Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages...
This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual a...
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the u...
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years,...
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years." Wi...
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years." Wi...
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn fro...
This text presents a critical survey of the burgeoning field of political ecology, an interdisciplinary area of research which connects politics ...
This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal...
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