Anthropology

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...

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 ...

In This Groundbreaking And Timely Book, Antiracist Educator Robin Diangelo Deftly Illuminates The Phenomenon Of White Fragility. Referring To The Defensive ...

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...

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

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...

Mcdougall Reveals The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Distance Runners--the Tarahumara Indians Of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and How He Trained For The Challeng...

Heather C. Mcghee's Specialty Is The American Economy--and The Mystery Of Why It So Often Fails The American Public. As She Dug Into Subject After Subject, ...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most p...

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

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 ...

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...

This Book Is Not Only An Analysis Of Demographic And Political Realities In Europe, But Also An Eyewitness Account Of A Continent In Self-destruct Mode. It ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best...

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

Argues That American Children Are Deprived Of Cultural Literacy. Literacy And Cultural Literacy -- The Discovery Of The Schema -- National Language And Nati...

In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. Th...

america's First Frontier Was Not The West; It Was The Sea—and No One Writes More Eloquently About That Watery Wilderness Than Nathaniel Philbrick. In His ...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously con...

Poland's History From The Thirteenth Century To Modern Times Overshadows A 1981 Dispute Between Janko Buk, The Leader Of A Group Of Militant Farmers, And Sz...

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

The award-winning PostSecret project's most profound and stunning postcards to date For the past three years Frank Warren has invited people of all back...

Jared Diamond.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences AnthropologyCultural

Product Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracis...

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

"Awe-inspiring . . . a masterly synthesis." —The New York Times Book Review "Deeply penetrating, intensely thought-provoking and thoroughly informed . . ....

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...

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...

Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the ...

the Author Of iron John Expands His Mythic Perspective To Examine American Culture At Large, And Finds Us To Be A Nation Of Squabbling Children. walter G...

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...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity, a ...

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...

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...

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

Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his ap...

"We are living in the midst of an American Awakening, without God and without forgiveness. The first two Awakenings brought religious renewal; the third-the...

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...

one Of The Most Famous And Influential Books Of Its (or Any) Time, The Origin Of Species Is, Surprisingly, Little Read. True Enough, Most People Know What...

Tim Russert is Dead. But the room was alive. Big Ticket Washington Funerals can make such great networking opportunities. Power mourners keep stampeding dow...

ORDER OF THE PHOENIX could well be my favorite book of them all, if Azkaban and Deathly Hallows weren't as good as they were. For all the talk about GOBLET ...

Riane Eisler Shows Us How History Has Consistently Promoted The Link Between Sex And Violence—and How We Can Sever This Link And Move To A Politics Of Par...

'A masterpiece ... In its field it is the best book ever' Guardian Winner of the Wolfson Prize for history, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 ch...

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña/Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks a...

Internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz transports us back thousands of years and immerses us in the sights and sounds of day-to-day life in a...