5,544円 The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory....

3,960円 The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and c...

4,158円 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction, this controversial, thought-provoking, and timely book is "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The "Second Sex and Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." -- "Newsweek. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

4,554円 Inspired by the beloved icon who balanced sensibility and sex appeal, this guide examines the art of being a woman, providing modern advice on career, love lives, families, health concerns, friendships, and more.

1,930円 Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, "De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for ...

4,356円 For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. "Deserves to be a modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens".--The Washington Post. Photos and illustrations.

3,960円 In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and to find success.

3,366円 Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this fascinating study presents how and why peopl...

6,930円 In an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency, Bob Woodward takes readers deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton to describe how each president discovered that the office had been forever altered by the effects of the Watergate s...

2,673円 Weaving a vibrant tapestry of the rural South, this extensive volume of African-American folklore was collected in the late 1920s by Zora Neale Hurston on her travels through the Gulf States.

3,564円 This national bestseller, now in paperback, reveals how all humans are descended from seven prehistoric women--the Seven Daughters of Eve.

3,366円 The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. But the country failed to recover from the staggering economic collapse of the early 1990s. Today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends, notably a population ...