In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies-including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis - are profoundly influencing how we read an ... 続きを読む
Charles Wagley (1913-1991) was an American anthropologist specializing in rural Latin America. His principal focus was Brazil, where he is considered one of the founders of contemporary Brazilian Ant ... 続きを読む
When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte i ... 続きを読む
American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the residual positivism of New Hist ... 続きを読む
A concise history of slavery in America beginning with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s
Draws from both historical analyses and a reading of primary documents to explore the histor ... 続きを読む
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before ... 続きを読む
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before ... 続きを読む
Darcia Narvaez; Kristin Valentino; Agustin Fuentes; James J. McKenna; Peter Gray; Kristin Valentino
ページ
364 ページ
フォーマット
Hardcover
サイズ
163 x 241 mm
刊行日
2014年04月
The social contexts in which children develop have transformed over recent decades, but also over millennia. Modern parenting practices have diverged greatly from ancestral practices, which included n ... 続きを読む
This book throws light on the uncelebrated lives of some of Pakistan's High-altitude Porters (HAPs), who help mountaineers climb the Pakistan-based high mountain peaks. The book primarily discusses th ... 続きを読む
Antonio Vieira was a Jesuit born in Lisbon in 1608 who lived and worked in both Europe and Brazil in the service of the church and the Portuguese crown. His sermons are among the most renowned pieces ... 続きを読む
