This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroth’s pioneering research in the field of modern matriarchal studies, based on a new definition of „matriarchy“ as true gender-egalitarian societies. Accordingly, matriarchal societies should not be regarded as mirror images of patriarchal ones, as they have never needed patriarchy’s hierarchical structures of domination. ...(展开全部)

View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" </p> This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets...(展开全部)

View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" </p> This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets...(展开全部)

In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) practices, and so questions the current...(展开全部)

In this timely book, Cass R. Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking "political correctness" in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure. He shows that unjustified ...(展开全部)

In this timely book, Cass R. Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking "political correctness" in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure. He shows that unjustified ...(展开全部)

In this timely book, Cass R. Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking "political correctness" in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure. He shows that unjustified ...(展开全部)

作者 克里夫•甘博（Clive Gamble），世界著名的史前史学者与人类学家，南安普顿大学（University of Southampton）考古学系荣休教授。英国国家学术院院士、史前学会主席、古物学会会员与前任副主席、皇家人类学研究所研究员与前任主席， 2010~2018年间任大英博物馆的受托人。除本书外，还著有《欧洲旧石器时代聚落》（The Palaeolithic Settlement of Europe）（1986）、《时间旅行者：全球殖民史前史》（Timewalkers: the Prehistory of Global Colonization）（1993）、《起源与革命：史前最早期的人类身份》（Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory）（2007）和...(展开全部)

The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews...(展开全部)