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10 best books like Yoga (Rodney Yee): The Wild Robot, Toil & Trouble, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Underland, Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945, In Search of the Dark Ages, Witches and Neighbors: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft, In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins, The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
| Author | Peter Brown |
| ISBN | 0316381993 |
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. Why is she there? Where did she come from? And, most important, how will she survive in her harsh surroundings? Roz's only hope is to learn from the island's hostile animal inhabitants. When she tries...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 1250019958 |
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky.
"Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires....
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
| Author | Frans de Waal |
| ISBN | 0393635066 |
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0393242145 |
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
| Author | Michihiko Hachiya |
| ISBN | 0807845477 |
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness....
| Author | Michael Wood |
| ISBN | 0563522763 |
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible...
| Author | Robin Briggs |
| ISBN | 0140144382 |
Witches and Neighbors is a remarkable interpretation of the course and causes of the fear and persecution of witches that bedeviled Europe for centuries. Robin Briggs draws on the latest research into the local realities underlying the phenomenon. In particular, he employs his own extensive work...
In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins
| Author | Chris Stringer |
| ISBN | 0500050708 |
Portrayed as club-wielding cavemen, the Neanderthals have become the archetype of all that is primitive and uncultured. But were the Neanderthals the ancestors of modern humans, or an evolutionary dead end, replaced by fully modern people from Africa? The authors take the latter view in this highly...
The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History
| Author | Russell L. Ciochon |
| ISBN | 0136138454 |
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
| Author | Paul G. Bahn |
| ISBN | 0521454980 |
This is the fullest and most authoritative single-volume account of archaeology from the earliest discoveries to the great excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lavishly illustrated throughout and global in scope, it tells the story of those explorations which have helped shape...
100 Great Archaeological Discoveries
| Author | Paul G. Bahn |
| ISBN | 0760700702 |
Amazing discoveries such as the tomb of Tutankhamen, the buried city of Pompeii, the cave of Lascaux, and the Terracotta Army may be the headline grabbers, but archaeology is not just about rich burials and treasure, or pharaohs, emperors, and kings. The real thrill of archaeology is the way in which...
The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil
| Author | Andrew Delbanco |
| ISBN | 0374524866 |
We live in the most brutal century in human history, but instead of stepping forward to take the credit, the devil has rendered himself invisible. The very notion of evil seems incompatible with modern life, from which the ideas of transgression and the accountable self are fast receding. Yet despite...
A Field Guide to Germs: Revised and Updated
From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the arrivals...
| Author | Jack Barth |
| ISBN | 0671606883 |
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Tutankhamen: Life and Death of a Pharaoh
| Author | Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt |
| ISBN | 0140116656 |
In this brilliant book, now a classic, the renowned French archaeologist Madame Desroches-Noblecourt recounts the story of the tomb's discovery, examines the treasures found in the burial chamber & demonstrates the ways in which they throw new light on our view of Egyptian history & culture...
The First Crusade: A New History
| Author | Thomas Asbridge |
| ISBN | 0195189051 |
On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afire. Some 100,000 men, from knights to paupers, took up the call--the largest mobilization of manpower since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Now, in The...
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0385721404 |
Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.
In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars...
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing
| Author | Eliot Wigginton |
| ISBN | 0385073534 |
In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes...
