Social Science
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Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters from 1970s Documentaries
$42.95 Add to cartIn the 1970s, an incredibly popular new film genre emerged, one that would later be reborn on television. And yet there has never been a book on the subject…until now.
Weirdumentary examines over 45
- Author: Rhodes, Gary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1627311572
- Language: English
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The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work
$29.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.
The tuba’s so- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1639735488
- Language: English
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Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture
$19.95 Add to cartUsing a blend of cultural criticism, humor, and personal memoir akin to Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror or Grace Perry’s The 2000s Made Me Gay, Joelle Kidd writes about her evangelical adolescence throug… [more below]
- Author: Kidd, Joelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1770417796
- Language: English
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The Jersey Devil
$13.99 Read moreThe Jersey Devil, thought to haunt the lonely sand trails and marshes of New Jersey, is a creature worth fearing…if it actually exist. The mysterious creature is said to emerge periodically to rampa… [more below]
- Author: McCloy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1935628437
- Language: English
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Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the land of the sagas, a collection of little-known, little tales from myth and lore–many available in English for the first time.
This unique and enchanting book opens the door to a captivatin- Author: Jónsdóttir, Dagrún Ósk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390254
- Language: English
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Cartel Bands On
$13.95 Add to cart- Author: Bobbitt, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: July 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895438657
- Language: English
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Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
$29.95 Add to cartMuch of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearheaded the critique of the stereotypical and the essen… [more below]
- Series: Japanese Society
- Author: Befu, Harumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1876843055
- Language: English
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That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing
$29.95 Add to cartAn alarming expos? of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media–when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor.
In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam Szete- Author: Szetela, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049856
- Language: English
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Dancing the Dream: The Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Religion and Spirituality
- Author: Sams, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0062515144
- Language: English
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The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image Industry
$29.99 Add to cartSo begins Arabelle Sicardi’s blazingly original collection of essays. A former beauty editor, Arabelle has devoted their entire adult life to the subject of beauty–they have analyzed it, criticized i
- Author: Sicardi, Arabelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0393531627
- Language: English
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We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
$24.95 Add to cartA major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists.
A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Col- Author: Swift, Jaimee A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903728
- Language: English
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Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
$39.95 Add to cartPeople organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcera
- Author: Marquis, Dave Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365874
- Language: English
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$20.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Named a best book of the year by Esquire, The Spectator and Publishers Weekly
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artifi- Author: Murgia, Madhumita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1250868483
- Language: English
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
$18.00 Add to cartSusan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.
In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250374731
- Language: English
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The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartThe Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country.
Michael Ansa
- Author: Ansara, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782142
- Language: English
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Before They Were Men: Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong
$30.00 Add to cartGender nonconforming thought leader and bestselling author Jacob Tobia offers a paradigm-shifting argument for fundamentally reframing how we think about men.
“A reckoning, a manifesto, a wellspring o- Author: Tobia, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593797949
- Language: English
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Regarding the Pain of Others
$18.00 Add to cartA brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture–its ubiquity, meanings, and effects.
Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Son- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250374723
- Language: English
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Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today
$21.99 Add to cart“Bet on Black is an illuminating account of overcoming adversity… an inspiring and hopeful narrative on Blackness.” –Bakari Sellers, New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country
Bet on- Author: Williams, Eboni K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0306828650
- Language: English
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
$30.00 Add to cartEnshittification: it’s not just you–the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the serv- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0374619328
- Language: English
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Flying Solo
$24.99 Add to cartUnmarried at 40–could there be anything worse? Our culture dictates that women who have failed to catch or hold the golden ring of marriage are destined to be deprived and depressed, perhaps even dan… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313476
- Language: English
