Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Techniques, Technology and CivilizationMarcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth are here translated and presented

Nancy Welch

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus is the first comprehensive clinical text to cover its diagnosis and management

Renaissance portraits to C20th abstracts

and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons

Nabokov's Lolita

and underpins emerging quantum technologies including topological quantum computation

the ecosystem services that agroforestry can deliver and techniques for optimising agroforestry practice

we first discuss the essential contribution of balanced energy and protein levels to achieving optimal health and performance

Such ascetics were more likely to purposely harm and neglect their bodies

surprisingly little is understood about what if anything children can contribute to democracy and how they would do so

easy yoga postures

An exposition of the ancient Chinese worldview of time and continuous change further points to the inevitability of li's adaptable and flexible nature