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New Release Books by John SandfordJohn Sandford is the author of Persuasion (2022), Beating the Odds (2021), Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare (2021), Crown and Charter (2021) and other 397 books.
release date: Jan 01, 2022
release date: Dec 27, 2021
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare
release date: May 20, 2021
release date: Jan 08, 2021
release date: Sep 18, 2020
IBM Spectrum LSF Suite: Installation Best Practices Guide
release date: Apr 21, 2020
release date: Mar 13, 2020
The Art of Creative Rebellion
release date: Jan 21, 2020
release date: Jan 01, 2020
release date: Nov 13, 2019
The Kid from Norfolk Island
release date: Jun 01, 2019
Bridging Deep South Rivers
release date: Mar 01, 2019
Treating OCD in Children and Adolescents
release date: Nov 30, 2018
The Politics of the Anthropocene
release date: Dec 06, 2018
Shakespeare and the Afterlife
release date: Oct 18, 2018
Metal Cutting Theory and Practice
release date: Sep 03, 2018
An Introduction to Policing
release date: Jan 01, 2018
John Wesley’s 52 Standard Sermons
release date: Apr 06, 2017
release date: Dec 29, 2015
A leading anthropologist studies the science behind "feeling at home" to show us how home made us human Home is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen believes that the human habitat is one of the most important products of human cognitive, technological, and cultural evolution over the past two million years. In Home, Allen argues that to "feel at home" is more than just an expression, but reflects a deep-seated cognitive basis for the human desire to have, use, and enjoy a place of one''s own. Allen addresses the very basic question: How did a place to sleep become a home? Within human evolution, he ranks house and home as a signature development of our species, as it emerged alongside cooperative hunting, language, and other critical aspects of humanity. Many animals burrow, making permanent home bases, but primates, generally speaking, do not: most wander, making nests at night wherever they might find themselves. This is often in home territory, but it isn''t quite home. Our hominid ancestors were wanderers, too -- so how did we, over the past several million years, find our way home? To tell that story Allen will take us through evolutionary anthropology, neuroscience, the study of emotion, and modern sociology. He examines the home from the inside (of our heads) out: homes are built with our brains as much as with our hands and tools. Allen argues that the thing that may have been most critical in our evolution is not the physical aspect of a home, but developing a feeling of defining, creating, and being in a home, whatever its physical form. The result was an environment, relatively secure against whatever horrors lurked outside, that enabled the expensive but creative human mind to reach its full flowering. Today, with the threat of homelessness, child foster-care, and foreclosure, this idea of having a home is more powerful than ever. In a clear and accessible writing style, Allen sheds light on the deep, cognitive sources of the pleasures of having a home, the evolution of those behaviors, and why the deep reasons why they matter. Home is the story about how humans evolved to create a space not only for shelter, but also for nurturing creativity, innovation, and culture -- and why "feeling at home" is a fundamental aspect of the human condition.
release date: Feb 29, 2016
release date: Jan 01, 2016
Politics in Popular Movies
release date: Oct 23, 2015
release date: Dec 21, 2016
release date: Mar 29, 2017
release date: Sep 24, 2015
release date: Jun 15, 2015
Total Quality Management and Operational Excellence
release date: Apr 24, 2014
release date: Feb 07, 2014
Democratizing Global Climate Governance
release date: Feb 06, 2014
An Investigation of the Elevator and Rudder Hinge Moment Parameters of an Aircraft Obtained by Analytical, Wind Tunnel and Flight Test Determination
release date: Sep 09, 2021
Climate-Challenged Society
release date: Oct 24, 2013
In the Interest of Others
release date: Sep 08, 2013
The Substance of Representation
release date: Sep 08, 2013
release date: Jun 29, 2013
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