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Why do students continue to dissect animals in biology classes? This book explores the background to current practice regarding dissection in the classroom and guides students, teachers and parents through the various options.
'Controlling Desires' explains how the Greeks and Romans thought of sex and sexuality in ways fundamentally different from our own.
This text focuses on how the field of anthropology can best be utilised practically. It considers the trends in applied anthropology, with regard to issues such as globalisation, ethnographic research and governmental policies. It also looks at how anthology training can be used…
This biography of Billie Holiday conveys her hard-luck youth, career triumphs, and then decline and early death. At age 14, despite little schooling, a rape at ten and jail time for prostitution, she moved to New York City to find work as a dancer or singer. She went on to tour …
By examining the social roles of disability in the past and present from a range of perspectives and disciplines, this book reveals a portrait of the social place, limitations, and rights of persons with disabilities.
Sport is a popular passion, and a lucrative business. This book confronts the many problems facing top-level athletics and their portrayal in the media, and looks at how the values and models expressed are adopted by coaches, parents, and eventually the athletes themselves.
