Required Books

The following books are required for all three MMW-1 tracks and will be available at the University Bookstore. The University Bookstore will also seek to stock as many used copies as possible.

If you wish, you may pre-order your books from the Bookstore's Textbook Reservation Service. Copies of all of the books listed here will also be available for use in sessions of up to two hours at the Reserve Desk of Geisel Library. (Some books have been released with more than one cover, so yours may not perfectly match the pictures here. The ISBN numbers however will normally be the same.)

Although the information given here is more detailed, you can check the current price and inventory status of these books on the University Bookstore's web site, including information about possible discounts or used copies.

The books are often also available from other sources, and if the bookstore stock runs out you may prefer to order them on-line from amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, or other on-line book services.

(We do NOT recommend trying to read the assigned books before the term starts. You will forget them and need to read them again when they are assigned anyway.)

ATLAS

Rand McNally Quick Reference World Atlas. Chicago: Rand McNally. 58 pp. ISBN: 0-528-96571-9. (Paperback. List price: $5.95. Used price $4.50.)

This cheap general atlas will be useful throughout the two year MMW sequence and is required in response to student suggestions in earlier years. Since this atlas does not necessarily list all locations referenced in the course, you will need to compare these maps carefully with other course maps in some cases.

To the extent that atlas page numbers are given in class, they will refer to this atlas. If you have a different atlas feel free to use it instead. It is inadvisible try to get by with no atlas at all; there will be map questions on exams.

RICHARDS, I.A.

1958 The wrath of Achilles: the Iliad of Homer, shortened and in a new translation. New York: W. W. Norton. 108 pp. ISBN: 0-393-00101-6. (Paperback. List price: $10.70. Used price: $8.05.)

This abridged and very readable version allows using the Iliad within the confines of a very full course. You are encouraged to read a full translation (or the Greek original) if you prefer, but the course study guides are standardized to this version.

TURNBULL, Colin M.

1962 The forest people: a study of the Pygmies of the Congo. New York: Touchstone. ISBN: 0-671-64099-2. (Paperback. List price: $15.00. Used price: 11.25.)

In the 1950s Colin Tunbull was able of live for an extended time among the pygmies (BaMbuti) of what was then the Belgian Congo. On the basis of his many long visits, he produced a description of how a foraging band society looks from the inside. For nearly all of human history all humans on the planet lived in foraging bands, a way of life now virtually vanished. Visits like Turnbull's occurred just in time to preserve a record of what such a way of life was like at least in one variant.

This is a "classic" work that has been through many editions but has not been rewritten. Used copies may come from various publishers, but all should be fine, although pagination may vary from one printing to another.

ZIMMER, Carl

2005 Smithsonian intimate guide to human origins. Washington DC: Smithsonian Books. Distributed by HarperCollins, New York. (Hardback ISBN: 0-06-082961-3, list price: $29.95. Used price: 22.50. Paperback ISBN: 0-06-119667-3, list price: $15.95. Used price: $12.00)

A month does not pass without the announcement of new discoveries in the study of human paleontology, whether based on the study of fossils or from the investigation of the DNA of modern populations, or occsionally even from studies of modern languages. This attractive volume provides a quick and very well illustrated overview of how scientists understand the human biological heritage, based on discoveries through the middle of 2005.

SOURCEBOOK

This item contains materials written specifically for MMW-1. It probably contains roughly 30%-40% of all of the assigned readings in the course. It is not available from a commercial publisher.

Spiral-bound paper copies of the Sourcebook are available from the UCSD bookstore at $24.50. It is also entirely available on-line in PDF-files. The two versions are identical in content.

Our experience has been that some students prefer to have the material available electronically and to take notes on a computer. Others feel more comfortable using a printed copy and being able to write in the margins. At the end of the term, the majority of students often report that they ended up buying and preferring the printed version, although many used both forms.

The Sourcebook is revised each year. If you buy last year's copy, you will need to buy or borrow the new edition for some readings or use the on-line version for them. Most articles show their most recent revision date at the top of all pages after the first.

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