The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food…

The life and thought of Bakunin has contemporary relevance, particularly for his definitions of freedom. This book confirms Bakunin as an important and influential political theorist whose anarchism was dominated…

A critical introduction to the ecological philosophy of three important public intellectuals - Lewis Mumford, Rene Dubos and Murray Bookchin.

The first ethnographic study of a community with structured trading relationships, the nomadic forest community of the Hill Pandarm.

This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi.

This book provides a readable, comprehensive and critical introduction to the extensive anthropological literature on religion that has been produced over the past forty years. It focuses on well-known, substantive…

The BLACK TERROR returns! But NOT as you remember him...

In 1940, the U.S. Government forced the super-heroic Terror Twins to give up their costumed identities and keep their loved…

Nerve cells - neurons - are arguably the most complex of all cells. From the action of these cells comes movement, thought and consciousness. This book provides information on the…