Andrew Whitehouse

Is there a more remarkable process than the creation of human life? Aided by little more than a bottle of wine, a Barry White tune and an agreeable mood, a woman and man can create a truly extraordinary organism. This book is about the wonders of human development. It poses the questions that make you gasp, snigger and ponder in the same instance; the questions that you've thrown around over a coffee with friends, without agreeing on an answer. Dr Andrew Whitehouse takes on thirteen pregnancy and parenting myths: from whether tight jocks decide the gender of your baby, to baby brain for pregnant mothers; from the imaginary friends children create, to the impact of violent video games. Dr Whitehouse combines stories from modern parenting, tales from history, and scientific research to bust open some of the best myths around, providing reassurance for the challenges of parenthood - and giving you some answers next time your friends wonder about the mysteries of life.

And Other Mythbusting Tales of Pregnancy and Childhood

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Jo Vergunst

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.

Andrew Whitehouse

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