Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in... Zobraziť viac
The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans... Zobraziť viac
A comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance and a study of its main component, ritual. Zobraziť viac
'Our relationship with nature has changed ...radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.' In The Human Age award-winning nature writer Diane... Zobraziť viac
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike... Zobraziť viac
INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the MonthA LoveReading Best Book of 2024Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024'Travel at its best - life enhancing' Bear Grylls'Ash is a great storyteller, whose book... Zobraziť viac
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout... Zobraziť viac
A zoologist's study of the human animal. A fiftieth anniversary edition with a new preface from the author. A classic to take it's place alongside Darwin's "Origin of the Species". Zobraziť viac
Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-... Zobraziť viac
In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss... Zobraziť viac
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current... Zobraziť viac
The classic New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by E.J. Dionne Jr. When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet” (Time).... Zobraziť viac
For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics Zobraziť viac
Third edition of leading textbook offering an advanced overview of all major perspectives of research in cross-cultural psychology. Zobraziť viac
A meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. In this book, Blackmore discusses the theory of "memetic selection"--survival of the fittest among competitive ideas down through the generations--... Zobraziť viac
This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what... Zobraziť viac
