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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond
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Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions... ( read more)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... ( read more)
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
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Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough
work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the
pre-Columbian Americas, and
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
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After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... ( read more)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
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Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... ( read more)
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain
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The author of "Art & Physics" now offers "a fascinating account of the evolution of our male and female ways of knowing" (Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of" Women Who Run with the Wolves"). 35 illustrations.... ( read more)
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Serpent and the Rainbow (85 Edition)
by Wade Davis
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In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of... ( read more)
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Tristes Tropiques
by Claude Levi Strauss
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First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions, modern cities and... ( read more)
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
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A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Piraha in 1977... ( read more)
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Intelligence in Nature
by Jeremy Narby
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Continuing the journey begun in his acclaimed book The Cosmic Serpent, the noted anthropologist ventures firsthand into both traditional cultures and the most up-todate discoveries of contemporary science to determine nature's secret ways of knowing... ( read more)
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Patterns of Culture
by Ruth Benedict
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For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an... ( read more)
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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences #10)
by Philippe Bourgois
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This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.... ( read more)
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore
by Mark J Plotkin
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For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves... ( read more)
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Story of Writing : Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, & Pictograms (Rev 07 Edition)
by Andrew Robinson
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A succinct, absorbing and well-illustrated book which traces the history of each of the major writing systems of the world. This revised edition also includes a new section on the latest findings and research, and discusses the ways in which the digital... ( read more)
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Humankind
by Eiko Komatsu
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This stunning collection of photography by the renowned photographer Yoshio Komatsu, documents undeniable human connectedness--as we pass each day, alone, with family, with friends, engaged in the simple journey of life.... ( read more)
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
by William Maples
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From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In "Dead Men Do... ( read more)
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (91 Edition)
by Donna J. Haraway
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The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific... ( read more)
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Third Chimpanzee the Evolution & Future
by Jared Diamond
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Part One A Tale of Three Chimps The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair, and imagine a cage nearby holding some unfortunate people who had no clothes and couldn't speak... ( read more)
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volume 1
by John Stephens
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Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this a... ( read more)
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Langua 2ND Edition
by David Crystal
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-479) and indexes.... ( read more)
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