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A Brief History of Drugs: From Stone Age to the Stoned Age
by Antonio Escohotado  Publisher Comments A clear-eyed look at the instrumental role drugs have played in our cultural, social, and spiritual development." •First American publication of the surprising European bestseller." •Examines everything from the ancient use of ergot and datura to the...
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Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
by Carl Zimmer Publisher Comments From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a...
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Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
by Charles R. Hale Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive analysis of early conflict between Miskitu Indians and the Sandanista government, and their subsequent partial reconciliation. It is grounded in a framework that applies Gramscian culture theory to the study of ethnic...
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Men : Evolutionary and Life History (06 Edition)
by Richard G. Bribiescras Publisher Comments Males account for roughly 50 percent of the global population, but in America and other places, they account for over 85 percent of violent crime. A graph of relative risk of death in human males shows that mortality is high immediately following birth...
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Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
by Bobbi S Low Publisher Comments Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges...
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The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution
by Ian Tattersall Publisher Comments One of the most remarkable fossil finds in history occurred in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1974, when anthropologist Andrew Hill (diving to the ground to avoid a lump of elephant dung thrown by a colleague) came face to face with a set of ancient footprints...
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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...
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
by Spencer Wells Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and index....
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Zoophysiology #1: Endocrines and Osmoregulation
by P. J. Bentley Publisher Comments The new edition of P.J. Bentley's established text describes the physiological mechanisms utilized by different vertebrate species to adapt to the differences and vicissitudes of water and salt availability in their natural environments. The book is...
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New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs #01: The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: The Classic Period Inscriptions
by Martha J. Macri Publisher Comments For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting...
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Applications of Biological Anthropology to Human Affairs
by C. G. Nicholas Mascie-taylor Publisher Comments Topics covered in this book include reproductive ecology and fertility, nutritional status in relation to health, and the effects of pollution on growth....
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Worldwide variation in human growth
by Phyllis B. Eveleth Publisher Comments The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. This theme, prevalent in this book, underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled in one...
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Backbone of History (02 Edition)
by Steckel Publisher Comments For the same reasons that explorers of the early twentieth century strove to reach the poles, and their modern counterparts journey to outer space, most people want to visualize the contours of the human experience - the peaks of adaptive success that...
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Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
by Aidan Cockburn Publisher Comments To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with...
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A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw
by David Wolman Publisher Comments Traveling from the halls of history to the halls of science, Wolman explores a Scottish castle designed for left-handed swordfights, visits a Paris museum to inspect nineteenth-century brains that hold clues to this biological puzzle, and observes chimps...
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Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology #32: Guidance Cues in the Developing Brain
by Ivica Kostovic Publisher Comments Many complex molecular interactions are involved in the development of the mammalian brain. Molecules serving as guidance cues for migratory cells, growing axons and for recognition of postsynaptic targets are a major topic for research because they are...
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Gaining Ground? : Evenkis, Land, and Reform in Southeastern Siberia (98 Edition)
by Gail Fondahl Synopsis For indigenous people, land is a critical determinant to cultural survival. the indigenous people of the Russian North currently struggle to gain greater control over their homelands against a backdrop of state reforms regarding land privatization...
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How Do You Sleep?
by Bonnett Rampersaud Publisher Comments Big bear, big bear, how do you sleep, all winter long without a peep? I nibble nibble munch for the long winter haul, Then I curl up in my cave in a great bear ball. Children will be lulled to sleep as they learn where a bird, bear, horse, pig, frog, and...
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Anthropometry: The Individual and the Population
by Stanley J. Ulijaszek Publisher Comments Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology and is used in a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists and clinical...
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Language Contact in Japan: A Socio-Linguistic History (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)
by Leo J. Loveday Publisher Comments If the Japanese are exclusive, why are they now borrowing so many linguistic characteristics from English for their own language? Is there a way to understand language contact that is valid across time and space? By examining the 2000-year-old history of...
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