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Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
by Steven Hassan
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A former cult member and a leading expert in counseling people away from cults, Steven Hassan brings his best-selling book to audiocassette. He exposes the troubling facts about destructive cults--including their use of psychological manipulation to gain... (read more)

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental... (read more)

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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know itWhen Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was... (read more)

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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by Nicholas Wade
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Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.Just in... (read more)

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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Unabridged)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Unabridged)
by Michael Pollan
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"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature... (read more)

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Guns Germs and Steel CD
Guns Germs and Steel CD
by Jared Diamond
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. It... (read more)

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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence Mckenna
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Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, giving way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas... (read more)

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Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
by Laurence Gonzales
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The author of the bestseller "Deep Survival" reveals how modern society has made humans lazy and susceptible to previously unknown threats, and explains how to best use the lessons on evolutionary history to overcome the hazards of everyday life... (read more)

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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
by Bryan Sykes
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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-year... (read more)

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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
by Terence Mckenna
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Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, giving way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas... (read more)

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The Lost World of the Kalahari
The Lost World of the Kalahari
by Sir Laurens Van Der Post
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In moving detail, Van Der Post recounts his search for a primitive group of Bushmen, a once wide-spread people that approached extermination by opposing tribes and Europeans during the last few centuries. Van Der Post, yearning to uncover Bushman culture... (read more)

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Dawn and New Dawn 1952-1975: A Magazine for the Aboriginal People of New South Wales
Dawn and New Dawn 1952-1975: A Magazine for the Aboriginal People of New South Wales
by Aboriginal Welfare Board
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know itWhen Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was... (read more)

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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by Nicholas Wade
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Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.Just in... (read more)

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
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Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that... (read more)

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
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Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years-a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that... (read more)

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Rak Badjalarr
Rak Badjalarr
by Bobby Lane
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Rak Badjalarr presents the wangga songs of Bobby Lane (1941-1993), a Wadjiginy songman from Belyuen on the Cox Peninsula south and west of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. The recording takes its name from Bobby's song, "Rak Badjalarr... (read more)

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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
by Bryan Sykes
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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-year... (read more)

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Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
by Robert H. Bork
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Waiting for the Weekend
Waiting for the Weekend
by Witold Rybczynski
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