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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Powells.com 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...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues...
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
by Lewis Hyde Publisher Comments By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creativity and of its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. Widely available again after twenty-five years, this book...
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Chapter One Journey into a Lost World: The Beginnings of Civilization Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and carved out of stone: one of...
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Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (88 Edition)
by James Clifford Publisher Comments The Predicament of Cultureis a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative...
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Cultural Anthropology (7TH 08 Edition)
by Gary Ferraro Publisher Comments CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE is the most applied, contemporary and student-relevant cultural anthropology text on the market today. While providing all the key material traditionally taught in the introductory course, the book emphasizes...
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony Publisher Comments Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now...
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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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 (92 Edition)
by Terrence Mckenna
Powells.com Staff Pick McKenna starts his radical revision of human evolution by positing the theory that we evolved from apes to humans because of brain changes brought about by ingesting psilocybin-containing mushrooms. This was, in his opinion, the birth of...
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions...
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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
by Meredith F Small Publisher Comments New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much...
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Cosmic Serpent : Dna and the Origins of Knowledge (98 Edition)
by Jeremy Narby
Publisher Comments A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune...
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Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of AC
by Charles R Hale Synopsis Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge...
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Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things
by John C. Ryan and Alan T. Durning Publisher Comments If you don't know your stuff, you don't know your world. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things takes you to the places and people you touch every day-when you sip your coffee, tie your shoes, click your mouse, or step on the gas. Once you follow a...
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Ten Theories of Human Nature (4TH 04 Edition)
by Leslie Forster Stevenson Publisher Comments Over three previous editions, Ten Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. This thoroughly revised fourth edition features substantial new chapters on...
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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
by David Graeber Publisher Comments andldquo;If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does...
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