"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. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the...