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by Noam Chomsky  Review "From time to time, ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside linguistics to some theses stated twenty-five years ago by Noam Chomsky. These proposals have... (read more)  List Price $22.00 Your price $11.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Charles Stewart Publisher Comments Renowned scholars give the term "creolization" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacques Soustelle Publisher Comments "Soustelle's great book about the Aztecs . . . takes us deep into the life of this great society. . . . Soustelle has the rare quality of entering into the minds of those he is studying and seeing things from their point of view. . . . (His) book is one... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laird Scranton Publisher Comments Using Dogon cosmological symbols, the author reveals references within the ancient Egyptian language that define the full range of scientific components of matter: from massless waves to the completed atom, even suggesting direct correlations to a fully... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Colin Renfrew Publisher Comments In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records-which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Marks Publisher Comments A well-known molecular anthropologist uses the human-versus-ape controversy as a jumping-off point for a radical reassessment of a range of provocative issues, from the role of science in society to racism, animal rights, and cloning. 5 photos & 2... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Johanson Publisher Comments In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ever found. This discovery prompted a complete... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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-... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Derek Bickerton Publisher Comments Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michele Rut Gamburd Publisher Comments According to a common Sinhala proverb, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's handle". In this beautifully written book on the effects of female migration from Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd shows that the length of that... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alessand Bongioanni Publisher Comments This volume documents the entire collection of archeological and artistic treasures at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Presenting each artifact in spellbinding full-color photos, the volume also details its history and its exact placement within the museum... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David E Stuart Publisher Comments This memoir of a young gringo's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is an eye-opening account of the area's working-class life. After months of anthropological field work in late 1960s Ecuador, David... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elisabeth Bumiller Publisher Comments "The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on India in a long time..Bumiller has made India new and immediate again."<BR>THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD<BR>In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jerome Rousseau Publisher Comments Human societies are characterized by complex and varied social systems that change through time due to communication and negotiation. Jrme Rousseau makes cognitive complexity his starting point in an innovative study of how and why human societies evolve.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leila Abouzeid Publisher Comments In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Robertson Publisher Comments The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patsy M Lightbown Publisher Comments This series offers useful references for language teachers, teacher trainers, and trainees. This book presents the main theories of language acquisition, and considers their bearing on language teaching. It also discusses the effects of factors such as... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Christian Publisher Comments An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carole M Counihan Publisher Comments Exploring the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies, this text takes a cross-cultural approach to ask questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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