperback)

This book is a short and accessible introduction to the concepts of human rights, the Internet and the emergence of an era of human rights online as a new legal

Experiments in Ethics (Appiah Kwame Anthony)(Paperback)

In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists--have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Darwin Charles)(Paperback)

Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He

The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security (Daoudy Marwa)(Paperback)

Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This study presents a new conceptual framework to evaluate this claim. Contributing to scholarship in the fields of critical security, environmental security,

The Human Genome: Mapping the Blueprint of Human Life (Mooney Carla)(Paperback)

A fascinating tour of the human genome and the role of genetics in our lives Hands-on science investigations and STEM research projects help readers ages 12 to 15 discover a mysterious part of their own bodies--their genes Have you ever wondered why you look the way you do? The answer lies in

Practical Human Factors for Pilots (Moriarty Capt David)(Paperback)

Practical Human Factors for Pilots bridges the divide between human factors research and one of the key industries that this research is meant to benefit--civil aviation. Human factors are now recognized as being at the core of aviation safety and the training syllabus that flight crew trainees

Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (Baumeister Roy F.)(Paperback)

Why is there evil, and what can scientific research tell us about the origins and persistence of evil behavior? Considering evil from the unusual perspective of the perpetrator, Baumeister asks, How do ordinary people find themselves beating their wives? Murdering rival gang members? Torturing

This Is the Emergency Present (Pag Vincent)(Paperback)

Moving through a human landscape that exists both in the past and present, the speaker/speakers in This is the Emergency Present attempt to unearth an understanding about love, romanticism, and connection. Using chemistry and physics, the early works of Pablo Neruda, and the abstract broken

Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues (Michalczyk John J.)(Paperback)

Medical experimentation on human subjects during the Third Reich raises deep moral and ethical questions. This volume features prominent voices in the filed of bioethics reflecting on a wide rang of topics and

Trauma and Human Rights: Integrating Approaches to Address Human Suffering (Butler Lisa D.)(Paperback)

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims' experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences. This edited volume explores the intersection of trauma and human rights by presenting the

On Sex & Human Loving (Masters William H.)(Paperback)

Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving, written by the internationally acclaimed sex researchers William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, and Robert C. Kolodny, is a comprehensive, warm, and highly readable survey that includes the most current findings on the remarkable range of