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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$20.00
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . ....
Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankind: The Beginnings of Humankind
$15.00
Author: Donald C. Johanson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 409 "A glorious success...The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip" (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the...
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Author: Lewis Hyde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 We live in a culture that prizes memory - how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we...
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
$15.00
Author: Don Kulick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
The Handshake: A Gripping History
Author: Ella Al-Shamahi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Strangers do it, friends do it, politicians do it and so do chimpanzees: in fact, the handshake is so deeply embedded...
Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
England: A Class of Its Own: An Outsider's View
Author: Professor Detlev Piltz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective. For years German lawyer and...
People Like Us
Author: Sasha Gusov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 What is it that makes us human? There are more than seven billion of us on the planet and we come...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical...