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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The decoding of the human genome paved the way for Project ENCODE, designed to identify functional elements in the genome. Focus on examples that are central to human culture, such as language. Probe the foxp2 gene that appears to play a role in speech, together with other genes. Consider the role of mutations and nature's gene splicing in boosting our brain and cognitive abilities.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cover the "Manhattan Project" of DNA: the Human Genome Project to sequence all three billion base pairs of human genetic material. Two separate teams, led by Francis Collins and Craig Venter, competed bitterly to reach this costly goal, which required new technologies and controversial methods. Examine the politics and unexpected legacy of this effort, which was declared complete in 2003.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What were the last days in Pompeii like before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago? In 2021, for the first time, an ornate four-wheeled ceremonial chariot was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, offering new insights into the lives of wealthy, high-ranking landowners who lived in villas on rich farmland outside the city.
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
William Waldren (1924-2003), a multifaceted, restless, charismatic, and controversial artist, arrived in Mallorca in 1953. A pioneer and self-taught in archaeology and the study of the prehistory of the Balearic Islands. Epicentre of the cultural movement in Deiá since the late 1950s, he was a painter, sculptor, artistic designer and a lover of his host land and its people. A true entrepreneur who, over time, managed to become a benchmark in the...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Journey into a vast country little known by many: Mongolia. A stunning cinematic view of the country's past and present, this is a traverse through the ages, from the remarkable evolution of Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire to intimate portraits of today’s Mongolians.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Explore how the common expression "baby mama" reflects the grammar behind what linguists refer to as African-American Vernacular English (or Ebonics). Along the way, you'll discover how Ebonics emerged as an intriguing mash-up of assorted British regional dialects, along with a sprinkle of grammatical streamlining any language could benefit from.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Human Genome Project, scientists were able to chart our shared heritage with a multitude of species. Most startling was evidence of breeding between modern humans and Neanderthals in the deep past, with a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA present in major human populations today. Peer into the human genome to read these and other clues about our multifaceted history.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Yasmin El Shazly and Mahmoud Rashad travel across Egypt, hoping to answer some of the many questions surrounding the life and death of Tutankhamun. They speak with leading scholars, enjoy exclusive access to the tomb British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered 100 years ago in the Valley of the Kings, and visit several active dig sites--they even see the face of the pharaoh!
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandildjara people to be living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the remote Gibson Desert of central Australia. Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal Elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr...
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Español
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Fernando Eiras Sotoca no es de esas personas que se echan una novia tailandesa por internet y se marchan a Tailandia a conocerla. Pero eso es exactamente lo que hizo. De su experiencia surge este libro que es, a partes iguales, un relato de su descubrimiento del país y una crónica de su relación amorosa.
Su descubrimiento de Tailandia, además de la historia, cultura y gastronomía, tiene más que ver con el regateo del precio de los tuk-tuks,...
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English
Description
Sharon Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Social Work at the University of Michigan and is Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway.
The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a...
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 When Sadiqa arrived at the hospital, she was terrified. She was very afraid of the prospect of delivering her baby. She was worried about the car, and how she would be able to drive it after the baby was born.
#2 The popular belief that racist and antiracist define a person rather than describe a person in a specific moment doesn't take into account the complexity...
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English
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Indian Anthropology owes its origin to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. For the last two hundred years it has grown as an academic discipline, supported by an array of competent, and practicing anthropologists. Indeed, a lot of field and desk work has gone into to make Indian Anthropology a viable subject of study. This book presents the full range of study of Indian Anthropology between the covers. It takes into account the growth and concept of...
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English
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"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice-inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia, or "Mafia Raj." Through intimate stories of the lives...
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English
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Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson...
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There's always a story behind the story, but the keenest observers have to break through the surface to reach it. This remarkable book reveals the hidden meaning behind familiar images and words, from the origins of Santa Claus and the meaning of Cinderella's name to the metaphoric significance of the unicorn and the fleur-de-lys. A prominent authority on symbols, author Harold Bayley spent years gathering and compiling the contents of this volume....
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English
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Riva Kastoryano is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and teaches at the Institute for Political Science, both in Paris. The author of several books in French, her work has focused on community formation and the construction of collective identities in different political settings.
Immigration is even more hotly debated in Europe than in the United States. In this pivotal work of action and discourse analysis,...
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English
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Taking the problem of European identity as his point of departure Thomas Pedersen's book offers a new theoretical perspective upon culture, identity and nationality. His main argument is that politics are more culturalized than we assume, and that culture is more personalized than we recognize. Nationality is becoming more personalized and hybrid and is acquiring an aesthetic dimension as a side-effect of the democratization of art. Citizens in the...
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