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Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
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The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
Ruth DeFries
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
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Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future
Paul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Caleb Everett
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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
Clive Gamble et al.
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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
Al Gore
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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Joshua Greene
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
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Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken & Amory B. Lovins
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The Weirdest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
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Rescuing the Plant by Tony Hiss
Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
Tony Hiss
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The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
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Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America’s Schools
David L. Kirp
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Business of Changing the World
Raj Kumar
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Book
Charles C. Mann
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
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The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
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Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning
Sugata Mitra
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
Ian Morris
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Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior
Robert Ornstein
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
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Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
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New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante Pääbo
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
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Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
Kate Raworth
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Stephen K. Sanderson
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
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The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas Wade
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Paul G. Bahn
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Paul Bloom
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Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
Jean Bottéro
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Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
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Attachment: Attachment and Loss Volume One
John Bowlby
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Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity
S.G.F. Brandon
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The Axemaker’s Gift: Technology’s Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture
James Burke & Robert Ornstein
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert Cialdini
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Andy Clark
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline
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The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
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Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
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The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
Michael C. Corballis
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The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
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The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
Ruth DeFries
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The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
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Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
Merlin Donald
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Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing
Fred Donner
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Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Fred McGraw Donner
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The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
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How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Robin Dunbar
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The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
Joe Earle et al.
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The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
William Easterly
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Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future
Paul R. Ehrlich & Robert E. Ornstein
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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Caleb Everett
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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
Clive Gamble et al.
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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Lisa Genova
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Progress and Poverty
Henry George
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Al Gore
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Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al Gore
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The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
Al Gore
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Joshua Greene
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
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The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
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The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
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Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
Marvin Harris
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Marvin Harris
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The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
Gary A. Haugen & Victor Boutros
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken & Amory B. Lovins
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The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
Bear Heart
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The Weirdest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
Ian Hodder
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The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
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The Odyssey
Homer
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
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The Marketing of Christianity: The Evolution of Early Christian Doctrine
Institute for Cultural Research
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The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
Thorkild Jacobsen
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers, Vol. 1
Karl Jaspers
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Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
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One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
Salman Khan
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Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America’s Schools
David L. Kirp
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
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Coddling the American Mind book
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Book
Charles C. Mann
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
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The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity
Michael Marmot
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Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography–From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies
Felix Martin
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The Matter with Things
Iain McGilchrist
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The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth
Marvin Meyer
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The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
Marvin Meyer
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Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell
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Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making
Steven J. Mithen
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
Capt. Charles Moore
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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
Ian Morris
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The Great Courses: Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World’s Religions
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
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Healthy Pleasures
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. and David Sobel, M.D.
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New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution
Robert Ornstein & Paul Ehrlich
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
The cover of Robert Ornstein's book, 'Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behaviour'.
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Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior
Robert Ornstein
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante Pääbo
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The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
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Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi
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Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
Kate Raworth
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich
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The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography
Barnaby Rogerson
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Religious Evolution and the Axial Age: From Shamans to Priests to Prophets
Stephen K. Sanderson
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Judaism and Christian Beginnings
Samuel Sandmel
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Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing – How Evangelists, Psychiatrists, Politicians, and Medicine Men Can Change Your Beliefs and Behavior
William Sargant
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The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
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Caravan of Dreams
Idries Shah
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The Sufis
Idries Shah
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The Way of the Sufi
Idries Shah
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The Commanding Self
Idries Shah
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The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
Idries Shah
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Tales of the Dervishes
Idries Shah
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Reflections
Idries Shah
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Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Idries Shah
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
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What’s the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated
David Sobel, MD
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The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
John Shelby Spong
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Claude M. Steele
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Age of Opportunity: Lessons from The New Science of Adolescence
Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Chris Stringer
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
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The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull
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The Mountain People
Colin M. Turnbull
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Jesus: Nativity-Passion-Resurrection
Geza Vermes
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Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
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The Nativity: History and Legend
Geza Vermes
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas Wade
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
David Lewis Williams
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Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods
David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce
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The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
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Journey of the Human Mind

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The Silent Language
Edward T. Hall
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The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
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Beyond Culture
Edward T. Hall
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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Marvin Harris
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Reflections
Idries Shah
Knowing How To Know
Idries Shah
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The Forest People
Colin M. Turnbull

Discovering Our Distant Ancestors

The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Jerome H. Barkow et al.
How Humans Evolved
Robert Boyd & Joan B. Silk
Human Universals
Donald E. Brown
The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Storza
Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research
G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet
Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis
Glenn C. Conroy & Herman Pontzer
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans de Waal
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Frans de Waal
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The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution
Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Richard G. Klein
The Origin Of Humankind
Richard Leakey
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology
David Levinson & Melvin Ember
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
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Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans
Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki
The Real Eve: Modern Man’s Journey Out of Africa
Stephen Oppenheimer
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante Pääbo
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich
Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Neil Roughley, Ed.
Race and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Focus on the United States and the World
Raymond Scupin
African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity
Chris Stringer and Robin McKie
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Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Chris Stringer
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas Wade
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The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Nicholas Wade
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Robert A. Wilson & Frank C. Keil
Race and Human Evolution
Milford Wolpoff & Rachel Caspari
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham

The Evolution of Language

7,000 Universes: How the Language We Speak Shapes the Way We Think
Lera Boroditsky
Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky
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The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization
Michael C. Corballis
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Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
Merlin Donald
How Language Began
Daniel L. Everett
Language: The Cultural Tool
Daniell Everett
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Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
Caleb Everett
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Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages
Peter Forster & Colin Renfrew
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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
Clive Gamble et al.
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Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
Marvin Harris
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Matthew D. Lieberman
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
Malcolm Margolin
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol
Malcolm Quinn
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The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
Idries Shah
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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Claude M. Steele
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf
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Ideas that Shaped Our Modern World

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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
Peter Adamson & Richard C. Taylor
The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims
Mustafa Akyol
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim Al-Khalili
Pathfinders: The Golden Age Of Arabic Science
Jim Al-Khalili
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Karen Armstrong
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Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Karen Armstrong
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
Paul G. Bahn
Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
Louder than Words
Benjamin K. Bergen
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Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods
Jean Bottéro
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Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jean Bottéro
Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
Mary Boyce
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Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity
S.G.F. Brandon
The Keys of Saint Peter; Or, the House of Rechab: Connected with the History of Symbolism and Idolatry
Ernest de Bunsen
The Civilization of the Middle Ages
Norman F. Cantor
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Jacques Cauvin
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline
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The Shamans of Prehistory
Jean Clottes & David Lewis-Williams
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Our Pagan Christmas
R.J. Condon
Myth, Magic, and Morals
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Stephanie Dalley
Secret Societies
Arkon Daraul
Bible Myths And Their Parallels In Other Religions
Thomas Doane
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Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing
Fred Donner
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Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam
Fred McGraw Donner
Birth of a Worldview: Early Christianity in its Jewish and Pagan Context
Robert Doran
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The End of the Bronze Age
Robert Drews
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How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Robin Dunbar
Philosophical Foundations of Education: Connecting Philosophy to Theory and Practice
Sheila G. Dunn
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Bart D. Ehrman
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Bart D. Ehrman
How Language Began
Daniel L. Everett
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
John Fiske
Wonderworks
Angus Fletcher
The Life of Muhammad
A. Guillaume
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasaid Society
Dimitri Gutas
The Qur’an
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem
The Pagan Background of Early Christianity
W.R. Halliday
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The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
Bear Heart
The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of Creation
Alexander Heidel
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Arthur Herman
Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology)
John Hick et al.
The Upanishads
Hindu Texts
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The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
Ian Hodder
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The Odyssey
Homer
Pagan Saviours: Pagan Elements in Christian Ritual and Doctrine
Institute for Cultural Research
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The Marketing of Christianity: The Evolution of Early Christian Doctrine
Institute for Cultural Research
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The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
Thorkild Jacobsen
The Origin and Goal of History
Karl Jaspers
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From The Great Philosophers, Vol. 1
Karl Jaspers
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Muhammad, the World-Changer
Mohamad Jebara
Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus
Babylonian Wisdom Literature
W. G. Lambert
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons: Against Heresies
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
The Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides
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Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites
Lorna J. Marshall
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
William H. McNeill
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
María Rosa Menocal
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The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth
Marvin Meyer
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The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
Marvin Meyer
Research in Anthropological Topics
Alicia Meza
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Art and Human Development
Constance Milbrath and Cynthis Lightfoot
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Thoughtful Foragers: A Study of Prehistoric Decision Making
Steven J. Mithen
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The Great Courses: Religions of the Axial Age: An Approach to the World’s Religions
Prof. Mark W. Muesse
Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God
Steven Nightingale
The Gospel of Thomas
Dr. A. Nyland
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God 4.0: On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God“
Robert Ornstein with Sally M. Ornstein
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The Psychology of Consciousness
Robert Ornstein
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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
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The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
F. E. Pargiter
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Ancient China Simplified
Edward Harper Parker
Stonehenge: Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery
Mike Parker Pearson et al.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Younger Pliny
Harappan Civilization
Gregory L. Possehl
Dawn and Devolution of the Indus Civilization
S. R. Rao
The World’s Last Mysteries
Reader's Digest
Christ in Islam and Christianity
Neal Robinson
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