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A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates' Fou...
$8.96
The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystic..
Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective ...
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE, Third Edition is a sophisticated synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological fieldwork and was sensitive to the global conditions of inequality caused by the spr..
Exploration by Land (The Silk and Spice Routes)
$8.72
Examines the opening and development of the silk route and the effects of trade between the East and the West Author: Strathern, Paul Publisher: New Discovery Binding: library Language: English ISBN-10: 0027883752 ISBN-13: 9780027883756..
Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements
$15.68
In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeley..
Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and...
$27.99
This volume marks an epoch of sorts. The essays belong to, and the majority were written during, the time when the Bill for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act (1990) going through Parliament had stimulated public debate in Britain. The implications of the medical developments that lay behind..
University of California Press
The Gender of the Gift (Studies in Melanesian Anth...
$33.84
In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness and with..