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  • Care in the Past

    Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Lindsay Powell, William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland ...
    Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience of being a human and one that is culturally mediated. Archaeology has tended to marginalise the study of ... Read more

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  • Plagues Upon the Earth

    Disease and the Course of Human History

    by Kyle Harper ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Domestic Cat

    The Biology of its Behaviour

    Edited by Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson ...
    The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for their enigmatic self-reliance and the subject of numerous myths and fables. Highlighting startling discoveries made over the last ten years, this new edition features ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Human Ancestry

    Power, Sex and Tradition

    Edited by Stephen Shennan, James Steele ...
    Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate ... Read more

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  • Growing Up in the Ice Age

    Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children

    by April Nowell ...
    In prehistoric societies children comprised 40–65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools, and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually, and cognitively for the infants, children, and adolescents around them.Growing Up in ... Read more

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  • Unhealthy Housing

    Research, remedies and reform

    by R. Burridge, D. Ormandy ...
    Unhealthy Housing presents an analysis of the research into the health implications of housing and the significance for legal regulation of housing conditions. Key experts present short papers, together with an overview to give an evaluation of the significance of housing on the health of occupiers. ... Read more

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  • Host Manipulation by Parasites

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This field of study is now moving beyond its descriptive phase and into more exciting areas where the processes and patterns of such dramatic adaptations can be better understood. This innovative text provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of host ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Lancet: Zoonoses

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Endemic and enzootic zoonoses cause about a billion cases of illness in people and millions of deaths every year, and emerging zoonoses are a rising threat to global health. Zoonoses – pathogenic organisms such as bacteria or viruses which we share with animals – cause more than 60% of human infectious diseases, and have been responsible for some of the most devastating disease outbreaks in recent ... Read more

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  • Mortal Wounds

    The Human Skeleton as Evidence for Conflict in the Past

    by Martin Smith ...
    A biological anthropologist uses the human skeleton to examine the history of violence from the Mesolithic era to the nineteenth century.Human beings have a violent past. Physical hostilities between people are at least as old as humanity and the roots of such behaviour go very deep. Earlier studies have been based on a range of sources including written documents, as well as archaeological ... Read more

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  • Resurrecting Pompeii

    by Estelle Lazer ...
    Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time.Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii and other sites associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius were seduced by the wealth of artefacts and wall ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Science of Roman History

    Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past

    Edited by Walter Scheidel ...
    How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, who explore novel ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

    Edited by Sarah Tarlow, Liv Nilsson Stutz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it ... Read more

    $41.99 USD