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1493 How Europes Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade Ecology & Life on Earth
by Charles C Mann
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by Dominic Reeve
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond
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Structural Anthropology #1: Structural Anthropology
by Claude Levi Strauss
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler
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Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession
by Craig Childs
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Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
by Lewis Hyde
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Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation
by Steven C Caton
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In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous... (read more)

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One River
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The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness
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The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World
by Leslie Dunton Downer
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