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Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide
To successfully conduct an epidemiological study, academic subject knowledge must be combined with careful consideration of the practical elements involved. From an academic …
Glass Bathyscaphe
A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology …
The Origins of English Individualism
The Origins of English Individualism is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between …
Creative Lives and Works
Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social …
Law and Violence in an Elizabethan Village
Letters To Lily
Alan Macfarlane is an anthropologist; Lily his inquisitive granddaughter, constantly asks him questions about how the world works. In this book he provides her with some answers in …
The peculiarity of the English, A personal view
Alan Macfarlane is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge, a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. He …
Creative Lives and Works
Creative Lives and Works: Antony Hewish, Martin Rees and Neil Turok is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, …
How to Discover the World - Reflections for Rosa
I have spent the last sixty years trying to understand the world. I have studied for two doctorates at Oxford and London and travelled through Nepal, Japan and China. Here I will …
Four Approaches to the Making of the Modern World
History, Culture and Ethnography
History, Culture and Ethnography: Jack Goody, Clifford Geertz and Philippe Descola is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These …
Resources and Population
In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, …