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  • That Complex Whole

    Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior

    by Lee Cronk ...
    Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • From Mukogodo to Maasai

    Ethnicity and Cultural Change In Kenya

    by Lee Cronk ...
    Series series Case Studies in Anthropology
    This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. It is about how Mukogodo people changed their way of life to a radically different one, that is their change as Maasai people, giving them a new way of living, a new language, and a new set of beliefs. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Economic Development

    An Anthropological Approach

    by Jeffrey Cohen, Nils Gilman, Patricia Lyons Johnson, Nitish Jha, Mike Woost, Gracia Clark, Elizabeth T. Kennedy, Michael Chibnik, Lee Cronk & Shannon Steadman, Cynthia Ann Werner, Ty Matejowsky, Rhoda H. Halperin, Monica Lindh de Montoya, Miguel Montoya ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Meeting at Grand Central

    Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation

    by Lee Cronk, Beth L. Leech ...
    A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciencesFrom the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The World Until Yesterday

    What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

    by Jared Diamond ...
    **The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?“As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage**Most of us ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Practical Ethics

    by Peter Singer ...
    For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • In Defense of Animals

    The Second Wave

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years agoEssays explore new ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Justice for Animals

    Our Collective Responsibility

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Sick Societies

    by Robert B. Edgerton ...
    Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Animal Rights

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Paul Waldau ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement. Organized around a series of probing questions, this timely resource offers the most complete, even-handed survey of the animal rights movement available. The book covers the full spectrum of issues, beginning ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Invisible Sex

    Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

    by J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, Jake Page ...
    "This jauntily written, highly convincing analysis . . . argues that women of prehistory were pivotal in a wide range of culture-building endeavors." — Publishers WeeklyShaped 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hadza

    Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania

    by Frank Marlowe ...
    Series Book 3 - Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
    In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. Marlowe ably ... Read more

    $17.09 USD