On Saudi Arabia
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $16.95
With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom. Through anecdotes, observation, analysis, and extensive interviews, she navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped...
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Moonlight At Midday
Written by Sally Carrighar
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $15.99
This is the real Alaska, the Alaska few outsiders know. It is the human scene, described in intimate and authentic detail. No one except a gift naturalist could have written this book, for Sally Carrighar has eyes that see, trained eyes that see what others pass by.
Icebound Summer was...
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Running with the Kenyans
Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
Written by Adharanand Finn
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
“Completely satisfying, as well-paced and exhilarating as a good run.”—The Boston Globe Whether running is your recreation or your religion, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate and inspire you, as he ventures to uncover the secrets of the fastest people on earth. Finn’s mesmerizing...
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Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $17.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)
Soon...
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Religion
An Anthropological View
Written by Anthony Wallace
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2013
Price: $11.99
An anthropological view of religion by Anthony F. C. Wallace, including sections on general theories on religion, religion as therapy, and religion as a form of expression.
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The Journey of Man
A Genetic Odyssey
Written by Spencer Wells
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2012
Price: $11.99
Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans...
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On Saudi Arabia
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $28.95
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal—an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.
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On Saudi Arabia
Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $14.99
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal—an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.
...
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Interracial Intimacies
Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2012
Price: $13.99
In
Interracial Intimacies, Randall Kennedy hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. Writing with the same piercing intelligence he brought to his national bestseller
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Kennedy here challenges us to examine how...
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The Unconquered
In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Written by Scott Wallace
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET’S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES.
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the...
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Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $27.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)Christmas, 1859. Just...
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Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $12.99
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London) Soon...
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Darwin's Ghosts
The Secret History of Evolution
Written by Rebecca Stott
Read by Jean Gilpin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $20.00
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)Christmas, 1859. Just...
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The Language of Life
How Communication Drives Human Evolution
Written by James Lull
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $11.99
Communication in its most basic form—the sending of signals and exchange of messages within and between organisms—is the heart of evolution. From the earliest life-forms to Homo sapiens, the great chain of communication drives the evolutionary process and is the indispensable component of human culture. That is the central message of...
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The Language of Life
How Communication Drives Human Evolution
Written by James Lull
Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $19.00
Communication in its most basic form—the sending of signals and exchange of messages within and between organisms—is the heart of evolution. From the earliest life-forms to Homo sapiens, the great chain of communication drives the evolutionary process and is the indispensable component of human culture. That is the central message of...
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The Hold Life Has
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Written by Catherine J. Allen
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses...
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50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
Written by Guy P. Harrison
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $11.99
Stressing the excitement of scientific discovery and the legitimate mysteries and wonder inherent in reality, this book invites readers to share the joys of rational thinking and the skeptical approach to evaluating our extraordinary world. Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular...
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