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1	Diet for a New America more books like this by John Robbins add to wishlist In this acclaimed work, author John Robbins, the son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream company, reveals the barbaric and unsanitary conditions of American slaughter and dairy houses. He also addresses the large-scale ecological and health problems that are caused by Americans' obsession with high-protein diets. He shares studies that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Immense Journey more books like this by Loren S Eiseley add to wishlist Perhaps Loren Eiseley's most respected book, THE IMMENSE JOURNEY is a compelling and lyrical exploration of the natural world, and a plea for its survival. Eiseley's gift for the personal essay, in which he takes a small observation and uses it as the basis for a much larger exploration, is particularly exemplified here. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World more books like this by John Robbins (Read by) add to wishlist The man who started the "food revolution" with the groundbreaking "Diet for a New America" now boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. Robbins argues for adopting a vegetarian diet for personal wellbeing as well as for the wellbeing of the planet. Photos, charts & tables. see all copies from $5.10! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity more books like this by Stuart Kauffman, M.D. add to wishlist A report on the order that lies at the heart of even the most complex systems--from the origins of life to the working of giant corporations to the rise and fall of great civilizations. In Kauffman's view, we are now discovering that the range of spontaneous order is much greater than we had supposed--that self-organization is the great ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Origin of Species more books like this by Professor Charles Darwin add to wishlist Voyage with Darwin as he gathers the raw material that ushered in the greatest intellectual revolution in nearly 2,000 years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.11! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Invention of Tradition more books like this by Eric J Hobsbawm (Editor), Terence O Ranger (Photographer) add to wishlist Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $16.89! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America more books like this by Brian M Fagan add to wishlist How, where, when, and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America? First published in 1987, The Great Journey tells the story of Brian Fagan's search for the first Americans - one of archaeology's great controversies. An enhanced edition of this dramatic narrative and real-life mystery follows the trail of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith more books like this by Marvin R Wilson add to wishlist This volume delineates the link between Judaism and Christanity, between Old and the New Testaments, and calls Christians to reexamine their Hebrew roots so as to effect a more authentically biblical lifestyle. see all copies from $11.00! new only from $13.62! \| SVS
9	The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus more books like this by John Dominic Crossan add to wishlist The world's foremost expert and best-selling author on the historical Jesus brilliantly illuminates how the Jesus movement was "resurrected" as Christianity by his companions, who made their revolutionary vision and program into a compelling reality. see all copies from $3.61! new only from $4.92! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins more books like this by Carl Zimmer add to wishlist The author of three previous books on evolution explores recent attempts by anthropologists to rewrite the human family tree in light of groundbreaking new discoveries. see all copies from $6.53! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist In this work, the author shares his expertise as a linguist to introduce us to Russonorsk, a creole of Russian and Norwegian once spoken by trading fur trappers in the summer, the ways in which Yiddish, a dialect of German, has been influenced by the grammar of Polish and a dialect of an Australian aboriginal language which only has three verbs. ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $7.70! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Descent of Man more books like this by Professor Charles Darwin add to wishlist THE DESCENT OF MAN (1871) looks at the emergence of humans in terms of primate evolution. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) focuses on the origin and history of our own species, claiming that humans are closest in ancestry to African chimpanzees and gorillas. Darwin presents a strictly mechanistic and materialistic interpretation of the human animal that ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $8.70! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth more books like this by Richard Fortey add to wishlist A guided tour through the origins of life. Fortey begins when Earth was a barren globe, without an atmosphere, spinning through space. He examines the very earliest signs of life on the rims of volcanoes, the first appearance of cells, the evolution of plants, dinosaurs, and animals, moving onward until the moment just before the debut of Homo ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin more books like this by Professor Charles Darwin, Edward Osborne Wilson (Editor) add to wishlist Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin - Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) - been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavour 123 years after Darwin's death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner ... see all copies from $25.14! new only from $29.43!
15 view cover	Treason more books like this by Orson Scott Card add to wishlist Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful ruler ship will never be realised. He is a "rad" - a radical regenerative, a freak who can regenerate injured flesh...and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. On a planet without hard metals - or the means of escape - iron is power in the race to build a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History more books like this by David B Goldstein add to wishlist Who are the Jews? Where did they come from? What is the connection between an ancient Jewish priest in Jerusalem and today's Israeli sunbather on the beaches of Tel Aviv? These questions stand at the heart of this engaging book. Geneticist David Goldstein analyzes modern DNA studies of Jewish populations and examines the intersections of these ... see all copies from $5.98! new only from $10.07! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor more books like this by Mr. Colin Tudge, Josh Young add to wishlist For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications.Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world s leading natural history museums, is the ... see all copies from $2.47! new only from $10.76! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ more books like this by Lynn Picknett add to wishlist While investigating Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin shroud the authors found clues to the existence of a secret underground religion. This secret history, encoded in works of art, follows the foundations of Christianity and the beliefs of the first century AD through to the Knights Templar and Freemasonry. First published in 1997 by Bantam Press. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The World in Six Songs more books like this by Daniel J Levitin add to wishlist The author of the "New York Times" bestseller and "Los Angeles Times" Book Award Finalist "This Is Your Brain on Music" tunes into six evolutionary musical forms that brought about the evolution of human culture. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $9.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The origin of species by means of natural selection, or The preservation of favored races in the struggle for life more books like this by Charles Darwin add to wishlist Charles Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES is one of the landmark works that has helped shape the modern world. The book has fresh applications today for its pioneering views on the ecology of plants and animals. This edition also includes an introductory historical sketch and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text, as well as an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.21! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life more books like this by Professor Charles Darwin add to wishlist On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, is widely accepted as the seminal work in modern biology. Through careful observation, Charles Darwin explains how traits can be selected for within a population. This is easily observed in the artificial selection of farm animals, for instance. Darwin's theory caused an uproar that can still be heard ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $2.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Backgrounds of Early Christianity more books like this by Everett Ferguson add to wishlist Widely used as a textbook since its publication in 1987, this work provides an analytical and systematic introduction to the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, literary, and religious backgrounds necessary for a historical understanding of the New Testament in the early church. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $23.37! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	How Jesus Became Christian more books like this by Barrie Wilson add to wishlist Sure to be controversial, this is an exciting, well-written popular religious history that cuts to the heart of the differences between Christianity and Judaism, to the origins of one of the world's great religions and, ultimately, to the question of who Jesus Christ really was--a Jew or a Christian. see all copies from $6.98! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| SVS
24 view cover	Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity more books like this by Carsten Peter Thiede add to wishlist Theide's scholarly analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls carefully connects Judaism and early Christianity as it chides flippant accounts of the role that the scrolls have in religious history. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	Billions and Billions more books like this by Carl Sagan add to wishlist A fitting testament to one of the great scientific minds of our day, "Billions & Billions", the final book of Sagan's astonishing career, brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.72! \| first editions \| SVS

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