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a New York Times Bestseller That Has Changed The Way Readers View The Ecology Of Eating, This Revolutionary Book By Award Winner Michael Pollan Asks The Se...

Harry Leslie Smith.Categories: History Historical Study & Educational ResourcesEssays

"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." — The New York Times "[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. I...

Product Description Find yourself in the fascinating Using engaging stories and a diverse cast of characters, Lisa Wade memorably delivers what C. Wrig...

Unlike textbooks that emphasize the memorization of facts, Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology: A Concise Introduction, Third Edition, teaches stud...

A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performan...

Resonating With Our Most Profound Life Experiences, This Book Explains Why We Trust Other People And Form Lifelong Bonds, And Why We Ignore These Connection...

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively re...

CULTURE is the latest addition to the M-series. This thoroughly updated 2nd edition magazine style text for the Introduction to Cultural Anthropology cours...

Like An Urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin Decodes The Primate Social Behaviors Of Upper East Side Mothers In A Memoir About Her Adventures Assimilating In...

Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society. Categories:...

This introductory text in general anthropology truly integrates the subfields of anthropology. Unlike other "four-field" texts, it is not divided by subfiel...

An Incisive Follow-up To The New York Times Bestseller White Fragility Asserting That It Is White Progressives Who Are Responsible For Inflicting The Most D...

Step aside Hygge. Lagom is the new Scandi lifestyle trend taking the world by storm. This delightfully illustrated book gives you the lowdown on this transf...

1. Evolution, Classification, And Nomenclature -- 2. The Geologic Time Frame -- 3. Primate Evolution: Late Cretaceous To Late Miocene -- 4. The Australopith...

An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians ...

Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and ...

Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in c...

Development : Theory And Reality -- Instituting The Development Project -- The Development Project : International Framework -- Globalizing Developments -- ...

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, the people of Guatemala were subjected to a state-sponsored campaign of political violence and repression designe...

Explores A Range Of Modern Cultural Phenomenon, Including Internet Pornography, Tribute Bands, Baseball Rivalries, And Reality Television.Categories: Litera...

In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella ...

Discusses the origin of the week, the observance of the Sabbath, and the development of the weekend, describes weekend behavior, and examines the modern pre...

This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance. It is the foremost resource and reference on shamanism. Now, with a new introduction a...

Brought up on stories and myths of the Kalahari Bushmen, Rupert Isaacson journeys to the dry vast grassland — which stretches across South Africa, Botswan...

Widely praised as "impressive" (The Washington Post Book World), "ambitious" (The Wall Street Journal), and "alluring" (Los Angeles Times), Dancing in the ...

Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research...

Brilliant range is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch socer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose l...

This Book Takes The Reader Around The Globe And Through The Centuries To Discover How Different Cultures Have Sought To Combat And Treat Physical Pain. With...

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fres...

By Chief Tuiavii And Erich Scheurmann ; Adapted And Translated Into English By Peter C. Cavelti. Translation Of: Der Papalagi : Die Reden Des Süedseehäeup...

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, ...

The shocking treatise that was a bestselling international media sensation upon its 2007 publication in France now makes its eagerly anticipated English-lan...

Overview: Most Of Us Take For Granted The Features Of Our Modern Society, From Air Travel And Telecommunications To Literacy And Obesity. Yet For Nearly All...

This is the book that accompanied the television series Millennium, also by Maybury-Lewis. He argues that tribal peoples have not tried (& failed) to be...

Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword b...

Deep In The Mountainous Jungle Of Malaysia The Aboriginal Sng'oi Exist On The Edge Of Extinction, Though Their Way Of Living May Ultimately Be The Kind Of E...

Addressing Important And Timely Topics, Including Global Climate Change And The #metoo Movement, Through The Lens Of Cultural Anthropology Is A Fresh And Co...

In Watching The English anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks and habits of the English people. From the most famous national traits ...

On December 25, 1991, at 7:35 p.m., soldiers lowered the red Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin and raised the Russian tri-color in its place. The moment ...

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all s...

An Extraordinary Book That Explores How The Earth Itself Has Shaped The Western Imagination And How, As A Result, Our Interaction With The Environment Is Fa...

A grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and chil...

A comprehensive ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents the gender concept...

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

By Bronislaw Malinowski ; Preface By Sir James G. Fraser. Originally Published: London : Routledge ; New York : Dutton, 1922. Includes Index.Categories: Pol...

Includes Transcripts Of Interviews With: Philip Ball, Janine Benyus, Stewart Brand, Stephen Browne, Carol Burns, James Der Derian, Bill Drayton, Gwynne Dyer...