By: John,
on 6/13/2011
I really like this vintage illustration by James Flora, for Fortune magazine in 1966. It’s part of Illustration House’s upcoming auction. (Lot 43). Notice it is based on the Northern Renaissance print by Martin Schoengauer of St Anthony tormented by demons.
By: Aaron Filler,
on 12/24/2007
Aaron Filler, MD, PhD, FRCS is the author of Do You Really Need Back Surgery?, and an evolutionary biologist who studied under Stephen Gould, Ernst Mayr, David Pilbeam, Russell Tuttle, and Irven DeVore. Filler is now a medical director at the Institute for Spinal Disorders, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. In the article below he looks at what makes humans- “human.”
OED: “Human”– Adjective - Of, belonging to, or characteristic of mankind, distinguished from animals by superior mental development, power of articulate speech, and upright posture. (more…)
By: Kirsty,
on 10/11/2007
By Kirsty OUP-UK
In the latest of my monthly Very Short Introductions columns, I have been speaking to Andrew Clapham, author of Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction. Andrew is Director of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He has also been a Representative of Amnesty International to the UN in New York, and has written several books on human rights for OUP.
OUP: What has caused the recent backlash in Britain against ‘human rights culture’ and the Human Rights Act? (more…)
By: Rebecca,
on 6/11/2007
Martin Jones, author of Feast: Why Humans Share Food is the George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. Feast reconstructs the development of the meal from chimpanzees at a kill to university professors at a formal feast. Jones has a knack for explaining how food has affected both our society and ecology. In the excerpt below he shows how the instinct to share is more biological than we realize.
Food and sex (more…)
