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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Charles C. Mann
Powells.com Staff Pick 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 comes to... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (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) List Price $16.00 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new 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 Michael Harner Publisher Comments The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author--"The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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 Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale 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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth L Gilbert Publisher Comments When renowned photojournalist Elizabeth Gilbert first came into contact with the Maasai over ten years ago, their images were everywhere in Africa. Pictures of warriors were printed on postcards, T-shirts, safari advertisements, and hotel logos, but in... (read more) Your Price $19.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by John Reader Publisher Comments "Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis." <BR>--"The New York Times Book Review <BR>"Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . . one of the most important general surveys of Africa that has been produced in... (read more) Your Price $18.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a... (read more) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Moran Synopsis This text presents a romantic and adventurous look at the remarkably diverse cultures of the hidden paradise islands surrounding Papua New Guinea. The islands of the Coral, Solomon and Bismarck Seas were the last inhabited places on earth to be explored... (read more) Your Price $12.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Geoff Childs Publisher Comments In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders. Offering insights into the complex dynamics of the ethnically... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Edward Adams Hoebel Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-137).... (read more) Your Price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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