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Anthropology Explored, Second Edition
The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes
Edited by Ruth Selig, Marilyn R. London and P. Ann Kaupp
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $21.95
This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian’s highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes. Some of the world's leading anthropologists explore fundamental questions humans ask about themselves as individuals, as societies, and as a species. The articles reveal the richness and breadth of anthropology... Read more >
The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes
Edited by Ruth Selig, Marilyn R. London and P. Ann Kaupp
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $21.95
This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian’s highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes. Some of the world's leading anthropologists explore fundamental questions humans ask about themselves as individuals, as societies, and as a species. The articles reveal the richness and breadth of anthropology... Read more >
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Primitive Passions
Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy
Written by Marianna Torgovnick
Format: eBook, 268 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $15.99
Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body in a variety of contemporary practices, from genital... Read more >
Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy
Written by Marianna Torgovnick
Format: eBook, 268 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $15.99
Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body in a variety of contemporary practices, from genital... Read more >
Landscapes of Fear
Written by Yi-Fu Tuan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $19.99
To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Here is one geographer’s striking exploration of our landscapes of fear as they change throughout our lives and have changed throughout history. Yi-fu Tuan investigates landscapes of the natural environment which are threatening, and landscapes... Read more >
Written by Yi-Fu Tuan
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $19.99
To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Here is one geographer’s striking exploration of our landscapes of fear as they change throughout our lives and have changed throughout history. Yi-fu Tuan investigates landscapes of the natural environment which are threatening, and landscapes... Read more >
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The Island of the Colorblind
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace.
Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll... Read more >
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace.
Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll... Read more >
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The Warrior Herdsmen
Written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Format: eBook, 254 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $9.99
The Dodoth—a tall, handsome people of the northern tip of Uganda—are a tribe in transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read and write and have brushed against the modern world... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Format: eBook, 254 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $9.99
The Dodoth—a tall, handsome people of the northern tip of Uganda—are a tribe in transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read and write and have brushed against the modern world... Read more >
Gossip
Written by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Format: eBook, 287 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $18.99
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Written by Patricia Meyer Spacks
Format: eBook, 287 pages
On Sale: May 30, 2012
Price: $18.99
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Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $15.95
A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today.
For the first time in history, there are now more people in the world living...
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Kids
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
Written by Meredith Small
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $14.99
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: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $14.99
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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Our Babies, Ourselves
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
Written by Meredith Small
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $15.99
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice that has been passed down through... Read more >
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
Written by Meredith Small
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $15.99
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice that has been passed down through... Read more >
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Cannibals and Kings
Origins of Cultures
Written by Marvin Harris
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $13.99
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted... Read more >
Origins of Cultures
Written by Marvin Harris
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $13.99
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Written by Doug Saunders
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99
Look around: the largest migration in human history is under way. For the first time ever, more people are living in cities than in rural areas. Between 2007 and 2050, the world’s cities will have absorbed 3.1 billion people. Urbanization is the mass movement that will change our world during the...
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Intertwined Lives
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Written by Lois W. Banner
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $13.99
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: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2010
Price: $13.99
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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The Harmless People
Written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
A study of primitive people which, for beauty of...style and concept, would be hard to match." -- The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of... Read more >
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Comanches
The History of a People
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $14.99
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: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2010
Price: $14.99
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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The Last Speakers
The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
Written by K. David Harrison
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $27.00
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger... Read more >
The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
Written by K. David Harrison
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $27.00
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger... Read more >
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The Last Speakers
The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
Written by K. David Harrison
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $27.00
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger... Read more >
The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages
Written by K. David Harrison
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $27.00
Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger... Read more >
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Death and Rebirth of Seneca
Written by Anthony Wallace
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800. Read more >
Written by Anthony Wallace
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $11.99
This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800. Read more >
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Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity
Edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Olga F. Linares
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations.
After introducing theoretical... Read more >
Edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre and Olga F. Linares
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $29.95
Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations.
After introducing theoretical... Read more >
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Meeting the Family
One Man's Journey Through His Human Ancestry
Written by Donovan Webster
Foreword by Spencer Wells
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.00
Donovan Webster brings his vivid journalistic gifts to a new subject, tracing our deep genealogy using cutting-edge DNA research to map our eons-old journey from prehistoric Africa into the modern world. With the same genetic haplotype as many white American males, Webster makes an ideal subject—he is a genuine Everyman. While... Read more >
One Man's Journey Through His Human Ancestry
Written by Donovan Webster
Foreword by Spencer Wells
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.00
Donovan Webster brings his vivid journalistic gifts to a new subject, tracing our deep genealogy using cutting-edge DNA research to map our eons-old journey from prehistoric Africa into the modern world. With the same genetic haplotype as many white American males, Webster makes an ideal subject—he is a genuine Everyman. While... Read more >
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Race and Reality
Written by Guy P. Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
The concept of race has had a powerful impact on history and continues to shape the world today in profound ways. Most people derive their attitudes about race from their family, culture, and education. Very few, however, are aware that there are vast differences between the popular notions of race and... Read more >
Written by Guy P. Harrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: December 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
The concept of race has had a powerful impact on history and continues to shape the world today in profound ways. Most people derive their attitudes about race from their family, culture, and education. Very few, however, are aware that there are vast differences between the popular notions of race and... Read more >
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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: $16.95
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: $16.95
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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Worlds at War
The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas. It begins with ancient Greece and its epic fight against the Persian Empire, then sweeps to Rome... Read more >
The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $18.00
Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas. It begins with ancient Greece and its epic fight against the Persian Empire, then sweeps to Rome... 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: $13.99
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. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became... Read more >
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Written by Daniel L. Everett
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $13.99
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. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became... Read more >
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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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. . . And His Lovely Wife
A Campaign Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
Written by Connie Schultz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $16.00
Writing with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to Sherrod’s decision to run for the Senate (he would... Read more >
A Campaign Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
Written by Connie Schultz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $16.00
Writing with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to Sherrod’s decision to run for the Senate (he would... Read more >
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