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  • The Making of an Exhibit Hall
    Robert L. Carneiro / Robert LCarneiro
    The curator of a major museum tells about the creation of an exhibition, from beginning to end. Never before has the design and installation of anthropology exhibit been described in such detail. Not only are technical matters discussed, such as how to simulate a tropical rainforest in miniature and how the noxious fumes of urea formaldehyde are blocked from harming the specime...
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    9,56 €

  • The Checkered History of the Circumscription Theory
    Robert L. Carneiro / Robert LCarneiro
    The greatest of cultural achievements, from the Taj Majal to Beethovens 9th symphony, could never have been produced, or even dreamt of, except in a society organized on a state basis.Had people continued to live in small, autonomous communities, as they had for the first two million years of human existence, such achievements would have remained well beyond their capabilities....
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    12,36 €

  • Diary of a Football Handicapper
    Robert L. Carneiro / Robert LCarneiro
    This journal captures the day-by-day, week-by-week excitement of a fall season spent challenging the sports books of. Reno as the author tries to beat the point spread betting college football. While basically the story of one man, armed with a system, going head to head against the oddsmaker, it is also an ethnography of the sports books of Nevada.The author, a professional an...
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    17,45 €

  • In Solemn Conclave
    Robert L. Carneiro / Robert LCarneiro
    It is some years in the future, and Pope Urban IX, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, after reigning for thirteen years, has suddenly died of a massive heart attack. From every corner of the globe, 77 cardinals converge on the city of Rome, where they will gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect Urban’s successor. Ballot after ballot, the leading candidates vie with each other...
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    17,72 €