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"Winner of the 2003 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association" Cori Hayden is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous...
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"Winner of the 2015 Prosvetitel (Enlightener) Book Prize" "Winner of the 2007 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies" Alexei Yurchak is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely...
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"Joint Winner of the 2008 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome Trust" "Winner of the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association" João Biehl is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. Torben Eskerod is an artist and freelance photographer based in Copenhagen. The two also collaborated on the award-winning book Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.
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"Winner of the 2009 Best Book on Brazil in English, Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2010 BRASA Roberto Reis Book Prize by the Brazilian Studies Association" "Winner of the 2009 Leeds Honor Book, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association" James Holston is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author...
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Celia Lowe is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations...
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Nikolas Rose is James Martin White Professor of Sociology and Director of the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include The Psychological Complex, Governing the Soul, Inventing Our Selves, and Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought.
For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical...
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Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory, Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton), and Making PCR, A Story of Biotechnology.
The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected this pattern,...
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Jenny Reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy Scholar at Duke University..
In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed it...
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"Winner of the 2005 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association" Joseph Dumit is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a coeditor of Cyborgs & Citadels and Cyborg Babies and Associate Editor of the journal Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry.
By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so...
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"Winner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology" Xiang Biao is Academic Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Transcending Boundaries.
How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying...
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If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases; you merely license them. That means your e-book vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation-as Amazon deleted...
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The importance of consuming the right food, and avoiding the wrong foods for gout are great. This manual give you a clear example of the types of foods that you should possibly avoid. And also a wide variety of foods that you should enjoy, if you are dealing with Gout. Many gout friendly recipes are provided inside of this manual as well. Foods to Possibly Avoid: Foods to Enjoy:
15) Make the Grade
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Super Smart Information Strategies: Make the Grade provides students with practical information for evaluating product and process associated with the conducting and presenting research. Readers are encouraged to think critically as they conduct research, collaborate with fellow students and present their findings in new and different ways.
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The Internet brought about a total revolution in the world of information. Today, anyone with an Internet connection can access a wealth of information online. As our access to data increases, copyright laws struggle to keep up. This book examines how copyright law has been applied to online content, the emerging open source movement, fair use, proper citation practice, and the ethics of using and citing online information. It is an invaluable resource...
17) Team up Online
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Super Smart Information Strategies: Team up Online provides students with practical information for online collaboration. Readers are encouraged to think critically as they conduct research, collaborate with fellow students and present their findings in new and different ways.
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Learn how to research, understand, and arrange information about your ancestors. The Information Explorers series provides readers with the tools they need to FIND, ORGANIZE, and SHARE information clearly and effectively. Activities designed to help readers explore all kinds of information sources are included in each chapter. Readers are encouraged to think critically as they conduct research, collaborate with fellow students, and present their findings...
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With the latest advances in GPS technology and online map software, exploring the world is easier than it's ever been. Readers will find out what digital maps are and learn how to use them in a variety of situations.
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