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  • Paths of Fire

    An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology

    by Robert McC. Adams ...
    Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Meaning in Life and Why It Matters

    by Susan Wolf, John Koethe, Nomy Arpaly, Jonathan Haidt, Robert McC. Adams ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningfulMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Family in America

    Searching for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age

    by Robert McC. Adams ...
    The Family in America offers a fresh interpretation of American social history, emphasizing the vital role of the family and household autonomy and threats to both imposed by industrial organization and the state. Allan Carlson shows that the United States, rather than being "born modern" as a progressive consumerist society, was in fact founded as an agrarian society composed of independent ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Urban Society

    Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico

    by Robert McC. Adams ...
    The Evolution of Urban Society is concerned with the presentation and analysis of regularities in the two best-documented examples of early, independent urban society: Mesopotamia and central Mexico. It provides a systematic comparison of institutional forms and trends of growth that are to be found in both of them. Emphasizing basic similarities in structure rather than the many acknowledged ... Read more

    $68.99 USD