Human biology

Known as the red planet, Mars is the closest planet to the sun.

During the formation of the solar system, not all of the materials in the vast could of dust and gas were used.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

What is work?

Did you know that both electricity and light move in waves, like water does?

Do you ever wonder why it seems like you are not moving even though you are standing on a planet that moves through space?

Have you ever wondered why things drop to the ground instead of float or fly?

Have you ever seen a magician make something disappear and question if anything could really just vanish?

Do you know why a 10-ton boat floats but a tiny pebble sinks?

What is work?

Of the six simple machines, the wheel and axle is probably the most recognized.

Do you know what a lever is?

Western medicine-especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice-is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared.

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future.

The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa.

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease.

The Ontogeny of Information is a critical intervention into the ongoing and perpetually troubling nature-nurture debates surrounding human development.

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes.

A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment In 1795 Benjamin Hawkins, a former US senator and advisor to George Washington, was appointed US Indian agent and superintendent of all the tribes south of the Ohio River.

Though more than 150,000 AIDS-related deaths have been reported worldwide and between 5 and 10 million people are now infected with its precursor, HIV-1, the deadly and relatively new AIDS virus is still a mystery.

This book and accompanying compact disc provide a rare excursion in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial connections.

With the help of his pea plants, Gregor Mendel cracked the secret of heredity, how traits are passed from parents to children to grandchildren.

To the Western eye, there is something jarringly incongruous, even shocking, about the image of a six-year-old girl being held down by loving relatives so that her genitals can be cut.

Medical humanitarianismmedical and other health-related initiatives undertaken in conditions born of conflict, neglect, or disaster has a prominent and growing presence in international development, global health, and human security interventions.

Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States.

Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts.

Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media.

Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem.

A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting.

Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community.

A raccoon bite on the arm doesn't seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis.

A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture.

Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from?

Here is a thoroughly engaging history of one line of human science research and its consequences for the hapless, and often helpless, subject of study: the indigenous peoples of Tasmania.

Canada is a country of immigrants of different ethnic origins.

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects.

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects.

Benjamin Chee Chee lived with anger and frustration for more than thirty years before he took his own life.

What became of these millions of immigrant descendants?

Damas shows that while there were cases of government-directed relocation to centres, centralization was largely voluntary as the Inuit accepted the advantages of village living.

Based primarily on the oral accounts of John Blackned, Cree Narrative offers a detailed account of traditional Cree society.

This is the coronal plane that governs the weavings of remembrance and anticipation, recollections of the past and expectations of the future.

Chevalier shows how the attentions and inhibitions of affect and norm are best understood at the crossroads of several disciplines, including neuropsychology, semiotics, and philosophy.

Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise starts the trilogy on the lateral plane and explores the tendency of each hemisphere to specialize but also to complement or supplement the other hemisphere.

Identifying himself as both an Indian and a Canadian but first and foremost a Sikh, Tara Singh has shuttled back and forth between Canada and India for most of his life, finding personal harmony while incorporating two very different countries and cultures into his life.