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Author : Christopher Potter
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780007447800
A startling investigation of what it means to be human.
Author : Karl Steel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452960029
From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human. Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.
Author : Karl Steel
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814211577
How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages tracks human attempts to cordon humans off from other life through a wide range of medieval texts and practices, including encyclopedias, dietary guides, resurrection doctrine, cannibal narrative, butchery law, boar-hunting, and teratology. Karl Steel argues that the human subjugation of animals played an essential role in the medieval concept of the human. In their works and habits, humans tried to distinguish themselves from other animals by claiming that humans alone among worldly creatures possess language, reason, culture, and, above all, an immortal soul and resurrectable body. Humans convinced themselves of this difference by observing that animals routinely suffer degradation at the hands of humans. Since the categories of human and animal were both a retroactive and relative effect of domination, no human could forgo his human privileges without abandoning himself. Medieval arguments for both human particularity and the unique sanctity of human life have persisted into the modern age despite the insights of Darwin. How to Make a Human joins with other works in critical animal theory to unsettle human pretensions in the hopes of training humans to cease to project, and to defend, their human selves against other animals.
Author : Pamela S. Turner
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781632897732
The epic story of our evolution in seven big steps! How did we become who we are? With trademark wit, acclaimed science writer Pamela S. Turner breaks down human evolution into the seven most important steps leading to Homo sapiens. How, when, and why did we: 1.stand up, 2.smash rocks, 3.get swelled heads, 4.take a hike, 5.invent barbecue, 6.start talking (and never shut up), and 7.become storytellers? This fascinating, wickedly funny account of our evolutionary journey turns science into an irresistible story. Vetted by experts at the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program, the book also features incredibly detailed portraits by celebrated paleo-artist John Gurche that bring our early ancestors to life.
Author : Temple Grandin,Catherine Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780151014897
The author of "Animals in Translation" employs her own experience with autism and her background as an animal scientist to show how to give animals the best and happiest life.
Author : Natasha Iskander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691217574
Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics of skill shape responses to climate change.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309038409
There is growing enthusiasm in the scientific community about the prospect of mapping and sequencing the human genome, a monumental project that will have far-reaching consequences for medicine, biology, technology, and other fields. But how will such an effort be organized and funded? How will we develop the new technologies that are needed? What new legal, social, and ethical questions will be raised? Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome is a blueprint for this proposed project. The authors offer a highly readable explanation of the technical aspects of genetic mapping and sequencing, and they recommend specific interim and long-range research goals, organizational strategies, and funding levels. They also outline some of the legal and social questions that might arise and urge their early consideration by policymakers.
Author : Donald M. Silver,Patricia J. Wynne,Patricia Wynne
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0439040876
Contains easy instructions for making twenty models, manipulatives, and mini-books that will teach students in grades two through four about the human body.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Silver Dolphin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1626864896
Make your own human body model and discover the amazing ways in which it works to keep us alive. Kids will discover the amazing ways in which our bodies work in Make and Move: Human Body. This illustrated learning guide presents basic facts about the human body in an easily accessible format, with colorful illustrations, simple explanations, and a large 28-piece floor puzzle with hinged joints. As readers learn about each of the body’s systems and how they all work together, the puzzle is assembled layer by layer, showing clearly the role that each system plays in keeping us active and healthy.
Author : A. G. Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486261247
Create an exciting, educational, three-dimensional model (16½ inches high) of full human skeleton with scissors, glue, needle, and thread. Easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams help pre-teens and older youngsters assemble this accurate representation with little or no adult help. Color illustrations on covers.
Author : J. Allan Mitchell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452941578
Becoming Human argues that human identity was articulated and extended across a wide range of textual, visual, and artifactual assemblages from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. J. Allan Mitchell shows how the formation of the child expresses a manifold and mutable style of being. To be human is to learn to dwell among a welter of things. A searching and provocative historical inquiry into human becoming, the book presents a set of idiosyncratic essays on embryology and infancy, play and games, and manners, meals, and other messes. While it makes significant contributions to medieval scholarship on the body, family, and material culture, Becoming Human theorizes anew what might be called a medieval ecological imaginary. Mitchell examines a broad array of phenomenal objects—including medical diagrams, toy knights, tableware, conduct texts, dream visions, and scientific instruments—and in the process reanimates distinctly medieval ontologies. In addressing the emergence of the human in the later Middle Ages, Mitchell identifies areas where humanity remains at risk. In illuminating the past, he shines fresh light on our present.
Author : Eric Mosley,Derek Irvine
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781260464214
How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive? Simple: Work human! From the pioneers of the management strategy that’s transforming businesses worldwide, Making Work Human shows how to implement a culture of performance and gratitude in the workplace—and seize a competitive edge, increase profitability, and drive business momentum. Leaders of Workhuman, the world’s fastest-growing social recognition and continuous performance management platform, Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine use game-changing data analytics to prove that when a workplace becomes more “human”—when it’s fueled by a culture of gratitude—measurable business results follow. In Making Work Human, they show you how to: Apply analytics and artificial intelligence in ways that make work more human, not less Expand equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives and strategies to include a wider range of backgrounds, life experiences, and capabilities Use recognition as an actionable strategy to create a truly inclusive, connected culture “The qualities that make us most human—connection, community, positivity, belonging, and a sense of meaning—have become the corporate fuel for getting things done—for innovating, for thriving in the global marketplace, and for outperforming the competition,” the authors write. By building a sense of belonging, purpose, meaning, happiness, and energy in every employee, you’ll create a profound connection between your organization and its goals. And Making Work Human provides everything you need to get there.
Author : Tugba Kaplan Kaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684326929
We have compiled the 30 paper activities that we enjoy doing as a family, that surprise and entertain us the most
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068376
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Author : Jonathan Gottschall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547391403
A provocative scholar delivers the first book on the new science of storytelling: the latest thinking on why we tell stories and what stories reveal about human nature.