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The Duchess $3.21 Swaddled in whalebone and wigs, Keira Knightley steps into the restricted world of the Duchess of Devonshire, a royal lady popular with her subjects but stuck in an unhappy marriage. If this situation recalls Princess Diana (a descendent of the Duchess’s family), so much the better for the purposes of director Saul Dibb and company; this film is eager to draw parallels with the unfortunate Lady Di… |
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache $20.88 This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can m… |
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The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution $11.98 Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor’s Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins’s name and well deserved reputation as a best selli… |
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River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series) $0.01 Nearly a century and a half after Charles Darwin formulated it, the theory of evolution is still the subject of considerable debate. Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins is among Darwin’s chief defenders, and an able one indeed– witty, literate, capable of turning a beautiful phrase. In River Out of Eden he introduces general readers to some fairly abstract problems in evolutionary biology, … |
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The Ancestor’s Tale $21 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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The Ancestor`s Tale (Hardcover) $40.73 From the scientist who penned THE SELFISH GENE, this exploration of Earth`s family tree goes backward in time by a way of a series of Chaucer-like tales focusing on a variety of life forms whose ancestry converges with our own. Gradually, Dawkins guides the reader in a regress that ultimately stretches to the primal bacterium that was the ultimate ancestor of all life on this planet. THE ANCESTOR`S TALE was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2004. |
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