Social Science
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Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtfu
- Author: Sethi, Simran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0061581089
- Language: English
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On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered “good,” revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort o… [more below]
- Author: Loehnen, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593243056
- Language: English
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
$14.00 Read moreIn Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there’s no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0609805363
- Language: English
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Stony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside: Treasure and Ghosts in the London Clay
$28.95 Add to cartA thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade.
‘What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrill- Author: Shepherd, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0861548884
- Language: English
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The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
$24.99 Add to cart“A profoundly moving, well-researched examination of a uniquely American crisis.” —Library Journal, starred review
The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it’s time we start treating it
- Author: Watson, Jamal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1506495168
- Language: English
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Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds
$27.99 Add to cartIn this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by m
- Author: Krawec, Patty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1506499120
- Language: English
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A Short History of Trans Misogyny
$19.95 Add to cartThe trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented
Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson’s richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts- Author: Gill-Peterson, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1804291609
- Language: English
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Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-Of-Color Writing
$40.43 Add to cartIn Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US w… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Jina B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031719
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of the Traveller: The Astronomy of Northern Dene
$34.95 Add to cartTeachings from the stars
Much more than stories about the sky, Indigenous astronomies provide powerful, centuries-old models of knowing, being, and relating to the world. Through collaboration with mo
- Author: Cannon, Chris M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 177284098X
- Language: English
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Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016799
- Language: English
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Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History
$28.00 Add to cartRainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History is an anthology of eighty-five short, easy-to-read essays that originally appeared in Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. Author Frank… [more below]
- Author: Perez, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496857585
- Language: English
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Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis
$28.95 Add to cartBrings together the stories of two doctors battling the opioid epidemic half a century apart to reveal the origins of today’s public health crisis
A call to remove the stigma against addicts, addicti- Author: Glenn, Melody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017760
- Language: English
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Survival Stragedies for Africans in America
$20.00 Add to cart- Author: Browder, Anthony T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0924944102
- Language: English
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A Season of Madness: Fools, Monsters, and Marvels of the Old-World Carnival
$34.95 Add to cart“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”– William Blake
“A Season of Madness is a fantastic carnival of a book.
Equal parts irreverent and erudite, it lovingly captures the depth, comple- Author: Ridenour, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1627311564
- Language: English
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Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans
$17.95 Add to cart“Clear-eyed and cutting, this disturbing litany of medical barbarisms calls into question the very notion that America is an advanced society, let alone a just one.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred revie
- Series: Outspoken by Pluto
- Author: Cheung, Kylie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745350615
- Language: English
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Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
$20.00 Add to cartThe true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threaten… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0385496133
- Language: English
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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
$32.99 Add to cartKnitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting–throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely “women’s work” and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience.
- Author: Nehrig, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132407485X
- Language: English
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Sacred Pampering Principles: An African-American Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Inner Renewal
$17.99 Add to cartOriginally self-published to enormous acclaim and demand, Sacred Pampering Principles is a beautifully written guide with hundreds of easy and innovative ways for on-the-go women to pamper their bodie
- Author: Gandy, Debrena Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 1998
- ISBN10: 0688163475
- Language: English
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Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor
$18.95 Add to cartA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty-five stories–often bawdy, full of mischief and misbehavior–in Ojibwe and English.
Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teach- Author: Smallwood, Larry Amik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342669
- Language: English
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The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
$28.99 Add to cartMisogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?
We like to believe we’re moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath th
- Author: Bates, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1464234361
- Language: English
