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Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work...

Bioarchaeologists Speak Out (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory)

Springer, 2018

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors frequently and selectively use bioarchaeological data on...

Paleogenomics: Genome-Scale Analysis of Ancient DNA (Population Genomics)

Springer, 2019

Advances in genome-scale DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized genetic research on ancient organisms, extinct species, and past environments. When it is recoverable after hundreds or thousands of years of unintended preservation, “ancient DNA” (or aDNA) is often highly degraded, necessitating specialized handling...

A Handbook Of Economic Anthropology (Elgar Original Reference)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

For more than a century, anthropologists have studied the economic lives and institutions of people around the world. The results of their research and reflection on economy have generally stayed within the discipline and have not been available in an accessible form to a broader readership. This major reference book is intended to correct...

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements

1stBooks Library, 2002

MacDonald provides a theoretical analysis and review of data on the widespread tendency among certain highly influential, Jewish-dominated intellectual movements to develop radical critiques of gentile culture that are compatible with the continuity of Jewish identification. Particular attention is paid to Boasian anthropology, psychoanalysis,...

Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices

IGI Global, 2008

At one time, the office was a physical place, and employees congregated in the same location to work together on projects. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, however, not only made the unthinkable possible, it forever changed the way persons view both the office and work. The Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New...

Business and Competitive Analysis: Effective Application of New and Classic Methods

FT Press, 2007

“I believe that this book will fill a great need for both full-time competitive intelligence practitioners, and those looking to add analytical skills to their managerial tool kit.”
--Bill Fiora, Partner and Founder, Outward Insights

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Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Chimpanzees: With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Function and Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles

CRC Press, 2013

Chimpanzees, including common chimpanzees and bonobos, are our closest living relatives. This book, which is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the genus Pan, adopts the same format as the photographic atlases of Gorilla and Hylobates previously published by the same authors. These three books...

Globalization: A Basic Text

John Wiley & Sons, 2015

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.

Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in...

Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.

This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies...

Issues and Trends in Technology and Human Interaction (Advances in Technology and Human Interaction)

IGI Global, 2006

purposes of humans. It often has unintended and unexpected effects on humans and can be used for purposes other than originally planned. While technology cannot exist without humans, one can equally well argue that humans cannot exist without technology. This relationship touches on many fundamental questions of anthropology, ontology, and...

The Use of Forensic Anthropology, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2009

This book is written for medical examiners, coroners, and other law enforcement officers who are responsible for conducting death investigations. Forensic analysis has become and will continue to be a complex and highly specialized field of study. No longer can the lone investigator take on the responsibilities of doing all the work of recovery,...

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