18 books like Purity and danger

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Silent Spring Rachel Carson · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America. Shares Pollution

Selected Writings of Andrew Lang

Selected Writings of Andrew Lang Alexandra Warwick · 2016 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

Les structures anthropologiques de l'imaginaire Gilbert Durand · 1960 · 536p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

Max James Patterson · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Don't wait for Maximum Ride to hit the big screen - prepare for takeoff now with the flock's highest-flying adventure ever. **When the planet faced destruction, they saved it.** Max and the flock have traded in Antarctica's subzero temperatures for sunny Los Angeles, where they're taking over the skies with their hair raising air show. But far below, a deadly assassin watches their every… Shares Pollution

Environmental science G. Tyler Miller · 1986 · ★ 3.7 · 541p · ≈ 18h · Moderate This book is designed to be used in introductory courses on environmental science. It treats environmental science as an INTERDISCIPLINARY study, combining ideas and information from natural sciences such as biology, chemistry, and geology and social sciences such as economics, politics, and ethics to present a general idea of how nature works and how things are interconnected. It examines how… Shares Pollution

Anthropology and autobiography Judith Okely · 1992 · 268p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

The Human Zoo Desmond Morris · 1705 · ★ 3.8 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Morris looks closely at the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living. Shares Anthropology

Aku-Aku: El Secreto De LA Isla De Pascua/Aku-Aku Thor Heyerdahl · 1957 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Ancient, Polynesian, Archaeological, Expedition to verify the ancient relationship of the Easter Island Polynesian with the indigenous Peruvian peoples. Shares Anthropology

Argonauts of the western Pacific Bronisław Malinowski · 1922 · ★ 3.8 · 626p · ≈ 20h · Challenging "Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is 'to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.' Through vivid evocations of Kula… Shares Anthropology

The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism Edmund Ronald Leach · 1967 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

Myth and meaning Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1978 · ★ 3.0 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

A rap on race Margaret Mead · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate (*From the introduction*) On August 25, 1970, anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer James Baldwin met for the first time to have three recorded conversations, totaling more than seven hours of tape that, once transcribed, would compose the book, *A Rap on Race* (1971). The Mead and Baldwin Book is an amazing account documenting the meeting of two of the twentieth century's paradigmatic thinkers… Shares Anthropology

Primitive Culture Edward Burnett Tylor · 2010 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

Histoire naturelle Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon · 1749 · ★ 3.5 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging THEORIEDE LATERREPREMIER DISCOURSDE LA MANIERE D'ETUDIER ET DE TRAITER L'HISTOIRE NATURELLEl'histoire naturelle, prise dans toute son etendue, est une histoire immense ; elle embrasse tous les objets que nous presente l'univers. Cette multitude prodigieuse de quadrupedes, d'oiseaux, de poissons, d'insectes, de plantes, de mineraux, etc.., offre a la curiosite de l'esprit humain un vaste spectacle… Shares Anthropology

Myth and reality Mircea Eliade · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book.

Breaking and entering Paul F. Cromwell · 1990 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Anthropology with this book. Shares Anthropology

Cyborg citizen Chris Hables Gray · 2000 · 241p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "The growing synergy of humans and technology - from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans - is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike?". "Chris Hables Gray now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or… Shares Anthropology

Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas · 1467 · ★ 4.1 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the relationship of God, world and humans. Shares Anthropology

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