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Applying theory and research, this work links the development of sex differences in cognition to biological foundations and multiple social processes and contextual factors. Areas covered include evolutionary biology, neuroscience, social roles, and cultural contextualism.

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Professors and graduate students in the field of psychology thoughtfully examine the different perspectives emanating from scholarly research relating to the phenomenon of sex differences during the early years of human development. An introduction discusses social, political, and psychological pers

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This volume presents biomedicine as a site of contestation and conflicts, of processes of adaptation, accommodation, and of resistance, in a unique relationship with colonization and social control in a medical encounter that signaled the limits of State control of indigenous populations.

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Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota.

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Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota.

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This short, engaging volume develops new and sociologically sophisticated concepts to bring the fields of biology and sociology together. It is about the social biology of face-to-face dominance interactions and explores the evolution of behavior through connections among biol...

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This book contextualizes the militarization of biotechnology by examining its strategic uses throughout history, how genetic engineering has changed the nature of bioweapons, and its impact on warfare and security.

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Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture. This work seeks to understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of Americans diagnosed with manic depression. It takes us into the fascinating and sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood charts, psychiatric rounds and psychotropic drugs.

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Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity looks at how and why biracial Americans identify the way they do, and the ways in which they perform race in their day-to-day lives. Noting that identity is multifaceted, this book also explores multiple dimensions of identity and finds that identity is more complex than often treated in previous research.

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Focuses on the importance of women's childbirth care choices and on the effects of such choices on their pregnancy and birth experiences.

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The first history of this grassroots social movement, Birth Control and the Rights of Women offers a window into the social and cultural history of the period, and features new archival material in the forms of memoirs, personal papers and press cuttings.

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This book analyses the world of selective reproduction interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies.

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This book analyses the world of selective reproduction interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproductive violence, and repro-genetic technologies.

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This text provides an examination of the possible influence of birth order on political achievement and behaviour. It looks at American presidents, Supreme Court justices, United States senators and representatives, and the careers of the West Point class.

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This microanalysis of population levels among Protestant dissenters in England during an era of evangelical revival uses advanced statistical methodologies to examine the demographic effects of religious conversion experiences.

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A collection of essays which focuses on historical and contemporary representations of bisexuality - both "real" and "imagined" - in literature, film and the visual arts.

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The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, leading the rising German Empire based on Prussian militarism and discipline, and Lord Odo Russell, liberal Ambassador of Great Britain when the British Empire was at its most powerful, serene and conflict, were politically and socially worlds apart.

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Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.

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Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.