The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James A. Frazer 
St. Martin's Press has for some time now accepted the noble mission of keeping Frazer's (1854-1941) seminal work (essentially a transhistoric, comparative anthropology of folklore, magic, and religion) before the public in the complete and original form of its third edition (originally published in London by Macmillan, 1911-1915), rather than the ubiquitous abridgments which debase both the subject and the author's magisterial command of his materials and his art. Contrary to opinion from some corners, this is no relic--in the complete form presented here, it is nothing less than a window through which the modern world can watch its own emergence--a work worthy of the company of, say, Marx and Freud.  Which makes the publication on acidic paper an egregious error--depriving the account of the endurance it deserves.  -- (RC) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race 
by Michael A. Cremo, Richard L. Thompson 
Over the past two centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts showing humans like us existed millions of years ago. But mainstream science has suppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory have acted as what Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson call a knowledge filter.  According to Cremo and Thompson, we have thus come to accept a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect. Forbidden Archeology is a call for a change in today's rigid scientific mindset. Bringing to light a great number of long hidden facts, Cremo and Thompson challenge us to rethink our understanding of human origins and the accepted methods of science itself.  -- Synopsis