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.

A collection of essays concerning meanings of cross-cultural and interracial interactions this text places all such discussions in local historical context. Analysis is rooted in historical figures and events and employs a variety of primary sources - from travelogues... 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.

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 pre... Lees meer.

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.

He s definitely undomesticated.. . Julie Jones is proud of her dog training institute but her latest client is jeopardizing its stellar rating. He growls. He snaps. He refuses to follow the simplest command without balking. But his dog is an absolute sweetie. All P... Lees meer.

Woman both real and metaphorical is at the center of the project to reform politics which for Rousseau means all human relations Nicole Fermon asserts in this finely wrought study of how Jean-Jacques Rousseau places the family women and love within his political p... Lees meer.

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-a-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a youth bulge... 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.

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.

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.

Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten. During the eighteenth century enlightened thinkers in Spanish territories in the Americas engaged in lively exchanges with their counterparts in Europe and Anglo-America about a wide rang... Lees meer.

In Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity national pride and the role of women in creating the Me... Lees meer.