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Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us about human behaviour WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 How do we understand the people...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019- the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth Humans are a planet-altering force. Our closest living...
The Ruin of Kasch
A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects- "the first is Talleyrand,...
The Book of Tea
First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much more - introduced by Christopher Benfey For a generation adjusting painfully...
The Spike: Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future
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Apocalypse Postponed
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A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future
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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,...
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...
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...
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
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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,...
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...
The Spears of Twilight: Life and death in the Amazon jungle
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The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws...
Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies
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The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
Author: Jurg WassmannFormat: Paperback, 138mm x 216mm, 453g, 458 pagesPublished: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 1998The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism...
Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea
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Author: Douglas NewtonBinding: SoftbackPublished: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings It highlights the artistic richness found within small villages, showcasing works of art...
The Runaway Brain: The evolution of human uniqueness
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Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A World That Is, Was, & Will Be
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The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft Across the Atlantic for 101 Days
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Author: Santiago Genovésbinding: HardbackPublished: Times Books, 1980Condition: book: Good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe Acali Experiment chronicles a daring social experiment conducted in 1973, where a diverse group...
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER
Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America
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Simply Human Beings
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Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings
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...
Aida
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People in the Sun: The Native People of Australia and the Islands of the South West Pacific (SIGNED)
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The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage
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The Triple Package: What Really Determines Success
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A Journey Among the Peoples of Central Borneo
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Donald Thomson In Arnhem Land
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The Savage Mind
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Pygmy Kitabu
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Liar's Circus
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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...
Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture
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The Hunting Hypothesis: A Personal Conclusion Concerning The Evolutionary Nature Of Man
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Who are We
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Who Made the Mabo Mess
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
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Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Author: Hugh Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. It is about a childhood in England in the shadow of the Second...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation...
In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins
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The Experience of Middle Australia: The Dark Side of Economic Reform
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