by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by Robert D Putnam
Publisher Comments In a groundbreaking bestseller based on vast new data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures--and tells how we may reconnect.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
North Africa and the Middle East by Dean King
Synopsis - A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new... (read more) Your Price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Christine Kenneally Publisher Comments An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language The first popular book to recount the exciting, very recent developments in tracing the origins of language, The First Word is at the forefront of a controversial... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your Price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Lynn Stephen Publisher Comments "Where most research on things 'transnational' is anchored on one side of the border or the other, "Transborder Lives" is conceptually and empirically well grounded throughout the geographic, national, social, political, and economic spaces within which... (read more) Your Price $23.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Fred Alan Wolf Publisher Comments An acclaimed physicist takes us on a fascinating journey as he examines shamanism in the light of modern science. "Breaks down barriers between modern science and a mystical worldview".--Publishers Weekly. Wolf is the author of the American Book Award... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Robert M Emerson Publisher Comments In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based. Drawing on years of teaching and field research... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Moran Publisher Comments A National Bestseller! “Meticulously researched and richly detailed . . . an engrossing tribute to one of the most powerful and alluring women in history.” –Boston Globe Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Sanford Levinson Publisher Comments Is it Stalinist for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson... (read more) Your Price $23.75 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by James C Scott Publisher Comments Everyday forms of peasant resistance.... (read more) Your Price $23.50 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Bruce Knauft Publisher Comments What is it like for a native people of the rainforest to confront features of a modern world? In 1980-82, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea held elaborate ritual dances and spirit seances, practiced alternative sexual customs, and endured a very high rate... (read more) List Price $42.75 Your Price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Herbert Thomas Publisher Comments The most basic question of existence--where did Homo sapiens come from?--remains one of the most intriguing. With an emphasis on fascinating new research, this enlightening, authoritative, and easy-to-read book describes more than 2,000 years of thinking... (read more) Your Price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Richard B Lee Publisher Comments This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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