252 - Memory in a Social Context

Memory in a Social Context: Brain, Mind, and Society 1st ed. 2017 Edition by Takashi Tsukiura, Satoshi Umeda

This book explores new points of view of human memory in the link among mind, brain, and society.

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421 - Social DNA: Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past by M. Kay Martin

What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions. Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins - challenging models that trace our beginnings to traits shaped by ancient hunting economies, or to genetic platforms shared with contemporary apes.

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How Real Is Race?: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology

How Real Is Race?: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay (Author), Rosemary Henze (Author), Yolanda T. Moses (Author)

The authors systematically cover the myth of race as biology and the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural and cross-cultural perspectives.

How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a "colorblind" or "postracial" society, or when we say that race is a "social construction"?

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Urban Galapagos: Transition to Sustainability

Urban Galapagos: Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems (Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands) by Thomas Kvan (Editor), Justyna Karakiewicz (Editor)

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.

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Elements of Ethics for Physical Scientists

Elements of Ethics for Physical Scientists (The MIT Press) by Sandra C. Greer (Author)

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.
This book offers the first comprehensive guide to ethics for physical scientists and engineers who conduct research.

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Our Common Cosmos: Exploring the Future of Theology, Human Culture and Space Sciences

This volume collects an international body of voices, as a timely response to a rapidly advancing field of the natural sciences. The contributors explore how the disciplines of theology, earth and space sciences contribute to the debate on constantly expanding ethical challenges, and the prospect of humanity's future.

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Evolutionary Games with Sociophysics

Evolutionary Games with Sociophysics: Analysis of Traffic Flow and Epidemics (Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science Book 17) by Jun Tanimoto (Author)

Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.

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Memory in a Social Context: Brain, Mind, and Society

Memory in a Social Context: Brain, Mind, and Society 1st ed. 2017 Edition by Takashi Tsukiura, Satoshi Umeda

This book explores new points of view of human memory in the link among mind, brain, and society. Research of human memory traditionally has been in the field of experimental psychology, and a number of psychological researchers have come upon important findings regarding human memory. They have provided critical theories to explain human memory processes, but this approach is hitting a brick wall.

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Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Sleep and Combat-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 1st ed. 2018 Edition by Eric Vermetten (Editor), Anne Germain (Editor), Thomas C. Neylan (Editor)

There are few clinical problems in the sleep medicine field that are more challenging than the sleep difficulties experienced by individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Recent Trends in Cardiovascular Risks

Recent Trends in Cardiovascular Risks by Arun Kumar (Editor)

Salient features of the book:
- All chapters are related to the advances in cardiovascular risks.;
- Chapters are written by renowned authors globally.
- Chapters are lucid and easy to understand.
- Chapters are useful for clinicians, medical practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students.

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Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic

Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic by Martina Scholtens (Author)

Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees.

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