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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 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 some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Writing Field Notes (95 - Old Edition) 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) List Price $17.50 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are What You Speak (10 Edition) 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: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins (10 Edition) by Clark Spencer Larsen Publisher Comments With the same unparalleled art and inquiry-based pedagogy as the best-selling Our Origins, Essentials of Physical Anthropology is the ideal text for focusing students' attention on what really matters and why. Author Clark Larsen, one of the world's... (read more) List Price $122.50 Your price: $81.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ancient Egypt: A Social History by Bruse Trigger Publisher Comments 'The processes of political, social and economic change are traced in an original survey of the ancient societies that flourished in the Nile Valley from the predynastic period to the conquest by Alexander the Great.'... (read more) List Price $58.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost World of the Kalahari (Harvest/HBJ Book) by Lauren Van Der Post Publisher Comments An account of the authors grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africas remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mountain People by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments In 'The Mountain People', Colin M. Turnbull, the celebrated author of the classic 'The Forest People', describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.58 Used - Trade Paper
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