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The Last Days of the Incas
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of ... > read more -
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (CBC Massey Lecture)
In 2000, the United Nations laid out a series of eight goals meant to guide humankind in the new century. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these targets are to be met by 2015 and are to lay ... > read more -
Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind
The only book that integrates the foundations and the most current innovations in the field from the ground up. Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly evolved from the study of physical ... > read more -
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
The Bible Unearthed is a balanced, thoughtful, bold reconsideration of the historical period that produced the Hebrew Bible. The headline news in this book is easy to pick out: there is no evidence ... > read more -
Chemistry, Fourth Edition
For full-year general chemistry courses taken by biology, premedical, science, and engineering majors.McMurry/Fay's Chemistry focuses on visualizing and thinking to achieve try understanding. The ... > read more -
The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes ... > read more -
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and ... > read more -
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 -
Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice
Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a ... > read more -
The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)
Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social ... > read more
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