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Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence, and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists, biologists, and students of human evolution.

Handbook of Essential Tremor and Other Tremor Disorders

Handbook of Sexual Dysfunction

Political theory consists in clarification of language and concepts, in description and analysis of institutions and behavior, and in appraisal and evaluation of political events. The author's theory is not one of the behavioral or functional varieties that rely on special language and concepts drawn from other disciplines than political science.

Following an opening essay on cultural history and why it should be studied, this volume begins with an analysis of the transformation of the Medieval mind as it evolved from the Black Death to the Thirty Years War. It also provides a biographical sketch of Friedell and his cultural milieu and analyzes his place in intellectual history.

Diabetes is a complex disease and is also one of the most common. It is very difficult to reach an accurate estimate for the global prevalence of diabetes since the standards and methods of data collection vary widely in different parts of the world. In addition, many potential sufferers are not included in the count because according to an estimate about 50% of cases remain undiagnosed for up to 10 years. However, according to an estimate for 2010, globally, there are about 285 million people (amounting to 6.4% of the adult population) suffering from this disease. This number is estimated to increase to 439 million by 2030 if no cure is found. The general increase in life expectancy, leading to an ageing population, and the global rise in obesity are two main reasons for the increase.With the basic platform set, Editor presents his views and advice tothe readers, especially to diabetic patients suffering from T2DM, on the basis ofhis observations and information collected from other diabetics.

Planners and lawyers engaged in the formulation and implementation of plans affecting the environment should have a working knowledge of the legal principles affecting those plans

There is a broad consensus that climate change presents the international community with a formidable challenge

Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia

Urban planning is a community process, the purpose of which is to develop and implement a plan for achieving community goals and objectives. In this process, planners employ a variety of disciplines, including law. However, the law is only an instrument of urban planning, and cannot solve all urban problems or meet all social needs.

The Supreme Court decision that property owners may be entitled to compensation for government regulations that deprive them of reasonable use of their property has thrown the land-use field into a state of turmoil

Cosmopolis is a pattern book of expectations, generously illustrated with a gathering of plans from the City Beautiful to the Italian Futurists, The Cité Industrielle, World¿s Fair utopias, science fiction visions, and the grand plans of the Moderns. Cosmopolis is the story of the ideal city we never achieved, and the great plans that went into making-over precincts of our urban language.

Character Building first appeared in 1902. While enormous changes have occurred in all phases of African American rights and responsibilities, Booker T. Washington's broad outlines on building moral character have remained intact. Washington's book can be viewed as a Dale Carnegie volume on How to Win Friends and Influence People - black and white.

By the turn of the 20th century, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants hegemony was endangered by students, many of them Catholic and Jewish immigrants. The newcomers threatened to displace native-born Americans by raising academic standards and winning a disproportionate share of the scholarships. This title analyzes the role of these institutions.

When does a body weight problem become a social problem? This text offers several perspectives that explain the way society deals with fatness and thinness, considering historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives.

Adrenal Toxicology

Complications in Pediatric Surgery

In 2005, journalists faced enormous challenges while covering hurricanes Katrina and Rita along America's Gulf Coast

Originally published: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1981.

An introduction to Adam Ferguson's life and thought. The introduction discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an indepth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society.

Views mental retardation primarily as a behavioral problem. This book helps students and workers in the field apply research findings and theoretical formulations in their appraisal and treatment of mental retardation.

Reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by scholars, this book reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally. It shows that study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change.

Attempts to integrate developments in capital theory and shows their implications for models of long-run economic growth in mature capitalistic countries. This book presents the Von Neumann model and outlines its classical approach to the rate of profits and distribution. It analyzes the models of Meade, Tobin, Solow, and Samuelson-Modigliani.

This book provides a vivid and informative view of life in traditional groups that are ordered mainly through the informal operation of everyday social relations, based on Colson's field research with North American Indians and with peoples in what is now Zambia.

Reflects the diversity of questions being posed towards post-production 3D mastering, delivery options, and home screens. This title contains chapters that deal with a different stage of an end-to-end 3DTV systems such as capture, representation, coding, transmission, and display. It covers both autostereoscopic techniques.

Implementation of FDA's Design Control requirements (21 CFR 820.30) changed an entire industry. Quality System Requirements defined the approach to medical device validation. Product design, manufacturing process, and test method validation studies must be performed before or as a product is transferred to commercial production. Validation studies must demonstrate that product design, process, and test methods/requirements/specifications determined during development can be met in the environment of intended use. This book provides practical guidance on how to develop and validate product designs, manufacturing processes, and test methods that comply with the requirements of QSR.

This book represents the towering medieval thinkers-Augustine and Thomas Aquinas-discussing a variety of topics, along with representative texts of other medieval figures. It is useful for those who are interested in medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, or metaphysics.

David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today

Research from the special education community provides an resource that can influence instruction for students with disabilities, as well as other students at risk for reading difficulties. This special issue features the work of four researchers and their teams who have contributed to this research base.

This book contains papers, presented at an international conference organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism in Milan, that provide details on how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research.