Origins

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Adrian Colewood
The World of Kratom Explained: An in-depth look at its origins, folklore, regional uses, and the global conversation surrounding a centuries-old
The World of Kratom Explained An in-depth look at its origins, folklore, regional uses, and the global conversation surrounding a centuries-old botanical The World of Kratom Explained offers readers a thoughtful journey into the cultural and historical story of a plant that has been part of Sout...
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J. E. de Steiguer
The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought
The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought provides readers with a concise and lively introduction to the seminal thinkers who created the modern environmental movement and inspired activism and policy change. Beginning with a brief overview of the works of Thoreau, Mill, Malthus, Leopold, and oth...
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Stephen M. Walt
The Origins of Alliances (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
"The Origins of Alliances offers a different way of thinking about our security and thus about our diplomacy. It ought to be read by anyone with a serious interest in understanding why our foreign policy is so often self-defeating." ― New Republic How are alliances made? In this book, Stephen M. ...
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Muata Ashby
AFRICAN DIONYSUS-The Ancient Egyptian Origins of Ancient Greek Myth
This insightful manual explores the connections between Ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology and philosophy, revealing how Ancient Egyptian culture influenced Greek civilization. It documents the origins of the Greek alphabet in Egypt, along with Greek religion and philosophy, from the myth of Atlan...
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Stephanie Coontz
Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class
“To some a book on the origins  of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and s...
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John Teehan
In the Name of God: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series)
Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers unde...
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A.J.P. Taylor
The Origins of The Second World War
From influential British historian A.J.P. Taylor, a reprint of his influential text The Origins of the Second World War. Controversial for his thesis that Hitler was an opportunist with no thorough plan, The Origins of the Second World War is an extensive exploration of the international politic...
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Vivian Chibuife
The Roots of the Igbos: Uncovering the Origins of Nigeria's Cultural Giants (The Indigenous People of Africa)
Uncover the Secrets of Nigeria's Most Intriguing Ethnic Groups The Roots of the Igbos: Uncovering the Origins of Nigeria's Cultural Giants" is a thorough and engrossing investigation of the earliest history of one of Nigeria's most illustrious and powerful ethnic groupings. This book explores the d...
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Stefanos Geroulanos
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read.” ― Publishers Weekly, starred revi...
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Jacques Pepin
The Origins of AIDS
It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence o...
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Jacques Pépin
The Origins of AIDS
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered...
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Gwinyai H. Muzorewa
African Origins of Monotheism: Challenging the Eurocentric Interpretation of God Concepts on the Continent and in Diaspora
African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their ori...
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Woody Holton
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now vene...
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John H. Walton
New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis: Advances in the Origins Debate (The Lost World Series)
Updating and expanding upon his previous work on origins, this riveting volume from John H. Walton marks the eighth entry in his bestselling Lost World Series, which has sold more than 125,000 copies. For over a decade, John Walton's books The Lost World of Genesis One and The Lost World of Adam ...
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Mark N. Cohen
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives)
“Makes an important contribution to our understanding of the challenges our ancestors faced during the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. . . . A well-organized and highly readable volume that synthesizes an enormous amount of data on what is perhaps the most significant economi...
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Gary Saxonhouse
Japan's Lost Decade: Origins, Consequences and Prospects for Recovery (World Economy Special Issues)
This volume explores the origins of Japan’s current economic crisis and assesses the country’s prospects for recovery. - An exploration of the origins and consequences of Japan’s current economic crisis. - - Examines the collapse of the equity and real estate market bubbles in the late...
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Larry W. Hurtado
At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion
This volume makes a valuable contribution to the debate about the origins and development of Christianity. Larry Hurtado argues that understanding the nature of Christianity in the first century requires taking full account of the first Christians' devotional practices because worship was the contex...
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Professor Weston La Barre
The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion
THE GHOST DANCE The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is a classic search for the origins of religion, employing psychology and anthropology to explain elements of Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, Christian, shamanic and Native American religion. The Ghost Dance offers a fa...
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Karen Haworth
The Evolution of Human Consciousness and Linguistic Behavior: A Synthetic Approach to the Anthropology and Archaeology of Language Origins
Drawing from the disciplines of cognitive science, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, Karen A. Haworth and Terry J. Prewitt offer a novel discussion of the origins of language, based primarily in the distinction of holistic versus analytical cognitive processing. Also, by employin...
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Douglas H. Erwin
The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology
A visionary look at how novel attributes arise and become transformative innovations in nature, culture, and technology The Origins of the New presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling e...
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