Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other anal
A spectacular and exceptionally well-illustrated guide to everything on Earth. From rocks to redwoods and microbes to mammals – this is a dazzling visual intr
Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried
Includes texts from 1750 to 1859 by Gilbert White, John Aikin, Anna (Aikin) Barbauld, Joseph Priestley, Oliver Goldsmith, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Bewick, William