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Meredith Small

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Meredith F. Small is a science journalist, anthropologist, professor emerita Cornell University, and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Although well known for her award winning magazine writing, she is also the author of several trade books that take an anthropological look at parenting, sexuality, and mental illness. Her book Our Babies, Ourselves has been called a "cult classic" for parents, health professionals, and anyone interested in parenting styles. Meredith's latest book is"Inventing the World; Venice and the Transformation of Western Culture" ( Pegasus Books) is about a list of over 200 inventions and creative ideas that originated in Venice and how they affected our modern view. ...more

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	Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent 4.18 avg rating — 2,057 ratings — published 1998 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children 3.90 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Evolution of Human Mating 3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization 3.65 avg rating — 57 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fall Creek 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You need to love sex - magic of love (1996) ISBN: 4047912506 [Japanese Import] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There is a reason to baby (2000) ISBN: 4047913529 [Japanese Import] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Anthropology of Alzheimers

Anthropologists are not often in the news, and they are even more rarely in the spotlight for discovering what might be a connection between a human ill and how other people live. But anthropologist Ben Trumble was recently profiled (or his work was) in The New York Times for suggesting that Alzheimer's is so common in Western culture because we are devoid of regular parasitic infection.

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The Venice Variations: Tracing the Architectural Imagination

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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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“The idea was to measure everything and “make measurable” that which could not clearly be measured, to quote Galileo. That testable world was then subject to observation, hypotheses, and repeated experiments, forming what we now call the scientific method. And that method, we now know, can be applied to any study of nature, including the human body and its diseases.”
― Meredith Small, Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization

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“I have four pelvises on my desk. One is from a human woman who died not long ago.”
― Meredith Small, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

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“Venetians constructed the first outdoor swimming pool in the early 1900s on the barrier island of the Lido. From that, the British now call any outdoor swimming area, or a beach for swimming, a “lido.”
― Meredith Small, Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization

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