Electronic Books

Total Books: 41 - 60 /68

On the Uniqueness of Humankind

Europäische Akademie organized the conference "The Uniqueness of Humankind – Über die Sonderstellung des Menschen". ...

Paleomicrobiology

"Paleomicrobiology – Past Human Infections" features the methods and main achievements in this emerging field of research ...

Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of ...

Phenomenology And The Non-Human Animal

The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become ...

Philosophical Problems Today

Philosophy of logic and language, and of meaning and communication are central to this volume. The discussion of these issues ...

Re-Centring the City : Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity / Jonathan Bach and Michał Murawski

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand ...

Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks Methods & Materia

This book explains that after long periods of prehistoric research in which the importance of the archaeological as well ...

Recent Advances in Palaeodemography : Data, Techniques, Patterns

The written data used by demographers essentially cover the last five centuries. Since Homo Ergaster moved out of Africa ...

Recovery, Analysis, and Identification of Commingled Human Remains

Mass fatality events can result in the intermixing, or commingling, of human remains. Commingling of human remains presents ...

Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics : A Multidisciplinary Approach

This book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of ...

River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa — A Policy Crossroads

This book offers a devastating look at deeply flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments ...

Self-Governance and Sami Communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management

The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural ...

Social Development in the World Bank Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

This book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and ...

The Amazing Journey of Reason from DNA to Artificial Intelligence

This book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, ...

The Behavioral Ecology of the Tibetan Macaque

This book summarizes the multi-disciplinary results of one of China’s main primatological research projects on the endemic ...

The Contingent Nature of Life : Bioethics and Limits of Human Existence

This volume explores the different ways in which the contingency of life, and especially human life, is relevant for ethical ...

The Environmental Movement in Ireland

Collective responses to Ireland’s dramatic transformation from a primarily agrarian and rural society to an industrialised ...

The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South Asia

Archaeologists, biological anthropologists, geneticists and linguists are brought together in order to provide a comprehensive ...

The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami

is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, ...

The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami

This book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people ...

Total Books: 41 - 60 /68