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From Lucy to Language: Revised, Updated, and Expanded
In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy", the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking ... > read more -
Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment
Help your students understand the mysteries of human behavior with Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman's text. Now available with a personalized online learning plan, this social work-specific book looks at ... > read more -
Development Through the Lifespan (4th Edition) (MyDevelopmentLab Series)
A best-selling text unparalleled in its approach to teaching human development, Berk’s Development Through the Lifespan is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, ... > read more -
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
What is the biological reason for gossip?For laughter? For the creation of art?Why do dogs have curly tails?What can microbes tell us about morality?These and many other questions are tackled by ... > read more -
The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people’s ... > read more -
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The Cultural Nature of Human Development
Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe ... > read more -
Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures (2nd Edition)
This new edition of the definitive work on "doing paleoenthnobotany" follows the steady growth in the quantity and sophistication of paleoenthnobotanical research. It features a rewritten chapter on ... > read more -
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been ... > read more -
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Worshiped for over three-fifths of recorded history, ancient Egypt's gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated ... > read more -
Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States
ONLY CONNECT is a comprehensive history of American broadcasting from its earliest days in radio, through the rise of television, to the current era of digital media and the Internet. It presents ... > read more -
The Piltdown Forgery
On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into ... > read more -
Geography, Study Guide: Realms, Regions, and Concepts
Study Guide to accompany Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 12th Edition provides readers with a spatial understanding of the human and physical characteristics of the earth and is by ... > read more
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