by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by Robert D Putnam
Publisher Comments In a groundbreaking bestseller based on vast new data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures--and tells how we may reconnect.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
North Africa and the Middle East by Dean King
Synopsis - A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new... (read more) Your Price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Christine Kenneally Publisher Comments An accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language The first popular book to recount the exciting, very recent developments in tracing the origins of language, The First Word is at the forefront of a controversial... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Dennis Tedlock Publisher Comments Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your Price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Hugh Brody Publisher Comments First UK edition of this anthropology work, which looks at the lives of the Beaver Indians of North-West British Columbia.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Edward F. Malkowski Publisher Comments Building on Rene A. Schwaller de Lubicz's systematic study of Luxor's Temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu during the 1940s and '50s, Edward Malkowski shows that the ancient Egyptians' worldview was not based on superstition or the invention of myth but was the... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Spencer Wells Publisher Comments Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Pinchbeck Publisher Comments A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments Rarely have anthropologists regarded fieldwork as a serious object of study, although it is tacitly accepted as their major activity. How valid is the process? To what extent are the cultural data an artifact of the interaction between anthropologist and... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by James C Scott Publisher Comments Everyday forms of peasant resistance.... (read more) Your Price $23.50 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Herbert Thomas Publisher Comments The most basic question of existence--where did Homo sapiens come from?--remains one of the most intriguing. With an emphasis on fascinating new research, this enlightening, authoritative, and easy-to-read book describes more than 2,000 years of thinking... (read more) Your Price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Bruce Knauft Publisher Comments What is it like for a native people of the rainforest to confront features of a modern world? In 1980-82, the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea held elaborate ritual dances and spirit seances, practiced alternative sexual customs, and endured a very high rate... (read more) List Price $42.75 Your Price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Gretchen E Schafft Publisher Comments Astounding new information about the role of anthropologists in Hitler's efforts to create a "master race"... (read more) Your Price $12.95 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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