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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99£7.05'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari... -
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham 9780008507206
RRP: £25.00£17.73'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series... -
Sapiens Graphic Novel Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £18.99£15.29Discover the second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon.When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00£16.53A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story by Rob Dinnis 9780565093372
RRP: £14.99£9.80When did the first humans arrive in Britain? Where did they come from? And what did they look like? This is the amazing story of human life in Britain. It begins nearly one million years ago, during the earliest known human occupation, and reveals how... -
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
RRP: £18.99£13.33In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the dawning of a new civilisation where humans will transcend our biological limitations and... -
The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak 9780241617663
RRP: £20.00£14.29A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEARIn this acclaimed bestseller, an explorer and Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery'With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals. . . This... -
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past by David Reich
RRP: £11.99£8.43The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This... -
Life and Language Beyond Earth by Raymond Hickey 9781009226417
RRP: £25.00£21.30Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, and indeed learn to communicate with them? This highly... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: £13.99£9.75Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing... -
Almost Human by Lee Berger
RRP: £21.99£17.22In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough... -
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression by Michael Bradley 9781879831001
RRP: £15.95£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879831001Author Michael BradleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Kayode PublicationsPublisher Kayode PublicationsWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)... -
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert L. Trivers
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Deceit and Self Deception Robert Trivers, whose work has been acclaimed by figures such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, looks at how and why we so often deceive ourselves. We lie to ourselves every day: about how well we drive, how much we're... -
Blueberries: essays concerning understanding by Ellena Savage 9781912854677
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.' Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portland college campuses, suburban Melbourne libraries... -
The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality by Samuel Turvey 9781399409773
RRP: £20.00£14.29'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest - and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and... -
The Prehistory Of The Mind by Steven Mithen
RRP: £14.99£9.80Award-winning science writer Steven Mithen explores how an understanding of our ancestors and their development can illuminate our brains and behaviour todayHow do our minds work? When did language and religious beliefs first emerge? Why was there a... -
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas by Valerio Valeri 9780299162146
RRP: £29.95£28.64Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal... -
Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England by Phil Hubbard
RRP: £15.99£11.61Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the 'migrant crisis' put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on motorways and the crumbling white cliffs of Dover all spoke to national... -
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent by Richard Wrangham
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors' Steven Pinker 'A brilliant analysis of the role of aggression in our evolutionary... -
Questions of Anthropology by Charles Stafford 9781845207489
RRP: £29.99£26.64Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth,... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £14.99£8.32Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and... -
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe
RRP: £12.99£8.48"Engrossing ... [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain." --Wall Street Journal "Fascinating--and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share." --Scientific American Parasites can... -
Field Stories: Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century by William H. Leggett 9781793643988
£30.95In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
Understanding Human Evolution by Ian Tattersall
RRP: £11.99£8.43Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains... -
Everyday Life in the Ice Age: A New Study of Our Ancestors by Elle Clifford
RRP: £24.99£20.69Everyday Life in the Ice Age is the first attempt to present a truly complete, balanced and realistic picture of life during the last Ice Age, with its many problems and challenges, while dispelling many of the myths and inaccuracies about our early... -
The Archaeology of Human Bones by Simon Mays
RRP: £39.99£36.06The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones and teeth and the nature of the burial record.Drawing from studies around the... -
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts' Sunday Times_________________________We are unprepared... -
Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images by Elizabeth Edwards 9780415254427
RRP: £37.99£33.38This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political,... -
Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank by John R. Weeks 9780226878126
RRP: £26.00£24.85When you start a new job, you learn how things are done in the company, and you learn how they are complained about too. Unpopular Culture considers why people complain about their work culture and what impact those complaints have on their organizations... -
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade
RRP: £16.99£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127161Author Nicholas WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g -
The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction by Pat Shipman
RRP: £19.95£15.77A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe-descendants of a much earlier migration of the... -
Polygamy by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
RRP: £37.99£33.38Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in... -
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar
RRP: £18.99£14.79Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted paleoanthropologist... -
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Revised and Updated by Loic Wacquant
£18.45When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters,... -
Processes in Human Evolution: The journey from early hominins to Neanderthals and modern humans by Francisco J. Ayala 9780198739913
RRP: £60.00£56.96The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading authorities in... -
History Through Material Culture by Dr. Leonie Hannan
RRP: £12.99£9.24History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources.Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: £10.99£7.77Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from... -
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes 9780393330755
RRP: £12.99£11.82One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic... -
Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa by Jane I. Guyer
RRP: £24.00£23.03In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically...