Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand we struggle to survive on our own in the wild often failing to overcome even basic challenges like obtaining food building shelters or avoiding predators. On the other hand human groups have produced ingenious technol... Lees meer.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand we struggle to survive on our own in the wild often failing to overcome even basic challenges like obtaining food building shelters or avoiding predat... Lees meer.

Dog trainer Julie Jones faces an unusual and frustrating challenge when she attempts to help impatient workaholic Luc Tagliano bond with his new dog.... Lees meer.

Focusing on George Washington s Mount Vernon Louisa May Alcott s Orchard House Thomas Jefferson s Monticello and the Booker T. Washington National Monument Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the p... Lees meer.

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Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives concubines and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the female relatives of the military rulers who go... Lees meer.

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand we struggle to survive on our own in the wild often failing to overcome even basic challenges like obtaining food building shelters or avoiding predators. On the other hand human groups have produced ingenious technol... Lees meer.

This book brings together the leading researchers currently investigating the impact of information and communication technology outside of the workplace. During the past decade technology has become more pervasive encroaching more and more on our lives. Computers... Lees meer.

Catholic theologians have developed the relatively new term inculturation to discuss the old problem of adapting the church universal to specific local cultures. Europeans needed a thousand years to inculturate Christianity from its Judaic roots. Africans efforts to... Lees meer.

Parenting Internet Kids with three key terms slashed together conveys the idea that the practice of parenting may extend both to the Internet and to our children to the extent that both require attention care and forms of regulation and in turn provide support... Lees meer.

Presents an analysis of the cultic practices that defined and shaped the way Buddhists in Silla Korea understood their religion from the sixth to tenth centuries. This work demonstrates how the eminent monks royalty and hereditary aristocrats of Silla were the primary... Lees meer.

Based on in-depth research in Poland and Slovakia Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in post-socialist cities. Domesticating Neo-Liberalism addresses how we understand the processes of neo-liberalization in po... Lees meer.

The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying. Variously called unmanned aircraft systems unmanned aerial vehicles remotely piloted aircraft or simply drones they are available for purchase by anyone for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. T... Lees meer.

This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology and that... Lees meer.

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