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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-5915-8
EAN 9781529159158
How has humans' evolutionary inheritance shaped global society?Why are humans everywhere prone to believe in ghosts?How might our tendency to imitate one another be contributing to the climate catastrophe?And does our deep evolutionary past impel us to vote for strongmen?In 1987, Harvey Whitehouse went to live with an indigenous community deep in the Papua New ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-398-51005-0
EAN 9781398510050
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert MacfarlaneFunerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-915-8
EAN 9781786499158
The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves. In the late nineteenth century, when non-European societies were seen as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how Western civilisation had evolved, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 61,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98818-7
EAN 9780674988187
The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks. Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-717-8
EAN 9781788167178
A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In Being a Human Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-3747-6
EAN 9781472937476
'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah HarariKindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2927-8
EAN 9781529329278
Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century. But it's also one we have the power to reverse. Combining a decade of research with first-hand reporting, Noreena Hertz takes us from a 'how to communicate in real life' class for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 78,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8263-6273-5
EAN 9780826362735
The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author argues that a ""civilization bias"" shapes academic explanations of urbanization, colonization, state formation, and cultural horizons.Earlier theorists have criticized the concept, but according to Jennings the critics remain beholden to it as ...
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Krause, Johannes; Trappe, Thomas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5495-1
EAN 9780753554951
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving... In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 37,95 €
ISBN 978-1-108-46504-5
EAN 9781108465045
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 40,90 €
ISBN 978-0-231-19578-2
EAN 9780231195782
Nothing fills us with a sense of wonder like fossils. What looks at first like a simple rock is in fact a clue that reveals the staggering diversity of ancient environments, the winding pathways of evolution, and the majesty of a vanished earth. But as much as one might daydream of digging a hole in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 26,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-28111-6
EAN 9780241281116
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather MakersFrom the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on EarthHumans are the most successful species on Earth; a planet-altering force of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18337-6
EAN 9780231183376
Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E.Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving ...
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Pezzarossi, Heather Law; Sheptak, Russell N
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 166,90 €
ISBN 978-0-8263-6042-7
EAN 9780826360427
This scholarly collection explores the method and theory of the archaeological study of indigenous persistence and long-term colonial entanglement.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16710-7
EAN 9780691167107
A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children--the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple--reportedly took ...
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Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth.Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24321-5
EAN 9780300243215
A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe for readers of all ages What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 137,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8263-6015-1
EAN 9780826360151
"This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica. It is the first collection to present case studies that show how both commonplace and capital-intensive technologies were intertwined with indigenous knowledge systems to reshape local, regional, ...
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