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"A lively tale of dog domestication and migration."--Nature "When, where, and how did the partnership between dogs and humans begin? Was it an accident? Was it inevitable?...A tour de force drawing together under one proverbial roof what science can tell us to date."--Wendy Williams, author of The... Read More about Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs

How did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species. Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. The relationship has proved to be a pivotal development in our... Read More about Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs

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In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by compassion and an immediate, overpowering empa... Read More about To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa

In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French mi... Read More about Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe--descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eve... Read More about The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction