books about: archaeology     books:     Archaeology      Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Conrad Phillip Kottak McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007 Like Reading for Fun! Learning cultural anthropology through this book is a joy ride. When I was reading, it actually felt like I was reading a New York Times Bestseller! This book captures you attention and it is never boring. I had to read this book for my intro to anthropology class ...             Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (12th Edition) (MyAnthroKit Series) James Spradley, David W. McCurdy Allyn & Bacon, 2006 Excellent collection, a standard in anthro -- and the 12th is DIFFERENT from the11th I've used this collection off and on for years in teaching Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. It's a great book, a real standard in anthropology. Honestly, I think the relevance and quality of the essays varies from edition to edition. I liked the 11th more than ...             The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan Penguin, 2007 Calling all Corn People - READ THIS BOOK! I read this book a little while ago and didn't have time to review it, but the essential messages keep popping into my consciousness as I go about my day-to-day life. Before reading this book, for example, I had never realized that Corn has cunningly taken over the ...             Introduction to Physical Anthropology Robert Jurmain, Lynn Kilgore, ... Wadsworth Publishing, 2007 Introduction to Physical Anthropology The book is well written, factual and easy to read/understand. Chapters and concepts are not too overwhelming.             Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin Pantheon, 2008 Facinating Read! Wow! What a smashing blow to the creationist?! Well, I am a creationist but this book gave me many things to consider. So, the the Tiktaalik is a transitional form. I would like to hear a creationist answer to this! Also, The same basic gene can be moved from one ...             Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge William A. Haviland, Harald E. L. Prins, ... Wadsworth Publishing, 2007 Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village. With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Human Challenge provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make ...             Classical Mythology Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 thru a distant lens This well honed 8th edition is an entrancing and beautiful description of the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome. The emphasis is Greece, naturally, since the Romans based so much of their beliefs on the Greeks. No prior knowledge of the subject is assumed. But the ...             Annual Editions: Anthropology 08/09 (Annual Editions : Anthropology) Elvio Angeloni McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2007 An excellent introduction to Anthropology! Really, there is nothing to this book that could be considered bad. The articles are varied, not only in subject, but in style, timespan, and reach. They are very informative and interesting, and connect the world around us to the study of Anthropology in terms of ...             Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond W. W. Norton, 2005 Great for classroom teachers While this book is difficult for many high school students, its ideas and the methods used to create his thesis are concepts your students can get. This would be a great jumping off point for an interdisciplinary unit and as the years go on, history and social studies ...             The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream John Zogby Random House, 2008 Fascinating look into the American psyche This is the second book I have read in the past month by a political pollster. The first, "Words that Work," by Frank Luntz, was a cynical look at how polling can help corporations and politicians paint themselves in the most flattering light and bamboozle a helpless ...             Cultural Anthropology (12th Edition) Carol R. Ember, Melvin R Ember Prentice Hall, 2006 This comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology helps students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. This new edition highlights migration and immigration in the context of globalization.             The Yanomamo (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Napoleon A. Chagnon Wadsworth Publishing, 1996 a different culture [in danger] this book is a good introduction to the Yanomamo people of the Amazon rainforest, in Venezuela & Brazil. There's so much literature on these people; this book really is just an introduction. One thing Chagnon communicates very well in it is how terribly tragic he ...             The Humanistic Tradition, Book 6: Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age Gloria K. Fiero McGraw-Hill, 2005 I've never read this either.... However giving the book a one star review based on the fact that you had a bad experience with Amazon is unacceptable. Your poor rating hurts the author much more then it hurts Amazon. Many a casual browser will not even browse further past a one star rating. And ...             The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, Book 3 Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Grand Central Publishing, 2003 Best Pendergast Book I have read all of the Pendergast novels and other various Preston/Child works and find myself always thinking of this one as my favorite. Although I like the "Diogenes Trilogy" (Brimstone, Dance of Death and Book of the Dead), this one seemed to really work my ...             Cultural Anthropology with Living Anthropology Student CD Conrad Kottak McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006 Written by Kottak, recent inductee to The National Academy of Sciences, this text for cultural anthropology emphasizes anthropology's integrated and comparative nature with "Bringing It All Together" essays that show how anthropology's sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. Another distinctive feature, ...          products you might be interested in search for books 5-billion-year, anthropology, information, introduction, myanthrokit, transformation      toavi.com    web we recommend Great for classroom teachers randomly chosen book: Kiss of Crimson (The Midnight Breed, Book 2)