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The Aeneidby Virgil, Frank Olin CopleyISBN 0672613700 (0-672-61370-0)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Amazon Journey: Anthropologist's Year Among Brazil's Mekranoti Indiansby Dennis WernerISBN 067149290X (0-671-49290-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The American Indiansby Edward SpicerISBN 0674024761 (0-674-02476-1)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Indians'Book summary:The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. Dimensions of Ethnicity is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics of a pluralistic nation or masterfully summarize the experience of key groups.
Written by the best-qualified scholars in each field, this book reflects the complex interplay between assimilation and pluralism that is a central theme of the American experience.
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Among Orangutans: Red Apes and the Rise of Human Cultureby Carel Van Schaik, Perry Van DuijnhovenISBN 0674015770 (0-674-01577-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Anatomy of Disgustby William I. MillerISBN 0674031547 (0-674-03154-7)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Disgust'Book summary:The title of William Ian Miller's book is a play on Robert Burton's 17th-century classic The Anatomy of Melancholy, an examination of human emotion. In his modern Anatomy, Miller narrows the focus to the function of disgust in human life. Disgust, Miller posits, is a kind of protection; just as fear causes us to flee danger or loyalty prompts us to support one another, disgust draws boundaries and insulates the individual from outside incursions--anything from the unhygienic hair in our soup to the frightening explosion of homelessness in our cities. Among his theories is one that democracy depends on the even distribution of disgust across class lines.
Mr. Miller is not afraid to explore the darker side of disgust as well--the fact that we may feel it in conjunction with contempt toward people, objects, or concepts that do not warrant it. Nevertheless, disgust serves an important role in humanity's complex emotional and social makeup, and The Anatomy of Disgust is novel in its approach to uncovering just what that role might be. [via]
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The Anatomy of Disgustby William Ian MillerISBN 0674031555 (0-674-03155-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Ancient Civilizationsby Brian M. Fagan, Christopher ScarreISBN 0673997693 (0-673-99769-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Civilizations'Book summary:This new text offers a comparative study of all the early civilizations both the old world and the new. It explores the ties and links between civilizations and analyses how environments, ideologies and institutions have shaped civilizations and contributed to their collapse. [via]
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The Animal Wifeby Elizabeth Marshall ThomasISBN 0671733230 (0-671-73323-0)
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Approaches to Social Archaeologyby Colin RenfrewISBN 0674041658 (0-674-04165-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Biology and Evolution of Languageby Philip LiebermanISBN 0674074130 (0-674-07413-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biology and Evolution of Language'Book summary:This book synthesizes much of the exciting recent research in the biology of language. Drawing on data from anatomy, neurophysiology, physiology, and behavioral biology, Lieberman develops a new approach to the puzzle of language, arguing that it is the result of many evolutionary compromises. Within his discussion, Lieberman skillfully addresses matters as various as the theory of neoteny (which he refutes), the mating calls of bullfrogs, ape language, dyslexia, and computer-implemented models of the brain. [via]
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The Black Houseby Paul TherouxISBN 0671498231 (0-671-49823-1)
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Book of Common Prayerby Joan DidionISBN 0671638084 (0-671-63808-4)
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The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Ageby Michael F. BrownISBN 0674108833 (0-674-10883-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behaviorby Jane GoodallISBN 0674116496 (0-674-11649-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status Systemby Paul Fussell, Martim De AvillezISBN 0671792253 (0-671-79225-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Class: A Guide Through the American Status System'Book summary:In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mindby Allan BloomISBN 0671657151 (0-671-65715-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0671678817 (0-671-67881-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one. The nominal price of this ebook covers the time and effort in formatting the materials and putting everything together in one place for your convenience. As a reader, you would want everything readily available at your fingertips because you many not have the time, interest or know where to look for your favorite book. The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. FEATURES ? Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations [via]
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Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate, and Fear Foodby Michelle StaceyISBN 0671501011 (0-671-50101-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Cultural Anthropology: Readings in Cultural Anthropology to Accompany Cultural Anthropologyby David HicksISBN 0673982076 (0-673-98207-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Dead Sea Scrolls Deceptionby Michael Baigent, Richard LeighISBN 0671797972 (0-671-79797-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Deaf in America: Voices from a Cultureby Carol Padden, Tom HumphriesISBN 0674194241 (0-674-19424-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Different Drumby M. Scott PeckISBN 0671668331 (0-671-66833-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Different Drum'Book summary:In his ground-breaking bestseller, The Road Less Traveled, Peck took readers on a personal journey of psychological and spiritual development. In his new national bestseller, The Different Drum, he takes the next step--to the larger experience of living and working in community. [via]
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The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peaceby Morgan Scott PeckISBN 067160192X (0-671-60192-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dreams of the Kalahariby Carolyn SlaughterISBN 0671659057 (0-671-65905-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Early Chinese Civilization: Anthropological Perspectivesby K. C. ChangISBN 0674219996 (0-674-21999-6)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Chinese Civilization: Anthropological Perspectives'Book summary:K. C. Chang approaches the civilization of ancient China from the point of view of an anthropologist as well as from an archaeological perspective. He brings to bear on his subject familiarity with the Chinese materials and with the related data essential to placing the Chinese experience in context.
This volume of nine studies deals with the Shang (1766-1122 BCE) and Chou (1122-221) civilizations and the prehistoric cultures from which they sprang. Chang summarizes what is known about ancient crop cultivation and examines evidence concerning the transition from a food-gathering to a settled food-producing society. He discusses the origin of Chinese urbanism; the structure of Shang and Chou towns and the kinship and lineage system of this period; the preparation and serving of food in ancient China; the possibility of a coherent dualistic system in Shang society; and Shang and Chou mythology. One essay is published here for the first time; the others have been revised for this book. An extensive bibliography is appended.
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Enigma Variationsby Richard Price, Sally PriceISBN 0674257286 (0-674-25728-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacificby Nicholas ThomasISBN 0674257316 (0-674-25731-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific'Book summary:Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions (such as the gift and the commodity), and the significance of material objects in social life. Along the way, he raises doubts about any simple "us / them" dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural difference by stressing the shared history of colonial entanglement. Thomas integrates general issues into a historical discussion of the uses Pacific Islanders and Europeans have made of each other's material artifacts. He explores how 19th-century and 20th-century islanders, and visitors from the time of the Cook voyages up to the 1990s have fashioned identities for themselves and each other by appropriating and exchanging goods. Previous writers have explored museums and the tribal art market, but this book concentrates on the distinct interests of European collectors and the islanders. It should be of interest to all those working in the fields of cultural studies, from history [via]
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Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figures in the Human Speciesby Samuel Stanhope SmithISBN 0674263502 (0-674-26350-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say About Dietingby Mimi NichterISBN 067400681X (0-674-00681-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Folklore and Fakelore: Essays toward a Discipline of Folk Studiesby Richard Mercer DorsonISBN 0674307151 (0-674-30715-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experienceby Erving GoffmanISBN 0674316568 (0-674-31656-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Societyby T. M. LuhrmannISBN 0674356764 (0-674-35676-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sexby Alice Domurat DregerISBN 0674001893 (0-674-00189-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex'Book summary:Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites--people born with "ambiguous" sexual anatomy--and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late nineteenth century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers openly questioned the natures and purposes of the two sexes, anatomical hermaphrodites suggested a deeper question: just how many human sexes are there? Ultimately hermaphrodites led doctors and scientists to another surprisingly difficult question: what is sex, really?
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex takes us inside the doctors' chambers to see how and why medical and scientific men constructed sex, gender, and sexuality as they did, and especially how the material conformation of hermaphroditic bodies--when combined with social exigencies--forced peculiar constructions. Throughout the book Dreger indicates how this history can help us to understand present-day conceptualizations of sex, gender, and sexuality. This leads to an epilogue, where the author discusses and questions the protocols employed today in the treatment of intersexuals (people born hermaphroditic). Given the history she has recounted, should these protocols be reconsidered and revised?
A meticulously researched account of a fascinating problem in the history of medicine, this book will compel the attention of historians, physicians, medical ethicists, intersexuals themselves, and anyone interested in the meanings and foundations of sexual identity.
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Historical Archaeologyby Charles E. Orser, Brian M. FaganISBN 067399094X (0-673-99094-X)
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A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great Warby Michelle Perrot, Philippe Arier, Georges DubyISBN 0674400038 (0-674-40003-8)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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A History of Private Life: III Passions of the Renaissanceby Roger Chartier, Arthurf GoldhammerISBN 067440002X (0-674-40002-X)
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A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval Worldby Georges Duby, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400011 (0-674-40001-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World'Book summary:The second volume of "A History of Private Life" contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This "secret epic" aims to construct a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in different places in the 11th to the 15th centuries. [via]
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A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Timesby Antoine Prost, Gerard Vincent, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400046 (0-674-40004-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times'Book summary:This fifth and final volume in an award-winning series charts the inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s. Nine historians present a picture of cultures in transition and in the process scrutinize a myriad of subjects - the sacrament of confession, volunteer hotlines, Nazi policies toward the family, the baby boom, evolving sexuality, the history of contraception, and ever-changing dress codes. They draw upon unexpected sources, including divorce hearing transcripts, personal ads, and little-known demographic and consumer data. Perhaps the most notable pattern to emerge is a polarizing of public and private realms. Productive labour shifts from the home to an impersonal public setting. Salaried or corporate employment replaces many independent, entrepreneurial jobs, and workers of all kinds aggressively pursue their leisure time. Zoning laws segregate industrial and commercial areas from residential neighbourhoods, which are no longer a supportive "theatre" of benign surveillance, gossip, and mutual concern, but an assemblage of aloof and anonymous individuals or families. Scattered with personal possessions and appliances, homes grow large by yesterday's standards and are marked by elaborate spatial subdivisions. Men and women are obsessed with health, fitness, diet and appearance as the body becomes the focal point of personal identity. In the search for sexual and individualistic fulfillment, romantic love becomes the foundation of marriage. Couples marry at an older age; families are smaller. The divorce rate rises, and with it the number of single-family households. Women, entering the work forces in unprecedented numbers, frequently function as both breadwinner and homemaker. The authors interrelate these patterns with the changing roles of state and religion in family matters, the socialization of education and elder care, the growth of feminism, the impact of media on private life, and the nature of secrecy. "Riddles of Identity in Modern Times" chronicles a period when the differentiation of life into public and private realms, once a luxury of the wealthy, gradually spread throughout the population. This final volume, differing from the French edition, portrays Italian, German and American family family life in the 20th century. The authors, Chiara Saraceno, Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman and Elaine Tyler May enlarge the European and Atlantic canvas that depicts the modern identity. [via]
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671746065 (0-671-74606-5)
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Homosexuality & Civilizationby Louis CromptonISBN 0674022335 (0-674-02233-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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How to Do Things With Wordsby J.L. AustinISBN 0674411528 (0-674-41152-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Do Things With Words'Book summary:John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic How to Do Things with Words.
For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these annotations provides new dimensions to the study of Austin's work.
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Human Biology and Behavior: An Anthropological Perspectiveby Mark L. Weiss, Alan E. MannISBN 0673398803 (0-673-39880-3)
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The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolutionby Ian TattersallISBN 0671850059 (0-671-85005-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Human Sexualityby William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. KolodnyISBN 0673463621 (0-673-46362-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Humansby Pat Welch, Dennis WelchISBN 067153257X (0-671-53257-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeologyby Brian M. FaganISBN 0673397203 (0-673-39720-3)
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The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamicsby E. Adamson HoebelISBN 0674023625 (0-674-02362-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancyby David BainbridgeISBN 0674012364 (0-674-01236-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy'Book summary:While it's a safe bet that most readers know where babies come from, it's equally likely that they don't know the whole story. Reproductive biologist David Bainbridge fills them in with Making Babies, a witty and intriguing look at an experience so essential that we all go through it at least once. It would be all too easy for the author to get caught up in the intricacies of hormones and anatomy that have evolved from our egg-laying ancestors, but he softens the details with insights and examples from throughout the animal kingdom. Expectant parents might not like being compared to red deer at first, but most will warm to their shared experience. Examining big questions like "Why have sex?" and "How does the fetus change the mother?" is daunting, but Bainbridge guides the reader through the issues with confidence and humility. It's no substitute for a birds-and-bees chat, but Making Babies is perfect for those who want to deepen their understanding of what happens next. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor E. FranklISBN 067166736X (0-671-66736-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Search for Meaning'Book summary:Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips." [via]
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The Medium Is the Messageby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 0671689975 (0-671-68997-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medium Is the Message'Book summary:The medium used to be the message. But in the "collide-oscopic" barrage of image and text that resulted from Marshall McLuhan's 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the medium becomes the massage. The basic premise of this playful popularization of McLuhan's theories of the electronic revolution will be familiar to readers of his other works: "Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." But more than McLuhan's other work, The Medium Is the Massage also reflects the tumultuous decade in which it was produced, the 60s. It was a time when existentialism, the theatrr of the absurd, "happenings," and Eastern religions were all the rage in academic circles. Massage adds to that mix traces of utopianism ("We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art"; a hint of radicalism (of electronic circuitry McLuhan says: "Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable."); and a bracing pinch of paranoia ("Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance" have brought us "to a point where remedial control, born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must be exerted."). True to its observation that "information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously," McLuhan and Fiore shower us with photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines, backwards and upside-down writing, and other graphical innovations. The book is also packed with quotations from a motley collection of savants (in addition to McLuhan himself, of course): Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Lao Tsu, John Dewey, John Cage, and Bob Dylan. The book's design and content aptly, and palpably, demonstrate the insights that have caused many highly stimulated readers to pronounce McLuhan a visionary, a veritable "oracle of the electronic age." --Russell Prather [via]
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The Mote in God's Eyeby Larry NivenISBN 0671741926 (0-671-74192-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mote in God's Eye'Book summary:In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.
In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years.
This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle's interest in the military and sociology with Niven's talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties' biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity's economics, politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexualityby Lynn Margulis, Dorion SaganISBN 0671792261 (0-671-79226-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality'Book summary:Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, linguistics, and politics, the authors trace the evolution of human sexual behavior and our complex feelings about sex. "A universally appealing subject presented with clarity, creativity, and conviction".--Booklist. Lynn Margulis is a leading evolutonary biologist and Sagan is a writer. [via]
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The Nazi Conscienceby Claudia KoonzISBN 0674018427 (0-674-01842-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nazi Conscience'Book summary:The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders.
Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the so-called normal years before World War II. Her careful reading of the voluminous Nazi writings on race traces the transformation of longtime Nazis' vulgar anti-Semitism into a racial ideology that seemed credible to the vast majority of ordinary Germans who never joined the Nazi Party. Challenging conventional assumptions about Hitler, Koonz locates the source of his charisma not in his summons to hate, but in his appeal to the collective virtue of his people, the Volk.
From 1933 to 1939, Nazi public culture was saturated with a blend of racial fear and ethnic pride that Koonz calls ethnic fundamentalism. Ordinary Germans were prepared for wartime atrocities by racial concepts widely disseminated in media not perceived as political: academic research, documentary films, mass-market magazines, racial hygiene and art exhibits, slide lectures, textbooks, and humor. By showing how Germans learned to countenance the everyday persecution of fellow citizens labeled as alien, Koonz makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust.
The Nazi Conscience chronicles the chilling saga of a modern state so powerful that it extinguished neighborliness, respect, and, ultimately, compassion for all those banished from the ethnic majority.
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Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia Riverby William DietrichISBN 067179650X (0-671-79650-X)
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On Being a Christianby Hans KungISBN 0671790722 (0-671-79072-2)
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Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage, and Sex in Contemporary Japanby Nicholas BornoffISBN 0671742663 (0-671-74266-3)
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Practical Paleontologistby Steve Parker, Raymond L. BernorISBN 0671693077 (0-671-69307-7)
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Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competitionby Tim BirkheadISBN 0674006666 (0-674-00666-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition'Book summary:Males are promiscuous and ferociously competitive. Females--both human and of other species--are naturally monogamous. That at least is what the study of sexual behavior after Darwin assumed, perhaps because it was written by men. Only in recent years has this version of events been challenged. Females, it has become clear, are remarkably promiscuous and have evolved an astonishing array of strategies, employed both before and after copulation, to determine exactly who will father their offspring.
Tim Birkhead reveals a wonderful world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success. Both sexes have evolved staggeringly sophisticated ways to get what they want--often at the expense of the other. He introduces us to fish whose first encounter locks them together for life in a perpetual sexual embrace; hermaphrodites who "joust" with their reproductive organs, each trying to inseminate the other without being inseminated; and tiny flies whose seminal fluid is so toxic that it not only destroys the sperm of rival males but eventually kills the female. He explores the long and tortuous road leading to our current state of knowledge, from Aristotle's observations on chickens, to the first successful artificial insemination in the seventeenth century, to today's ingenious molecular markers for assigning paternity. And he shows how much human behavior--from the wife-sharing habits of Inuit hunters to Charlie Chaplin's paternity case--is influenced by sperm competition.
Lucidly written and lavishly illustrated, with a wealth of fascinating detail and vivid examples, Promiscuity is the ultimate guide to the battle of the sexes. [via]
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Pyramidsby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0671656090 (0-671-65609-0)
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Return to Nisaby Marjorie ShostakISBN 0674008294 (0-674-00829-4)
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Sacred Rage: The Crusade of Modern Islamby Robin B. WrightISBN 067160113X (0-671-60113-X)
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Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islamby Robin WrightISBN 0671628119 (0-671-62811-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam'Book summary:For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative.
Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington.
Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows. [via]
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Sexual Politicsby Kate MillettISBN 067170740X (0-671-70740-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Politics'Book summary:"Praised and denounced when it was first published in 1970, "Sexual Politics" not only explored history but also became part of it. Kate Millett's groundbreaking book fueled feminism's second wave, giving voice to the anger of a generation while documenting the inequities - neatly packaged in revered works of literature and art - of a complacent and unrepentant society. "Sexual Politics" laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, Millett demonstrates in detail how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's "Lover" to Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women. A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control." [via]
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Sign and the Sealby HancockISBN 0671865412 (0-671-86541-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sign and the Seal'Book summary:The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon.
After ten years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends -- revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.
Part fascinating scholarship and part entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time -- from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail -- this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery of secret mysteries. [via]
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Song of Rolandby Roland De ChansonISBN 0672604760 (0-672-60476-0)
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearingby Alexander S. NeillISBN 0671790013 (0-671-79001-3)
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Time Detectives : Their Toughest Cases in Their Own Wordsby Brian M. FaganISBN 0671793853 (0-671-79385-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Detectives : Their Toughest Cases in Their Own Words'Book summary:Today's archeologists are not treasure hunters but time detectives, utilizing advanced technology to vividly reconstruct the past from minute clues. With the focus in archeology shifting from the recovery of artifacts and antiquities to learning more about how our ancestors lived, archeologists now work in different ways. Frequently they are part of multidisciplinary teams of scientists who, for example, can reconstruct ancient diets from examination of bone collagen remains or describe millennia-old landscapes from fossilized seeds and grains. These new techniques enable us not only to better understand our past, but to better preserve it - excavations today move less earth in two years than those a couple of generations ago moved in a month. Time Detectives takes us around the world and through more than 15,000 years of human history as we visit the sites of some of the most breathtaking and significant finds of recent years. A fascinating journey into the world of archeology today, Time Detectives shows us not only how the past can be recaptured, but how our knowledge and understanding of the past expands our vision of human experience today. [via]
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Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolutionby Frans B. M. De WaalISBN 0674010043 (0-674-01004-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolution'Book summary:How did we become the linguistic, cultured, and hugely successful apes that we are? Our closest relatives--the other mentally complex and socially skilled primates--offer tantalizing clues. In Tree of Origin nine of the world's top primate experts read these clues and compose the most extensive picture to date of what the behavior of monkeys and apes can tell us about our own evolution as a species.
It has been nearly fifteen years since a single volume addressed the issue of human evolution from a primate perspective, and in that time we have witnessed explosive growth in research on the subject. Tree of Origin gives us the latest news about bonobos, the "make love not war" apes who behave so dramatically unlike chimpanzees. We learn about the tool traditions and social customs that set each ape community apart. We see how DNA analysis is revolutionizing our understanding of paternity, intergroup migration, and reproductive success. And we confront intriguing discoveries about primate hunting behavior, politics, cognition, diet, and the evolution of language and intelligence that challenge claims of human uniqueness in new and subtle ways.
Tree of Origin provides the clearest glimpse yet of the apelike ancestor who left the forest and began the long journey toward modern humanity.
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The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environmentby Richard LewontinISBN 0674006771 (0-674-00677-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment'Book summary:There is the Richard Lewontin non-biologists know, the author of acerbic, thoughtful, witty, unhesitatingly leftist books such as his essays from The New York Review of Books collected in It Ain't Necessarily So. This is the other Lewontin, the hard-core scientist, one of the most insightful evolutionary biologists going.
The Triple Helix is a manifesto for the life sciences: "The time has come when further progress in our understanding of nature requires that we reconsider the relationship between the outside and the inside, between organism and environment". Lewontin is not arguing for what he calls "obscurationist holism", but for a more complex interaction between gene, organism and environment, in which they construct each other:
.... it is the biology, indeed the genes, of an organism that determines its effective environment, by establishing the way in which external physical signals become incorporated into its reactions .... Whatever the autonomous processes of the outer world may be, they cannot be perceived by the organism. Its life is determined by the shadows on the wall, passed through a transforming medium of its own creation.
Lewontin argues for a life science that faces up to reality, that tackles the problems of studying subtle processes in complex systems where three-dimensional shape is crucial. The journal Nature "cannot recommend [it] too highly for the many commentators and headline-writers who think that DNA is the blueprint for the organism"--or for their readers. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]More editions of The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment:
Types of Drama: Plays and Essaysby Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William BurtoISBN 0673521818 (0-673-52181-8)
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War and Peace in the Global Villageby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 0671689967 (0-671-68996-7)
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0671672886 (0-671-67288-6)
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Who Owns Native Culture?by Michael F. BrownISBN 0674016335 (0-674-01633-5)
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Who Was Who in the Roman Worldby Diana BowderISBN 0671501607 (0-671-50160-7)
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World Civilizations: The Global Experience 1450 to Presentby Peter N. Stearns, Stuart B. Schwartz, Michael AdasISBN 0673994287 (0-673-99428-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Civilizations: The Global Experience 1450 to Present'Book summary:Paperback: 608 pages Publisher: Harpercollins College Div; 2nd edition (June 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0673994287 ISBN-13: 978-0673994288 [via]
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