On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)

5 best books like On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves) (Jonnie Hughes): How They Were Found, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, Madeline and the Gypsies, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

How They Were Found

Author

Matt Bell

In this debut collection, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic...

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

Author	William Gay
ISBN	0743242920

William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent...

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

Author	Marion Cunningham
ISBN	0679450815

Here is the great basic American cookbook--with more than 1,990 recipes, plain and fancy--that belongs in every household.

Originally published in 1896 as The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, it became the coobook that taught generations of Americans how to cook....

Madeline and the Gypsies

Author	Ludwig Bemelmans
ISBN	0140566473

The Madeline books are among the most honored children's books of all time. Join Madeline in another adventure when she and Pepito run off to join the carnival with a band of traveling gypsies! At first they're having the time of their lives—they don't have to go to school, brush their teeth, or ever...

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

Author	Robert Wright
ISBN	1508235406

From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...