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) List Price $16.00 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Robert D Putnam
Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used 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) List Price $15.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nicholas Ostler Publisher Comments Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Michael Harner Publisher Comments This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction and a guide to current resources, anthropologist Michael Harner provides the definitive handbook on... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland. Through a systematic, ten... (read more) Your Price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
North Africa and the Middle East by John Ure Publisher Comments For centuries, settled peoples have contemplated nomads with fascination and envy, or with disdain and fear. Both Americans and the British have had an obsession with nomadic peoples, stemming from their own wanderlust and admiration for the unfettered... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Victor W. Turner Synopsis The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. The American Anthropologist called Turner's book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Loring M Danforth Publisher Comments "If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jaromir Malek Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 367) and index.... (read more) Your Price $17.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Ronald M Berndt Publisher Comments MYTHOLOGY / ABORIGINAL CULTUREThe 195 stories collected in this first anthology of Aboriginal myth were told to anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, who spent nearly fifty years working among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. The Berndts... (read more) Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by James C. Scott Publisher Comments Everyday forms of peasant resistance.... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your Price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Delia Pemberton Publisher Comments Combining extremely accessible text richly informed by the latest findings in Egyptology with magnificent color photographs, Treasures of the Pharaohs presents the wealth and majesty of ancient Egypt, from the temples of Karnak and Luxor to the riches of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your Price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Austen Atkinson Synopsis Through the use of never-before-published radar and resistance maps from NASA, the Russian Space Agency, National Geographic, the European Space Agency, and other organizations, "Lost Civilizations" investigates 20 of the most intriguing lost cities in... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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