Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “guy bar oz”
Skip side bar filters

  • Bones and Identity

    Zooarchaeological Approaches to Reconstructing Social and Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Asia

    Edited by Nimrod Marom, Reuven Yeshuran, Lior Weissbrod, Guy Bar-Oz ...
    Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with questions of identity through culinary references, livestock husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic to the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gazelle’s Dream

    Game Drives of the Old and New Worlds

    by Jack W. Brink, Anna Jansson, Espen Finstad, Olivier Barge, Jacques Elie Brochier, Jwana Chahoud, Chrisitine Chataigner, Emmanuelle Regagnon, Marie-Laure Chambrade, David Burke, Wael Abu-Azizeh, Mohammad Barakat Tarawneh, Dani Nadel, Dan Malkinson, Guy Bar-Oz, Amnon Nachmias, Uzi Avner, Liora K. Horwitz, Naomi Porat, D.L. Kennedy, Ueli Brunner, Per Storemyr, Vadim N. Yagodin, Shamil Amirov, Toni Huber, Maria Nieves Zedeño, Lars Pilø, Rémy Crassard, Juan Antonio Sánchez Priego ...
    Series series Adapa Monographs
    Once the world’s prairies, grasslands, steppes and tundra teemed with massive herds of game: gazelle, wild ass, bison, caribou and antelope. Humans seeking to hunt these large fast-moving herds devised a range of specialised traps that share many characteristics across all continents. Typically consisting of guiding walls or lines of stones leading to an enclosure or trap, game drives were ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • Animals and Human Society in Asia

    Historical, Cultural and Ethical Perspectives

    Edited by Rotem Kowner, Guy Bar-Oz, Michal Biran, Meir Shahar, Gideon Shelach-Lavi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of the different aspects of human-animal interactions in Asia throughout history. With twelve thematically-arranged chapters, this book examines the diverse roles that beasts, livestock, and fish — real and metaphorical– have played in Asian history, society, and culture.Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the authors address a wealth ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America

    The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps

    by Dani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz, Dan Malkinson, Leland Bement ...
    Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species, and the hunters’ societies.The kites of Southwest Asia have been known to archaeologists for almost one hundred years but with the advent of high ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • A History of the World in 100 Objects

    by Dr Neil MacGregor ...
    This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Once and Future World

    Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be

    by J.B. Mackinnon ...
    From one of Canada's most exciting writers and ecological thinkers, a book that changes the way we see nature and shows that in restoring the living world, we are also restoring ourselves.The Once and Future World began in the moment J.B. MacKinnon realized the grassland he grew up on was not the pristine wilderness he had always believed it to be. Instead, his home prairie was the outcome of a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • After the Ice

    A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC

    by Prof Steven Mithen ...
    A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The History of Magic

    From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

    by Chris Gosden ...
    A Telegraph Book of the YearA remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos.'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag Montefiore______________________Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and ma... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A World on the Wing

    The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

    by Scott Weidensaul ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the YearAn exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.**In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pests

    How Humans Create Animal Villains

    by Bethany Brookshire ...
    An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big History

    From the Big Bang to the Present

    by Cynthia Stokes Brown ...
    "This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped—and how they in turn shaped the world we know today." — Publishers WeeklyThis book offers "world history on a grand scale"—pulling back for a wider view and putting the relatively brief time span of human history in context. After all, our five thousand years of recorded civilization account for only ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus