Anthropology
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
$32.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford’s massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the … [more below]
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 23 1968
- ISBN10: 0156180359
- Language: English
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
$29.00 Add to cartSchama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781242
- Language: English
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Racism: A Short History
$22.95 Add to cartA concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn’t racism appear in Europe before t- Series: Princeton Classics #106
- Author: Fredrickson, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167052
- Language: English
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K Culture: K-Pop, Cuisine, on Screen, and More – Celebrating the Korean Wave
$45.00 Read moreCelebrate Korean culture whilst learning about its past and present in this comprehensive and fascinating guide.
In recent years, Korean popular culture has taken the form of a tidal wave sweeping ov- Author: Clair, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1837830878
- Language: English
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Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
$25.00 Read moreFirst published 20 years ago, Modern Primitives is still called “the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground.” Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction by original editor… [more below]
- Series: Re/Search #12
- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1889307262
- Language: English
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The Temper of Our Time
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1933435224
- Language: English
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A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People’s Republic
$16.99 Add to cartA comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China’s history through a modern lens.
For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0804850054
- Language: English
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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
$26.99 Add to cart“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche.
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 125061953X
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture: From the Age of Musashi to Contemporary Pop Culture
$29.99 Add to cartThe ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture!
The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting the- Author: Blair, Gavin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316594
- Language: English
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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice Volume 55
$27.95 Add to cartInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Sanford, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0520393457
- Language: English
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
$24.95 Read moreShortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year
How gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767545
- Language: English
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A History of the American People
$26.99 Add to cart“As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson’s] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compe
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: February 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0060930349
- Language: English
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Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals
$24.95 Add to cartModeration is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labelled ‘mo… [more below]
- Author: Craiutu, Aurelian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1108494951
- Language: English
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Foxfire 9
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #9
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 17 1986
- ISBN10: 0385177445
- Language: English
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
$24.95 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition
A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation
A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live- Author: Kopenawa, Davi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292138
- Language: English
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One River
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America–Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis–an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.In 1941, … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 05 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834960
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$29.95 Add to cart“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White‘s California Exposures.“–Kirkus Reviews
Before there was such a thing as “Cal
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.- Author: Akins, Damon B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0520280490
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
$15.99 Add to cartExploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times–one iso… [more below]
- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0804851026
- Language: English
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
$20.00 Add to cartDavid Abram’s first book, The Spell of the Sensuous has become a classic of environmental literature. Now he returns with a startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature.
As- Author: Abram, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0375713697
- Language: English
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Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
$7.99 Add to cartSo much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Jared Diamond’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Book- Series: Smart Summaries
- Author: Worth Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1504046579
- Language: English
