Offers insight into the relationship between knowledge and power in ancient times--and science and politics in our own

The book contains some 50 illustrations, including apes with hiking sticks or tea cups, metamorphoses of living forms, and Apollo or Venus icons which titillated the "science of man."

This work explores the tension between the hegemony of central scientific traditions and local scientific enterprises, showing the relevance of ancient data to contemporary postcolonial historiography of science.

Part Two: The Cheeks Your cheeks could be telling you something important. Discover the story behind them. Part Three: The Chin The chin could determine whether or not one will be surrounded by the help and support from others.

In Hitler's Face Claudia Schmölders reverses the normal protocol of biography: instead of using visual representations as illustrations of a life, she takes visuality as her point of departure to track Adolf Hitler from his first arrival ...