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Occult America
White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
Written by Mitch Horowitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38515-1 (0-553-38515-1)
From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often... Read more >
White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
Written by Mitch Horowitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38515-1 (0-553-38515-1)
From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often... Read more >
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Millennials Rising
The Next Great Generation
Written by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Illustrated by R.J. Matson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70719-3 (0-375-70719-0)
By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, the first in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982.
"Over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alientated to upbeat and engaged--with potentially seismic consequences for America." --from Millennials Rising
In this remarkable account... Read more >
The Next Great Generation
Written by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Illustrated by R.J. Matson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70719-3 (0-375-70719-0)
By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, the first in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982.
"Over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alientated to upbeat and engaged--with potentially seismic consequences for America." --from Millennials Rising
In this remarkable account... Read more >
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Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Written by Johan Huizinga
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 1971
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4681-4 (0-8070-4681-7)
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A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Written by Johan Huizinga
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 1971
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-4681-4 (0-8070-4681-7)
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The Nature of Economies
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70243-3 (0-375-70243-1)
Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant economy. The lessons she discloses come from fields as diverse as... Read more >
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70243-3 (0-375-70243-1)
Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant economy. The lessons she discloses come from fields as diverse as... Read more >
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Night Falls Fast
Understanding Suicide
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70147-4 (0-375-70147-8)
Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself... Read more >
Understanding Suicide
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70147-4 (0-375-70147-8)
Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself... Read more >
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Decoded
Written by Jay-Z
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8115-5 (0-8129-8115-4)
Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded.
Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one... Read more >
Written by Jay-Z
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8115-5 (0-8129-8115-4)
Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded.
Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one... Read more >
Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Written by Dr. Donald Johanson and Kate Wong
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39640-2 (0-307-39640-1)
“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.” –From Lucy’s Legacy
In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of... Read more >
The Quest for Human Origins
Written by Dr. Donald Johanson and Kate Wong
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39640-2 (0-307-39640-1)
“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.” –From Lucy’s Legacy
In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of... Read more >
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The American Nurse
Written by Carolyn Jones
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-1-59962-121-0 (1-59962-121-5)
In The American Nurse, readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they never have before, unless they have been under a nurse’s care. This body of work will inspire audiences to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community, and whose wealth... Read more >
Written by Carolyn Jones
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
Publisher: Welcome Books
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 978-1-59962-121-0 (1-59962-121-5)
In The American Nurse, readers are invited to think about nurses in a way that they never have before, unless they have been under a nurse’s care. This body of work will inspire audiences to focus their attention on the nurses who serve as healers in their community, and whose wealth... Read more >
The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Written by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6983-5 (1-4000-6983-1)
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and... Read more >
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Written by Robert D. Kaplan
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6983-5 (1-4000-6983-1)
In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
In The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and... Read more >
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The Gospel of Judas, Critical Edition
Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos
Written by Rodolphe Kasser and Gregor Wurst
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0191-2 (1-4262-0191-5)
For the first time in a single volume, discover the complete text of Codex Tchacos--the remarkable ancient papyrus book that contains the Gospel of Judas. Hidden for 1,600 years in an Egyptian cave, only to be found, traded, and all but destroyed before its restoration began in 2001, Codex Tchacos contains... Read more >
Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos
Written by Rodolphe Kasser and Gregor Wurst
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0191-2 (1-4262-0191-5)
For the first time in a single volume, discover the complete text of Codex Tchacos--the remarkable ancient papyrus book that contains the Gospel of Judas. Hidden for 1,600 years in an Egyptian cave, only to be found, traded, and all but destroyed before its restoration began in 2001, Codex Tchacos contains... Read more >
Far Afield
Written by Susanna Kaysen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 19, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75376-6 (0-679-75376-1)
Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone “study,” the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish... Read more >
Written by Susanna Kaysen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 19, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75376-6 (0-679-75376-1)
Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone “study,” the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with the Danish... Read more >
The Art of Innovation
Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
Written by Thomas Kelley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49984-2 (0-385-49984-1)
The award-winning design firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, the Palm V, and other cutting-edge products reveals its secrets for fostering innovation-"out of the box" thinking across the world of business. Kelley outlines the steps IDEO and other successful companies use to achieve successful problem solving such as: closely... Read more >
Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
Written by Thomas Kelley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Crown Business
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49984-2 (0-385-49984-1)
The award-winning design firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, the Palm V, and other cutting-edge products reveals its secrets for fostering innovation-"out of the box" thinking across the world of business. Kelley outlines the steps IDEO and other successful companies use to achieve successful problem solving such as: closely... Read more >
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Race, Crime, and the Law
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 31, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70184-9 (0-375-70184-2)
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Grand Prize
In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals; engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection; analyzes... Read more >
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 31, 1998
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70184-9 (0-375-70184-2)
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Grand Prize
In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals; engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection; analyzes... Read more >
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Strength in What Remains
Written by Tracy Kidder
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6621-6 (1-4000-6621-2)
Selected for Common Reading at the University of Delaware, 2010
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award
To watch the book's trailer, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcAQFNLacfw
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and common reading program classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the... Read more >
Written by Tracy Kidder
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6621-6 (1-4000-6621-2)
Selected for Common Reading at the University of Delaware, 2010
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award
To watch the book's trailer, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcAQFNLacfw
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and common reading program classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the... Read more >
The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Written by Clea Koff
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6885-9 (0-8129-6885-9)
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations... Read more >
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Written by Clea Koff
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6885-9 (0-8129-6885-9)
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations... Read more >
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Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland
Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization Volume 2: Urban and Rural Archaeology
Written by Alan L. Kolata
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: January 17, 2003
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-054-2 (1-58834-054-6)
The book presents, for the first time, a rich body of empirical data on the chronology of the Tiwanaku state; the nature of the social and political relationships between the city and its hinterland; the form and meaning of its monumental and elite architecture; and the texture of everyday life in... Read more >
Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization Volume 2: Urban and Rural Archaeology
Written by Alan L. Kolata
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: January 17, 2003
Price: $110.00
ISBN: 978-1-58834-054-2 (1-58834-054-6)
The book presents, for the first time, a rich body of empirical data on the chronology of the Tiwanaku state; the nature of the social and political relationships between the city and its hinterland; the form and meaning of its monumental and elite architecture; and the texture of everyday life in... Read more >
Collecting Native America, 1870-1960
Written by Shepard Krech, III
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 15, 2010
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-277-5 (1-58834-277-8)
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public... Read more >
Written by Shepard Krech, III
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: February 15, 2010
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-277-5 (1-58834-277-8)
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public... Read more >
When the Mind Hears
A History of the Deaf
Written by Harlan Lane
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72023-2 (0-679-72023-5)
This first comprehensive history of the Deaf is also a powerful and compassionate study of the anatomy of prejudice and the motives and means of oppression. It is a narrative, told largely from the vantage point of Laurent Clerc, the deaf Frenchman who was an intellectual leader of the Deaf community in... Read more >
A History of the Deaf
Written by Harlan Lane
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 18, 1989
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72023-2 (0-679-72023-5)
This first comprehensive history of the Deaf is also a powerful and compassionate study of the anatomy of prejudice and the motives and means of oppression. It is a narrative, told largely from the vantage point of Laurent Clerc, the deaf Frenchman who was an intellectual leader of the Deaf community in... Read more >
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Evolution
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Written by Edward J. Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6849-1 (0-8129-6849-2)
In this lively, deeply erudite work, Pulitzer Prize–winning science historian Edward J. Larson takes us on a guided tour of Darwin’s “dangerous idea,” from its theoretical antecedents in the early nineteenth century to the brilliant breakthroughs of Darwin and Wallace, to Watson and Crick’s stunning discovery of the DNA double helix... Read more >
The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Written by Edward J. Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 8, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6849-1 (0-8129-6849-2)
In this lively, deeply erudite work, Pulitzer Prize–winning science historian Edward J. Larson takes us on a guided tour of Darwin’s “dangerous idea,” from its theoretical antecedents in the early nineteenth century to the brilliant breakthroughs of Darwin and Wallace, to Watson and Crick’s stunning discovery of the DNA double helix... Read more >
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Butterfly People
An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Written by William R. Leach
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42293-5 (0-375-42293-5)
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies... Read more >
An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Written by William R. Leach
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-42293-5 (0-375-42293-5)
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies... Read more >
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Origins Reconsidered
In Search of What Makes Us Human
Written by Richard E. Leakey
Contribution by Roger Lewin
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-46792-6 (0-385-46792-3)
Beginning with his stunning discovery of a 1.5 million-year-old skeleton near Kenya's Lake Turkana, world-renowned anthropologist Richard Leakey explores our fossil record and asks fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of the human species.
PRAISE FOR ORIGINS RECONSIDERED
"Readable, exciting and provocative big sky popular science." --Washington Post Book World
"Crisply written... It is... Read more >
In Search of What Makes Us Human
Written by Richard E. Leakey
Contribution by Roger Lewin
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1993
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-46792-6 (0-385-46792-3)
Beginning with his stunning discovery of a 1.5 million-year-old skeleton near Kenya's Lake Turkana, world-renowned anthropologist Richard Leakey explores our fossil record and asks fundamental questions about the origins and evolution of the human species.
PRAISE FOR ORIGINS RECONSIDERED
"Readable, exciting and provocative big sky popular science." --Washington Post Book World
"Crisply written... It is... Read more >
The Sixth Extinction
Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
Written by Richard E. Leakey
Contribution by Roger Lewin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-46809-1 (0-385-46809-1)
In this tour de force which will inform your students, Leakey and Lewin examine the five mass extinctions that have taken place in history-each of which claimed 65% of Earth's species. The authors draw parallels between these evolutionary crises and mankind's destruction of 30,000 species per year in the present. The... Read more >
Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind
Written by Richard E. Leakey
Contribution by Roger Lewin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-46809-1 (0-385-46809-1)
In this tour de force which will inform your students, Leakey and Lewin examine the five mass extinctions that have taken place in history-each of which claimed 65% of Earth's species. The authors draw parallels between these evolutionary crises and mankind's destruction of 30,000 species per year in the present. The... Read more >
The Worlding Project
Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Christopher Leigh Connery and Rob Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-680-2 (1-55643-680-7)
Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range... Read more >
Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Christopher Leigh Connery and Rob Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-680-2 (1-55643-680-7)
Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range... Read more >
Myth and Meaning
Cracking the Code of Culture
Written by Claude Levi-Strauss
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 14, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1038-5 (0-8052-1038-5)
With a Foreword by Wendy Doniger. In this expanded collection of five lectures originally delivered on the Canadian radio series "Ideas," Lévi-Strauss offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.
"Myth and Meaning touches upon all of Lévi-Strauss's great methodological paradoxes: the... Read more >
Cracking the Code of Culture
Written by Claude Levi-Strauss
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 14, 1995
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1038-5 (0-8052-1038-5)
With a Foreword by Wendy Doniger. In this expanded collection of five lectures originally delivered on the Canadian radio series "Ideas," Lévi-Strauss offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.
"Myth and Meaning touches upon all of Lévi-Strauss's great methodological paradoxes: the... Read more >
A General Theory of Love
Written by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70922-7 (0-375-70922-3)
A primordial area of the brain, far older than reason or thinking, creates both the capacity and the need for emotional intimacy that all humans share. A General Theory of Love describes the workings of this ancient, pivotal urge and reveals that our nervous systems are not self-contained. Instead, our brains... Read more >
Written by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70922-7 (0-375-70922-3)
A primordial area of the brain, far older than reason or thinking, creates both the capacity and the need for emotional intimacy that all humans share. A General Theory of Love describes the workings of this ancient, pivotal urge and reveals that our nervous systems are not self-contained. Instead, our brains... Read more >
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