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There really is more to this life than you've been told. We've been demanding our way since day one ... "I want a spouse that makes me happy and coworkers that always ask my opinion." "I want weather that suits me and traffic that helps me and government that serves me." Self-promotion. Self-preservation. Self-centeredness ... "It's all about me." They all told us it was, didn't they? And we took them up on it. We thought self-celebration would make...
2) Anthropology
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Scholastic
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[2021]
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Provides information on anthropology, including how humans have developed and changed over time, how they interact and form societies, and how they communicate.
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2020.
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It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the rare ability to identify the unknown dead from their skulls. For Eve, whose daughter was murdered and her body never found, the job is a way to make peace with a nightmare. Eve's life is changed forever when billionaire John Logan offers her a healthy sum to reconstruct the face of an adult murder victim. Warning bells chime as she is taken to a secret lab where every move she makes is closely monitored. Eve is...
5) Body of lies
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When a government official requests her unique skills of reconstruction to identify an unknown murder victim, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is drawn into a deadly web of betrayal, intrigue, and murder as she tries to unlock the deadly secrets that someone will do anything to keep hidden.
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Eve Duncan receives a package containing a skull-- and instructions for Eve to do her work reconstructing it. When she does, a beautiful woman's face emerges. But when Eve is introduced to the dead woman's mirror image, a game is on where her twin's life hangs in the balance.
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"Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target. It will take everything she has to rescue Cara, and doing so will put that which is dearest to her at risk. Night and Day is the pulse-pounding race to a conclusion that will have readers...
10) The bullet
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"After being divorced from Joe Quinn for many years, Diane Connors abruptly returns to disrupt his life by begging his current wife, Eve Duncan, to do her a favor. Diane is on the run with a secret that will not only put Eve in danger but make her choose between protecting her family and doing what is right. Diane is not Eve's favorite person. But years of animosity must be cast aside because Diane is no longer the selfish woman that Eve once knew....
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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls sexual...
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A Christian evangelical preacher during the early 1700's, during the First Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards is considered one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. His polemic work "Freedom of the Will" refutes the notion that humans have complete free will over the choices they make. Instead, Edwards claims that will is driven by human desire. In Edwards' beliefs, people are sinners at heart. They do not naturally follow...
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Gwen Marcey novels volume 3
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"Gwen Marcey takes death in stride. Until she's faced with her own mortality. Forensic artist Gwen Marcey is between jobs when she accepts temporary work in Pikeville, Kentucky--a small town facing big-city crime. But before Gwen can finish her first drawing of the serial rapist who is on the loose, the latest witness vanishes. Just like all the others. Gwen suspects a connection between the rapist and the "accidental" deaths that are happening around...
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"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice-inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, and politics operating within a shadow world that is popularly referred to as the rule of the mafia, or "Mafia Raj." Through intimate stories of the lives...
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Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson...
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Transporte y producción artesanal en los albores del mundo olmeca es un libro en el que se presentan los vestigios arqueológicos que fueron hallados en el frente Malpica U como punto de partida para analizar la relación entre el transporte y la especialización artesanal y su papel en el desarrollo cultural de la capital olmeca de San Lorenzo durante el periodo Preclásico inferior. Inicia con un panorama general de la Isla de San Lorenzo con énfasis...
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"Co-Winner of the 2003 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2004 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003" Hugh Raffles is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows...
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Rat Race Removal Everyone knows the "society" we live in is in deep trouble. This will only get worse, until we DO something. Here you will find a primer on taking back your life, the emancipation of working people (the "middle class"), and finally, our return to Eden. The present mess has been called the "human condition", but it is not natural to humans. It is the result of 10,000 years of damage. Late Capitalism, the present form of economic slavery,...
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Riva Kastoryano is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and teaches at the Institute for Political Science, both in Paris. The author of several books in French, her work has focused on community formation and the construction of collective identities in different political settings.
Immigration is even more hotly debated in Europe than in the United States. In this pivotal work of action and discourse analysis,...
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Fernando Eiras Sotoca no es de esas personas que se echan una novia tailandesa por internet y se marchan a Tailandia a conocerla. Pero eso es exactamente lo que hizo. De su experiencia surge este libro que es, a partes iguales, un relato de su descubrimiento del país y una crónica de su relación amorosa.
Su descubrimiento de Tailandia, además de la historia, cultura y gastronomía, tiene más que ver con el regateo del precio de los tuk-tuks,...
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