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Anthropology

1. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis

   Glenn C. Conroy, Herman Pontzer

   Third Edition

   The definitive textbook for paleoanthropology courses.More

2. How Humans Evolved

   Robert Boyd, Joan B. Silk

   Sixth Edition

   The science of human evolution, not just the sites.More

3. Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology

   Clark Spencer Larsen

   Second Edition

   Accessible and authoritative: the #1 text in physical anthropology.More

4. Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

   Liza Bakewell

   Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?More

5. Essentials of Physical Anthropology: Discovering Our Origins

   Clark Spencer Larsen

   The #1 text in physical anthropology, now in a brief edition.More

6. How the Mind Works

   Steven Pinker

   "A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." -New York Review of BooksMore

7. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

   Richard Dawkins

   "The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years."--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction.More

8. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis

   Glenn C. Conroy

   Second Edition

   This dynamic introduction to paleoanthropology presents the fossil evidence for human evolution and demonstrates how anthropologists interpret this evidence in light of the most current research.
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9. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

   Mary Roach

   "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."-Entertainment WeeklyMore

10. The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging

    Bruce A. Carnes, S. Jay Olshansky

    "This is by far the best book I've read on the science of aging."-Andrew Weil, M.D.More

11. The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth

    Stephen Jay Gould

    Second Edition

    A new edition of the beautifully illustrated depiction of the dramatic story of survival and extinction.More

12. Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurology

    Harold Klawans

    A master neurologist's clinical tales-both funny and profound-of the evolution of the brain.More

13. Darwin

    Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

    Third Edition

    "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.More

14. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

    Marcel Mauss, W. D. Halls

    Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.More

15. Rosalind Franklin and DNA

    Anne Sayre

    Rosalind Franklin's research was central to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. She never received the credit she was due during her lifetime.
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