11 books in Social Science - Anthropology
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The Corpse Walker
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner... Read more >
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner... Read more >
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $26.95
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $26.95
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.00
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977–with his wife and three young children–intending to convert them. What he... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Don D. Nibbelink's Fearsome Folklore of Farting
Written by Don D. Nibbelink
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $12.95
The whoopee cushion has stood the test of time, as have the jokes, quotations, riddles, and mishaps of characters and public figures who find themselves literally elevated, or propelled, by the power of the human emissions system. Seekers of lowbrow laughs continually turn to the rear to release the pressures of... Read more >
Written by Don D. Nibbelink
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $12.95
The whoopee cushion has stood the test of time, as have the jokes, quotations, riddles, and mishaps of characters and public figures who find themselves literally elevated, or propelled, by the power of the human emissions system. Seekers of lowbrow laughs continually turn to the rear to release the pressures of... Read more >
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The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosni a, Croatia, and Kosovo
Written by Clea Koff
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 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 analyzing prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of Berkeley, California, was one of sixteen scientists chosen by the UN... Read more >
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosni a, Croatia, and Kosovo
Written by Clea Koff
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In the spring of 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 analyzing prehistoric skeletons in the safe confines of Berkeley, California, was one of sixteen scientists chosen by the UN... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Deep Ancestry
The Landmark DNA Quest to Decipher Our Distant Past
Written by Spencer Wells
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $9.95
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all.
In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using... Read more >
The Landmark DNA Quest to Decipher Our Distant Past
Written by Spencer Wells
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $9.95
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all.
In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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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
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
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
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Intertwined Lives
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Written by Lois W. Banner
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline... Read more >
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Written by Lois W. Banner
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline... Read more >
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Comanches
The History of a People
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $17.95
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback... Read more >
The History of a People
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $17.95
Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion.
Master horseback... Read more >
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Kids
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
Written by Meredith Small
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and... Read more >
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
Written by Meredith Small
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $14.95
To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and... Read more >
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Full Circles, Overlapping Lives
Culture and Generation in Transition
Written by Mary Cather Bateson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $12.95
In Full Circles, Overlapping Lives, cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson gives us a new way of looking at ourselves, our families, our communities-indeed at the very concept of identity in a changing world. Writing with the clarity and gentleness that touched the many readers of her bestselling book Composing a Life... Read more >
Culture and Generation in Transition
Written by Mary Cather Bateson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2001
Price: $12.95
In Full Circles, Overlapping Lives, cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson gives us a new way of looking at ourselves, our families, our communities-indeed at the very concept of identity in a changing world. Writing with the clarity and gentleness that touched the many readers of her bestselling book Composing a Life... Read more >
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