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.

In Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison offers an ethnography of Alternate Dispute Resolution ADR organizations in El Alto Bolivia showing that by helping residents cope with their interpersonal disputes and economic troubles how they change the ways Bolivian... Lees meer.

There exists a genuine degree of scepticism as to whether Hans Kelsen s pure theory of law can rationalise the intricacies of the English legal system. This groundbreaking book examines pertinent aspects of English law relating to constitutional patterns of law-making... Lees meer.

Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households investigating the functions of Egyptian landscapes within domestic gardens at Pompeii. So-called Aegyptiaca helped transform domestic space into a microcosm of t... 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.

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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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.