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Osiris eBook Series

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  • Osiris, Volume 40

    Animal Mobilities

    Edited by Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, Gabriel N. Rosenberg ...
    Series Book 40 - Osiris
    Situates "animal mobility" within the politics of movement, opening new perspectives in the history of science.Human societies often come to know the natural world by examining animals, even as animals, frequently both willful and animate, can elude human grasp and challenge human aims. Animals and their movements have underpinned many methodological, moral, and epistemic dilemmas that ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRenowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Progress

    by Ronald Wright ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water -- the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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  • The Burning Earth

    An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

    by Sunil Amrith ...
    **Winner of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for NonfictionLonglisted for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardOne of The New Yorker's "Essential Reads" of 2024 • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2024"[An] epic exploration of human innovation and destruction." —Josie Glausiusz, NatureA brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Based on the Book by Jared Diamond

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jared Diamond's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond includes:Historical contextChapter ... Read more

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  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    by Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Read more

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  • When the World was Black Part One

    The Untold History of the World’s First Civilizations | Prehistoric Culture

    by Supreme Understanding ...
    Series Book 2 - Science of Self
    ABOUT THE BOOKIn this book, we cover over 200,000 years of Black history. For many of us, that sounds strange. We can’t even imagine what the Black past was like before the slave trade, much less imagine that such a history goes back 200,000 years or more. Can you imagine what that does to a person? To grow up believing their people started out as slaves? Perhaps some of us know a little about ... Read more

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  • Cannibals and Kings

    Origins of Cultures

    by Marvin Harris ...
    In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt ... Read more

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  • Know-It-All Anthropology

    The 50 Extraordinary Human Innovations and Events, Each Explained in Under a Minute

    Edited by Simon Underdown ...
    An informative reference containing concise explanations for the major anthropological discoveries in human physical, cultural, and social history.Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet?These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on ... Read more

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  • Elderflora

    A Modern History of Ancient Trees

    by Jared Farmer ...
    **The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world“Rich...fascinating.”—The Wall Street Journal**Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new ... Read more

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  • An Environmental History of the World

    Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life

    by J. Donald Hughes ...
    This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD