By National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (U. S.), Paula L. W. Sabloff

ISBN-10: 0913167983

ISBN-13: 9780913167984

ISBN-10: 1444307150

ISBN-13: 9781444307153

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional booklet of the nationwide organization for the perform of Anthropology, devoted to the sensible problem-solving and coverage functions of anthropological wisdom and techniques.

• peer reviewed e-book of the nationwide organization for the perform of Anthropology
• dedicated to the sensible problem-solving and coverage purposes of anthropological wisdom and strategies
• most variations to be had for path adoption

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By Olli Pyyhtinen

ISBN-10: 0230236170

ISBN-13: 9780230236172

This booklet argues for the centrality of Georg Simmel's social concept to the relational and processual emphases which are frequently regarded as even more fresh advancements in social conception. Situating Simmel's paintings specifically with appreciate to New Vitalism and Bruno Latour's paintings, the booklet indicates that Simmel has nonetheless an incredible quantity to give a contribution.

By Theo Engelen, John R. Shephard, Yang Wen-shan

ISBN-10: 9052603790

ISBN-13: 9789052603797

This quantity examines contrasting old demographics in Western Europe and Asia, taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as consultant populations. either nations have witnessed regular, non-stop advancements in public wellbeing and fitness, affliction prevention, and therapy. The members examine the impression of illness and mortality at the lives of people and households below very diversified cultural and social stipulations. loss of life on the contrary Ends of the Eurasian Continent analyzes a number of components, together with maternal and little one mortality, in addition to the accuracy of Taiwan’s censuses and demise reporting.

By G. E. Edwards (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0312224885

ISBN-13: 9780312224882

ISBN-10: 1349177806

ISBN-13: 9781349177806

ISBN-10: 1349177822

ISBN-13: 9781349177820

By Steven Woloshin M.D.M.S., Lisa M. Schwartz M.D.M.S., H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H.

ISBN-10: 0520252225

ISBN-13: 9780520252226

On a daily basis we're bombarded via tv advertisements, public carrier bulletins, and media studies caution of dire dangers to our future health and delivering suggestions to aid us decrease these dangers. yet lots of those messages are incomplete, deceptive, or exaggerated, leaving the common individual misinformed and harassed. recognize Your probabilities is a full of life, obtainable, and thoroughly researched e-book that could aid shoppers type via this day-by-day barrage by way of instructing them how you can interpret the numbers in the back of the messages. In transparent and straightforward steps, the authors--all of them employees physicians on the Veterans management scientific heart in White River Junction, Vermont--take the secret out of scientific records. through studying to appreciate the scientific records and realizing what inquiries to ask, readers can be capable of see in the course of the hype and discover what--if any--credible details continues to be. The book's easy-to-understand charts may help usual humans placed their healthiness matters into perspective.This brief, reader-friendly quantity will foster communique among sufferers and medical professionals and supply the elemental critical-thinking talents useful for navigating contemporary complicated health and wellbeing panorama.

By Anthony Giddens

ISBN-10: 0333322908

ISBN-13: 9780333322901

ISBN-10: 1349168017

ISBN-13: 9781349168019

By Steven Hahn

ISBN-10: 0195035089

ISBN-13: 9780195035087

During this exam of the increase of agrarian radicalism within the overdue 19th-century South, Hahn makes a speciality of social switch and well known attention whereas exploring populism's kinship with different events resembling labour radicalism.

By Ken Goffman, Dan Joy

ISBN-10: 0307414833

ISBN-13: 9780307414830

So long as there was tradition, there was counterculture. now and then it strikes deep under the skin of items, a stealth mode of being all yet invisible to the dominant paradigm; at different occasions it's in simple sight, difficult the established order; and at nonetheless different occasions it erupts in a fiery burst of creative--or destructive--energy to alter the area without end.

But previously the countercultural phenomenon has been considered one of history's nice blind spots. person countercultures were explored, yet by no means sooner than has a publication got down to display the ordinary nature of counterculturalism throughout all instances and societies, and to demonstrate its dynamic function within the non-stop evolution of human values and cultures.

Countercultural pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly units the list directly during this colourful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging examine in accordance with principles constructed by way of the past due Timothy Leary with Dan pleasure. With a particular mixture of scholarly erudition and gonzo ardour, Sirius and pleasure establish the distinguishing features of countercultures, delving into heritage and fantasy to set up past doubt that, for all their floor alterations, countercultures proportion very important underlying rules: individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and a trust within the danger of non-public and social transformation.

Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of historic Athens and the outsider activities of Judaism, which left indelible marks on Western tradition, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, which have been both influential within the East, to the well-known countercultural moments of the final century--Paris within the twenties, Haight-Ashbury within the sixties, Tropicalismo, women's liberation, punk rock--to the state of the art countercultures of the twenty-first century, which mix technology, paintings, song, expertise, politics, and faith in staggering (and occasionally irritating) new methods, Counterculture throughout the Ages is an vital guidebook to the place we've been . . . and the place we're going.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Scott O. Lilienfeld, Nancy J. Woolf, Steven J. Lynn, Laura L. Namy

ISBN-10: 0205832067

ISBN-13: 9780205832064

For introductory psychology classes at - and four-year schools and universities.

Providing the framework scholars have to move from inquiry to figuring out through consistently modeling the applying of six key ideas of clinical thinking. Psychology: From Inquiry to figuring out [/i]teaches scholars tips to attempt their assumptions, and motivates them to exploit clinical pondering abilities to raised comprehend the field of psychology and the area round them.

By Steve Fuller

ISBN-10: 1412928389

ISBN-13: 9781412928380

This e-book outlines a social concept of data for the twenty first century. With attribute subtlety and verve, Steve Fuller bargains without delay with a global during which it truly is now not taken without any consideration that universities and teachers are the simplest locations and folks to embrace the lifetime of the brain. whereas Fuller defends educational privilege, he is taking very heavily the historical divergences among lecturers and intellectuals, attending specifically to the several gains of information construction that they worth.