Anthropology
Our shared human story unfolds through the lens of cultures, societies, and primal behaviors that shape who we are. Here you'll find compelling investigations into human nature, from our ancient origins and evolutionary past to the hidden codes that drive modern communities and marketplaces.
Anthropology Book Summaries
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
History
Science
Philosophy
Homo Deus
A History of Tomorrow
History
Science
Philosophy
The Posthuman
Philosophy
Theory
Feminism
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
History
Politics
Sociology
Bullshit Jobs
A Theory
Economics
Politics
Business
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
History
Science
Anthropology
Suicide
A Study in Sociology
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Science
Biology
Evolution
Why We Love
The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Psychology
Science
Relationships
Sex at Dawn
The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Science
History
Sexuality
Anatomy of Love
A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Psychology
Science
Relationships
1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
History
Science
American History
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
History
Science
Anthropology
Totem and Taboo
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Naked Ape
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
The Story Paradox
How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
Psychology
Politics
Science
The Moral Animal
Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Work
A History of How we spend our Time
History
Anthropology
Economics
The Teachings of Don Juan
A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Philosophy
Spirituality
Anthropology
Origins
How Earth's History Shaped Human History
History
Science
Geography
Homo Deus
A History of Tomorrow
History
Science
Philosophy
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Psychology
History
Science
Debt
The First 5,000 Years
History
Economics
Anthropology
Anthro-Vision
A New Way to See in Business and Life
Anthropology
Business
Economics
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Science
Anthropology
Evolution
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Science
History
Psychology
Exercised
Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Health
Science
Anthropology
Pragmatics of Human Communication
A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
Psychology
Communication
Philosophy
The Cosmic Serpent
DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Science
Anthropology
Spirituality
A Primate's Memoir
A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Science
Memoir
Animals
1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
History
American History
Anthropology
Visual Methodologies
An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials
Art
Academic
Research
Civilized to Death
What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
History
Philosophy
Sociology
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
History
Economics
Anthropology
The Culture Code
An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Business
Psychology
Cultural
The Geography of Thought
How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Science
Psychology
Animals
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
Human Instinct
How our primeval impulses shape our modern lives
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Watching the English
The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Anthropology
Sociology
Travel
The Bonobo and the Atheist
In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
A Separate Reality
Further Conversations with Don Juan
Spirituality
Philosophy
Anthropology
The Phenomenon of Man
Philosophy
Religion
Science
The Worm at the Core
On the Role of Death in Life
Psychology
Philosophy
Death
Food of the Gods
The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Philosophy
History
Science
No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Sociology
Poverty
Economics
Sastun
My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
Memoir
Anthropology
Biography Memoir
