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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say aI am reading a cataloga instead of aI read a cataloga? Why do we say adoa at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass Publisher Comments The ultimate book on King Tut and his tombthe most exciting archaeological find the world has ever known. The fabulous treasures of Tutankhamun have fascinated the public since their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922. Many books have been written... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $33.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies) by James C. Scott Publisher Comments For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery,... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul by Ian Player Publisher Comments An engaging personal account of one environmentalist's remarkable friendship with a Zulu chief.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred Publisher Comments Ancient Egypt may have been, to paraphrase Herodotus, "the gift of the Nile", but Egypt's civilization was no less the product of her god incarnate, the pharaoh. These twin themes -- the overwhelming importance of the annual inundation of the Nile and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition (Terry Lectures) by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture by Kendrick Frazier Publisher Comments In northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our pre-history and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousand years ago, there arose among the Pueblo people a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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