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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Fore
by Mark J Plotkin  
Publisher Comments For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves...
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The Hidden Dimension
by Edward T Hall Publisher Comments An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges...
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
by Heather Pringle
Publisher Comments Perhaps the most eccentric of all scientific meetings, the World Congress on Mummy Studies brings together mummy experts from all over the globe and airs their latest findings. Who are these scientists, and what draws them to this morbid yet captivating...
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The Songlines
by Bruce Chatwin Publisher Comments Part adventure story, part philosophical essay, this extraordinary book takes Bruce Chatwin into the heart of Australia on a search for the source and meaning of man's restless nature....
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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof Publisher Comments The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work...
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Third Chimpanzee the Evolution & Future
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Part One A Tale of Three Chimps The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair, and imagine a cage nearby holding some unfortunate people who had no clothes and couldn't speak...
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Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
by Roger Atwood Publisher Comments Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and who is fencing and buying them. In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey...
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Ian Shaw Publisher Comments Examines the impact of Egyptology on various aspects of popular culture such as cinema, fiction writing and opera....
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by Arturo Escobar Publisher Comments How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third...
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
by Donald Johanson Publisher Comments When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues on today....
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The Essentials of Anthropology
by Michael V Angrosino Publisher Comments Discusses human evolution and development, human adaptation to the environment, culture, society, the individual, social organization, social stratification and transaction, symbolic expressions, and anthropology and the future....
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Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins
by Milton Myron Gordon Synopsis A sociological analysis of the theories of assimilation in American society, noting the cultural and behavioral characteristics of religions, racial and ethnic groups....
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out...
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Fat
by Don Kulick Publisher Comments An eclectic and highly original examination of one of the most dynamic concepts-and constructs-in the world. With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-...
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Legends of the Egyptian Gods: Hieroglyphic Texts and Translations
by E A Wallis Budge Publisher Comments 9 of the most interesting and important Egyptian legends in hieroglyphic texts with literal translations on facing pages. Included are The Legend of the Creation, The Legend of the Destruction of Mankind, The Legend of Isis and Osiris, and more, enhanced...
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volume 1
by John Stephens Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements--all of which makes this a...
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Hieroglyphs Very Short Introduction
by Penelope Wilson Publisher Comments Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years. This ancient form of expression was used as art, as a means of identifying...
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With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson
by Mary Cather Bateson Publisher Comments Though many books have been written about the famous anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, none match the depth and intimacy of this classic memoir by their daughter. An illuminating portrait that throws new light on the couple's...
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World of the Pharaohs: A Complete Guide to Ancient Eqypt
by Christine Hobson Publisher Comments Here is an essential book for anyone intrigued by the ancient land of the pyramids. It offers not only a comprehensive record of civilization along the Nile, but also an in-depth account of the growth of Eqyptian archaeology from its beginnings. 184...
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Turtle Island Alphabet: A Lexicon of Native American Symbols & Culture
by Gerald Hausman Review "[Turtle Island Alphabet] is a beautiful book...the pinnacle of Hausman's lifelong work of illuminating the wisdom, teachings, and lore of native peoples." New Mexico...
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