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African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliographyby David Chidester, Robert Petty, Chirevo Kwenda, Judy Tobler, Darrell WrattenISBN 0313304742 (0-313-30474-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography'Book summary:In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful.
This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.
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Ancient Israelby Harry M. OrlinskyISBN 0313235597 (0-313-23559-7)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press
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Angelmassby Timothy ZahnISBN 0312878281 (0-312-87828-1)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Anthropology: An Applied Perspectiveby Gary Ferraro, Janet Levy, Wenda TravathanISBN 031402879X (0-314-02879-X)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning
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Ape into Human: A Study of Human Evolutionby Ruth E. Moore, S. L. WashburnISBN 0316923745 (0-316-92374-5)
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Behold Man: A Photographic Journey of Discovery Inside the Bodyby Lennart NilssonISBN 0316607525 (0-316-60752-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Black Wineby Candas Jane DorseyISBN 0312865783 (0-312-86578-3)
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316010669 (0-316-01066-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking'Book summary:Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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Blues People: Negro Music in White Americaby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 0313225192 (0-313-22519-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Deadby Donna M. Jackson, Donna Jackson Kallner, Charlie FellenbaumISBN 0316829358 (0-316-82935-8)
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Bone Hunterby Sarah AndrewsISBN 0312973179 (0-312-97317-9)
Softcover, Minotaur Books
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Cohen and Cohen's Readings in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophyby Philip ShuchmanISBN 0316788775 (0-316-78877-5)
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Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Societyby Paul Heyer, D. J. CrowleyISBN 0321088050 (0-321-08805-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society'Book summary:Communication in History's outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field. Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential both in maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Revised with new readings for the Fourth Edition, Communication in History continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces the reader to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history." For anyone interested in media history, history of communication, the relationship of the media and society.
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Consciousness Explainedby Daniel Dennett, Paul WeinerISBN 0316180661 (0-316-18066-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Consciousness Explained'Book summary:Consciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience--the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes--that we know subjectively, from the inside. On the other hand, such facts are not readily accommodated in the objective world described by science. How, after all, could the reediness of clarinets or the tartness of lemonade be predicted in advance? Central to Daniel C. Dennett's attempt to resolve this dilemma is the "heterophenomenological" method, which treats reports of introspection nontraditionally--not as evidence to be used in explaining consciousness, but as data to be explained. Using this method, Dennett argues against the myth of the Cartesian theater--the idea that consciousness can be precisely located in space or in time. To replace the Cartesian theater, he introduces his own multiple drafts model of consciousness, in which the mind is a bubbling congeries of unsupervised parallel processing. Finally, Dennett tackles the conventional philosophical questions about consciousness, taking issue not only with the traditional answers but also with the traditional methodology by which they were reached.
Dennett's writing, while always serious, is never solemn; who would have thought that combining philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience could be such fun? Not every reader will be convinced that Dennett has succeeded in explaining consciousness; many will feel that his account fails to capture essential features of conscious experience. But none will want to deny that the attempt was well worth making. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Considering Cultural Differenceby Pauline UchmanowiczISBN 0321115813 (0-321-11581-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Core Concepts in Anatomyby Jack T. Stern, Luci BettiISBN 0316812994 (0-316-81299-4)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Lifeby Eric ChaissonISBN 0316135909 (0-316-13590-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Culture of Citiesby Lewis MumfordISBN 0313227462 (0-313-22746-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Daily Life in Maya Civilizationby Robert J. SharerISBN 0313293422 (0-313-29342-2)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Decipherby Stel PavlouISBN 0312996438 (0-312-99643-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decipher'Book summary:MANKIND HAS HAD 12,000 YEARS TO DECIPHER THE MESSAGE,[via]
WE HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT....
There is a signal emanating from deep within the ice of Antarctica. Atlantis has awoken. Ancient monuments all over the worlds from the Pyramids of Giza, to Mexico to the ancient sites of China are reacting...to a brewing crisis not of this earth, but somewhere out in the solar system. Connecting to each other through the oceans. Using low frequency sound waves to create an ancient network. The earth is thrown into panic stations. For it seems that the signals emanating from Atlantis are a prelude to something much greater. Could it be that the entire city is in fact one giant ancient machine? And to what end? For what purpose?
It is the year 2012, the same year Mayan belief prophesised the end of the world. Two armies, American and Chinese stand on the brink of war for the control of the most potent force ever known to man. The secrets of Atlantis. Secrets which are encoded in crystal shards retrieved from the sunken city. Secrets which Mankind has had twelve thousand years to decipher...but which will now destroy it within one week.More editions of Decipher:
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Domainby Steve AltenISBN 0312874766 (0-312-87476-6)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Domain'Book summary:For those who never leave home without a copy of the prophecies of Nostradamus tucked in their hip pocket, Steve Alten's new thriller is just the ticket. Domain focuses its doomsday scenario on an ancient Mayan myth and sets up an intriguing pair of saviors in Dominique Vasquez, a psych grad student who's an intern at a Florida psychiatric facility, and Mick Gabriel, her first patient. Mick, the son of two famous archaeologists, has languished in the Miami asylum for over a decade after attacking the man who publicly humiliated his father and who now happens to be the American secretary of state. The elder Gabriel believed he had unearthed the riddle surrounding the origins of Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the desert glyphs of the Nazca desert, the temples of Angkor Wat, and the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan peninsula--and that the answer pointed inexorably to the doom of humanity.
As the winter solstice of 2012 approaches (the day of reckoning prophesied by the myths of the Kukulcan Pyramid at Chichen Itza), Mick enlists Dominique in his effort to save mankind from the apocalypse. Engineering his escape from the hospital, she accompanies him on a desperate search to find his way into the pyramid before the radio message from space, which has already activated a deadly alien weapon buried deep in the Gulf of Mexico, can open a galactic gateway to a world where evil will reign for all eternity. Alten's talent for pacing far outstrips his other writerly gifts. The political subplot is ludicrous, the special effects way over the top, and the villain-in-chief, who happens to be named Borgia, is merely a cartoon. But the story is original enough to pass muster and the past success of similar apocalyptic thrillers bodes well for this one. --Jane Adams [via]
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Earthly Goods: Medicine-Hunting in the Rainforestby Christopher JoyceISBN 0316474088 (0-316-47408-8)
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The Fall of Japanby Keith WheelerISBN 0316850586 (0-316-85058-6)
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The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Manby David AttenboroughISBN 0316057509 (0-316-05750-9)
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Gnomes: Text by Wil Huygenby Rien Poortvliet, Wil HuygenISBN 0330257552 (0-330-25755-2)
Hardcover, Pan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gnomes: Text by Wil Huygen'Book summary:Les gnomes sont nombreux à peupler les sous-bois de toute l'Europe. Il fallait donc bien un livre qui apprenne aux humains à mieux les connaître. Celui-ci, largement commenté et illustré, est devenu l'ouvrage de référence en la matière. Il détaille la vie et les légendes des gnomes. Ses auteurs ont mené une véritable enquête scientifique et font part de toutes leurs observations. Comment les gnomes construisent-ils leurs maisons ? Comment mangent-ils ? Comment se soignent-ils ? Comment se reproduisent-ils ? Rien n'est oublié. Les Gnomes régaleront ceux qui s'intéressent aux personnages fantastiques. Ils trouveront des mêmes auteurs et chez le même éditeur Le Livre secret des gnomes. --Ségolène Dujardin [via]
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The Goddessby Shahrukh HusainISBN 0316380059 (0-316-38005-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Goddess'Book summary:With authoritative texts and hundreds of full-color illustrations, these two latest volumes continue Living Wisdom's tradition of excellence.
The Goddess taps into Americans' growing interest in female deities and ancient rites. As New York Newsday noted, "Goddess worship, no longer thought of as esoteric, if not blasphemous, is going mainstream". This provocative book brings to life the rituals, symbolism, and significance of the Goddess from ancient to modern times, touching on fertility, motherhood, feminism, Wicca, and much more.
Sacred Architecture explores humankind's quest for spiritual retreats and gateways to the divine. From Egyptian pyramids to Baroque cathedrals, this beautiful book stops off at a wide range of sacred sites while exploring such subjects as feng shui, celestial alignments, temple design and construction, and activities of worship and sacrifice. [via]
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Handbook of Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Methodby Thomas M. Johnson, Carolyn Fishel Sargent, Carolyn F. SargentISBN 0313296588 (0-313-29658-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Hard Labor : Reflections of an Obstetrical Nurseby Susan L. DiamondISBN 0312853084 (0-312-85308-4)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Hominidsby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0312876920 (0-312-87692-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hominids'Book summary:Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids introduces a new world, a parallel historical universe in which Neanderthals, not Homo sapiens, survived to explore the world and build a civilization. It also tells the story of a man from his own world and the people who try to understand and help him. Ponter Boddit is a Neanderthal physicist working on quantum computing. While running an experiment, he suddenly disappears from his own universe, leaving a puddle of heavy water behind him. Just as suddenly, he appears in our universe, in a container of heavy water at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Trying to understand how a Neanderthal arrived in the laboratory, and how to introduce him to human culture, poses a major problem for Louise Benoit, a physics student, and Mary Vaughan, a geneticist with expertise on Neanderthal DNA.
A parallel story of the Neanderthal world follows Adikor Huld and his attempt to explain why he should not be charged with murder in the disappearance of his partner Ponter. The book nicely contrasts Neanderthal society with our own: Ponter's descriptions of a society where violence is almost unknown and pollution non-existent paint an idyllic picture of his home universe. But Adikor's experiences show a more balanced view: Neanderthals sin, too. The first volume in Sawyer's new Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids is a self-contained story that combines fully drawn characters in both worlds with provocative ideas about physics, history, and evolution. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Hope of Earthby Piers AnthonyISBN 0312863403 (0-312-86340-3)
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across The 2006 American Southwestby Craig ChildsISBN 0316608173 (0-316-60817-3)
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Human Biology: Health, Homeostasis, and the Environmentby Daniel D. ChirasISBN 0314794980 (0-314-79498-0)
Softcover, West Group
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Human Sexualityby William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. KolodnyISBN 0316549959 (0-316-54995-9)
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Humansby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0312876912 (0-312-87691-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humans'Book summary:The background to Humans has Ponter Boddit happy to be back in his own world of Neanderthals. He has reunited with friends and family and returned to his life as a physicist. Yet he can't help but feel that there remains unfinished business from his trip to the parallel world inhabited by the strange, possibly dangerous people who call themselves homo sapiens. And he would like to see Mary Vaughan again.
Humans, the second volume in Robert J Sawyer's Parallax trilogy, tells the story of Ponter's second trip to our world and the opening of the portal between worlds to a few other travellers. It is for the most part a quiet story of the deepening relationship between Ponter and Mary as Ponter continues his investigation of the human world and develops a growing interest in the preoccupation of its residents with religion. Meanwhile, intercut scenes of Ponter in therapy on his homeworld contribute to a growing tension in the story, as the reason for Ponter's feelings of guilt is slowly revealed. At the same time, scientists are beginning to notice that there is something odd happening with the magnetic fields of both Earths.
Although it's the middle volume of a trilogy that began with Hominids, the main story in Humans stands alone. Sawyer's enjoyable prose is sprinkled with sly comments on the mutual foibles of Canadians and Americans and Ponter in particular is given several good lines. Set firmly in our present, Humans relies on hard science for its set-up, but the heart of the novel is Mary and Ponter's acceptance of their love for each other. It's a hard-science-fiction romance and Sawyer tells this story of love across boundaries very well. --Greg L. Johnson, Amazon.ca [via]
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Hybridsby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0312876904 (0-312-87690-4)
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In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeologyby Brian M. FaganISBN 0316259888 (0-316-25988-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology'Book summary:A comprehensive text on method and theory in archaeology. The work begins with a summary of the history of the subject and goes on to provide an overview of the objectives and processes of archeological research and the basic principles of culture, context and dating methods. It also examines some of the major theoretical approaches to archaeological interpretation. [via]
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In the Footsteps of Adamby Thor HeyerdahlISBN 0316853208 (0-316-85320-8)
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Isle of Womanby Piers AnthonyISBN 0312855648 (0-312-85564-8)
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James Beard's New Fish Cookery: A Revised and Updated Edition of James Beard's Fish Cookeryby James BeardISBN 0316157457 (0-316-15745-7)
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Kolymsky Heightsby Lionel DavidsonISBN 0312956614 (0-312-95661-4)
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The Last Lords of Palenque: The Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forestby Victor Perera, Roberto D. Bruce S.ISBN 0316699160 (0-316-69916-0)
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Legacy of the Desert: Understanding the Arabsby Jules ArcherISBN 0316049654 (0-316-04965-4)
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Linguistics for Non-Linguistsby Frank ParkerISBN 0316690864 (0-316-69086-4)
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Lost in the Barrensby Farley MowatISBN 0316586382 (0-316-58638-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Barrens'Book summary:Farley Mowat's Lost in the Barrens is the quintessential Canadian tale of adventure. First published in 1956, it won the Governor General's Award for Juvenile Literature, the Canadian Library Association's Children's Book of the Year Award and the Boys Club of America Junior Book Award. And it is as exciting a book for contemporary kids as when it first appeared. Orphan Jamie Macnair has left the safety of boarding-school life in Toronto to join his Uncle Angus, a trapper, in the icy reaches of the Canadian North. Jamie is utterly enchanted by the Arctic and is able to share his fascination with his new friend, Awasin, a member of a nearby Cree camp. When Jamie and Awasin have a chance to join a band of Chipeweyans on a trip to the remote Barrens, they jump at the opportunity. But when their canoe capsizes and they are separated from the group, it takes all their ingenuity to survive winter in the Barrens. Lost in the Barrens is at once a powerful and exciting adventure story and a sensitive look at Canada's First Peoples and their traditions. It is enhanced by Mowat's own knowledge of and passion for the Canadian North, and young readers will be fascinated by all the details that Mowat includes, from making sleds and boots to the nomadic tradition of following the caribou herds. Older readers who enjoy this adventure tale might want to check out the sequel, The Curse of the Viking Grave, as well as some of Mowat's non-fiction books about the North, including People of the Deer, Tundra, and Sea of Slaughter. (Ages 10 to 16) --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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The Man in the Brown Suitby Agatha ChristieISBN 0312979487 (0-312-97948-7)
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The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminismby Katie RoipheISBN 0316754323 (0-316-75432-3)
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The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campusby Katie RoipheISBN 0316754315 (0-316-75431-5)
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Mother Natureby Sarah AndrewsISBN 0312966164 (0-312-96616-4)
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The Nacirema: Readings on American Cultureby James P. SpradleyISBN 0316807532 (0-316-80753-2)
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Nations Without States : A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movementsby James Minahan, Leonard William DoobISBN 0313283540 (0-313-28354-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Native North Americaby Larry J. Zimmerman, Brian Leigh MolyneauxISBN 0316988227 (0-316-98822-7)
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Never Cry Wolfby Farley MowatISBN 0316881791 (0-316-88179-1)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Cry Wolf'Book summary:More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) and for a friendly Inuit tribe known as the Ihalmiut ("People of the Deer")-is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves. [via]
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On the Social Contract With Geneva Manuscript and Political Economyby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0312694466 (0-312-69446-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Only Human: Why We Are the Way We Areby Neill BellISBN 0316088188 (0-316-08818-8)
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Our Musical Heritage: A Short History of Musicby Curt SachsISBN 0313203741 (0-313-20374-1)
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Pastwatchby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312850581 (0-312-85058-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastwatch'Book summary:Anyone who's read Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.
Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.
Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Physical Anthropology: Lab Manual and Workbookby Diane L. FranceISBN 031407337X (0-314-07337-X)
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Probability Moonby Nancy KressISBN 0312875835 (0-312-87583-5)
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Probability Sunby Nancy KressISBN 0312874073 (0-312-87407-3)
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The Pursuit of Pleasureby Lionel TigerISBN 0316845442 (0-316-84544-2)
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Reflections of Eden: My Years With the Orangutans of Borneoby Birute M. F. GaldikasISBN 0316301868 (0-316-30186-8)
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Reliquary: Library Editionby Douglas Preston, Lincoln ChildISBN 0312860951 (0-312-86095-1)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0330029495 (0-330-02949-5)
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Shame of Manby Piers AnthonyISBN 0312858116 (0-312-85811-6)
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survivalby Dean KingISBN 0316159352 (0-316-15935-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Skeletons On The Zahara: A True Story Of Survival'Book summary:Some stories are so enthralling they deserve to be retold generation after generation. The wreck in 1815 of the Connecticut merchant ship, Commerce, and the subsequent ordeal of its crew in the Sahara Desert, is one such story. With Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Dean King refreshes the popular nineteenth-century narrative once read and admired by Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, and Abraham Lincoln. Kings version, which actually draws from two separate first person accounts of the Commerce's crew, offers a page-turning blend of science, history, and classic adventure. The book begins with a seeming false start: tracing the lives of two merchants from North Africa, Seid and Sidi Hamet, who lose their fortunesand almost their liveswhen their massive camel caravan arrives at a desiccated oasis. King then jumps to the voyage of the Commerce under Captain Riley and his 11-man crew. After stops in New Orleans and Gibraltar, the ship falls off course en route to the Canary Islands and ultimately wrecks at the infamous Cape Bojador. After the men survive the first predations of the nomads on the shore, they meander along the coast looking for a way inland as their supplies dwindle. They subsist for days by drinking their own urine. Eventually, to their horror, they discover that they have come aground on the edge of the Sahara Desert. They submit themselves, with hopes of getting food and water, as slaves to the Oulad Bou Sbaa. After days of abuse, they are bought by Hamet, who, after his own experiences with his failed caravan (described at the novels opening), sympathizes with the plight of the crew. Together, they set off on a hellish journey across the desert to collect a bounty for Hamet in Swearah. King embellishes this compelling narrative throughout with scientific and historical material explaining the origins of the camel, the market for English and American slaves, and the stages of dehydration. He also humanizes the Sahrawi with background on the tribes and on the lives of Hamet and Seid. This material, doled out in sufficient amounts to enrich the story without derailing it makes Skeletons on the Zahara a perfectly entertaining bit of history that feels like a guilty pleasure. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Sociologyby Lynn K. White, David BrinkerhoffISBN 031462399X (0-314-62399-X)
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Sorrow Of The Lonely And The Burning Of The Dancersby Edward SchieffelinISBN 0312745508 (0-312-74550-8)
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312853254 (0-312-85325-4)
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The Time Falling Bodies Take to Lightby William Irwin ThompsonISBN 0312805128 (0-312-80512-8)
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Types of Drama: Plays and Essaysby Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, Morton BermanISBN 0316082082 (0-316-08208-2)
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Types of Drama: Plays and Contextsby Lesley Ferris, William Burto, Gerald Rabkin, Sylvan BarnetISBN 0321065069 (0-321-06506-9)
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Understanding Human Evolutionby WetheringtonISBN 0314009086 (0-314-00908-6)
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archeologyby Robert Jurmain, Harry Nelson, William A. TurnbaughISBN 0314779892 (0-314-77989-2)
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The Undiscovered Selfby C. G. JungISBN 0316476943 (0-316-47694-3)
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Waitingby Frank M. RobinsonISBN 0312866526 (0-312-86652-6)
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0316954993 (0-316-95499-3)
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White Jennaby Jane YolenISBN 0312931956 (0-312-93195-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Jenna'Book summary:World Fantasy Award for Best Novel[via]
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Book Two of the Great Alta Saga
Jenna was the White Queen.
Skada was the Dark Queen. She is bound to Jennathe other half of Jennas self. Drawn out of a mirror by a rite of magic, a dark sister is confined to the dark. She vanishes in daylight. It is in this other world the dark sisters wait for moonlight or lamplight to call them forth again.
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Winds of War War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0316955027 (0-316-95502-7)
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World Civilizations: The Global Experienceby Peter StearnsISBN 0321417550 (0-321-41755-0)
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World Civilizations: The Global Experience Beginnings to 1750by Stuart B. Schwartz, Marc J. Gilbert, Michael Adas, Peter StearnsISBN 0321182804 (0-321-18280-4)
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World Civilizations, The Global Experience: 1450 to Presentby Stuart B. Schwartz, Marc J. Gilbert, Michael Adas, Peter StearnsISBN 0321409817 (0-321-40981-7)
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millenniumby Robert Lacey, Danny DanzigerISBN 0316511579 (0-316-51157-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium'Book summary:"August was the month when flies started to become a problem, buzzing round the dung heaps in the corner of every farmyard and hovering over the open cesspits of human refuse that were located outside every house."
Although daily dangers were many, housing uncomfortable, and the dominant smells unpleasant indeed, life in England at the turn of the previous millennium was not at all bad, write journalists Lacey and Danziger. "If you were to meet an Englishman in the year 1000," they continue, "the first thing that would strike you would be how tall he was--very much the size of anyone alive today." The Anglo-Saxons were not only tall, but also generally well fed and healthy, more so than many Britons only a few generations ago. Writing in a breezy, often humorous style, Lacey and Danziger draw on the medieval Julius Work Calendar, a document detailing everyday life around A.D. 1000, to reconstruct the spirit and reality of the era. Light though their touch is, they've done their homework, and they take the reader on a well-documented and enjoyable month-by-month tour through a single year, touching on such matters as religious belief, superstition, medicine, cuisine, agriculture, and politics, as well as contemporary ideas of the self and society. Readers should find the authors' discussions of famine and plague a refreshing break from present-day millennial worries, and a very stimulating introduction to medieval English history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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You Know You Love Meby Cecily Von ZiegesarISBN 0316911488 (0-316-91148-8)
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