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BALDNESS: A Social History
by Kerry Segrave. Condition: Gently pre-read, if at all, 1996 McFarland hardcover (library binding - no DJ), no printing given. NOT an ex-library book. Content: The author considers theories of the causes of male pattern baldness, cures of hair loss from the medical establishment, various kinds of quackery, and attitudes towards what he calls "rugs, plugs, and drugs'" Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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BIZARRE BELIEFS
by Simon Hoggart and Mike Hutchinson. B&W and color photos, maps & drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 1995 Richard Cohen Books (London) soft cover, first printing. Content: Do UFOs really exist? Or are they figments of the imagination? Did Nostradamus have the uncanny gift of foretelling the future? Or was he simply a charlatan? Many people associated with the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb were said to be cursed. True? Or a classic example of a paranormal myth? Do spiritualists and mediums really contact the departed? Or is it a clever confidence trick? Fortune telling, psychic detectives, astrology, ghosts, hypnosis, coincidence, dowsing, fire walking, the Loch Ness Monster are some of the intriguing subjects covered in a lively and stimulating text (including over 100 photographs, engravings, paintings and cartoons in color and black and white) which helps the reader to choose whether to believe--or not. Interesting book on how the rest of the world lives & believes. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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CHILDREN OF THE ICE AGE: How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolve
by Steven M. STanley. B&W illustrations by Suzanne Eddmonds. Condition: NEW 1998 W. H. Freeman Trade Paperback, first printing. Remainder mark bottom edges. Content: When presented with persuasive rhetoric, new theories of human origins can seem to be the coming consensus, as with those Stanley proposes. A major problem he and fellow paleontologists grapple with is the connection between Australopithecus (the "Lucy" fossil) and Homo erectus (the "Turkana Boy" fossil). The key, Stanley argues, is the movement of land masses millions of years ago between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that triggered an ice age that fragmented the African forests inhabited by Australopithecus, from an isolated population of which, through the accelerated processes of "punctuated equilibrium," emerged the Homo genus. In addition to that scientifically updated Great Chain of Being, Stanley dwells on pressures likely to have favored a change in Lucy's kin after anatomical stagnation for a million years. These he groups under inferences about carnivores and child rearing, which he headlines as the "terrestrial imperative" -- what made it safe for hominids to descend from the trees. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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FUTURE SHOCK
by Alvin Toffler. . Condition: UNREAD 1981 Bantam paperback, 40th printing. Tiny edgewear and binder's glue strings down spine. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: In the thrity years since its original publication, the basic truths and awesome prognositications have largely come to pass. Of course, in the process Mr. Toffler has become something of a cottage industry himself, since publishing several sequels (The Third Wave, Power Shift, etc.). Yet nothing surpasses the sheer magnitude of the argument forwarded here. Toffler marshalls a virtual mountain of evidence illustrating his claim of a rising flood of techniological, social, and economic change, largely emanating from the increasing influence of science and technology into every area of contemporary life. And there's no let-up in sight. [1 copy available]
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THE HIGHEST STAGE OF WHITE SUPREMACY:
The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South
by John W. Cell. Condition: New 1992 Cambridge University Press Trade Paperback, reprint. Tiny edgewear & small, pale impression front cover. Interior perfect. Content: An original and exciting work of comparative history, this book analyzes the origins of segregation as a specific stage in the evolution of white supremacy in South Africa and the American South. Unlike scholars who have attributed twentieth-century patterns of race relations to the continuation of earlier social norms and attitudes, Cell understands segregation as a distinct system and ideology of race and class division, closely associated with urbanization, industrialization, and modern processes of state and party formation. Originally advocated by moderates and liberals, rather than by racist fanatic with whom it later came to be identified, segregation became comparatively sophisticated, flexible, and absorptive. In its ambiguities even advocates of black power could sometimes find a basis for collaboration. An excellent insight into origins of racism. [1 copy available]
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LIFE IN THE PUEBLOS (AKA Workaday Life of the Pueblos)
by Ruth Underhill. B&W photos and drawings. Beautiful cover art by Jemez artist Vidal Casiquito. Condition: NEW 1991 Ancient City Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Perfect. Content: Originally published in 1946 as Workaday Life of the Pueblos by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This edition is "edited" and possibly "revised" (the book itself does not state it is "revised", but other sources do state it), but there is no detail about what has been edited or revised. Nevertheless, this is a book worth reading as an intimate look at daily life of the Pueblo Indians, past and present, describing their food, shelter, clothing, games, and other aspects of their existence. Questions welcome - enlightenment on this book also welcome. [2 copies available]
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THE MAGICK OF FOLK WISDOM: a Source Book From the Ages
(AKA Folkways, Reclaiming the Magic and Wisdom)
by Patricia Telesco. B&W drawings & decorations illustrate. Condition: NEW 2002 Castle Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first thus, first printing. Only "flaw": crease on inside flap edge. Otherwise perfect. Content: Originally published under the title "Folkways, Reclaiming the Magic and Wisdom" in 1994. Tap into the rich legacy of over 650 folk beliefs. An ideal reference tool for magical practitioners or anyone interested in the superstitions and customs of our ancestors. Includes explanations of amulets, celestial objects, crystals, numerology, folk medicine, and more. Excellent research tool for writers. [1 copy available]
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MAN, THE PROMISING PRIMATE: The Conditions of Human Evolution [Second Edition]
by Peter J. Wilson. Condition: NEW 2002 Yale University Press Trade Paperback, second edition, third printing. Content: A fascinating monograph on the conditions of human evolution and the conditions required by it . . . .This is first-rate scientific speculation -- lucid and straightforward. This is an excellent analysis, and though it goes to the heart of issues in genetics and anthropology, it is eminently accessible for the general reader. [1 copy available]
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THE MAN WHO FOUND THE MISSING LINK: The Extraordinary life of Eugene Dubois
by Pat Shipman. B&W photos, maps, and drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW 2002 Phoenix/Orion (London) Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: This book the story of one of the greatest scientists at the turn of the century - a Dutchman called Eugene Dubois, now largely forgotten, but the man whose discovery of the 'missing link' altered our view of human origins. As a young man, he decided that the most important contribution a man could make to science would be to find the missing link. It would be the proof of Darwinian evolution, then still controversial. He deduced where the missing link should be and found the fossil, now known as homo erectus, in Java in 1891. Shipman uses a fascinating range of letters, diaries and photographs to tell the story of how Dubois' life and career exploded across the world in the 1890s. [1 copy available]
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RATS, LICE AND HISTORY: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deals With the Life History of Typhus Fever
by Hans Zinsser. Condition: Good only, 1971 Bantam paperback edition, 8th printing. Light edgewear and spine roll, spine crease with pale tanning to page edges. Content: The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society over the past half-millennium. Intriguingly fascinating and entertaining reading for anyone who is interested in how society copes with catastrophe and pain. Relevant today in face of the worldwide medical calamity of AIDS. Continuously in print since its first publication in 1935, with over 75 printings. [1 copy available]
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RETURN TO LAUGHTER: An Anthropological Novel
by Elenore Smith Bowen. Foreword by David Riesman. Condition: UNREAD 1964 Anchor paperback, 28th printing. Interior clean, tight, perfect, but bottom front cover corner shows diagonal creases with shelfwear hinge crease. Content: Although the politically correct and socially aware reader may be inclined to huff and puff a little bit over this anthropological journey through Africa, it is neccessary to take into account the actual year that this book was first written (1954). Aside from a few "dated" remarks, this book provides a tender glimpse into the field work of an anthropologist. A young anthropologist is confronted with a quagmire ethical and moral ambiguity as ideals and unconscious assumptions meet the reality of living within a human community. Witch trials and a smallpox epidemic provide a dramatic context for problems familiar to anyone living among strangers, whether in the next town or the next continent. Along the way, Return to Laughter also serves as an engaging, impressionistic, ethnography. In fact, I'm amazed at how many different layers of book Smith Bowen has squeezed into such a quick read. [1 copy available]
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RUBBISH! The Archaeology of Garbage: What Our Garbage Tells Us About Ourselves
by William Rathje and Cullen Murphy. B&W drawings. Condition: UNREAD 1993 HarperPerennial Trade Paperback, first thus, first printing. Tanning to interior page edges. Remainder. Content: An exciting and erudite investigation of the geography, history, composition, mythology, demographics, and widespread misperception of garbage--and the odd behavior of those who have made garbage what it is today. "Who would have thought reading about (garbage) could be so interesting and so much fun?--Chicago Tribune. Line drawings. A book about tomorrow's archaeological treasures. [1 copy available]
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SOCIETY IN PREHISTORY: The Origins of Human Culture
by Tim Megarry. Condition: Gently pre-read 1995 New York University Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Content: Reveals a profound understanding of evolutionary biology, and an excellent up-to-date knowledge of human evolution studies. It is not only very well done, but it is written from a novel point of view. It needs to be very widely read and I hope that it will be. Megarry is doing his subject a great service.--Bernard Campbell University of CaliforniaSocial scientists have tended to neglect prehistory in their approach to human societies. Tim Megarry's lucid and authoritative book remedies this neglect. It will be of great value to students of anthropology, psychology, and sociology.-- Paul Hirst, Birkbeck College. Stressing the importance of culture as a formative agent in the evolutionary emergence of modern humans, this book provides an impressive, interdisciplinary, and deeply informed survey of prehistory. Individual chapters focus on culture and evolution; biology and culture; primate societies; the first hominids; tools and culture; the economics of foraging; modern humans and human behavior; sex and the division of labor; and sexuality and social life. The book reveals that, while social behavior is biologically grounded, it is not biologically determined. [1 copy available]
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THE STUDY OF CULTURE (Revised Edition)
by L. L. Langness. B&W photos, charts & maps illustrate. Condition: NEW 1997 Chandler & Sharp Trade Paperback (269 pages), revised edition, fourth printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: Reviewer: "Langness condenses in one small volume the major theories and writers of cultural anthropology. The book features extensive quotes from famous writings and profiles of important theorists like Lewis Henry Morgan, Edward Tylor, Bronislaw Malinowski and Marvin Harris. Graphs illustrate theoretical structures and a useful glossary is provided. A good choice for university and college level courses." [1 copy available]
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THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE:
A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
by Robert Ardrey. B&W drawings by Berdine Ardrey. Condition: UNREAD 1978 Bantam paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear & deeply tanned page edges. The book had been shelved or stored poorly and has a slight "wave" to the back half of the book. 2 tiny smudges bottom edges which I'm working on. Actually, it's better than it sounds. Content: This book is an anthropology classic and is on the "must-read" list. "The overall argument of the book lends profound insight into the study of animal behavior (ethology i believe) and answered so many questions I had about my personal daily observations. This book also attempts to make a link between animal behavior and human behavior. Those who believe that humans are not animals, but higher than animals may want to skip this title if you don't have the courage. Keep in mind however that it was Carl Sagan who called for an alliance between religion and science and Pope John Paul II who said "Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish... Such bridging ministries must be nurtured and encouraged."[1 copy available]
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TRISTES TROPIQUES
by Claude Levi-Strauss. B&W photo section plus B&W original drawings througout. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1977 Bantam paperback, second printing. Diagonal crease bottom front cover corner. Light edgewear. Moderate tanning to page edges. Content: Translated from the French by John & Doreen Weightman. This book was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Lévi-Strauss's ground-breaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a cornerstone of structural anthropology and an exploration by the author of his own intellectual roots as a professor of philosophy in Brazil before the Second World War, as a Jewish exile from Nazi-occupied Europe, and later as a world-renowned academic (he taught at New York's New School for Social Research and was French cultural attaché to the United States). Lévi-Strauss's central journey leads from the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil. There, among the Amerindian tribes--the Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib--he found "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." Lévi-Strauss's discussion of his fieldwork in Tristes Tropiques endures as a milestone of anthropology, but the book is also, in its brilliant diversions on other, more familiar cultures, a great work of literature, a vivid travelogue, and an engaging memoir--a demonstration of the marvelous mental agility of one of the century 's most important thinkers. Presented here is the translation by the Weightmans of the complete text of the revised French edition of 1968, together with the original photographs and illustrations. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE VELVET GLOVE: Paternalism and Conflict in Gender, Class, and Race Relations
by Mary R. Jackman. B&W charts illustrate. Condition: NEW 1994 University of California Press Trade Paperback (423 pages), first printing. Content: This landmark study analyzes and compares the ideologies that develop among unequal social groups. Jackman employs a unique national survey to investigate all three of the most prominent relations of inequality in the United States: gender, class, and race. Where other scholars have emphasized conflict as the emblem of intergroup oppression, Jackman proposes a theory in which both dominant and subordinate groups maneuver to avoid open hostility as they strive to control resources within the confines of their mutual relationship. Hostility, Jackman points out, creates resistance in a relationship. Dominant groups therefore try to preempt the use of force by following a velvet-glove strategy of "sweet persuasion." They are drawn especially to the ideological mold of paternalism, in which the coercion of subordinates is grounded in love rather than hate. Dominant-group members pronounce authoritatively on the needs and welfare of all and then profess to "provide" for those needs. Love, affection, and praise are offered to subordinates on strict condition that they comply with the terms of the unequal relationship. Whether in the home or in the arena of class or race relations, paternalism wraps control and authority in an ideological cocoon in which discriminatory actions are defined as benevolent and affection is made contingent on compliance. Jackman's emphasis on the practice of coercive love in race, class, and gender relations is sure to generate controversy and further research. Sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, and anyone interested in group ideology will find here a provocative challenge to conventional views. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WAR AGAINST THE AMAZONS
by Abby Wettan Kleinbaum. B&W photos & drawings illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1983 McGraw-Hill hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Light shelfwear to DJ edges. Interior clean & tight. Content: A look at male-dominated society and the methods they have used to dominate women - as seen through the metaphor of the ancient Amazons. [1 copy available]
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THE WISDOM OF THE SERPENT: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection
by Joseph L. Henderson and Maud Oakes. B&W drawings, photos, maps illustrate. Condition: Used 1990 Princeton University Press edition Trade Paperback, third printing. The exterior looks unread and near perfect, but the interior has pencil underlinings and notes (most likely a college class book) through page 65 - and from there on it is unused. Content: The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations".This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. [1 copy available]
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WORKING IT THROUGH: An Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Workshop on Life, Death and Transition
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Photos by Mal Warshaw. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Collier paperback, first thus, third printing. Tiny edgewear - otherwise perfect. Content: The companion guide to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous workshops on death and dying. This remarkable guide to coping with death and dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's realization that she could help larger numbers of terminally ill people directly by meeting with them in groups. The first such meeting in 1970 led to hundreds more throughout the United States and the world and now to Working It Through, a testament to "faith and the ability to survive and transcend the most difficult trials in life" as Kübler-Ross writes in her foreword. The photographer Mal Warshaw has documented the workshops, and his moving photographs bring this already powerful book to life. [1 copy available]
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