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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans -- for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago. But was it really as simple...
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Language
English
Description
Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that war and the "war of the sexes" are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. And it provides verification that a better future is possible--and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting drama of what actually happened in our past."
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub. Corporation
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolution in a work that is certain to generate headlines,...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxi, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the biological roots of positive social behavior reveals how human genes have countered violence and self-interest with equally inherent, society-building tendencies toward friendship, cooperation, and learning.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A straightforward look at the history and the art of maintaining courteous communication in an increasingly divided world.
Have you ever been in a conversation that, after volleying back and forth, ended with the words, “I’m just saying . . .”? Usually, this signals frustration, that the discussion has reached a dead end, that you haven’t made your point, and may even leave you feeling that your relationship with the other person has changed...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
8) Team human
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Language
English
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Description
"Team Human is a manifesto--a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together--not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football — or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy, biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that the story is not so simple....
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
viii, 407, 16 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xi, 499 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of...
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