Product Description: MANS MOST DANGEROUS MYTH- The Fallacy of Race By M. F. ASHLEY MONTAGU. FOREWORD BY ALDOUS HUXLEY: DR. ASHLEY MONTAGUS book possesses two great merits arely found in current discussions ot human problems. Where most writers over-simplify, he insists on the principle of multiple and interlocking causation...read more

Product Description: Convertido en un clásico desde el mismo momento en que apareció, este libro, cautivador y emotivo, se ha actualizado ahora exhaustivamente a la luz de las últimas investigaciones realizadas sobre el tema que trata: la importancia de tocar, de la interacción táctil, en todas las facetas del desarrollo humano...read more

Product Description: The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now complete with the publication of this, the Third Edition...read more

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Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication in 1953, The Natural Superiority of Women stands as one of the original feminist arguments against biological determinism. An iconoclast, Montagu wielded his encyclopedic knowledge of physical anthropology in critique of the conventional wisdom of women as the 'weaker sex,' showing how women's biological, genetic, and physical makeup made her not only man's equal, but his superior. Also a humanist, Montagu points to the emotional and social qualities typically ascribed to and devalued in women as being key to just social life and relationships. Subsequent editions of this book have provided additional support for Montagu's arguments, examining both biological and social scientific data of the late 20th century. One of the most broadly renowned and read scholars of our century, Montagu brings out this fifth edition with up-to-date statistics and references. A lengthy foreword by Susan Sperling contextualizes the book within the intellectual histories of feminism and anthropology, noting the huge social and intellectual changes that are spanned in Montagu's life and writing. Montagu's foundational book is an important addition to the library of all gender scholars. (view table of contents)

Product Description: After more than a century, the mystery of "The Elephant Man" has been solved. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts and imaginations of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now complete. The mystifying question has been answered: How could this poor, deformed fellow, so cruelly treated by his fellowman for so long, turn out to be such a gentle, loving creature? Read about it in the new Third Edition of The Elephant Man by Ashley Montagu -- the book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name...read more

Designed as a critical response to Charles Murray's controversial book, The Bell Curve, an updated and expanded edition of a collection of essays by noted scholars, including Stephen Jay Gould, explodes the connection between race and intelligence. UP.

A noted anthropologist discredits myths and stereotypes about the stages of life and provides a plan for a life approach that is designed to help the user retain a youthful outlook (view table of contents)

Explores the function and significance of the skin as a tactile organ involved in human psychological and behavioral development from mother-child interaction to adult sexual relationships

Discusses a current trend toward a dehumanization of mankind through technological development and violence, examines the devitalization of society, personality, culture, and politics, and explains how to combat such evolution

Essays discuss creationism, conflicts between religion and science, fundamentalist views on science, paleontology, and court decisions concerning the teaching of evolution

A collection of thirteen articles scrutinizes the controversial theory that human social behavior is primarily the result of genetic predetermination and refutes it as being scientifically unsound

The well-known anthropologist and social biologist explores the subtle vocabulary of kinesics, or communicative body motion, to better understand the significance of such silent signals as posture, gesture, and eye and facial movements in encounter rituals

Refutes the arguments and conclusions of those who claim that human aggressiveness is innate, and argues for an alternate view of aggression based on a theory of environment-experiential-genetic interaction. Bibliogs

Essays by various anthropologists promote the theory as observed in non-literate societies that non-aggression is correlated to early conditioning in cooperative behavior and loving maternal care

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