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Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (P.S.) by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha Staff Pick Sex at Dawn is nonfiction at its best. Writing across a range of disciplines, from anthropology to philosophy, the authors explore and challenge everything we thought we knew about human sexuality in this provocative and profound book.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1493 How Europes Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade Ecology & Life on Earth by Charles C Mann Publisher Comments From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde Publisher Comments Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is “intellectual... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us by James W Pennebaker Publisher Comments We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Growing Up in New Guinea (Perennial Classics) by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneIntroduction The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded. Whether one wishes... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson Publisher Comments A finalist for the National Book Award, this work follows 150,000 years of human history, tracing the origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. Maps throughout.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments The legacy ofthe sacred feminine The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It showsthat warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologicallyordained. It provides verification that a better future is possible... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity by Robert Lane Greene Publisher Comments "An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan Staff Pick In this troubling but well-told tale, Fagan walks us through the history of world climate change — and how it has affected the rise and fall of civilizations. Perfect for fans of history and the environment alike.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse by Rebecca Costa Publisher Comments Why can’t we solve our problems anymore? Why do threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming suddenly seem unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey Publisher Comments The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 a Grammar of Dhimal by J T King Synopsis This groundbreaking reference work is a linguistic description of the western dialect of Dhimal, a hitherto little-known and endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 20,000 individuals of the same name in the lowlands of southeastern... (read more) List Price $263.75 Your price: $154.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm Publisher Comments From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is “selfish,” do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead by Paul Bahn Publisher Comments Very comprehensive... an informative and fun read. -- Canadian Society of Forensic Science An excellent survey of the postmortem identification and interpretation of human remains. -- Science Books and Films Human remains have much to tell us about how... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard Publisher Comments In the tradition of the bestsellers Word Freak and The Language Instinct comes a fascinating exploration of linguistic superlearners whose abilities shed light on the intellectual potential in us all. What do an Italian cardinal, a Connecticut blacksmith,... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer Publisher Comments It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages--Teutonic, Romance, Greek--helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation by Steven C Caton Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Gypsy: A Memoir by Oksana Marafioti Publisher Comments A vivid and funny memoir about growing up Gypsy and becoming American Fifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy. This means touring with the family band from the Mongolian deserts to the Siberian tundra. It means getting your hair cut in “the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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