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Nevada

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining.

Bones Are Forever

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Mark Twain

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Texas

Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land

The Innocents Abroad, or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

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Brian M. Fagan

Tennessee

The Journey from Eden - The Peopling of Our World

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Connecticut

Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception.

Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy.

During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist. He is captured and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended-by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence and boundless enthusiasm for the world's strangeness, and especially by geneticist Mary Vaughan, a lonely woman with whom he develops a special rapport.

Meanwhile, Ponter's partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around, and an explosive murder trial that he can't possibly win because he has no idea what actually happened. Talk about a scientific challenge!

Contact between humans and Neanderthals creates a relationship fraught with conflict, philosophical challenge, and threat to the existence of one species or the other-or both-but equally rich in boundless possibilities for cooperation and growth on many levels, from the practical to the esthetic to the scientific to the spiritual. In short, Robert J. Sawyner has done it again.
 
Hominids is the winner of the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel.


Hominids

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Pamela Redmond Satran

Great gift for someone celebrating an “over the hill” birthday …. You knoW, like 30 lol

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Maryland

185 Ways to Pass for Phat, Sick, Dope, Awesome, or at Least Not Totally Lame

How to be cool when you're afraid you've forgotten how . . .

Sure, you can try to stay younger by exercising, coloring your hair, and wearing stylish clothes--but how do you respond when someone asks, "Do you Twitter?" How Not to Act Old gives you simple ways to come back from over the hill and to act as young as you look.

Covering everything from old-people entertainment (cancel that dinner party!) to old-people communication (it's called a "voice mail," not a "message," and no one leaves or listens to them anyway), Pamela Redmond Satran decodes the behaviors, viewpoints, and cultural touchstones that separate you from the hip young person you wish you still were. This irreverent guide is essential for anyone who doesn't want to embarrass their kids--or themselves.

How Not to Act Old

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#paperback #biology #human #anthropology#sixthedition

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Science

An Introduction to Biological Anthropology with PowerWeb

This general introduction to contemporary biological (physical) anthropology presents balanced coverage of the major components of the field: genetics and evolutionary theory, human biological variation, primate biology and behaviour, and human evolution.

The Human Species

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#hardcover #anthropology #loreneiseley #science #essays #memoir

California

Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom and beauty from the famed anthropologist. It describes his needy childhood in Nebraska, reveals his increasing sensitivity to the odd and ordinary in nature, and focuses on a career that turns him inward as he reaches outward for answers in old bones.

The Night Country

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Jefferson Bass

Florida

A Body Farm Novel

The Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in a remote mountain community. The mummified corpse of a young woman dead for thirty years has been discovered in a cave, the body bizarrely preserved and transformed by the environment's unique chemistry. But Brockton's investigation is threatening to open old wounds among an insularpeople who won't forget or forgive. And a long-buried secretprematurely exposed could inflame Brockton's own guilt—and the dangerous hostility of bitter enemies determined to see himfail . . . by any means necessary.

Carved in Bone

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Lily King

English anthropologist Andrew Banson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in 1930s New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide. Then he encounters the famous and controversial American anthropologist Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, who have just fled the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo. Nell and Fen and, in spite of Nell's poor health, are hungry for a new discovery. When Bankson finds them a new tribe nearby, the artistic, female-dominated Tam, he ignites an intellectual and romantic firestorm between the three of them that burns out of anyone's control.

Euphoria

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#hardcover #fiction #anthropology #bones #crime #forensic ex library 📚 

Kentucky

A Novel

Charles King

Virginia

How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

The author prepares a dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how society began to question the basic ways of understanding other cultures and themselves.lves.

Gods of the Upper Air

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#hardcover #anthropology #vintage #solomonislands #papuanewguinea #womenshistory #history More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name. Their objective was to paint portraits of the tribal people of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands before the encroachment of modern, European-style culture changed their lives forever.

This gripping book tells of the two women’s experiences whilst traveling through Melanesia between 1926 and 1930.

Oregon

Around the Coral Sea

Headhunting in the Solomon Islands

autographed book with some underlines/annotations in a couple pages. other than that, in excellent condition.

#hardcover #culture #indonesian #politics #anthropology #ethnography
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Illinois

Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival

The spectacular Lingsar festival is held annually at a village templecomplex built above the most abundant water springs on the island ofLombok, near Bali. Participants come to the festival not only for theefficacy of its rites but also for its spiritual, social, and musicalexperience. A nexus of religious, political, artistic, and agrarianinterests, the festival also serves to harmonize relations betweenindigenous Sasak Muslims and migrant Balinese Hindus.

Bridges to the Ancestors

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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Alaska

Offering insight into the lives and habits of dogs, wolves, and dingoes, a collection of case stories illustrates basic philosophies for canine happiness and their human-like emotions and relationships.

The Hidden Life of Dogs

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Nebraska

#hardcover #egypt #kingtut #ancienthistory #anthropology #mummy #pharaoh

This slim but colorful book is in fair condition, with a small break in the binding and some pages stiffened. Pages are clean and the book is very readable, with large beautiful photographs. Dust jacket has small tears and warping at the edges. Printed in 1978.

Minnesota

The Last Journey

Photographs of the tomb of Tutankhamun and of artifacts found therein accompany an account of the tomb's discovery, of the treasures within, and of the young pharaoh's life, death, and burial

Tutankhamun

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"All of Tony Hillerman's Navajo tribal police novels have been brilliant, but A Thief of Time is flat-out marvelous."--USA Today

From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time is the eighth novel featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee as they find themselves in hot pursuit of a depraved killer.

At a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit, a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. Amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.

There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places, and Navajo Tribal Policemen Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer. In his breakout novel, Hillerman paints a stunning portrait of the psychology of murder--and offers a heart-rending example of love and forgiveness.

 

A Thief of Time

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#hardcover #Crime #Forensics #Anthropology #Strange #fascinating #Investigations #Skeletons #Corpse #Death￼ box 30

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Strange and fascinating cases of forensic anthropology

"William Maples is blessed with an eerie but powerful gift. From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, he can deduce the age, gender and ethnicity of a corpse, and the manner in which the victim was dispatched; his gift has sealed the doom of many a killer. His skill is to read the tales of death written on the bones of the dead, and in this fascinating book he revisits his strangest, most interesting and most horrific investigations, from gruesome and baffling dismemberment cases to the revelation of the identity of long-buried skeletons." "In his work at the C. A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of Florida, Dr. Maples has borne witness to every act of cruelty and brutality of which the criminal mind is capable. Yet he never forgets that the remains spread before him were once human beings, and that compassion is as powerful a tool in solving the riddle of bones as is scientific knowledge." "Maples has gained an international reputation for his work on skeletons ranging from the family of Czar Nicholas II to Vietnam MIAs to conquistador Francisco Pizarro, but, as he writes in these memoirs, his most satisfying moments come when his investigations lead to "the heavy clang and click of a prison door slamming shut" on the guilty." "Dead Men Do Tell Tales is a completely engrossing journey into the world of forensic anthropology, the science of bones, a form of detection equal parts knowledge and empathy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

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Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

In the first account of a flood of new research findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells the dramatic story of the lost ages of human history. In just the last few years an explosion of discoveries - driven by information from the human genome - has empowered researchers to address many long-standing questions about the deep human past. Nicholas Wade has drawn on the new findings to present the first portrait of a special and hitherto mysterious group of human ancestors - the ancestral human population that lived in Africa 50,000 years ago and from whom everyone in the world today is descended.

Before the Dawn

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This anthology brings together five of the greatest, most studied, and most performed Greek tragedies, each in an outstanding translation:
• Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), in which the much-admired playwright explores the individual's search for truth and self-knowledge
• Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), favorites with modern audiences for their psychological subtlety and the humanity of their characters
• Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson), a monumental work that examines relations between humans and the gods
These masterpieces of world literature represent the very apex of Greek drama and are essential for both the home library and the classroom.

Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus

Five Great Greek Tragedies

#hardcover #antiquity #archaeology #anthropology #natgeo #nationalgeographic #ancienthistory #photography

This book includes colored photographs and articles by the National Geographic Society of the ancient world as we are discovering it.

This book is in good condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is faded with small tears and creases around the edges.  Covers are in good shape. Printed in 1985, 224 pp.

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Bones Are Forever

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How Not to Act Old

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