Download or read book Anthropological Survey in Alaska written by Aleš Hrdlička and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a report of the anthropological survey conducted in the largest state of the USA, Alaska. The author includes several details on human behavior, cultures, and societies in Alaska in the present and past. In addition, he makes enlightening observations on the patterns of behavior, cultural meaning, norms and values of the people of Alaska.
Download or read book The Century of the Gene written by Evelyn Fox KELLER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
Download or read book Applied Eugenics written by Paul Popenoe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology Vol 1 written by Philip David Zelazo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of what is now known about psychological development, from birth to biological maturity, and it highlights how cultural, social, cognitive, neural, and molecular processes work together to yield human behavior and changes in human behavior.
Download or read book Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon written by Rick Derksen and published by Leiden Indo-European Etymologi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary in the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series systematically and exhaustively deals with the Slavic inherited lexicon. It is unique in combining recent insights from the field of comparative Indo-European linguistics with modern Balto-Slavic accentology. In addition, the author makes an explicit attempt at reconstructing part of the Balto-Slavic lexicon. The entries of the dictionary are alphabetically arranged Proto-Slavic etyma. Each lemma consists of a number of fields which contain the evidence, reconstructions and notes. The introduction explains the contents and the significance of the individual fields. Here the reader can also find information on the various sources of the material. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of sources and secondary literature, and a word index.
Download or read book Forensic Pathology 2Ed written by Bernard Knight and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-08-02 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and revised edition of the major reference work in forensic pathology, this will be an important purchase for all in the field. 'Forensic Pathology' offers a thorough, detailed guide to the performance and interpretation of post-mortem examinations conducted for the police and other legal authorities.
Download or read book Trepanation written by Robert Arnott and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-26 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago.
Download or read book Process Induced Food Toxicants written by Richard H. Stadler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process-Induced Food Toxicants combines the analytical, health, and risk management issues relating to all of the currently known processing-induced toxins that may be present in common foods. It considers the different processing methods used in the manufacture of foods, including thermal treatment, drying, fermentation, preservation, fat processing, and high hydrostatic pressure processing, and the potential contaminants for each method. The book discusses the analysis, formation, mitigation, health risks, and risk management of each hazardous compound. Also discussed are new technologies and the impact of processing on nutrients and allergens.
Download or read book The Construction of Homosexuality written by David F. Greenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed, or defined, it as deviant. The book takes us over vast terrains of example and detail in the history of homosexuality."—Nicholas B. Dirks, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Seeds of the Earth written by Patrick R. Mooney and published by Inter Pares for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation and the International Coalition for Development Action. This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Gene-Rich' and the 'Gene-Poor'. Genetic Erosin. Genetic Conservation. The Green Revolution. The Seed Revolution. The New Seedsmen. The Implications of Restrictive Varietal Legislation. Biases in Corporate Breeding. Learing form Corporate Experience.
Download or read book Evaluating Multiple Narratives written by Junko Habu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archaeological case studies from around the world, this volume evaluates the implications of providing alternative interpretations of the past. These cases also examine if multivocality is relevant to local residents and non-Anglo-American archaeologists and if the close examination of alternative interpretations can contribute to a deeper understanding of subjectivity and objectivity of archaeological interpretation.
Download or read book Physical Anthropology written by Aleš Hrdlička and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Defense of Food written by Michael Pollan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Download or read book Deadly Deception written by Robert E. Willner and published by Peltec Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Chapter written by Ernie Pyle and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told,” wrote Harry Truman. “He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.” THIS is the final book of Ernie Pyle’s war reporting. After Africa, Italy, and D-Day on the European continent, Pyle took it the hard way again. There was still the Pacific war to win, and where the fighting was Ernie had to go, soul-sick though he was with the thousands of scenes of death and destruction he had already witnessed. He was attached to the Navy early in 1945. In the Marianas first and then living with the boys who flew the B-29s over the Japanese homeland, Pyle was experiencing a side of the war that was new to him. Next he joined an aircraft carrier on the invasion of Okinawa. He made the landing with the Marines and saw Okinawa secured. Then his luck ran out. A Japanese bullet killed Ernie Pyle on April 17th, 1945 on Ie Shima, and Americans lost their greatest and best-loved correspondent. Millions mourned the going of this modest man who wrote of the war with all honesty and no pretensions, and whose writings will stand as one of the most vital records of the struggle. LAST CHAPTER is a brief, brave little book to complete that record permanently. There is a sixteen-page picture section and an index of names and places.
Download or read book Anthropological Theory written by R. Jon McGee and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2003 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written.
Download or read book Perspectives in Human Growth Development and Maturation written by Parasmani Dasgupta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided the astonishment; twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560 children, aged six months to twenty years. Most were in families with siblings also in the study, and every child was measured every time by S. R. Das himself. The archive was unique, combining the personal anthropometry of R. H. Whitehouse in the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study. This was a study of which neither I, nor anyone of my acquaintance, had heard. Even in India, Prof. Das' work was scarcely known. It turned out Das was a scholarly man, quiet and unassuming, absolutely committed to his Sarsuna-Barisha Growth Study,just the obverse of the professional showman. Clearly this was not a request I could refuse, although I already had in hand enough projects to occupy Siva himself.
