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  • A Survey of Primitive Money

    The Beginnings of Currency

    by A. Hingston Quiggin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: History of Money, Banking and Finance
    This book, first published in 1949, is the original and key survey of the stages which preceded the use of coins as the medium of exchange, and of the objects that coins displaced, objects which for want of a better name are here called primitive money. It examines in detail the primitive monies of the world, monies from far in the distant past, and monies still in use today. It is the essential ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • History of anthropology

    by Alfred C. Haddon, A. Hingston Quiggin ...
    Aristotle, “the father of them that know,” as Dante called him, is credited with having coined the word “anthropologist”; but he did not employ it in a very complimentary sense. Describing a lofty-minded man in his Ethics, he terms him ουκ ανθρωπολογος—not a gossip, not a talker about himself. But the word does not seem to have supplied a permanent want in the Greek world, and we meet it next in a ... Read more

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    Enriched edition. Unraveling the Tapestry of Human Diversity: Exploring Races, Cultures, and Historical Perspectives

    by Daniel G. Brinton, Bennett Stanhope ...
    In "Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography," Daniel G. Brinton delivers a comprehensive examination of human diversity, linking ethnographic studies with anthropological insights. Employing a clear and engaging literary style, Brinton navigates through various racial classifications, cultural practices, and social constructs, ultimately challenging the prevailing racial ... Read more

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  • Additional Notes on Arrow Release (History of Archery Series)

    by Edward S. Morse, Horace A. Ford ...
    This vintage book contains a detailed guide to archery. It includes a fascinating historical account of archery throughout the ages and contains information on the differences in archery practice in a variety of cultures. It also provides simple instructions on how to use a bow and arrow. This volume is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in archery. Contents include: "The History of ... Read more

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  • In Wildest Africa

    The Record Of A Hunting And Exploration Trip Through Uganda, Victoria Nyansa, The Kilimanjaro Region And British East Africa, With An Account Of The Snowfields Of Mount Kibo, In East Central Africa.

    by Peter MacQueen ...
    The record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyansa, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various tribes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... Read more

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  • Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, both volumes

    by Richard Burton ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he ... Read more

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  • Mutual Aid

    An Illuminated Factor of Evolution

    by Peter Kropotkin, Allan Antliff, GATS ...
    Series series Kairos
    One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer whose seminal critique of the hypothesis of competition promoted by Social Darwinism helped revolutionize modern evolutionary theory. An admirer of Darwin, he used his observations of life in Siberia ... Read more

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  • Hume

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Harris ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... Read more

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  • On The Track Of Unknown Animals

    by Bernard Heuvelmans ...
    First published in 1995. It will soon be forty years since the original edition of this work, Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées (1955), appeared in French. With this book, the great adventure of ‘Cryptozoology’, the science of hidden animals, began. ... Read more

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  • Man and Technics

    A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

    by Oswald Spengler ...
    In this revised edition of Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler's predictions have proven remarkably accurate after over ninety years. He foresaw the environmental consequences of industrialization, leading to species extinction.Spengler predicted that low-wage labor from Third World countries would outcompete Western workers, causing industrial production to shift to regions like East Asia, India, ... Read more

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  • The Pipe Book

    by Alfred Dunhill ...
    As a successful London tobacconist in the early 1900s, Alfred Dunhill’s passion for his field led him to begin collecting pipes from all over the world. From his collection he created The Pipe Book, which was first printed in 1924 and has rarely been out of print since. The book is a thorough exploration of every type of pipe—primitive mounds and earthen pipes; more elegant models of ivory, clay, ... Read more

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  • Anthropology

    by R. R. Marett ...
    "Anthropology" by R. R. Marett is an accessible introduction to the field of anthropology, written to provide readers with a foundational understanding of human culture, society, and evolution. Marett, a prominent British anthropologist, focuses on the comparative study of human societies, tracing the development of civilization from primitive to modern forms. He emphasizes the importance of ... Read more

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