Jake Page
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The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks...
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"Traces the evolution of cats from the time they first adapted their feline form about 20 million years ago. Exploring every aspect of a cat's life -- from predation, to play, to communication -- Jake Page shows us what a cat's daily life is really like." --Book jacket
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J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, "The work of lifetimes has been put at risk, reputations have been damaged,...
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Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field of archaeology has changed dramatically in the past two decades, as women have challenged their male colleagues' exclusive focus on hard artifacts such as spear...
9) Arid lands
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[1984]
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Contains photographs, text, and five essays on desert land environments.
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[2017]
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Westmore has been creating characters and disguises for movies and television since the 1960s, but his family has been shaping the visages of stardom since 1917, and the family has been honored by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In this memoir, Westmore shares anecdotes about his years behind the scenes, most notably in creating hundreds of alien characters for over 600 episodes of Star trek in all its iterations.