Meredith F. Small

As an anthropologist who writes for the popular press, I am engaged by creative nonfiction. Many of my own books covered the intersection of biology and culture, and my latest "Inventing the World" is a pivot to the impact of various inventions in Venice over its 1,000 year history. 

Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World
Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
Italian Neighbors
Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Watermark
Venice 697-1797: A City, a Republic, an Empire
Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797 (Revised)
Italians
Piazza San Marco
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
The World of Venice: Revised Edition (Revised)
Venice Observed
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napleon
A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates, Revised Edition (Rev) (Rev)
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
The Hadza: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania Volume 3
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes (Updated)
What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Evolution of Human Mating
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Affluence Without Abundance: What We Can Learn from the World's Most Successful Civilisation
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Maya Children: Helpers at the Farm
Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives
Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies (Revised, Updated)
The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa
Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions
Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
Salt: A World History
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Among Schoolchildren
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction (Revised)
Primate Societies
How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
Five Little Monkeys
Peacemaking Among Primates
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
Primates of the World: An Illustrated Guide
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
Wild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of an Endangered Species
In the Shadow of Man