Anthropology
-
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This–a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society.
There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness.… [more below]- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Radtke, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 13, 2021
- ISBN10: 1524748064
- Language: English
-
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$26.95 Read moreFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0807014540
- Language: English
-
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail Volume 36
$37.43 Add to cartIn this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Jason De Le n sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time–the human cons… [more below]
- Series: California Public Anthropology #36
- Author: de Leon, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2015
- ISBN10: 520282752
- Language: English
-
Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An “important, deeply affecting–and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedo… [more below]
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: 2-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1541605128
- Language: English
-
Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice: An Introduction
$29.95 Add to cartEthnography as a Pastoral Practice invites you to open your eyes, ears and hearts to your congregation. By listening to their stories you will not only find out who they are but help them to better cl… [more below]
- Author: Moschella, Mary Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0829800409
- Language: English
-
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$27.99 Read moreParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 198217935X
- Language: English
-
Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
$28.95 Add to cartMuscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athlet
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324021446
- Language: English
-
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
$18.00 Add to cartWhy have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history
“Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch tri- Author: Hutton, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0300238673
- Language: English
-
Apaga El Celular Y Enciende Tu Cerebro: Manipulación, Control Y Destrucción del Ser Humano
$16.99 Add to cartEl premiado filósofo, conferenciante internacional y académico Dr. Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta nos trae un manifiesto filosófico que pretende animar a los lectores a aprender a pensar por sà mismos y no per
- Author: Muñoz Iturrieta, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1400337054
- Language: Spanish
-
What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Fat
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What- Author: Gordon, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: 16-Nov-21
- ISBN10: 080701477X
- Language: English
-
On Looking: A Walker’s Guide to the Art of Observation
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments … [more below]
- Author: Horowitz, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1439191263
- Language: English
-
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1612195180
- Language: English
-
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
$25.00 Add to cartWe have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding–“tribes.” This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the ke… [more below]
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 1455566381
- Language: English
-
Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
$30.00 Read more
In t
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree.- Author: Berger, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1426223889
- Language: English
-
Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)
$17.99 Add to cartA great story can lead a reader on a journey of discovery#8212;especially if it’s presented in two languages!
Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners of- Series: Stories for Language Learners
- Author: McNulty, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21, 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314680
- Language: English
-
Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and Other Sensory Wonders of Nature
$27.50 Add to cartFrom Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener, a first-of-its-kind guide that takes readers on an insightful and personal exploration of the secret lives of animals and plants.
Master naturalist N- Author: Lawson, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1797222473
- Language: English
-
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t
$29.00 Read moreA “piercing, unsentimental” (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? O- Author: Conn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826902
- Language: English
-
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
-
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
$12.95 Read more- Series: Paradigm
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0972819649
- Language: English
-
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
$21.95 Add to cart‘Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.’
True Love- Author: Costello, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1839970014
- Language: English
