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New Release Books by John SandfordJohn Sandford is the author of Social Anxiety (2020), Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (2022), Beating the Odds (2021), Infectious (2021) and other 398 books.
release date: Jul 15, 2020
Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management
release date: Sep 23, 2022
release date: Sep 24, 2021
release date: Oct 14, 2021
release date: Jan 08, 2021
Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates
release date: Sep 30, 2020
release date: Jul 30, 2020
IBM Spectrum LSF Suite: Installation Best Practices Guide
release date: Apr 21, 2020
release date: Mar 13, 2020
release date: Nov 26, 2019
release date: Nov 13, 2019
release date: Jan 01, 2022
Treating OCD in Children and Adolescents
release date: Oct 23, 2018
release date: Jul 10, 2018
Lateral Pressure Reduction on Earth-Retaining Structures Using Geofoam
release date: Mar 17, 2018
release date: Jan 05, 2017
release date: Jan 01, 2018
Berkshire County's Industrial Heritage
release date: Jan 01, 2017
release date: Jan 29, 2018
An Introduction to Policing
release date: Jan 01, 2018
release date: Jun 09, 2017
release date: Sep 22, 2016
release date: Feb 29, 2016
LIFE & PUBLIC SERVICES OF GENL
release date: Aug 28, 2016
release date: Jan 01, 2016
release date: Jan 28, 2016
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: Sep 24, 2015
The Social Work and Human Services Treatment Planner, with DSM 5 Updates
release date: Sep 10, 2015
release date: May 29, 2015
release date: May 01, 2014
Total Quality Management and Operational Excellence
release date: Apr 24, 2014
Current Practice of Clinical Electroencephalography
release date: Apr 10, 2014
Democratizing Global Climate Governance
release date: Feb 06, 2014
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