Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession looks at cog...więcej »
In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams...więcej »
The world appears bedeviled with violence. But violence has not done anybody any good. Proponents of nonviolence still hold that the path of peace and love is the best way to get redress. This book...więcej »
For Aristotle, ethics is the search for happiness, and the science that accompanies it. It concerns friendship as well as virtues. But the Stagirite does not seek to revolutionize morality, far fro...więcej »
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the manag...więcej »
Human history encountered many challenging epidemics in past, including 1918 influenza pandemic and in recent times H1N1, SARS, MERS and Ebola, which outburst fast with strong contagiousness and se...więcej »
It is no more news that the Coronavirus has ravaged the whole world and this has crippled the global economic activities of both developed and developing countries of the world. Since been recorded...więcej »
The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts in...więcej »
While science often uses methods to try to explain observations of a wide range of phenomena, creationists use faith in the texts of the Bible to the same end. Much of the scientific discoveries in...więcej »
The American administration facing these days tough choices in front of the complex and the successive developments in the Middle East and in the forefront of emerging powers to regulate the Islami...więcej »
Recent studies show that methodologies that use the 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics together present a better performance in determining the optimal points of operation for the reactive processe...więcej »
Nullement comme au temps d'alors dans l'histoire, on n'a probablement écrit autant de traités et de tentatives, produite autant de théories et d'analyses sur la culture et l'altérité. Ce qui est d'...więcej »
Computing and communication systems are becoming increasingly interdependent is evident in almost every aspect of society. Applications of these integrated systems are also spreading. As this trend...więcej »
In recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence. Deconstructing Dolls pushes the boundarie...więcej »
The most important conclusion -consistent materialism, as special, local case, considers and does not reject the possibility of conscious, volitional, but limited by framework idea about objective ...więcej »
The way how a human being thinks in all its aspects and variations is a problem not solved so far. The scientific approach in this matter presumes that thinking of a human being is free and indepen...więcej »
This book provides an insight into contemporary views on smoking and drinking of alcohol and caffeine as well as a general attitude towards healthy lifestyle during pregnancy. It summarizes differe...więcej »
What does it mean to 'fit in?' In this volume of essays, editors Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann demystify the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about the role of...więcej »
Analysis of business management strategies and services of fitness clubs With the increase in social awareness of the benefit of practicing physical activities, gyms have begun to invest in new tec...więcej »
Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market de...więcej »