An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of this rapidly expanding field. For each health issue examined in the text, the authors first present basic biological information on specific co[...]
"Discover the best of biological anthropology: From its earliest foundations toits most current innovations." Over the past 40 years, the study of biological anthropologyhas rapidly evolved from focusing on just physical anthropology to including the study of the fossil record and the human skeleton[...]
In this gustatory tour of human history, John S. Allen demonstrates that the everyday activity of eating offers deep insights into human beings' biological and cultural heritage. We humans eat a wide array of plants and animals, but unlike other omnivores we eat with our minds as much as our stomach[...]
In the bestselling tradition of "Freakonomics" and "Scorecasting" comes a clever and accessible look at the big ideas underlying the science of football.
Did you hear the one about the MacArthur genius physicist and the NFL coach? It's not a joke. It's actually an innovative way to understand c[...]
"New York Times" bestselling author Allen St. John started off looking for the world's greatest guitar, but what he found instead was the world's greatest guitar builder. Living and working in Rugby, Virginia (population 7), retired rural mail carrier Wayne Henderson is a true American original, mak[...]
Many preachers long to understand the dynamics of thought, feeling, and behavior at work in congregations. They use many techniques to evaluate the needs of their congregation and to sharpen their sermons, but preachers seldom give members of their congregation the opportunities to identify qualitie[...]
Co-written by the "Godfather of the Airgun Industry," Dr. Robert D. Beeman, as well as John B. Allen, longtime associate editor for the Blue Book of Gun Values, the new 10th Anniversary Edition Blue Book of Airguns contains most popular 2012 and vintage makes and models, detailed descriptions, over [...]
Convenient 4 x 7 in. size makes it the most portable and easy to use book on Remington firearms ever published At 144 pages, this new Blue Book pocket guide lists and describes most Remington firearms manufactured between 1816-2013. All the new 2013 Remington models have been included Values have b[...]
The Blue Book of Airguns remains the most complete book on current airgun information and up-to-date values ever published.[...]
Within the past ten years, social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and others have grown at a tremendous rate, enlisting an astronomical number of users. Social media have inevitably become an integral part of the contemporary classroom, of advertising and public relations [...]
The Oxford Handbook of Banking, Second Edition provides an overview and analysis of developments and research in banking written by leading researchers in the field. This handbook will appeal to graduate students of economics, banking and finance, academics, practitioners, regulators, and policy mak[...]