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    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    David Graeber, David Wengrow

    A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history

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    Why We Read

    A sparkling anthology of newly commissioned writing on the joys and rewards of reading non-fiction.

    Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure…

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    The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    David Wengrow

    Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced…

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    The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    David Wengrow

    Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced…

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    The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC

    David Wengrow (University College London)

    In The Archaeology of Early Egypt, published in 2006, David Wengrow provides an interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state c. 10,000-2,650 BC. His conclusions extend…

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    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    David Graeber, David Wengrow

    A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history 

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    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    David Graeber,David Wengrow

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    A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of…

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    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

    David Graeber,David Wengrow

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    A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of…

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    Cultures of Commodity Branding

    The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving…

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    Cultures of Commodity Branding

    The contributions in this volume document, both in past social contexts and recent ones, the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving…

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    What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

    David Wengrow (Professor of Comparative Archaeology, University College London)

    A vivid new account of the ‘birth of civilization’ in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia where many of the foundations of modern life were laid

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