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 Reading List - Books

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Human Development

Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel
Vintage, 1998

 

Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee
Harper Perennial, 1993

 

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Genes, Peoples and Languages
University of California Press, 2000

 

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza
The Great Human Diasporasi
Perseus Books, 1993

 

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Mennozzi and Alberto Piazza
The History and Geography of Human Genes
Princeton University Press, 1994

 

David Suzuki and Holy Dressel
Naked Ape to Superspecies
Allen Unwin, 1999

 

Steve Jones
The Language of Genes
Flamingo, 1993

 

David S. Landes
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Norton, 1999

 

J.R. McNeil & William H. McNeill
The Human Web, A Bird's-Eye View of World History
Norton, 2003

 

V. Gordon Childe
Man Makes Himself
Mentor, 1951

 

C. Warren Hollister
Roots of the Western Tradition, 4th Ed.
Knoff, 1982

 

William Howells
Back of History
Doubleday, 1954

 

Jacquetta Hawkes and Sir Leonard Wooley
History of Mankind; Cultural and Scientific Development, Volume 1; Prehistory and the Beginnings of Civilization
Harper & Row, 1963

 

Grahame Clark
World Prehistory: In New Perspective, 3rd Edition
Cambridge University Press, 1977

 

Brian M, Fagan
World Prehistory, 4th Ed.
Longman, 1999

 

Peter Farb
Man's Rise to Civilization; as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State
Avon, 1968

 

Peter Farb
Humankind; What we know about ourselves; Where we came from and where we are headed; Why we behave the way we do
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978

 

Robert Redfield
The Primitive World and its Transformations
Cornell University Press, 1953

 

Robert J. Wenke
Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years (4th Ed.)
Oxford University Press, 1999

 

E.L. Jones
The European Miracle
Cambridge University Press, 1981

 

Modeling Techniques

Stephen Wolfram
A New Kind of Science
Wolfram Media, Inc, 2002

 

Peter J. Bentley
Digital Biology
Simon & Schuster, 2001

 

Steve Grand
Creation: Life and How to Make It
Harvard University Press 2001

 

Agriculture

Stuart Struever (ed)
Prehistoric Agriculture
Natural History Press, 1971

 

Jacqueline Murray
The First European Agriculture
University Press, Edinburgh, 1970

 

M.G. Kaines
Five Acres & Independence
New America Library, 1973

 

Economics

Marshall Sahlins
Stone Age Economics
Tavistock Publications, 1972

 

Jason Potts
The New Evolutionary Microeconomics
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000

 

W. Brian Arthur, Steven N. Durlauf and David A. Lane (eds)
The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II
Proceedings Volume XXVII

Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
Perseus Books, 1997

 

Archaeology

Jane McIntosh
The Practical Archaeologist
Checkmark Books, 1999

 

Jacquetta Hawkes, ed.
The World of the Past, Volumes 1 and 2
Alfred A. Knopf, 1963

 

Massimo Pallottino
The Meaning of Archaeology
Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1968

 

Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson
Forbidden Archaeology, The Hidden History of the Human Race
Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing, Inc., 1998
Caution: Unscientific preconceptions. Cited for its cautionary value.

 

General History

Teodoro A. Agonillo
A Short History of the Philippines
The New American Library, Inc (Mentor), 1969

 

Anthropology

Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God
Penguin Arkana, 1991
In four volumes:

 

Joseph Cambell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Fontana Press, 1993

 

Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point
Back Bay, 2002

 

Margaret Ehrenberg
Women in Prehistory
University of Oklahoma Press, 1989

 

Walter Goldschmidt
Exploring the Ways of Mankind
Holt Rinehart Winston, 1964

 

Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox, Darrell Tyron (eds)
The Austronesians
Australian National University, 1995

 

Douglas Fraser (George R. Collins, series editor)
Planning and Cities: Village Planning in the Primitive World
Braziller, 1968

 

Melville Jacobs and Bernhard J. Stern
General Anthropology, 2nd ed.
Barnes & Noble, 1963

 

Kenneth MacGowan and Joseph A. Hester, Jr.
Early man in the New World
Doubleday Anchor/The American Museum of Natural History, 1962

 

David Maybury-Lewis
Akwe-Shavante Society
Oxford University Press, 1974

 

Micahel D. Coe (Glyn Daniel, series editor)
Ancient People and Places: The Maya
Praeger Publishers, 1966

 

Walter A Fairservis, Jr.
The Origins of Oriental Civilization
Mentor Books, 1959

 

Ashley Montagu, ed.
Frontiers of Anthropology: Man, his origin and evolution in the words of the great anthropologists: Darwin, Huxley, Boas, Malinowski, Benedict, and many others.
Capricorn Books, 1974

 

Marvin Harris
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches; The Riddles of Culture
Vintage Books, 1989

 

Andrew P. Vayda, ed.
Environmental and Cultural Behavior; Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology
Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology, 1969