Anthropology

This comprehensive and scientific introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology is the only book to give balanced treatment to both biological an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\The oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them?\“H...

Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling quest...

Unequal Relations offers comprehensive coverage of racism, multiculturalism and diversity. Utilizing a sociological lens as a framework for analysis, it fo...

With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual an...

a Survey Of The Quirks And Quandaries Of The English Language, Focusing On Our Strange And Wonderful Grammar why Do We Say “i Am Reading A Catalog” Instea...

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, culture,...

Some People Seek. Jews Question. And To Answer Their Questions Comes The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, A Bible Of Judaism That, In Its Deeply Knowing And High...

The Ottomans Ruled Much Of The Arab World For Four Centuries. Bruce Masters's Work Surveys This Period, Emphasizing The Cultural And Social Changes That Occ...

Thomas D. Hall And James V. Fenelon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 156-177) And Index.Categories: Law Administrative LawIndigenous Peoples

The Asian Pacific, Second Edition, provides a thought-provoking introduction to both the internal and international politics of the fifteen mainland and is...

Originally published in London by Hamish Hamilton, a division of Penguin. Now that the Cold War is over, the most important issue facing the United States, ...

Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, And Lives: These Are The Seven Things That Have Made Our World And Will Shape Its Future. In Making These Things Ch...

Twenty Years Since The Publication Of The Second Edition And More Than Thirty Years Since The Publication Of The Original Book, Racial Formation In The Unit...

This Eye-opening Uk Bestseller Shows How One Single Factor--the Gap Between Its Richest And Poorest Members--can Determine The Health And Well-being Of A So...

The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls ...

Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of...

Studio 54 was the icon of excess—a place where Andy, Mick, Bianca, and Elton lounged in the VIP section while patrons did drugs in the fabled unisex bath...

Most scholars and practitioners are now agreed that the world is on the threshold of a completely new era in the history of development. This Reader bring...

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and po...

Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Rel...

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society yea...

Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The...

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary conce...

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb Lays Out A Vivid Picture Of Impending Planetary Crisis--a Global Food Shortage That Threatens To Hit By Midcentury--which...

What is the state of Race and Ethnic Studies today? How has the field emerged? What are the core concepts, debates and issues? The SAGE Handbook of Race an...

Druckerman Asserts That There Are Stages To Becoming A Grown-up: First, You Definitely Aren't One. Then You Pretend To Be One. Then You Are Sure That There ...

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen month...

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regr...

Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L....

An Oxford-trained evolutionary anthropologist explores the ever-elusive science of love.\What can the social and life sciences tell us about the most fundam...

Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the law tells me to do? Do I ...

This Book Provides A Comprehensive Overview Of Globalization And Its Consequences. Exploring The Insights Of A Wide Range Of Critical Theorists, It Book Arg...

"A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People...we will use this ...

Global Issues is a pedagogically rich text that offers a unique way of looking at contemporary issues, such as food security and global conflict, from a cr...

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino Comes A Searing Account Of The Wilmington Riot And Coup Of 1898, An Extraordinary Event Unknown To Most AmericansC...

this Book Presents The Concerns, Visions And Struggles Of Women In Chiapas, Mexico In The Context Of The Uprising Of The Zapatista Army Of National Libera...

women And Men Live In Different Worlds...made Of Different Words. spending Nearly Four Years On The new York Times Bestseller List, Including Eight Months...

An Important Alternative To Traditional Social Problems Textbooks, Best's Social Problems Seeks To How And Why Particular Conditions Come To Be Constructed ...

We’ve all heard stories of people who’ve experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? Accordi...

'being Alive Well': Health And The Politics Of Cree Well-being Is A Critical Medical Anthropological Analysis Of Health Theory In The Social Sciences With S...

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The Barnes & Noble Review ...

Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake shows teachers how to confront racism and disrupt discrimination in order to deepen students’ understanding of social just...

Investigating The Causes And Consequences Of Ethnic Conflict, The Authors Argue That The Most Effective Responses Are Those That Take Into Account Factors A...

Human Evolution and Prehistory, second Canadian Edition, offers a straightforward, balanced presentation on views of human evolution, adaptation, and prehis...

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859....

masterfully Crafted, Deeply Thoughtful And Mind-expanding.—los Angeles Times in This Powerful And Provocative Manifesto, Bill Mckibben Offers The Biggest...

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...