Social Science
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Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI
$29.95 Add to cartHow society can shape individual actions in times of uncertainty
When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that- Author: Gasser, Urs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691150680
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
$30.00 Add to cartNature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.
While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene–an era many d
- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1503637328
- Language: English
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Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border Volume 57
$27.95 Add to cartTurns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.
American guns have ent- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Jusionyte, Ieva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0520395956
- Language: English
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Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing
$22.95 Add to cartWhat does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow-in numbers and power-while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part?
- Author: Vilkomerson, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900956
- Language: English
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
$32.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it–from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593948998
- Language: English
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Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
$30.00 Read moreA National Book Award Finalist
“Glows on every page .
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, NPR, The Minnesota Star Tribune, and Publishers Weekly- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0374601682
- Language: English
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Female Masculinity
$29.95 Add to cartIn this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well o… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1478001623
- Language: English
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Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos
$30.00 Read moreAn eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises.
Climate change, gentrification- Author: Lim, Audrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1250275180
- Language: English
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Gender: Your Guide, 2nd Edition: The Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture
$18.99 Add to cartBe a part of the ever-evolving conversation around gender and discover how to navigate gender diversity in today’s families, communities, and workplaces in this updated edition that is “an invaluable … [more below]
- Author: Airton, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1507220316
- Language: English
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Gardener’s Folklore: The Ancient Secrets for Gardening Magic.
$19.99 Add to cartEver wondered if there’s any truth behind planting by the moon? Or why wassailing is still a common folk practice in some parts of the world? In Gardener’s Folklore, the record of these practices is u
- Author: Baker, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1446312593
- Language: English
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Unitive Justice: Bending the Arc of Justice Toward Love
$19.99 Add to cartUnitive Justice introduces a revolutionary concept: Justice as Love, or Unitive Justice, a way to achieve justice without inflicting revenge or seeking retribution.
Written by an experienced civil tria
- Author: Clute, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0977971031
- Language: English
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This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood
$29.00 Read more“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”– Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism
From gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a- Author: White, Catherine Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 059347516X
- Language: English
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The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
$37.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-fir- Author: Seabright, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 069113300X
- Language: English
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
$36.00 Add to cartA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ance- Author: Mithen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605381
- Language: English
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We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
$20.99 Add to cartWith a new afterword by the authors
A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human
- Author: Jamail, Dahr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978598
- Language: English
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Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
$27.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial Times
A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field“Unjust D
- Author: Jacoby, Melissa B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977869
- Language: English
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The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
$32.50 Add to cartA comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes–from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “p… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Clara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1982144211
- Language: English
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
$18.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the Z?calo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker “Wry and re- Author: Grabar, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1984881159
- Language: English
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Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
$28.95 Add to cartFrom a Washington Post critic and self-described meathead, a witty, incisive, poignant exploration of male body image, from the history of the gym to the politics of superheroes to the world of manflu… [more below]
- Author: Brodeur, Michael Andor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0807059366
- Language: English
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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
$31.99 Read moreShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrower- Author: Kardas-Nelson, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1250817226
- Language: English
