Walter Benjamin's Grave

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

Beauty and the Beast

The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

Palma Africana

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

My Cocaine Museum

Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city

Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus

India's Ancient Past

What Color Is the Sacred?

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

And the Garden Is You: Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

The Magic of the State

War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

The Corn Wolf

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?