First published in 1984, Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution aims to delineate a theory of human nature, viewed as an interrelated set of genetically programmed behavioral predispositions, and a theory of biocultural evolution.
How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parentsSchool choice policies have proliferated in recent years, with parents forced to navigate complex admission processes.
Drawing on a small-scale longitudinal study of mid-life women tracking their menstrual cycles within the context of their lives as a whole over a twenty year period, this insightful book documents general health, family, and life situation changes and continuities for the participants.
A merchant family home reveals postwar middle-class life, kinship, and ambition in small-town Sri LankaA Merchant's House follows a Sinhala-Buddhist merchant family in small-town Sri Lanka over two decades, revealing how homes, relationships, and everyday routines shape lives, ambitions, and social standing.
A merchant family home reveals postwar middle-class life, kinship, and ambition in small-town Sri LankaA Merchant's House follows a Sinhala-Buddhist merchant family in small-town Sri Lanka over two decades, revealing how homes, relationships, and everyday routines shape lives, ambitions, and social standing.
A fifty-year journey through love, desire, and transformation that balances storytelling with philosophical inquiry and cultural analysis Offers a male perspective on sexuality, marriage, and emotional vulnerability, with contributions from the authors wife to deepen the relational narrative Draws on craniosacral therapy, tai chi chuan, and psychic work to examine how relationships reflect the deeper forces that shape identity and consciousnessIn this deeply personal narrative, Richard Grossinger documents sixty years of his relationship with poet Lindy Hough, tracing the arc of their partnership from youthful idealism through the alchemical transformations of marriage, parenthood, infidelity, and aging.
An innovative examination of how talent, virtue and gendered expectations are negotiated in post-reform ChinaUnder China's one-child policy, a generation of only daughters in the 1980s grew up with unprecedented access to university education and careers in high-paying fields.
An innovative examination of how talent, virtue and gendered expectations are negotiated in post-reform ChinaUnder China's one-child policy, a generation of only daughters in the 1980s grew up with unprecedented access to university education and careers in high-paying fields.
Declines in childbearing, coupled with increases in life expectancy, have resulted in a demographic shift which is being felt around the globe - the growth of the elderly population.
Declines in childbearing, coupled with increases in life expectancy, have resulted in a demographic shift which is being felt around the globe - the growth of the elderly population.
In this emotionally rich first memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of True Biz retraces her path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community - and seeks to understand the journeys her own children must take.
