Anthropology
The human story from early hunters to modern nations: how farming, germs and geography shaped cultures, and what ties people together everywhere. Listen and see the world in a wider frame.
Anthropology Library
A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age
A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Crowds and Power
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Humankind: A Hopeful History
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Purity and Danger
Sex at Dawn: How we mate, why we stray, and what it means for modern relationships
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
The Atlas of Christmas: The Merriest, Tastiest, Quirkiest Holiday Traditions from Around the World
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
The Power of Myth
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
100 Million Years Of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today