Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to AgricultureAuthor: Peter BellwoodPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 05/14/2024Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.70w x 1.00dISBN: 9780691258812About the AuthorPeter Bellwood is professor emeritus at the Australian National University. His many books include First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective and First Farmers: The Origins...
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The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man's Oldest StoryModernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions...
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The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical SearchThe ideology that underlies the concept of race has a long history. For centuries that ideology has spun supernaturalist and scientistic stories about ostensibly natural differences between different groups. The concept of "race" is in scientific decline, but the intertwined ideology and rhetoric behind...
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective"The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade." --Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital in the Twenty-First Century A bestselling economist's history of inequality and guide to a more just, sustainable world, distilled into an engaging and accessible pocket-sized...
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Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968Since 1839, the Virginia Military Institute has sought to produce graduates of honor and integrity, citizen-soldiers, and leaders. Graduates have had extraordinary success in landing jobs throughout the decades, becoming military officers or gaining acceptance to graduate schools.After wondering for decades why her husband...
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Lives Guided by Honor: How VMI Shaped the Class of 1968Since 1839, the Virginia Military Institute has sought to produce graduates of honor and integrity, citizen-soldiers, and leaders. Graduates have had extraordinary success in landing jobs throughout the decades, becoming military officers or gaining acceptance to graduate schools.After wondering for decades why her husband...
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Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism: A SelectionThe Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon...
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Heart of AsiaAuthor: Nicholas RoerichPublisher: Ancient Wisdom PublicationsPublished: 05/12/2006Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9780975309353This title is not returnable
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Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and BlackFunk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. Hence, this book is both an invitation and provocation for Black youth to give the finger to the hands of time, while inviting readers to...
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Christ, the Destiny of the Human Person: a Journey into Filial Anthropology : a journey into filial anthropology"The mystery of the human person becomes truly clear only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word." Taken from the Constitution Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Council, this phrase is the foundation of Christian anthropology, an area very often neglected in theological...
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Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese Ngo in MyanmarInternational development programs strive not only to alleviate poverty but to transform people, aid workers and recipients alike. Becoming One grapples with this process by exploring the work of OISCA*, a prominent Japanese NGO in central Myanmar. OISCA's postwar origins at the intersection of...
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Toxic: A Tour of the Ecuadorian AmazonOver the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through "Toxic Tours" in which a guide brings participants - students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, or foreign tourists - to visit contaminated sites. These toxic tours combine personal experience and...
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Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice VersaA comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices. Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient...
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The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in IndiaThe Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India's history. Through vivid ethnographic storytelling, Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between two historically...
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The Universal State of America: An Archetypal Calculus of Western CivilisationIn this sequel to his 2021 book, The Devouring Mother: The Collective Unconscious in the Time of Corona, author Simon Sheridan follows the archetypal breadcrumbs in search of the historical basis for the psychological drivers that increasingly dominate our modern world. Drawing on the...
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The Ocean Blue and YouDuring a light rain, a child dozes on a sandy ocean-side beach, snuggling in her mother's arms. But while the sand beneath her is soft and still, there's a whirlwind of activity in the sea next to her. The waves roll back and forth...
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The Lion and the MouseWhen Mouse wakes up Lion he's in big trouble! But one day, Lion might need Mouse's help...Author: Diane MarwoodPublisher: Crabtree ClassicsPublished: 05/31/2012Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.20dISBN: 9780778779056Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 1.1Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 156906...
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The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed OceanIn this "essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas" (Will McCallum, author of How to Give Up Plastic), one of the world's leading voices on the issue tracks the race to exploit and protect our last frontier....
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The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension -- Selected Essays 1944-1968In The Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from Grimm's fairy tales to Native American legends. Originally published in 1969, this first collection of Campbell's essays describes...
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Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native JusticeFrom hip-hop artists in the Marshall Islands to innovative multimedia producers in Vanuatu to racial justice writers in Utah, Pacific Islander youth are using radical expression to transform their communities. Exploring multiple perspectives about Pacific Islander youth cultures in such locations as Aotearoa New...
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