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Deep History by Shryock Andrew & Daniel Lord Smail
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Shryock, Andrew & Daniel Lord Smail

KIN RECOGNITION Humans do not find it particularly difficult to distinguish kin from nonkin. Family ties validated and reinforced through language usually make clear who is related to whom. But ...
( Category: General November 17,2016 )
Healing Elements by Craig Sienna R
epub |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Craig, Sienna R.

HOLY WATER AND POLLUTING FLOWERS My watch says 8:30 A.M., though cool early morning light has just overtaken Lhasa’s night sky. Thousands of miles from Beijing, we are still on ...
( Category: General November 16,2016 )
Primitive Culture Volume I by Tylor Edward Burnett;
epub |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Tylor, Edward Burnett; [Edward Burnett Tylor]

Dooe saltee 2d. due soldi. Tray saltee 3d. tre soldi. Quarterer saltes 4d. quattro soldi. Chinker saltee 5d. cinque soldi. Say saltee 6d. sei soldi. Say oney saltee or setter ...
( Category: Cultural September 25,2016 )
This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture by Fay Bound Alberti
epub |eng | 2016-04-07 | Author:Fay Bound Alberti [Bound Alberti, Fay]

7 Tongue-Tied? From Nagging Wives to a Question of Taste That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once. How the knave jowls it to the ground, as ...
( Category: General September 9,2016 )
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Tom Wolfe

c By extending generative grammar to sign language, the editors supported some of Chomsky’s theories but disagreed with others. Chapter V What the Flycatcher Caught By 2005, Noam Chomsky was ...
( Category: Cultural September 5,2016 )
Mammalogy (Jones & Bartlett Learning Titles in Biological Science) by Vaughan Terry A. & Ryan James M. & Czaplewski Nicholas J
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Vaughan, Terry A. & Ryan, James M. & Czaplewski, Nicholas J. [Vaughan, Terry A.]

FIGURE 21-25 Mean blubber and core body temperatures for a harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) resting in 1°C to 2°C water and in water at 23°C to 24°C. In cold water, ...
( Category: General August 12,2016 )
On Trails by Robert Moor
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Moor

* * * I. “Champion,” also called “champaign,” is an antiquated term for open, level country. It has the same root as “campus.” II. When the Cherokees were forced to ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 19,2016 )
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ruth Benedict

Kapali, kapali, twisting around, he laughs with joy. I with my garden darkened with foliage, I with my leaves. Kapali, kapali, twisting around, he laughs with joy. During all this ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies July 18,2016 )
Lone Star Nation by Richard Parker
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Parker

Perryman was right about the economy. Texas is a big, highly diversified and urbanized economy. The drought would do powerful damage but alone could not stop the economy’s growth. But ...
( Category: State May 14,2016 )
The Journey of Man by Spencer Wells
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Spencer Wells [Wells, Spencer]

6 The Main Line Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you ...
( Category: Genetics April 29,2016 )
The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Steven Mithen

24 Engraved bone plaque from Grotte du Taï, Drôme, France. Length, 8.8 cm. It is likely that all types of artifacts, including those that might appear to be mundane tools ...
( Category: Cognitive April 20,2016 )
Anthropology and the Human Subject by Brian Morris
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Brian Morris [Morris, Brian]

1. Oral Trust vs Mistrust Hope 2. Anal Autonomy vs Doubt Will 3. Locomotor-Genital Initiative vs Guilt Purpose 4. Latency Industry vs Inferiority Competence
( Category: General April 14,2016 )
Ethical Life : Its Natural and Social Histories by Keane Webb
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Keane, Webb

DISCIPLINING THE CLASH OF VOICES The clashing voices of Don Gabriel all inhabit a single monologue. We can’t know for sure how consciously artful or not his performance is—it is ...
( Category: General April 8,2016 )
Giving Voice to Bear by David Rockwell
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-04-02 | Author:David Rockwell

Tlingit bear hunter’s decorative face painting. Smithsonian Institution. He left and got down there and told his brothers, “This is my sister up there. She wants the head and tail.” ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 3,2016 )
The Tyranny of Numbers by David Boyle
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:David Boyle [David Boyle ]

IV ‘We are very fond of each other,’ Beatrice confided in her diary in 1887, well into the first year of working side by side with Booth. ‘A close intimate ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )

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