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"Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our own health and the planet's, many still can't be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments, scientific data, and information aren't working? Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back--imagining...
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First published in 1895, "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" is a pivotal work in the field of group psychology written by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon theorizes that there are several characteristics of crowds as distinguishable from individual behavior. As it states in the preface: "The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows...
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"Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--NoveList.
"Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. Now the maestro storyteller turns his attention to the mystery behind the creation of his own most important...
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"As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson's] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compelling antidote to those who regard the future with pessimism."— Henry A. Kissinger
Paul Johnson's prize-winning classic, A History of the American People, is an in-depth portrait of the American people covering
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Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy. And once you got a job, you would stay often for decades. Now ...well, it's complicated. If you want to have a shot at a good job, you need to have a robust profile...
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"Eating one's own kind is completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons relating to famine, burial rites, and medicinal remedies. Cannibalism has been used as a form of terrorism but also as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us...
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"Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political stability. We are searching for deeper connection. We are longing to belong. On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers belonging across four core dimensions: in our relationships...
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As a young anthropologist, Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can't study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely. Here he...
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In these articles, written between 1913 and 1915 for the left-leaning Daily Herald, Chesterton allows himself the freedom to rage eloquently against capitalism without favoring socialism or Marxism. He applies his Christian principles and thinking to the socioeconomic conditions of his time. The first section presents an analysis of capitalism, the second contains articles challenging capitalism's fundamental tenets. Chesterton reveals that the real...
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No tenemos que regresar a la Luna, porque siempre hemos estado allí.
En pocos territorios como en la Luna se producen tantas batallas encarnizadas entre realidad y fantasía. Lunáticos, brujas y hombres lobo conviven en nuestro imaginario con las rocas lunares, los calendarios, las mareas y las proezas tecnológicas que lograron llevar a una docena de privilegiados a ver sus huellas eternizarse sobre el polvo de su superficie. Nuestro satélite...
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"Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology" "Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology" "Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers" "One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics" "One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science" "One of...
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Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution. Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish,...
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Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises. Genese Marie Sodikoff examines...
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Vermeij focuses on the importance of adaptation, how organisms interact with their environment, and examines the ways that both are altered. He supports his arguments with examples from ecosystems around the globe, and also redefines the longstanding question of nature vs. nurture so as to make it more accessible to future investigation.
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"We are out of touch. Many people fear that we are trapped inside our screens, becoming less in tune with our bodies and losing our connection to the physical world. But the sense of touch has been undervalued since long before the days of digital isolation. Because of deeply rooted beliefs that favor the cerebral over the corporeal, touch is maligned as dirty or sentimental, in contrast with supposedly more elevated modes of perceiving the world....
19) Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic
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Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have intensified the sovereignty...
20) The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
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An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored Subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the Subject from a variety of perspectivesإvolutionary, ecological, and culturalشhis examination shows how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food Production and distribution, and global...
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