Monthly Book Contest
Each month we will select a book from our shelves, copy a portion of the book description and post it on this page. The challenge is to guess the correct Author and Title from the summary and email your answer to us. Please be sure to include your first name with your answer. The correct answers will be put into a drawing and one winner will be chosen on the last day of the month. If you win, we will email you to let you know.
*Barbara won the previous months book. See details below.
The Prize for October
"The Origin Of Humankind" is a used book in like new condition. (Editorial review below)
A $5.00 Gift E-Card to our store and the book with the featured photo.
This Months "Mystery" Book Description
(Guess what book this is to win the prize)
"They were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without guilt, without shame, and without ever paying the price. America's royalty..."
Email your answer to contest@boundanddetrmined.com
Send your first name, the Title and Author of the book. All three of these MUST be included or you will not be entered in the contest.
The Rules
Entry must include your first name, Title and Author of the book. One entry per person per month. That's it.
Tips
The summary that is listed above may or may not be the same description that is listed on our site with the book. Some information will match. Just put your information together see what you can discover. You will be able to find it if you search.
Your first name will be noted as the winner of the book on this webpage the following month.
Here are a few editorial reviews of this months book you can win.
From Publishers Weekly
Leakey here distills the thinking he
has elaborated upon in more richly illustrated formats, especially
Origins and Origins Reconsidered, both coauthored with Roger Lewin. For
the neophyte, something is perhaps gained by a sparer text. and fewer
illustrations. The time lines and fossil skeleton views included here
are sufficient to keep the wonder and mystery of anthropology pumping
while Leakey meticulously teases out the disputes that make the
discipline so obsessive. There is necessarily much that is familiar in
these pages, but those who are not conversant with anthropology's
near-ritual arguments on bipedalism, language and brain evolution, the
origins of consciousness etc., will find this survey a reliable course.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
What makes this volume
by the distinguished Kenyan paleoanthropologist and coauthor of Origins
(1977) and Origins Reconsidered (LJ 9/1/92) particularly engaging is
the lucid presentation and interpretation of recent findings and
current issues in human evolution, all of which are woven into the
story of human origins. Leakey attempts to explain what he holds to be
the four big evolutionary events, all foci of scientific disputation:
the evolution of bipedal locomotion in apelike primates, proliferation
of species of the human family (the hominids), expansion of the brain
with the evolution of the genus Homo, and evolution of modern humans.
Leakey argues that complex social behavior-and not the use of tools and
weapons-acted as the principal driving force in human evolution.
Although the sections on the origins of the hominids and Homo seem the
most cogent, discussions of the evolution of art, language, and
consciousness are both informative and thought-provoking. Strongly
recommended for general science collections.
James D. Haug, East Carolina Univ. Lib., Greenville, N.C.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Previous "Mystery" Book Description
"The evils of greed and ambition overwhelm love, innocence, and the bonds of kinship in this dark tragedy concerning the secret marriage of a noblewoman and a commoner... The fiendish schemes of two brothers who desire their wealthy sister's title and estates ends with a bloody and horrifying climax."
And the answer is:
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Barbara was the winner of the book "Love and Devotion" by Erica James and A $5.00 Gift E-Card to our store for June.
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