Melvin Konner – författare
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6 produkter
Women After All
Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
Häftad, 2016
169 kr
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In Women After All, anthropologist Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on colourful examples from the natural world—the octopus, the black widow spider and coral reef fish, which can switch from male to female in a single …
Believers
Faith in Human Nature
Inbunden, 2019
279 kr
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Believers is a scientist’s answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers—a firm rebuke of the “Four Horsemen”: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. Melvin Konner, who was raised as an Orthodox Jew but has lived his adult life without …
Being There
Learning to Live Cross-Culturally
Av Sarah H. Davis, Melvin Konner
Häftad, 2011
254 kr
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How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are more (or less) honorable: those of a prostitute who sells her daughter’s virginity to a rich man, or those of a …
Evolution of Childhood
Relationships, Emotion, Mind
Häftad, 2011
364 kr
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This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling and complex story of how cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy …
Jewish Body
An Anatomical History of the Jewish People
E-bok, 2009
136 kr
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Part of the Jewish Encounter series A history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs. Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Jewish body,” considering sex, circumcision, menstruation, and even those most elusive and …
