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From naked ape to superspecies
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David T. Suzuki,Holly Dressel |
From Naked Ape to Super Species takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. Suzuki and Dressel reveal that a clear and present environmental danger is staring u… |
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Cosmos, Earth, and man
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Preston Cloud |
The story of the do-development of Earth's ir, water, crustal rocks, climate, and life in cosmic prespective as a vantage point from which to view the present and future prospects of mankind. Earth h… |
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The Visual dictionary of the human body
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DK Publishing |
Text and "exploded view" photographs reveal the human body and how it works. |
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Talking drums
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Véronique Tadjo |
A collection of traditional and twentieth-century poems from sub-Saharan Africa, written in or translated into English, that expresses the spirit and history of this region. |
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The animal connection
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Pat Shipman |
Why do humans all over the world take in and nurture other animals? This behavior might seem maladaptive--after all, every mouthful given to another species is one that you cannot eat--but in this he… |
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Beyond culture
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Edward Twitchell Hall,Edward T. Hall |
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The paradox of culture -- Man as extension -- Consistency and life -- Hidden culture -- Rhythm and body movement -- Context and meaning -- Contexts, high and low -- Why context? --… |
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The social conqeust of earth
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Edward Osborne Wilson |
Based on a lifetime of pioneering research, preeminent naturalist Edward O. Wilson gives us a new history of human evolution, presented in an elegant and provocative narrative that promises to have r… |
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The abdication of philosophy, the abdication of man
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G. A. Rauche |
"A critical study of the interdependence of philosophy as critical theory and man as a free individual."--T.p. |
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Global harms ecological crime and speciesism
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Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund |
The fields of environmental crime and speciesism are of increasing interest to social scientists. This increase reflects the great concern many people-academics as well as non-academics-now feel for … |
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Shaping humanity
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John Gurche |
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordina… |
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Evolution isn't what it used to be
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Walter Truett Anderson |
"What if everything changed and nobody noticed?" Walter Truett Anderson muses in this energetic, intelligent, and strikingly original book, examining the convergence of the biosciences with electroni… |
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Morning Girl
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Michael Dorris |
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she w… |
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Human
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Gazzaniga, Michael S. |
One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social co… |
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The World Without Us
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Alan Weisman |
The World Without Us, an intriguing peek inside the impact homo sapiens have on the world around us and what will be left when we cease to exist. Alan Weisman intelligently intertwines the affect we … |
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The society of mind
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Marvin Minsky |
An authority on artificial intelligence introduces a theory that explores the workings of the human mind and the mysteries of thought. |
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Why us?
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James Le Fanu |
Describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of the brain-- questions that su… |
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Listening to whales
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Alexandra Morton |
"For the past twenty-five years, Alexandra Morton has been at the forefront of whale and dolphin research, dedicating her life to the study of orcas (also known as killer whales). Now in Listening to… |
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White Fang
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Jack London |
The story of a wolf/dog cross, who is raised by Indians, and becomes a deadly fighter. |
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Ghosts of Tsavo
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Philip Caputo |
"Tsavo means "place of slaughter." The lions that prowl its plains are known for their abnormally large size, their maneless males, and their historic taste for human prey.".
"Just over a century ag… |
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What is truth?
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John M. Rist |
This book studies the nature, growth and prospects of Roman Catholic culture, viewed as capable of appropriating all that is noble both from internal and external sources. John Rist tests his argumen… |
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