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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire ...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethno...
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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by poli...
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Red: A History of the Redhead
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the ...
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Neuroplasticity
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without “brain training. ” Fifty years ago, neuros...
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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 our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our ...
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists hav...
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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-...
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank ...
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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, fee...
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How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A remarkable combination of biology, genetics, zoology, evolutionary psychology and philosophy.” —Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...
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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of mothe...
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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /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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Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of ...
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Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological...
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Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner“It’s stimulating fun when the assumptions and interpretations of scientific findings must ...
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing to...
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The Hair Book
HardcoverOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /An easy reader about hair—and all the things you can do with it!This super-simple, rhymed riff features a charming cast of human and animal chara...
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The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Best Book of 2020 NPRA Best Book of 2020 The EconomistA Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Smithsonian A Best Science & Technology Book of 2...
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The Origin of Species
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold...
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “A...
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Origin Africa: A Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A richly illustrated journey through the evolution of Africa's extraordinary natural world across deep time Origin Africa is a unique introduction ...
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made ast...
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First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science books of 2021 by Science Ne...
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