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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World more books like this

by John Robbins (Read by)

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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.

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Diet for a New America

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by John Robbins

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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 ...

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Origin of Species

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by Professor Charles Darwin

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Voyage with Darwin as he gathers the raw material that ushered in the greatest intellectual revolution in nearly 2,000 years.

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Invention of Tradition

Invention of Tradition more books like this

by Eric J Hobsbawm (Editor), Terence O Ranger (Photographer)

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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 ...

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language more books like this

by John McWhorter

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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. ...

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The World in Six Songs

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by Daniel J Levitin

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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.

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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity more books like this

by Stuart Kauffman, M.D.

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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 ...

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The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America

The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America more books like this

by Brian M Fagan

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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 ...

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Immense Journey

Immense Journey more books like this

by Loren S Eiseley

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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.

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Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith more books like this

by Marvin R Wilson

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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.

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors more books like this

by Carl Sagan

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The world's most celebrated team of science writers explores the origins of human life on Earth--a wonderfully entertaining and awe-inspiring excursion through more than a billion years of evolution. Beginning with a vivid account of Darwin and his theory of evolution, the authors set out to reconstruct the forgotten links in our chain of being, ...

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Descent of Man more books like this

by Professor Charles Darwin

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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 ...

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The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor more books like this

by Mr. Colin Tudge, Josh Young

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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 ...

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The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus more books like this

by John Dominic Crossan

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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.

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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body more books like this

by Steven Mithen

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Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, those of that other aural and vocal communication system, music, have been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is ...

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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth more books like this

by Richard Fortey

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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 ...

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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

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This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical ...

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From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin more books like this

by Professor Charles Darwin, Edward Osborne Wilson (Editor)

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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 ...

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The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ more books like this

by Lynn Picknett

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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.

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The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight more books like this

by Mark Caro

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As foie gras has emerged from its formerly obscure luxury-item status to become an everyday foodie favorite, the methods of its production have fallen under fervent inquiry. Caro joins in the debate about what people know--and what they choose not to know--about what they eat.

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Backgrounds of Early Christianity more books like this

by Everett Ferguson

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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.

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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

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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 ...

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How Jesus Became Christian more books like this

by Barrie Wilson

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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.

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Investigations more books like this

by Stuart A Kauffman

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In the tradition of Schrodinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton, Boltzman, Bohr, and Einstein. Kauffman's At Home in the Universe, which The New York Times Book ...

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Who Built the Moon? more books like this

by Alan Butler

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The Moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astrophysics and there is no coherent theory of its origin - in fact, it should not really be there. When researching the ancient Stone Age system of geometry and measurement, which they revealed in their previous book, Civilization One, the authors were ...

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