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Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments
Now in B Format.A brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays from the award-winning author of the bestseller INFINITE JESTDo lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense...
The Jadu House: Intimate Histories of Anglo-India
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Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FARCHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICE'Essential reading as a...
Symbolism and Interpretation
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Author: Tzvetan TodorovBinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the relationship between symbolism and interpretation, providing insights into how symbols...
Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man
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Author: John ReaderBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the fascinating history of human evolution, examining the search for our earliest ancestors. John...
Everyday Life in Ottoman Turkey
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Author: Raphaela LewisBinding: HardbackPublished: Dorset, 1971Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed exploration of the daily lives of people in Ottoman Turkey, highlighting cultural...
Faces Of Culture: Viewer's Guide
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Author: Mari WomackBinding: SoftbackPublished: The Koce-Tv Foundation, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis viewer's guide serves as an insightful companion to the 'Faces of Culture' series, providing...
The Biology and Evolution of Language
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Author: Philip LiebermanBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the biological and evolutionary aspects of language, offering insights into how language...
Frontiers of Anthropology
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Author: Ashley MontaguBinding: SoftbackPublished: Capricorn Books, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsFrontiers of Anthropology is a seminal work that explores the diverse aspects of human cultures and...
Is Peace Inevitable?: Aggression, Evolution, and Human Destiny
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Author: Santiago GenovesBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen and Unwin, 1972, First U.K. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the interplay between human aggression and the potential for...
Iwenhe Tyerrtye: What It Means to Be an Aboriginal Person
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Author: Margaret Kemarre Turner; Barry McDonald PerrurleBinding: SoftbackPublished: IAD Press, 2010Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the significance of Aboriginal identity and culture through...
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations,...
A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future
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The Flight of the Kingfisher
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Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, lunches with work...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief.Picked from every...
By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam
A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical,...
Social Torture: The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006
As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts....
Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of
Pristine shamanism in Greenland is examined and the ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude...
Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora
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War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from
War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the...
Show of Justice: Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
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Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos
In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the...
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world From renowned historian and #1...
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC
Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the...
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK...
The Language of the Genes
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Why We Travel
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping...
Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West
The history of tattooing is shrouded in controversy. Citing the Polynesian derivation of the word "tattoo," many scholars and tattoo enthusiasts have believed that the modern practice of tattooing originated...
Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the USA as a widely appealing cultural, artistic and social form. In this text, Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors...
Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization. Vol. II. With Illustrations.
$15.00 AUD
Author: Tylor Edward B.Binding: HardbackPublished: Watts & Co, 1930Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis second volume of Tylor's comprehensive exploration of anthropology offers insights into...
Plumes and Arrows: Inside New Guinea
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Author: Colin SimpsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1962Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a vivid exploration of New Guinea, providing readers with insights into the...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan
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Author: Frederick EngelsBinding: SoftbackPublished: Current Book Distributors, 1942, First Australian EditionCondition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the origins of family structures, property ownership, and the...
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesn't just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When...
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live-and How Their Wealth Harms Us
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.Have you...
The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion
$40.00 AUD
Author: Weston La BarreBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen and Unwin, 1972, First G.B. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book is a classic search for the origins of religion,...
Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Author: Jared M DiamondBinding: SoftbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Why is Sex Fun?', Jared Diamond explores the evolutionary forces that shaped...
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Author: Carl SaganBinding: SoftbackPublished: Ballantine Books, 1978Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsIn this book, Carl Sagan explores the evolution of human intelligence, tracing the history of the...
The Last Cannibals
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Author: Jens Bjerre; Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow and Company, 1957, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Last Cannibals by Jens...
Human Origins
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Author: Richard E. LeakeyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsHuman Origins is a groundbreaking work by Richard E. Leakey that explores the evolution...
Prehistoric Man in the New World
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Author: Jesse D. Jennings / Edward NorbeckBinding: SoftbackPublished: The University of Chicago Press, 1974, Sixth Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the origins and...
NAGA: Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific
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Author: Sumet Jumsai; R. Buckminster FullerBinding: SoftbackPublished: Chalermnit Press and DD Books, 1997, Third PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the cultural significance...
'So Much That Is New' Baldwin Spencer 1860-1929 A Biography
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Author: D.J. Mulvaney, J.H. CalabyBinding: HardbackPublished: The University of Melbourne Press, 1985, FIRST EDITION!Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography explores the life and contributions of Baldwin...
The Spears of Twilight: Life and death in the Amazon jungle
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Links Between Sri Lanka & Australia A Book About the Sri Lankans (Ceylonese) in Australia
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Author: W. S. WeerasooriaBinding: HardbackPublished: Self-published, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book explores the historical, cultural, and social links between Sri Lanka and Australia....