The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific...

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George Washington Carver: In His Own Words

A black man praised by white America-George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an anomaly in his own time. Now available in paperback, this...

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Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past andFuture

Scientific confirmation of advanced civilization at the end of the last ice age, the solar catastrophe that destroyed it, and what the ev...

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Esoteric Medicine and Practical Magic

In ancient times, only the wisest were trusted with medical knowledge, for it bears power over life and death. The remedies and methods ...

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The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

In the aftermath of the 60s “Black is Beautiful” movement and publication of The Color Complex almost thirty years later the issue of ski...

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Loving's Love: A Black American's Experience in Aviation

Recounts the author's experiences as a black man and aviator, detailing his efforts at building his own experimental aircraft, the lo...

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The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt

According to Egyptian mythology, when the ancient Egyptian sun god Re cried, his tears turned into honey bees upon touching the ground. F...

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Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color

Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s mos...

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West African Folk Tales

Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the univer...

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Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle

Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from sla...

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Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin: Cultures, Histories, and Biologyof African Pygmies

The forest foragers of the Congo Basin, known collectively as "Pygmies," are the largest and most diverse group of active hunte...

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Point of Origin: Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World'sCosmologies

Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world • Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre...

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Discover Your Family History Online: A Step-by-Step Guide to StartingYour Genealogy Search

Your Guide to Online Genealogy The internet has made millions of records available to search any time, anywhere. Start finding your ancestor...

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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty ye...

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Who Owns You?: Science, Innovation, and the Gene Patent Wars

The 2nd Edition of Who Owns You, David Koepsell’s widely acclaimed exploration of the philosophical and legal problems of patenting human ...

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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigratio...

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Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race

What does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional not...

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Songs, Roars, and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animals

From the calling macaw and the roaring lion to the dancing lyrebird, animals all around us can be heard and seen communicating with each ...

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Venus Rising South African Astronomical Beliefs, Customs and Observations

Venus Rising: South African Astronomical Beliefs, Customs and Observations examines traditional South African celestial knowledge, ranging...

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Number: From Ahmes to Cantor

We might take numbers and counting for granted, but we shouldn't. Our number literacy rests upon centuries of human effort, punctuated...

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