As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta.īut Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. Our Babies, Ourselves by Meredith Small ISBN 13: 9780385482578 ISBN 10: 0385482574 Hardcover New York, Ny, U.s.a. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. 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. An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions-from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency-shaped modernity. A thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do-and to suggest that we reconsider our culture's traditional views on parenting.
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