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  • Our Babies, Ourselves

    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

    A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do--and to suggest that we reconsider our culture's traditional views on parenting.New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn ... Leer más

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  • Inventing the World

    Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization

    An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity.How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique ... Leer más

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  • Kids

    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children

    To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and other crucial questions about the development of preschool children aged one to six.“A revealing ... Leer más

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  • What's Love Got to Do with It?

    **In this refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of human mating and sexuality, an acclaimed anthropologist looks at why we fall in love with the people we do."A personal feminist take on the mating game." —Scientific American**An acclaimed anthropologist looks at the fascinating intersection between the imperatives of our glands and genes, and the culture in which we live. Why do we fall in love ... Leer más

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  • Fall Creek

    A once beautiful woman in a little black dress, designer stiletto heels, and a long string of expensive pearls floats face down in a turbulent pool at the base of a local waterfall, her long auburn hair streaming in the current and her skull bashed in. Homicide Detective First Grade Grace McLeod, a Big City exile now living and working a small college town, knows one thing immediately: this is no ... Leer más

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  • Family

    How the Human Need for Belonging Shapes Our Lives

    From the acclaimed author of Our Babies, Ourselves comes an illuminating and thought-provoking look at the nature of family across time and cultures.Family is the most ubiquitous and persistent human social group. Everyone across the world has a family, even if that family has been lost, broken, or transformed. Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, author of Our Babies, Ourselves, examines the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Here Begins the Dark Sea

    Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World

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    The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian ***mappa mundi—***that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most ... Leer más

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  • Venezia. L'invenzione del mondo moderno

    Come ha fatto una piccola città isolata, con una popolazione che non ha mai superato i 100.000 abitanti, anche nel suo periodo di massimo splendore, a trasformare la civiltà occidentale? L’acclamata antropologa Meredith Small, celebre oltreoceano per la scrittura del rivoluzionario Our Babies, Ourselves, conduce un’analisi sulla struttura sociale veneziana, esempio unico da cui ebbe origine l ... Leer más

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  • How We Think

    The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas

    A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans think about the world and themselvesHumans are the product of millions of years of evolution as well as various forces of culture that influence how we think. Humans also spend much of their brain power on self-reflection. We want to understand ourselves, to decide if there is a universal “human nature” or if we are cultural beings that can ... Leer más

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  • Here Begins the Dark Sea

    Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World

    **The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro’s mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed ... Leer más

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  • The Meredith Mystery

    Enriched edition. Unraveling secrets in a small town: a captivating tale of suspense and hidden motives

    In "The Meredith Mystery," Natalie Sumner Lincoln intricately weaves a tapestry of suspense and intrigue set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. The narrative follows the protagonist as she navigates a labyrinth of clues surrounding the mysterious disappearance of a prominent figure. Lincoln's adept use of vivid imagery and sharp dialogue, coupled with her mastery of the ... Leer más

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  • The provincial American and other papers

    Enriched edition. Exploring the nuances of small-town America in the early 20th century

    In "The Provincial American and Other Papers," Meredith Nicholson offers a compelling exploration of American identity during the early 20th century, merging observations of cultural shifts with incisive social commentary. Through a series of essays and reflections, Nicholson examines the nuances of provincial life, articulating the tensions between rural traditions and emerging urban realities. ... Leer más

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