Anthropology

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful....

After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest races....

Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? The author sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners....

This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused......

In Testosterone Joe Herbert explains the nature of this potent hormone, how it operates in mammals in general and in humans in particular....

Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....

Get ready for a roller-coaster ride for your senses as Harriet Lerner, Mollie Katzen, and Susie Bright unleash their ideas about America's favorite taboos in Food, Sex, and Relationships....

Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....

"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving. In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future....

In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion....

This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials. 

The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the 13th century - a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads still lead today, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn’t been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe.

Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dramatic stories of communities forced to flee monstrous crocodiles, all the narratives found here concern origins - whether of the universe, peoples or families.

Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a supremely entertaining foray into the heart of such questions. With generous helpings of warmth and wit, Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez offer bold new perspectives on why food is enjoyable and how the pursuit of delicious flavors has guided the course of human history. 

"Razzismo Made in Italy" è una guida da cui partire per diventare antirazzisti. Diventare, perché si tratta di una pratica che dura tutta la vita. In ogni puntata Irene Facheris (formatrice, scrittrice e attivista femminista) e Bellamy (cultural curator, attivista e fondatrice di Afroitalian Souls) chiacchierano in maniera informale su questioni legate al razzismo, dando definizioni, portando esempi concreti tratti dal passato e dal presente italiano - talvolta con ospiti esperti d'eccezione - e condividendo le proprie esperienze.

"Razzismo Made in Italy" è una guida da cui partire per diventare antirazzisti. Diventare, perché si tratta di una pratica che dura tutta la vita. In ogni puntata Irene Facheris (formatrice, scrittrice e attivista femminista) e Bellamy (cultural curator, attivista e fondatrice di Afroitalian Souls) chiacchierano in maniera informale su questioni legate al razzismo, dando definizioni, portando esempi concreti tratti dal passato e dal presente italiano - talvolta con ospiti esperti d'eccezione - e condividendo le proprie esperienze.