Short, sassy, and bold, Mean Genes uses a Darwinian lens to examine the issues that most deeply affect our lives: body image, money, addiction, violence, and the endless search for happiness, love, and fidelity.
Psychologist Van Hecke argues that much of what we label stupidity can better be explained as blind spots. Full of funny, poignant stories about human foibles, "Blind Spots" offers many insights for improving our social and political lives.
Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality.
Examines the history of cocaine from its first medical uses to the worldwide issues it presents today.
Originally published in hardcover: Oxford; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2009.
Originally published in 1996 and now available in paperback, a study of bisexuality as an erotic, social and cultural phenomenon, which addresses various perceptions of love, desire, sex, gender and identity and provides analysis of ...
This book forms an essential, authoritative, up-to-date source of nutrient data and is an essential reference source for professionals and students of food science and nutrition.