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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 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 some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage) by Lewis Hyde Publisher Comments This 25th anniversary edition returns to the seminal argument originally proposed by Hyde that states that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Ma Thomas Publisher Comments Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (09 Edition) by John H. Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say aI am reading a cataloga instead of aI read a cataloga? Why do we say adoa at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth by Chris Stringer Publisher Comments A leading researcher on human evolution proposes a new and controversial theory of how our species came to be In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Harmless People by Elizabeth M Thomas Publisher Comments A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk Publisher Comments Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia by Harvey Arden Publisher Comments Cast a aside all things familiar and join Harvey Arden on an extraordinary spirit-journey into the minds, hearts, and dreams of australia's aboriginal peoples, custodians of the oldest culture on earth. Through haunting photographs and an exquisitely... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scapegoat by Rene Girard Publisher Comments "(Girard's) methods of extrapolating to find cultural history behind myths, and of reading hidden verification through silence, are worthy enrichments of the critic's arsenal."--John Yoder, Religion and Literature.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: the Untold Story of English (08 Edition) by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say I am reading a catalog instead of I read a catalog? Why do we say do at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Women of Suye Mura by Robert J Smith Publisher Comments Japanese women are frequently perceived by foreigners as stereotypes. Pictured as compliant, long-suffering, and charming in a childlike way, they are said to be child-centered and restricted in their interests and actions to the domestic realm. The... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham Staff Pick Richard Wrangham's lucid, fascinating book presents a strong case that the act of harnessing the power of fire to cook food might have created modern humanity. Convincing, thoughtful, and beautifully written, Catching Fire is a surprising look at the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies by John Mark Publisher Comments Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lectures) by Wade Davis Synopsis Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the worlds indigenous... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul by Ian Player Publisher Comments An engaging personal account of one environmentalist's remarkable friendship with a Zulu chief.... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Temples of Ancient Egypt by Byron E Shafer Publisher Comments Five distinguished scholars summarize the state of current knowledge about ancient Egyptian temples and the rituals associated with their use. This first volume in English to survey the major types of Egyptian temples from the Old Kingdom to the Roman... (read more) List Price $75.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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