This book offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance.

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This volume offers a translation of Kant's pioneering contribution to the discipline of anthropology.

Provides insight into Nietzsche's philosophical thought on the death of God and the eternal recurrence in this translation of one if his major works. Bibliogs

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Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors (source ...

From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain is an account of the making of a large part of the American landscape following European settlement.

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