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Books in Anthropology

Our anthropology resources encompass human cultural, social, biological, and linguistic studies, offering comprehensive coverage of human diversity and evolution. Featuring foundational theories, ethnographic case studies, and contemporary research, this portfolio supports scholars, students, and practitioners in understanding societal development, cultural practices, and human behavior. From kinship systems to globalization, these resources promote interdisciplinary approaches and critical insights, enabling users to explore the complexities of human life across time and space.

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    • Historical Ethnobiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros
      • English
      Historical Ethnobiology presents a unique approach to analyzing human-nature interactions, using theoretical and methodological aspects to examine historical scientific knowledge. This book disseminates the notion that past local narratives of biodiversity influence the determination of both historical and modern scientific decisions. Beginning with a brief history of ethnobiology’s development, this book delves into conceptual models, historical knowledge areas, and the theoretical matrix of ethnobiology. This book also focuses on the importance of memory including topics of memory production by human in different epochs and how individual memory records contribute to social history and the understanding of the past effects of human interaction with nature. Looking ahead, it discusses the importance of records such as these for determining future mankind’s relationships with nature to preserve biodiversity and ensure conservation. Historical Ethnobiology is the first book to focus on past human-nature interactions and their interpretations in today’s scientific culture. This book is an excellent resource for students and researchers in biology, ethnobiology, and anthropology.

    • Guide to Immediate Anaesthetic Reactions

      • 1st Edition
      • John B. Watkins + 1 more
      • English
      Guide to Immediate Anaesthetic Reactions serves as a practical guide to the management of adverse anesthetic response. This book provides information pertinent to the functions of anesthesia, including hypnosis, analgesia, and neuromuscular control. Organized into six chapters, this book begins with an overview of the immunological principles in anesthesia and surgery. This text then discusses mechanisms of the adverse anesthetic reactions as well as the characteristics of immune response. Other chapters consider the theory and practical management of anaphylactoid reactions, including the requirements for laboratory studies. This book presents as well a practical approach to the understanding, recognition, and management of the life-threatening reactions of anesthesia to patients. The reader is introduced to the general considerations for patients presenting with various genetic abnormalities likely to trigger abnormal response to anesthesia. The final chapter deals with the immediate adverse reactions that are related to defects of enzyme function rather than to immunity. This book is a valuable resource for anesthetists, surgeons, and physicians.

    • Reporting U.S.-European Relations

      Four Nations, Four Newspapers
      • 1st Edition
      • Michael Rice + 2 more
      • Michael Rice + 1 more
      • English
      Reporting U.S.-European Relations: Four Nations, Four Newspapers is a compilation of U.S. and European perspectives from different daily newspapers. Chapter 1 is about the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). After a brief background of the newspaper, from one dictator to another, the paper is described as having no editor. The political, economic, and cultural policies are made by ""editor-publishers.... Political philosophy in the FAZ is very cohesive and conservative, which readers of a wide political spectrum rely upon. Chapter 2 deals with the New York Times, which is founded in 1851 and has undergone many changes, making it the most respected daily newspaper in the United States. This circulation is considered a chronologist of current events, and more than an opinion maker, it is also considered an educator. Chapter 3 is about The Times (London), founded in 1785 under a different name. This circulation is one of the most influential newspapers in the world, with a succession of notable editors. Considered by some as boring, this newspaper is bought by Rupert Murdoch, making it still in substance a uniquely British expression of life. Chapter 4 is about Le Monde, founded in December 1944 upon the request of General Charles de Gaulle. This circulation is considered the most important and prestigious daily newspaper in France, very nationalistic, and a receptacle for debate. This collection of essays will prove invaluable to practicing journalists, politicians, public and government leaders, and students of journalism. Writers and authors will also find this collection entertaining and informative.

    • A Laboratory Manual for Forensic Anthropology

      • 1st Edition
      • Angi M. Christensen + 1 more
      • English
      A Laboratory Manual for Forensic Anthropology approaches forensic anthropology as a modern and well-developed science, and includes consideration of forensic anthropology within the broader forensic science community, with extensive use of case studies and recent research, technology and challenges that are applied in field and lab contexts. This book covers all practical aspects of forensic anthropology, from field recoveries, to lab analyses, emphasizing hands-on activities. Topics include human osteology and odontology, examination methods, medicolegal significance, scene processing methods, forensic taphonomy, skeletal processing and sampling, sex estimation, ancestry estimation, age estimation, stature estimation, skeletal variation, trauma analysis, and personal identification. Although some aspects are specific to the United States, the vast majority of the material is internationally-rele... and therefore suitable for forensic anthropology courses in other countries.

    • Eastern Europe and the New International Economic Order

      Representative Samples of Socialist Perspectives
      • 1st Edition
      • Ervin Laszlo + 1 more
      • English
      Eastern Europe and the New International Economic Order examines the views, positions, and practices of Eastern European nations regarding the New International Economic Order (NIEO). Topics covered include technology transfer from CMEA countries to the Third World and the perspectives of Yugoslavia, Romania, and Hungary regarding the NIEO. This volume is comprised of five chapters and begins with an analysis of the NIEO from the perspective of CMEA countries, paying particular attention to the NIEO's political objectives and impediments to the realization of the NIEO goals. Some strategies for overcoming setbacks in the implementation of NIEO principles are outlined. The next chapter looks at the principles of technology transfer from socialist countries to developing countries, along with obstacles to the export of technology in CMEA countries and the inflow of technology in the Third World. Incentives for increasing technology transfer are also discussed. The final chapters consider the positions and policies of Yugoslavia, Romania, and Hungary toward the NIEO. This book will be a useful resource for economists and economic policymakers.

    • The Future of Business—Annual Review 1980/81

      Practical Issues
      • 1st Edition
      • Sterling G. Slappey
      • English
      The Future of Business—Annual Review 1980/81: Practical Issues is comprised of five essays that examine the opportunities and problems facing business, and their relation to society. The five essays are entitled ""The World of Work Gets Wider and Wilder,"" ""Business Has Failed to Explain Itself,"" ""Changing Demographics and How They Affect the Future of Business,"" ""The Future of Multinational Business,"" and ""Are Material Resources a Restraint on Economic Growth?"" Gus Tyler's ""The World of Work Gets Wider and Wilder"" examines the make-up of the constantly expanding work forces of the past. George Hammond's ""Business Has Failed to Explain Itself"" looks 200 years back to the start of modern commercialism and to the Industrial Revolution. Lawrence Franko's ""The Future of Multinational Business"" takes a substantive look at both American and non-American multinationals. James Hyatt's ""Changing Demographics and How They Affect the Future of Business"" looks at demographic factors involving business. Lastly, Professor Beckerman's ""Are Material Resources a Restraint on Economic Growth?"" describes why avaricious human beings will continue to eat, build, and multiply. He questions the prophecies of Thomas Malthus by asserting ""...we are not going to starve to death anytime soon."" This book will be useful for readers with interests in the exciting problems addressed by the five essays.

    • Mental Testing in Clinical Practice

      The Commonwealth and International Library: Mental Health and Social Medicine Division
      • 1st Edition
      • Moyra Williams
      • Hugh L. Freeman
      • English
      Mental Testing in Clinical Practice focuses on the measurement of mental activities in sickness. The book first offers information on intelligence and personality. Topics include conditions and factors affecting intelligence, clinical uses of intelligence testing, measurement of intelligence, intellectual deterioration, factors determining and influencing personality, and conditions causing breakdown. The manuscript then surveys speech and language and memory and learning, including conditions and factors influencing speech, measurement of language, nature of memory, disorders of speech, measurement of memory in clinical practice, and tests for the measurement of memory. The publication takes a look at perception and orientation and the future of clinical psychology. Discussions focus on factors affecting perception and orientation and assessment of orientation. The book is a reliable source of data for readers interested in the process of mental testing in clinical practice.

    • Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy

      The Commonwealth and International Library: Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy
      • 1st Edition
      • A. Pfeiffer
      • English
      Dialogues on Fundamental Questions of Science and Philosophy presents a compilation of dialogues concerning the basic questions of science and philosophy. This book discusses the relationship between philosophy and science. Organized into two parts encompassing 10 chapters, this book begins with an argument that reality can be recognized objectively, but not that there is a conflict between science and faith. This text then examines the invalidity of the causality principle in the microworld of the elementary particle and by the lack of individual identity of the particles. Other chapters consider the argument that philosophy should also make use of scientific methods. This book discusses as well the extended version of the biogenetical law of Haeckel, which is also valid for the progress of the human perceptive faculty. The final chapter deals with the argument that the idea of good as a tenet for practical actions is religious in character. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in the fields of science and philosophy.

    • Arab Development Funds in the Middle East

      Pergamon Policy Studies
      • 1st Edition
      • Soliman Demir
      • English
      Arab Development Funds in the Middle East details the activities of Arab development funds in promoting economic cooperation and development within the Arab region. The title analyzes the efforts the Arab development funds, particularly how they cooperate to promote regional development. Each chapter of the text details the management, policies, and operations of the Arab development funds. The funds covered are Kuwait fund, Abu Dhabi fund, and the Arab fund. The book will be of great interest to individuals who have a keen interest on the socio-economic development of the Arab region.

    • Communication Economics and Development

      Pergamon Policy Studies on International Development
      • 1st Edition
      • Meheroo Jussawalla + 1 more
      • English
      Communication Economics and Development aims to determine a methodology for integrating communication variables into economic development models. The first five chapters of the book cover the theoretical issues and their conceptualization as the basis for deriving a better understanding of the role of communication in economic development. The major issues for concern are the economic variables that are endogenous to communication planning in the light of rapid advances in communication technologies. Chapters 6-9 deals with the consideration of the role of communication in national development; the international trade theory and communications; and the political economy of information in a changing international economic order. The Japanese experience in focusing on the role of communication in economic development; a model for predicting development benefits from telecommunication investment; and the role of telecommunications in developing countries are also discussed. The text further describes the impact of telecommunication and information in development planning strategy; the opportunity costs in computer conferencing during and for economic development; and the evaluation of the impact of communication on agricultural development in Nepal. The use of economic concepts in communication planning practice is also discussed.