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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 455,335 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,250,284 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Kon-Tiki
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.30 avg rating — 46,465 ratings
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The Power of Myth
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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 110,033 ratings
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
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4.23 avg rating — 3,447 ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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4.21 avg rating — 6,806 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.14 avg rating — 7,898 ratings
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
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4.03 avg rating — 3,635 ratings
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
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4.12 avg rating — 3,254 ratings
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
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4.18 avg rating — 4,271 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,943 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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4.14 avg rating — 6,047 ratings
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Tristes Tropiques
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Orientalism
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4.13 avg rating — 29,507 ratings
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
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3.55 avg rating — 3,198 ratings
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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4.12 avg rating — 18,715 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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The Songlines
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3.96 avg rating — 12,372 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,204 ratings
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The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
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4.18 avg rating — 7,498 ratings
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
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4.28 avg rating — 2,057 ratings
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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4.17 avg rating — 5,411 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
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The Phenomenon of Man
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
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4.18 avg rating — 6,764 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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4.30 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
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The Social Conquest of Earth
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The Origin of Species
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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People of the Deer
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
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Euphoria
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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The God Delusion
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The Eagle's Gift
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The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
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Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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The Second Ring of Power
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species
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Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
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Patterns of Culture
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Growing Up in New Guinea
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