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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...

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Boston Book Review - Winner - Nonfiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Stealing History Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World Roger Atwood St. Martin's Griffin Roger Atwood knows more about the market for ancient objects than almost anyone. He knows where priceless antiquities are buried, who is digging them up, and...

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The Tangled Wing

Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

Melvin Konner Holt Paperbacks

"It is rare to find an author with a depth of knowledge in both the biological and social sciences, combined with superb writing skills sufficient to provide readers with a breathtaking new understanding of human behavior. Mel Konner did that twenty years ago in the first edition of The Tangled Wing. The updated and revised edition of this book is an even greater achievement . . . The Tangled Wing is sure to be among the most important books published in the first decade of the new millennium."—Alice S. Rossi, Harriet Martineau Professor Emeritas of Sociology, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

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Through the Language Glass

Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Guy Deutscher Metropolitan Books

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and...

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The Unfolding of Language

An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

Guy Deutscher A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

[Deutscher is] excellent at introducing readers to new ideas and would serve well in the library of the armchair linguist or on the desktop of someone teaching undergraduate courses on language . . . [He is] skilled enough at [his] craft that [he] often sum[s] up a complex idea in a pithy way that will have you reaching for the highlighter."—Academia

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Village of Waiting George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. "Glowing . . . A masterful book."—*New York Times Book Revie*w

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West of Kabul, East of New York

An Afghan American Story

Tamim Ansary Picador

"In the weeks after September 11 . . . Tamim Ansary delivered us from text into context, from crisis into history, from isolation into geography, from a world shattered to one that, having lived through millennia of shatterings, stays mournfully round, and around . . . Mr. Ansary, a California writer and editor, has put this and much else into West of Kabul, East of New York, a book that steadies our skittering compass."—Richard Eder, The New York Times

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The Whale and the Supercomputer

On the Northern Front of Climate Change

Charles Wohlforth North Point Press

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology

"The Whale and the Supercomputer skillfully melds two very different worlds: the whaling culture of northern Alaska's Iñupiaq, and the at-times equally mysterious culture and methods of the scientific community. Along the way, he delivers many salient points about real-world impacts of global warming, which is clobbering northern latitudes first and hardest."—Robert Krier, The San Diego Union-Tribune

Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Nominee - Nonfiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Science/Technology

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Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	What People Wore When A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society Melissa Leventon St. Martin's Griffin What People Wore When combines the studies of two classic nineteenth-century illustrators Auguste Racinet and Friedrich Hottenroth for the first time. Their...

Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	Where White Men Fear to Tread The Autobiography of Russell Means Russell Means with Marvin J. Wolf St. Martin's Griffin Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. This is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, in which he has done everything...

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Why the West Rules--for Now

The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

Ian Morris Picador

“Ian Morris is a classical archaeologist, an ancient historian, and a writer whose breathtaking vision and scope make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes. His magnum opus is a tour not just d’horizon but de force, taking us on a spectacular journey to and from the two nodal cores of the Euramerican West and the Asian East, alighting and reflecting as suggestively upon 10,800 BC as upon AD 2010. The shape of globalizing history may well never be quite the same again.”—Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Clare College

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Why We Lie

The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind

David Livingstone Smith St. Martin's Griffin

"This book is an exemplar of interdisciplinary research-drawing on evolutionary biology, cognitive science, philosophy, and history of science."—Ronald F. White, Ph.D., Choice

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Yemen Chronicle

An Anthropology of War and Mediation

Steven C. Caton Hill and Wang

"[Yemen Chronicle] focuses on the themes of violence, honor, and hospitality in Arabic tribal society, and cultural misunderstandings and the efforts of a nonnative to be accepted in another culture . . . I highly recommend [Yemen Chronicle] to students of anthropology, Yemen, the Middle East, and anyone who has tried to live in a foreign culture."—David M. Witty, The Journal of Military History

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