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Product Description: Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion...read more

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9783931141721 | Scalo Verlag Ac, January 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion.
9780295970998 | Univ of Washington Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | also contains Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth | About this edition: Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion.

Presents background information on Scotland's history and culture, outlines itineraries in each region of the country, and includes tips on shopping, dining out, nightlife, and special events

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9780395682234 | Apa Productions, November 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | also contains The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction | About this edition: Presents background information on Scotland's history and culture, outlines itineraries in each region of the country, and includes tips on shopping, dining out, nightlife, and special events

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Product Description: The subject of human origins is a topic that not only feeds our curiosity; it also offers to be a topic that can bring us greater meaning to our lives. It has been assumed by many scientists and biblical scholars that the human race emerged from a single nucleus...read more

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9780127036502, titled "Organization of Memory" | Academic Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $65.00 | also contains Organization of Memory

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9781425973223 | Textstream, January 29, 2007, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The subject of human origins is a topic that not only feeds our curiosity; it also offers to be a topic that can bring us greater meaning to our lives.

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9780307396396 | Crown Pub, March 3, 2009, cover price $25.00

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9780307396402 | 1 edition (Broadway Books, June 1, 2010), cover price $15.00

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9780307451682 | Crown Pub, March 3, 2009, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by forty-four million years...read more
By Josh Young (contributor)

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9780316070096 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, August 11, 2010), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications.

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9780316076456 | Little Brown & Co, May 20, 2009, cover price $12.99

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9780761446323 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, September 1, 2009, cover price $37.07

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9780761441878 | Benchmark Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $37.07

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Product Description: This series takes readers on a journey through the evolutionary history of humans.

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9780761446286 | Marshall Cavendish Corp, September 1, 2009, cover price $37.07

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9780761441830 | Benchmark Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $37.07 | About this edition: This series takes readers on a journey through the evolutionary history of humans.

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9780521765312 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 29, 2011, cover price $89.99

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9780521749299 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 29, 2011, cover price $34.99

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Product Description: 'Gardens of the Elder Gods' is the third volume within a continuing series, with each text written as a stand-alone book, allowing the trilogy to be read in any order. It presents further documentation of extraterrestrial contact throughout Earth's ancient past, revealing puzzling archaeological sites that contained modern achievements...read more

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9781886940123 | Ozark Mountain Pub, September 1, 2011, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: 'Gardens of the Elder Gods' is the third volume within a continuing series, with each text written as a stand-alone book, allowing the trilogy to be read in any order.

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Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe and finally the New World.Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries—Mary Leakey’s Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson’s Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickford’s Millennium Man, to name just a few—experts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7% of their genes with the great apes—that in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas. And most recently the entire human genome has been mapped—we now know where each of the genes on the chromosomes that make up DNA is located on the double helix.In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the world’s foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanity’s place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.Human Origins serves as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural History’s new permanent exhibit, as well as standing alone as an accessible overview of recent insights into what it means to be human.

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9781585445677 | 1 edition (Texas A & M Univ Pr, April 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins.

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9781603445184 | Reprint edition (Texas A & M Univ Pr, February 27, 2012), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This collection of essays and tributes to Glynn Isaac marks the 26th anniversary of Glynns premature death on October 5th, 1985. These contributions document the work of many of Glynns colleagues students and collaborators, and reflect their continuing respect for a great schola...read more
By David Pilbeam (editor) and Jeanne Sept (editor)

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9781842174548 | Oxbow Books Ltd, December 30, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays and tributes to Glynn Isaac marks the 26th anniversary of Glynns premature death on October 5th, 1985.

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Product Description: The definitive textbook for paleoanthropology courses.Reconstructing Human Origins is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and popular paleoanthropology textbook available. Respected anthropologists Glenn Conroy and new coauthor Herman Pontzer use clear writing and abundant, carefully chosen illustrations to illuminate key concepts and help students get the most out of the course...read more

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9780393912890 | 3 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 13, 2012), cover price $123.30 | About this edition: The definitive textbook for paleoanthropology courses.

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Product Description: In this potent book, three eminent scientists—an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist—ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers in terms the layperson can easily understand...read more

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9781611455076 | Reprint edition (Arcade Pub, June 1, 2012), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In this potent book, three eminent scientists—an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist—ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers in terms the layperson can easily understand.

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From the fossil hunter who discovered the Homo naledi fossils in September 2015, this book is an amazing account of Lee Berger’s 2008 hunt -- with the help of his curious 9-year-old son -- for a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been direct ancestors of modern humans. The discovery of two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and young male, known as Australopiitecus sediba, has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history. The fossils reveal what may be one of humankind's oldest ancestors.Berger believes the skeletons they found on the Malapa site in South Africa could be the "Rosetta stone that unlocks our understanding of the genus Homo" and may just redesign the human family tree.Berger, an Eagle Scout and National Geographic Grantee, is the Reader in Human Evolution and the Public Understanding of Science in the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.The focus of the book will be on the way in which we can apply new thinking to familiar material and come up with a breakthrough. Marc Aronson is particularly interested in framing these issues for young people and has had enormous success with this approach in his previous books: Ain't Nothing But a Man and If Stones Could Speak.Berger's discovery in one of the most excavated and studied areas on Earth revealed a treasure trove of human fossils--and an entirely new human species--where people thought no more field work might ever be necessary. Technology and revelation combined, plus a good does of luck, to broaden by ten times the number of early human fossils known, rejuvenating this field of study and posing countless more questions to be answered in years and decades to come.Releases simultaneously in Reinforced Library Binding: 978-1-4263-1053-9 , $27.90/$32.00 CanFrom the Hardcover edition.

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9781426310102 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, October 23, 2012, cover price $18.95

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9781426310539 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, October 23, 2012, cover price $27.90 | About this edition: From the fossil hunter who discovered the Homo naledi fossils in September 2015, this book is an amazing account of Lee Berger’s 2008 hunt -- with the help of his curious 9-year-old son -- for a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been direct ancestors of modern humans.

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9780230108752 | St Martins Pr, March 27, 2012, cover price $26.00

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9781137278302 | Reprint edition (Griffin, May 28, 2013), cover price $18.99

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Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion. This catalogue presents his work for the United States pavilion at the Biennale.

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9780805088915 | Times Books, March 13, 2012, cover price $28.00
9780295970998, titled "Robert Gober" | Univ of Washington Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | also contains Robert Gober | About this edition: Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion.

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9781250023308 | Reprint edition (Griffin, July 30, 2013), cover price $16.99

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9781932857405 | Disinformation Co, September 1, 2006, cover price $29.95

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9781932857849 | Revised edition (Disinformation Co, October 1, 2007), cover price $21.95

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9781491534335 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 7, 2014), cover price $19.99
9781491534342 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, October 7, 2014), cover price $14.99

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Presents background information on Scotland's history and culture, outlines itineraries in each region of the country, and includes tips on shopping, dining out, nightlife, and special events

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9780674736764 | Belknap Pr, March 10, 2015, cover price $29.95

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9780395682234, titled "Insight Pocket Guides: Scotland" | Apa Productions, November 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | also contains Insight Pocket Guides: Scotland | About this edition: Presents background information on Scotland's history and culture, outlines itineraries in each region of the country, and includes tips on shopping, dining out, nightlife, and special events

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By Janet Sitchin (editor)

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9781591432296 | 1 edition (Bear & Co, September 28, 2015), cover price $24.00

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Introducing Anthropology is the first book of its kind. It offers a serious but accessible introduction to anthropology and is the perfect starting point for anyone new to the subject. Across a series of fourteen chapters, it addresses the different fields and approaches within anthropology, covers an extensive range of themes, and emphasizes the role of anthropology in the world today. Written by two authors with a passion for teaching and a commitment to communicating the excitement of anthropology, the book has been carefully designed to support and extend students’ learning. Each chapter includes: clear explanations of classic and contemporary anthropological research help with connecting anthropological theories to real-life issues links to globalization interviews with key anthropologists about their work and the discipline as a whole a lively range of activities and discussion points ideas for personal investigations suggested ethnographic films and further reading a clear glossary a focus on developing examination and writing skills. Introducing Anthropology aims to inspire and enthuse a new generation of anthropologists. It is suitable for a range of different readers, from students studying the subject at school-level to university students looking for a clear and engaging entry point into anthropology.

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9780745699776 | Polity Pr, December 30, 2016, cover price $79.95

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9780745699783 | Polity Pr, September 21, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Introducing Anthropology is the first book of its kind.

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What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our ancient human ancestors. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with all things prehistoric, and gifted with a unique artistic vision, Gurche has studied fossil remains, comparative ape and human anatomy, and forensic reconstruction for over three decades. His artworks appear in world-class museums and publications ranging from National Geographic to the journal Science, and he is widely known for his contributions to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and a number of acclaimed television specials. For the Smithsonian Institution’s groundbreaking David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, opened in 2010, Gurche created fifteen sculptures representing six million years of human history. In Shaping Humanity he relates how he worked with a team of scientists to depict human evolution in sculpture for the new hall. He reveals the debates and brainstorming that surround these often controversial depictions, and along the way he enriches our awareness of the various paths of human evolution and humanity’s stunning uniqueness in the history of life on Earth.

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9780300182026 | Yale Univ Pr, November 26, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: What did earlier humans really look like?

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9780300216844 | Yale Univ Pr, August 5, 2015, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played a critical role in shaping the direction of human evolution, contributing to our spread and success...read more

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9780199658794 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $27.95

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9780198743897 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 21, 2016, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes.

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