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Human biology

Paperback. Argues compellingly that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them. This title shows that what developmental information" does depends on what is already in place and what alternatives are available. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JHMP; JMA; JMC; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822324669
ISBN
9780822324669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving? This title tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JHMP; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141037202
ISBN
9780141037202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Editor(s): Schramm, Katharina; Skinner, David; Rottenburg, Richard. Series: Studies of the BioSocial Society. Num Pages: 226 pages, 4 tables and figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; PDR; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 167 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782386827
ISBN
9781782386827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.38

Paperback. A concise and gripping account of eugenics from its origins in the twentieth century and beyond. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 168 pages, 10. BIC Classification: PDX; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 174 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199385904
ISBN
9780199385904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Full of fascinating and bizarre cases of genetic mutation and irregularity, 'Mutants' is an amazing exploration of the human form in all its beautiful and unique guises. Num Pages: 464 pages, 50 b/w illus, Index. BIC Classification: PSAK; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006531647
ISBN
9780006531647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. .
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840226980
ISBN
9781840226980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198701880
ISBN
9780198701880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.35

Hardback. The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. Editor(s): Littlewood, Roland; Lynch, Rebecca. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785331770
ISBN
9781785331770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.97

Paperback. Revelatory story of how all modern non-Africans sprang from a single exodus out of Africa just 85,000 years ago Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 colour photos. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841198941
ISBN
9781841198941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists now claim that discoveries in epigenetics prove that he was right after all. Loren Graham reopens the case, to determine whether new developments in molecular biology validate Lysenko's claims. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: PD; PDX; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674089051
ISBN
9780674089051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.60

Paperback. Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment. Series: Collins New Naturalist Library. Num Pages: 368 pages, (Over 200 illustrations and photographs), Index. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; PDZ; PSXE; WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 149. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008150358
ISBN
9780008150358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 29.55

Paperback. An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in detail the processes which take place in the body and sets out to strip away many illusions about death. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; PD; PSX; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099476412
ISBN
9780099476412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation, and reveals how humans have periodically lived there ever since. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; PSXE; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 230 x 11. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
FRANCES LINCOLN
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780565093372
ISBN
9780565093372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.30

Hardcover. Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment. Series: Collins New Naturalist Library. Num Pages: 368 pages, (Over 200 illustrations and photographs), Index. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; PDZ; PSXE; WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 155. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008150334
ISBN
9780008150334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.14
€ 48.00

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199662487
ISBN
9780199662487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.47

Paperback. An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
290
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393345865
ISBN
9780393345865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.09

Paperback. Offers an original way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. This work offers an alternative to the way we think about our origins: random mutation (mechanistic neo-Darwinism), Genesis (God did it all personally), and Intelligent Design (God personally does what we can't otherwise account for). Num Pages: 245 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HREZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845192600
ISBN
9781845192600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.51

Hardback. Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health.. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JHBK; MBPK; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444. Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh. 252 pages, 25 ills. Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FKB; JHBK; MBPK; PSXM. Dimension: 162 x 233 x 16. Weight: 444.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
238
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857454881
ISBN
9780857454881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.12

Paperback. .
Publisher
Zulu Planet Publishers South Africa
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781920070137
ISBN
9781920070137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.92

Hardcover. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, while even our closest primate relatives remain confined to the borders of their dwindling forest habitats. This book gives an account of what makes human minds different from those of other animals, and how this difference arose. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JMM; PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 620.
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465030149
ISBN
9780465030149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.81

Hardcover. A lively, richly informed argument for the natural superiority of women from the acclaimed author of The Tangled Wing. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 169 x 38. Weight in Grams: 732.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393239966
ISBN
9780393239966
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.64

Paperback. 50,000 years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the Planet? Series: Macmillan Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137278302
ISBN
9781137278302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. A Companion to Forensic Anthropology explores the latest theoretical and methodological work in the field, and includes thorough and up-to-date bibliographies. A wide range of international experts provide a comprehensive assessment of the field of forensic anthropology. Editor(s): Dirkmaat, Dennis. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 752 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; MMQ; PSXM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 175 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118959794
ISBN
9781118959794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMP; PDZ; PSAJ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571223039
ISBN
9780571223039
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

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