Item 3260Understanding Human Nature
New York: Fawcett Premier, 1954. mass market paperback. 16mo 224pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03325.
sociology/anthropology
Item 3608African Genesis
New York: Dell, 1967. mass market paperback. 16mo. 384pp. Laurel Edition. see pictures for synopsis. #03674.
Item 4534The Social Contract
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 448pp. from front flap: "For the past decade Robert Ardrey has been exploding a series of philosophical landmines. African Genesis (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. Then came The Territorial Imperative (1966), whose title is now.....
Item 3983The First Eden
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1987. first American edition. hardcover. 8vo. 240pp. from front flap: "In The First Eden, David Attenborough's latest excursion into the field of natural history, he explores the history and current state of this fascinating region, which became the cradle of civilization." #04049.
Item 3276Patterns of Culture
New York: Penguin Books, 1947. mass market paperback. 16mo 272pp. from About This Book: "Since the thirties the psychoanalysts have looked for many explanations of complex civilized behavior in the tabus and drives of primitive man. Dr. Benedict was one of the first anthropologists to implement these theories with technical.....
Item 3083Iron John
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1991. hardcover. 8vo 268pp. from front flap: "Iron John is Robert Bly's long-awaited book on male initiation and the role of the mentor, the result of ten years' work with men to discover the truths about masculinity that get beyond the stereotypes of our popular culture.".....
Item 4945The New Utopians
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965. softcover. 12mo. 213pp. A Spectrum Book S-184. see pictures for synopsis. #05028.
Item 4739The Meaning of the 20th Century
New York: Harper and Row, 1965. softcover. 8vo 208pp. Harper Colophon Books CN67. see pictures for synopsis. #04822.
Item 5317The Structures of Everyday Life
New York: Harper and Row, 1981. softcover. 8vo. 623pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05400.
Item 3161Patterns of Mothering
New York: International Universities Press, 1974. softcover. 8vo 446pp. second printing. see pictures for synopsis. #03226.
Item 3284The Process of Education
New York: Vintage Books, 1960. mass market paperback. 16mo 97pp. Vintage Book V234. see pictures for synopsis. #03349.
Item 3050The Proper Study of Mankind
Harper and Brothers, 1948. hardcover. 8vo 311pp. from inside flap of DJ (not present in this copy): "Science, we all know, can give us the answer to many questions in the domain of matter and motion. It has just given us the key to the fundamental energy of the universe.....
Item 3177About Men
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 281pp. from front flap: "After years of research, Phyllis Chesler has turned her attention to men in this monumental book, About Men. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of men and, as well, the literature and mythology that have produced the.....
Item 3302Elementary Survey Analysis
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971. softcover. 8vo 195pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03367.
Item 4389Evil Sisters
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 480pp. from front flap: "Bram Dijkstra's new book, ten years in work, is a stunning inquiry into the idea of woman as seductress: how, in many areas of twentieth-century high and popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as.....
Item 4390Evil Sisters
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 480pp. from front flap: "Bram Dijkstra's new book, ten years in work, is a stunning inquiry into the idea of woman as seductress: how, in many areas of twentieth-century high and popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as.....
Item 2315Homo Aestheticus
New York: The Free Press, 1992. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 297pp. from front flap: "All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material possessions embellish what they do own, decorate their bodies, and celebrate special occasions with music.....
Item 3201The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1947. hardcover. 8vo 456pp. from Introduction: "In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it. A religious system may be said to be the.....
Item 5088True Experiences in Exotic ESP
New York: New American Library, 1968. mass market paperback. 16mo. 128pp. A Signet Mystic P3363. see pictures for synopsis. #05171.
Item 4381Darwin's Century
New York: Anchor Books, 1961. mass market paperback. 16mo. 378pp. Anchor Books A244. see pictures for synopsis. #04463.
Item 4972Woman's Place
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1973. softcover. 8vo. 221pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05055.
Item 2353Manners and Meaning in West Sumatra
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 175pp. from front flap: "The Minangkabau of West Sumatra have long been prominent in the political, economic, and intellectual life of Indonesia, and they have been studied for their strong Islamic faith and their matrilineality. Until now, however, no one.....
Item 3473Human Types
New York: New American Library, 1958. mass market paperback. 16mo. 176pp. Mentor Book MP423. see pictures for synopsis. #03539.
Item 5300The Gold of the Inca
Museo Oro Del Peru. softcover. 4to. unpaginated, approximately 60pp. text in English and Spanish. see pictures for details. #05383.
Item 3025Goodbye to Uncle Tom
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1956. Book of the Month Club edition. hardcover. 8vo 435pp. BOMC edition. from front flap: "...Uncluttered by prejudice and unhampered by special pleading, this is perhaps the most enlightening book about the American Negro to appear in our time. It is also that very rare.....