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“margaret lock”

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  • The Alzheimer Conundrum

    Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    by Margaret Lock ...
    Because of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • New Horizons in Medical Anthropology

    Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie

    Edited by Margaret Lock, Mark Nichter ...
    New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of the 21st century. The book accomplishes two things: it reflects recent research by medical anthropologists working in Asia who have been inspired ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology

    Examining Technology through Production and Use

    Edited by Jeffrey R. Ferguson ...
    Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology is a guide for the design of archaeological experiments for both students and scholars. Experimental archaeology provides a unique opportunity to corroborate conclusions with multiple trials of repeatable experiments and can provide data otherwise unavailable to archaeologists without damaging sites, remains, or artifacts.Each chapter addresses a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Deep Ancestry

    Inside the Genographic Project

    by Spencer Wells ...
    Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Settling the Earth

    The Archaeology of Deep Human History

    by Clive Gamble ...
    In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where people lived apart yet ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Memory Techniques - Learn Memory Techniques and Strategies for Concentration and Accelerated Learning to Keep Your Brain Agile, Sharp and Forever Young

    by Kristy Clark ...
    Memory Techniques: Keeping Your Brain Agile, Sharp, and Forever Young. As a society, we’re obsessed with keeping our bodies in prime condition—running, working out, even sweating off fat in the sauna. But what good are taut, lean bodies without a healthy brain? MEMORY TECHNIQUES addresses the importance of keeping our minds sharp and agile as we age. In this short, sweet book, the author teaches ... Read more

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  • Evolution and Medicine

    by Robert Perlman ...
    Evolution and Medicine provides an accessible introduction to the new field of evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary concepts help explain why we remain vulnerable to disease, how pathogens and cancer cells evolve, and how the diseases that affected our evolutionary ancestors have shaped our biology. The book interweaves the presentation of evolutionary principles with examples that illustrate how ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • What the hell happened to my brain?

    Living Beyond Dementia

    by Kate Swaffer ...
    Kate Swaffer was just 49 years old when she was diagnosed with a form of younger onset dementia. In this book, she offers an all-too-rare first-hand insight into that experience, sounding a clarion call for change in how we ensure a better quality of life for people with dementia.Kate describes vividly her experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory difficulties, loss of ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Bioarchaeology

    Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton

    by Clark Spencer Larsen ...
    Series Book 69 - Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
    Now including numerous full colour figures, this updated and revised edition of Larsen's classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of bioarchaeology. Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past twenty years, the author examines how this discipline has matured and evolved in fundamental ways. Jargon free and richly illustrated, the text is accompanied ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    by J. Stephen Lansing ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • You Don't Look Sick: Quick and Dirty Tips for Surviving IBD 2nd Edition

    by AW Cross ...
    You’ve just been diagnosed with IBD. Now what?Being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Ten years on from the original, You Don't Sick: Quick and Dirty Tips for Surviving IBD 2nd Edition by author and IBD veteran AW Cross gives you a first-hand, non-medical perspective about what to expect from your illness and how to get through it ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extractive Industries and Ape Conservation

    by Arcus Foundation ...
    Series series State of the Apes
    Current dominant thinking and practice in the private and public sectors asserts that peoples' development needs are in conflict with, or mutually exclusive to, the need to conserve the biosphere on which we depend. Consequently, we are asked to either diminish development in the name of conservation or diminish conservation in the name of development. Efforts to identify complementary objectives, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD