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 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four MealsBest Price: $7.48 The well written, most interesting read on the state of agriculture in the United States is... |  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesBest Price: $14.91 Guns, Germs and Steel is a scientific historical treatment on the rise and fall of civilizations... |  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownBest Price: $5.70 As the title implies, this book offers an alternative perspective of epilepsy, or seizures, as... |  Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyBest Price: $13.82 This is such a great science book that works at so many levels and perspectives; it's amazing... |  My New Baby (New Baby Series)Best Price: $1.26 My DD is 2 1/2 an I am expecting a baby in August. This book is a great conversation starter. ... |
 Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's SoulBest Price: $13.75 Dr. Ken Miller is a churchgoing Christian that also happens to be a trained biologist and one of... |  Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us UniqueBest Price: $14.15 This is a comprehensive and readable account of what we know thus far--about ourselves. Human is... |  The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend BiologyBest Price: $10.08 The book presents an interesting premise that humans will evolve from purely biological to... |  Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable FutureBest Price: $6.40 Many books have come along in the last several years that try to explain why MORE is not making... |  The Power of MythBest Price: $6.00 For anyone interested in life, history, phychology, culture ...the human experience...this is a... |
 "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial IdentityBest Price: $5.49 The work that she put together in the form of this book is chuck full of groundbreaking ideas.... |  American Nerd: The Story of My PeopleBest Price: $10.00 The book is entertaining and informative, but has some glaring omissions. First, as Hilary... |  Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityBest Price: $5.76 I admit I didn't finish the book. I was bored by much of it and read parts here and there. But... |  Why We Buy: The Science Of ShoppingBest Price: $5.97 i read the book because of the title, i'm kind of interested in how we tick, and though i don't... |  The Library at NightBest Price: $17.22 The LIBRARY AT NIGHT is an ideal blend of contemplation and observation, of thought and history.... |
 The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial PacificBest Price: $5.99 Fun read, a little repetitious but he made the point, unfortunately points out that tropical... |  The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)Best Price: $6.85 Hey, my review is going to be broken down in to four sections, the introduction, the information... |  The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is LessBest Price: $4.70 Schwartz has a compelling argument: the more options we have for each choice, the higher our... |  Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your LifespanBest Price: $17.46 This is not the first book on this topic. Dr.Philip Shore, also a medical doctor was a co-author... |  Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New ChinaBest Price: $14.00 I finished this book in two days because I couldn't bear to put it down and it was completely... |
 Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic WomenBest Price: $4.94 While this book is not meant to be an anthropological analysis of Muslim women, it does give... |  Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)Best Price: $11.68 Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver... |  The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern WorldBest Price: $25.20 This book is sort of rare for me, who generally reads items cover to cover. Some chapters of it... |  The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography (9th Edition)Best Price: $51.80 Trusted for its timeliness and readability, this book introduces geography by emphasizing the... |  Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in AmericaBest Price: $19.84 My daughter was very impressed by Albion's Seed when she read it as part of her undergrad... |
 The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary EconomicsBest Price: $14.53 Shermer attempts to synthesize a wide range of findings about how humans often behave in a... |  Drink: A Cultural History of AlcoholBest Price: $16.88 A spirited look at the history of alcohol from the dawn of civilization to the twenty first... |  The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to KnowBest Price: $17.96 I agree that every American should be culturally literate; however, many entries in this book... |  Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First CenturyBest Price: $15.64 This is an excellent book and provides numerous examples about looking at the root causes of... |  The Seven Daughters of EveBest Price: $8.95 I read this book because I had read about National Geographic's Genome Project including the... |
 Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S.)Best Price: $5.45 As so many of the other reviews state, the first part of the book is excellent in explaining how... |  Cultural Anthropology: The Human ChallengeBest Price: $64.18 Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your... |  Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our AncestorsBest Price: $8.29 Wonderful a book of distinction. Relates well with Spenser Wells. The whole National... |  The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850Best Price: $8.11 Interesting with several unique approaches. The problem for me rests with his intricate... |  The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They DoBest Price: $7.56 Nice stories, good observations, simplistic expos?s and bold statements... but dubious... |
 Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic ProjectBest Price: $7.29 Most of the info in this book is a rehash of the history of genetic biology that Wells covered... |  Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human EvolutionBest Price: $11.27 I suppose that McKenna must have been a charismatic individual. He seemed to wander with the... |  Infections and Inequalities: The Modern PlaguesBest Price: $13.95 The context of epidemics is important. What happens to the poor people who have drug resistant... |  The First Word: The Search for the Origins of LanguageBest Price: $4.95 The key word in the title of this book is "search." No one knows much about the... |  The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of ConsciousnessBest Price: $11.06 I really think Carl Johan Calleman is on to something. I believe this book is a must read for... |
 The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and WhyBest Price: $8.39 Overall, I have mixed feelings about this book and came away fairly disappointed. For me, the... |  The Cosmic SerpentBest Price: $8.98 Apparently countless civilizations have recognized the serpent or other double-helix like shapes... |  Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday LifeBest Price: $5.00 This is the rare book that will have you thinking about it months after reading it. The author... |  The SonglinesBest Price: $7.97 The first sentence sounded promising:"In Alice Springs - a grid of scorching streets where... |  Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000Best Price: $4.90 A highly entertaining academic work that attempts to bust out of the classroom. With using the... |
 The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct HumansBest Price: $24.00 I can not beleive that there are people who beleive that they were monkeys. I mean is that some... |  The Origin of SpeciesBest Price: $4.52 I read this book, here in Brazil.The author, Darwin was an atheist and a racist.Writen at the... |  Visible Bones: Journeys Across Time in the Columbia River CountryBest Price: $11.52 People who have read my reviews of other books by Jack Nisbet know that I consider him a very... |  Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom and Joy - The Teachings of Don Miguel RuizBest Price: $5.69 I really enjoyed reading this. It does overlap some of the philosophies stated in his other... |  The Wisdom of the Native AmericansBest Price: $6.72 I rarely review books but this one is an exception. This book should be required reading for all... |
 City of Djinns: A Year in DelhiBest Price: $8.74 The first thing that is incredibly interesting about this book is the way it is approached. To... |  Myths to Live ByBest Price: $8.00 Without a doubt Joe's best book. I have given it as a gift to several friends. Some are ready... |  The Way to Rainy MountainBest Price: $4.42 Mr. Momaday's voice in his collection of stories is priceless. He tells of the Kiowa's legends,... | ||
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