Anthropology
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral CultureDread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian FluThe Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
And Then There's This: How Stories Live and...
by Bill Wasik
$17.13
"In 2003, Bill Wasik started the mob project. It involved worshiping mechanical dinosaurs, and it spawned followers—flash mobs...
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epi...
by Philip Alcabes
$17.79
"Our species has an almost mythic fear of the uncontrolled spread of disease—plague—and its characterization as a killer of m...
The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of ...
by Hannah Holmes
$16.50
"This extended riff on Desmond Morris’s 1967 classic, The Naked Ape, uses the same thought experiment at its core: a thorough ...
Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic AnxietySuperdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... And the WorldMore: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Comp...
by Dalton Conley
$16.32
"If you don’t own a hammock now, chances are you won’t have the time to buy one in the future. In this clever and perceptive b...
Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan .....
by Courtney Humphries
$18.21
"From lowly street vermin to decorated World War I hero, the pigeon has vacillated in human estimation for thousands of years....
More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
by Robert Engelman
$19.96
"With an average of 2.6 children born to each woman worldwide, global population is on the rise, and overcrowding is already ...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and SexSizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS EpidemicWhat Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
$10.17
"There are many humorous science books. There are not many hilarious science books. With Bonk, a review of science’s study of ...
Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through...
by Jonny Steinberg
$19.76
"Africa’s AIDS epidemic has as much to do with sociology as virology—from the denialists who don’t believe that HIV causes AID...
What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Lea...
by John Brockman
$10.52
"With today's concerns over global warming, AIDS, and terrorism, the future can look pretty bleak. Surprisingly, many of the w...
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