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Star Stories: Constellations and People by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.00Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures "Aveni skillfully guides us around the awesome night sky through the... -
Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination by Anthony Aveni
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek,... -
Class Not Dismissed: Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts by Anthony Aveni 9781607323020
Booksplease Price: £15.46In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes... -
Aliens Like Us?: An Anthropologist's Field Guide to Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Anthony Aveni 9780826367426
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In this authoritative, accessible, and at times funny and irreverent work, distinguished anthropologist Anthony Aveni speaks to the trained astrophysicist and the curious layperson alike about a... -
Aliens Like Us?: An Anthropologist's Field Guide to Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Anthony Aveni 9780826369475
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.95Are aliens even out there? If so, why do we assume we can imagine what they look like, or how they will relate humanity? Anthony Aveni provides us with a thoroughly entertaining analysis of our... -
Circling the Square: How the Conquest Altered the Shape of Time in Mesoamerica, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 102, Part 5) by Anthony Aveni 9781606180259
Booksplease Price: £35.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180259Author Anthony AveniFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint American Philosophical Society... -
The Book of the Year: A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays by Anthony F. Aveni 9780195171549
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.24What is the connection between May Day and the Statue of Liberty? Between ancient solstice fires and Fourth of July fireworks? Between St. Valentine, the Groundhog, and the Virgin Mary? In The Book... -
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy 9781596438743
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.43A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white... -
Celestial Mirror: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II by Barry Perlus
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £33.08Explore the eighteenth-century Indian astronomical observatories called the Jantar Mantars, massive, stunning structures built to observe and understand the heavens Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja... -
Codice Maya de Mexico: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas by Andrew D Turner
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.36An in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Ancient Maya scribes recorded prophecies and... -
2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse by Matthew Restall 9781442206090
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Did the Maya really predict that the world would end in December of 2012? If not, how and why has 2012 millenarianism gained such popular appeal? In this deeply knowledgeable book, two leading...