Anthropology Library

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

A Geography of Time: On Tempo, Culture, And The Pace Of Life

A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life From the Stone Age to the Phone Age

A Short History of Nearly Everything: A journey into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer

Afropean: Notes From Black Europe

America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization

Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World: The fascinating story behind the Mongol Empire

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

In a Sunburned Country: Discover the delights of “down under”

Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

Of Grammatology: The Foundations of Language, Writing, and Meaning

On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

One Summer: America, 1927

Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs