Anthropology
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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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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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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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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (08 Edition)
by Craig Childs
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for...
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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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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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Rumspringa : To Be Or Not To Be Amish (07 Edition)
by Tom Shachtman
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating look at the Amish tradition of "rumspringa," a period of months in each Amish teenager's life when they are permitted to participate in usually forbidden things: smoking, drinking, parties, cars, trendy clothes, music, and cell phones...
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The European Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin
Powells.com Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the...
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Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish
by Tom Shachtman
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating look at the Amish tradition of "rumspringa," a period of months in each Amish teenager's life when they are permitted to participate in usually forbidden things: smoking, drinking, parties, cars, trendy clothes, music, and cell phones...
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazonian Rain Forest
by Mark J Plotkin
Powells.com Staff Pick Mark Plotkin is both Lewis and Clark to the Amazon rain forest, and Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice is his extremely entertaining and informative journal. This classic scientific adventure story shows why the hidden pharmaceutical riches of the rain...
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