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UNINA9910783089903321 |
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Titolo |
Genetic nature/culture [[electronic resource] ] : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide / / edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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1-59734-631-4 |
0-520-92997-7 |
1-282-35710-7 |
9786612357107 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GoodmanAlan H |
HeathDeborah <1952-> |
LindeeM. Susan |
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Human population genetics |
Human genetics - Research |
Human genetics - Moral and ethical aspects |
Anthropological ethics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation's international symposium, "Antropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique", which took place in June 1999, in Teresópolis, Brazil. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Anthropology in an Age of Genetics -- Chapter 1. Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia -- Chapter 2. Provenance and the Pedigree -- Chapter 3. Flexible Eugenics -- Chapter 4. The Commodification of Virtual Reality -- Chapter 5. Kinship, Genes, and Cloning -- Chapter 6. For the Love of a Good Dog -- Chapter 7. 98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil -- Chapter 8. From Pure Genes to GMOs -- Chapter 9. Future Imaginaries -- Chapter 10. Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa -- Chapter 11. The Genetics of African Americans -- Chapter 12. Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution -- Chapter 13. |
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Buried Alive -- Chapter 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Contributors -- Index |
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The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious-or more fraught with paradox-than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue that provokes and instructs even as it bridges the science/culture divide. Individual essays address issues raised by the science, politics, and history of race, evolution, and identity; genetically modified organisms and genetic diseases; gene work and ethics; and the boundary between humans and animals. The result is an entree to the complicated nexus of questions prompted by the power and importance of genetics and genetic thinking, and the dynamic connections linking culture, biology, nature, and technoscience. The volume offers critical perspectives on science and culture, with contributions that span disciplinary divisions and arguments grounded in both biological perspectives and cultural analysis. An invaluable resource and a provocative introduction to new research and thinking on the uses and study of genetics, Genetic Nature/Culture is a model of fruitful dialogue, presenting the quandaries faced by scholars on both sides of the two-cultures debate. |
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UNINA9910781493003321 |
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Autore |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
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The world's beaches [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey ... [et al.] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
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1-283-27801-4 |
9786613278012 |
0-520-94894-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Beaches |
Seashore |
Coasts |
Coast changes |
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"A global guide to the science of the shoreline."--subtitle from cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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pt. 1. The global character of beaches -- pt. 2. How to read a beach -- pt. 3. The global threat to beaches. |
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Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments-from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World's Beaches tells how beaches work, explains why they vary so much, and shows how dramatic changes can occur on them in a matter of hours. It discusses tides, waves, and wind; the patterns of dunes, washover fans, and wrack lines; and the shape of berms, bars, shell lags, cusps, ripples, and blisters. What is the world's longest beach? Why do some beaches sing when you walk on them? Why do some have dark rings on their surface and tiny holes scattered far and wide? This fascinating, comprehensive guide also considers the future of beaches, and explains how extensively people have affected them-from coastal engineering to pollution, oil spills, and rising sea levels. |
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UNINA9910156282103321 |
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Autore |
Walker Shiloh |
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Titolo |
One of the Guys |
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CHARLESTOWN : , : Shiloh Walker, Inc., , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Complete and utter humiliation--that was what Jaynie felt as she stood in the doorway watching her fiancé playing out his ménage fantasies with his best friend and the cute neighbor from across the street. Bad enough that the cute and sexy neighbor is the woman her fiancé clearly wants her to be, but now she finds the man she loves in bed with the woman. To add fuel to the flame, he later tells her that she couldn't be a real woman if she tried.Humiliated and hurt, she's hiding out at her best friend's house and ends up coming across her friend's older brother Brian. Brian...hot, sexy...also her partner from work. The last thing she needs is another complication, but she can't think about that right now.The heat in his eyes, the desire she can see on his face--that is something she does need and she offers him one night, no strings.But one night of no strings turned into something neither of them could have counted on. Brian's take-charge attitude in the bedroom and his oh, sexy, smile are getting to her.Friends all their lives, they've played together, now they work together. Faced with the most important question of all, Jaynie has to figure out...can they work together? |
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