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23) Early humans
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Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs present a description of early humans, their origins, their tools and weapons, how they hunted and foraged for food, and the role of family life, money, religion, and magic.
24) Shaman
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456 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A saga of life thirty thousand years ago during the Ice Age depicts the lives of the shaman Thorn, an outsider named Elga, and Loon, the next shaman, who is struggling to find his own path in a treacherous and uncertain world.
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Physical Desc
v, 309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor.
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English
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Description
Describes the bodies, diets, habitats, life cycle, and extinction of the giant winged animals known as pterosaurs, provides details on pterosaur fossils found around the world, and includes color illustrations and a list of museums that display pterosaur fossils.
32) Neanderthal
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English
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Description
When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and now competitors, set off in search of him. Along the way, they make an astounding discovery: a remnant band of Neanderthals, the ancient rivals to Homo sapiens, live on. The shocking find sparks a struggle that replays a conflict from thirty thousand years ago and delves into the heart of...
34) Giant rhino
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Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of a prehistoric relative of the modern-day rhinoceros.
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Physical Desc
xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"How to take the Paleo diet to the max for optimal weight loss and total health -- from bestselling author and top Paleo expert Dr. Loren Cordain. Dr. Loren Cordain's bestselling The Paleo Diet and The Paleo Diet Cookbook have helped hundreds of thousands of people eat for better health and weight loss by following the diet humans were genetically designed to eat: meats, fish, fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and other foods that mimic the diet of our...
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Easter Island has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues, and how did they transform a presumed paradise into a treeless wasteland, bringing ruin upon their island and themselves? Nova explores controversial recent claims that challenge decades of previous thinking about the islanders.
40) World rock art
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Physical Desc
140 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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