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Inventing the World by Meredith F. Small

Release Date: 12/2020

 

"An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social."
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Inventing the World (December 2020)
Books by Meredith Small
The Culture of our Discontent (2006)
Kids (2001)
Kids (2001)
Our Babies, Ourselves (1998)
Our Babies, Ourselves (1998)
What's Love Got to Do with It? (1995)
What's Love Got to Do with It? (1995)
Meredith Small's book Female Choices
Female Choices (1995)
Fall Creek by Author Meredith F. Small
Fall Creek (Fiction, 2014)
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Blurbs
"In elegant, engaging prose, Meredith Small shows the mother-child relation to be a microcosm of society"
De Waal, Provider of book blurb
Frans B. M. De Waal P.hD Biology. Primatologist and Ethologist
Praise for "Our Babies, Ourselves"
"[Small's] concise, readable treatment of cross-cultural differences in child-rearing will interest everyone from high school students to grandparents, with or without children."
Library Journal Book Review for "Kids"
"Lays out the fundamental wiring diagrams of human sexuality ... essential knowledge"
Bill McKibben Author, environmentalist, Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.
Praise for "What's Love Got to Do with It?"