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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring bo...
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scien...
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Sapiens/Homo Deus box set
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Discover humanity’s past and its future in this in this special box set featuring the bestselling Sapiens—a reading pick of President Barack Obam...
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language The first popular book to recount the exciting, very r...
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The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Rutherford describes [The Book of Humans] as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one ...
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity."--The Ne...
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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This "ambitious [and] delightful" (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant ...
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The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era Over the course of five mil...
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In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilizations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What...
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City's world-famous necropolises, exploring bot...
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /National Book Critics Circle Award--2017 Nonfiction Finalist "Nothing less than a tour de force--a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit...
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Even as a young girl, Jane Goodall was fascinated with animals. As she grew older, she would have the opportunity to begin her research on chimpanz...
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Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a...
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Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel ...
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People, Parks, and Power: The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the" parks versus peop...
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Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience: Case Studies from the African Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm...
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWha...
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Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden Within Our Bodies
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From acclaimed science writer, presenter, and illustrator Alice Roberts, a visual and linguistic adventure through the strange, astonishing world...
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.Playing on the phrase “a theory of everythin...
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to our hist...
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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from ...
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Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. There has been a recent explosion in...
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm...
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