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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $16.76$10.73'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... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: $32.25$21.32A 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,... -
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham 9780008507206
RRP: $32.25$22.87'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... -
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett 9780008560096
RRP: $28.38$16.36Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow The... -
Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story by Rob Dinnis 9780565093372
RRP: $19.34$12.64When 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... -
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past by David Reich
RRP: $16.76$11.73The 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... -
The Shortest History of Sex by David Baker 9781913083519
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083519Author David BakerFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Understanding Human Diversity Jonathan Marks 9781009534307
RRP: $19.34$16.19No two people are the same, and no two groups of people are the same. But what kinds of differences are there, and what do they mean? What does our DNA say about race, gender, equality, or ancestry? Drawing on the latest discoveries in anthropology and... -
Sapiens Graphic Novel Volume 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $24.50$19.79Discover 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... -
Life and Language Beyond Earth Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick) 9781009226417
RRP: $32.25$27.48Have 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 Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak 9780241617663
RRP: $25.80$18.43A 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... -
Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers: 'From being idolised to stacking shelves' by Paul Campbell 9781838670412
RRP: $59.33$49.56Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footballers provides a case-study of 16 'black' British male professional footballers' preparedness and... -
Blueberries: essays concerning understanding by Ellena Savage 9781912854677
RRP: $14.18$9.44'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... -
Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England Phil Hubbard 9781526153876
RRP: $20.63$15.22Over 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... -
Questions of Anthropology Rita Astuti 9781845207489
RRP: $38.69$34.37Anthropology 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,... -
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent by Richard Wrangham
RRP: $16.76$11.73'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... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: $19.34$10.73Yuval 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... -
The Prehistory Of The Mind Prof Steven Mithen 9780753802045
RRP: $19.34$12.64Award-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... -
Field Stories: Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century by William H. Leggett 9781793643988
RRP: $45.15$39.93In 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... -
The Archaeology of Human Bones Simon Mays (English Heritage, and University of Southampton, UK) 9781138045675
RRP: $51.59$46.52The 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... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: $16.76$9.69'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: $15.47$11.51Human 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
$46.56Everyday 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... -
How To Think Like a Neandertal by Thomas Wynn 9780199329229
RRP: $29.01$21.56There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal,... -
Ancestors in Our Genome: The New Science of Human Evolution by Eugene E. Harris 9780190941918
RRP: $20.63$19.18The complete DNA molecules comprising the human genome were deciphered two decades ago. With this discovery began a remarkable genomic voyage back in time yielding a new science of human evolution. We are just beginning to unravel our full genomic... -
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
RRP: $14.18$10.02A 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... -
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert L. Trivers
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 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... -
Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power by Valerie Steele 9780195115796
RRP: $34.82$25.80Kinky boots, corsets, underwear as outerwear, second-skin garments of rubber and leather, uniforms, body piercing. Today everything from a fetishist's dream appears on the fashion runways. Although some people regard fetish fashion as exploitative and... -
Slave Species of God: The Story of Humankind from the Cradle of Humankind by Michael Tellinger
RRP: $19.34$12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920070137Author Michael TellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Zulu Planet PublishersPublisher Zulu Planet PublishersWeight(grams) 748g -
Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen 9781845202217
RRP: $49.01$43.06Forms 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... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: $19.34$14.13Since 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: $28.37$21.56In 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 Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chris 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... -
History Through Material Culture by Dr. Leonie Hannan
RRP: $16.76$11.92History 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... -
Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins by Peter Ungar
RRP: $25.80$20.50Whether 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... -
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe
RRP: $16.76$16.65"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... -
The Shocking History of Electric Fishes: From Ancient Epochs to the Birth of Modern Neurophysiology by Stanley Finger 9780195366723
RRP: $177.38$147.73This book looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes literally became "electrical", and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat torpedo rays common to the Mediterranean, the electric catfishes of... -
The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Mr. Anthony Pagden 9780521337045
RRP: $56.75$46.69This book gives a new interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is the first in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Between 1512 and... -
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution by Elaine Morgan
RRP: $14.18$10.02Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives a revolutionary hypothesis that explains our anatomic anomalies: why we walk on two legs, why we are covered in fat, why we can control... -
The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality by Samuel Turvey 9781399409773
RRP: $25.80$18.43'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...