This valuable addition to the literature offers readers a comprehensive overview of recent brain imaging research focused on reading, writing and mathematics—a research arena ...

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows ...

A forefront anthropologist examines the phenomenon through which humans become attached to the material objects in their lives, exploring the ways in which collections, pets ...

This work is a survey of the writings on consumption produced over the last decade. There are chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, consumer behaviour, economics ...

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry taking into account developments at local, nationaland global ...