Anthropology
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Anatomical Oddities: The Otherworldly Realms Hidden Within Our Bodies
$18.95 Add to cartDid you know you have cobwebs in your head, hair in your lungs, and snails in your ears? In the world of anatomy, every name paints a picture: from the arachnoid mater, a brain membrane resembling a s
- Author: Roberts, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1891011138
- Language: English
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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
$26.00 Add to cartRene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map… [more below]
- Author: Girard, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 199
- Publish Date: February 07, 2001
- ISBN10: 1570753199
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
$15.95 Add to cartThis fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself awa… [more below]
- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 4805313897
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691216436
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$24.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0520280504
- Language: English
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Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
$22.95 Add to cart‘A must read for modernists, and for anyone who misses the future.’ Bob Stanley, musician, journalist, author, and film producer
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Ca
- Author: Fisher, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: May 30, 2014
- ISBN10: 1780992262
- Language: English
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The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope
$22.99 Add to cartChristians have lived in Palestine since the earliest days of the Jesus movement. The Palestinian church predates Islam. Yet Palestinian Christians find themselves marginalized and ostracized. In the
- Author: Isaac, Munther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0830831991
- Language: English
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
$35.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?
“Equal parts q- Author: McDougall, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0307266303
- Language: English
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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
$24.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? “Hunt, Gather, Parent is full of smart ideas tha- Author: Doucleff, Michaeleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 198214968X
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$25.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858801
- Language: English
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book – Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 – One of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of… [more below]
- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0735224919
- Language: English
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Source Magic: The Origin of Art, Science, and Culture
$22.99 Read moreAn exploration of how magic can be found within all human activities
– Offers a “magical-anthropological” tour from ancient Norse shamanism to the modern magick of occultists like Genesis P-Orridge –- Author: Abrahamsson, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644115018
- Language: English
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Make Break Remix: The Rise of K-Style
$34.95 Add to cartK-pop, K-fashion, K-drama, K-beauty: over the last decade, K-style has exploded onto the global scene. What is behind this phenomenon? Where does K-Style go from here? Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of
- Author: Bae, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024545
- Language: English
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
$21.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on Chi
- Author: Schmitz, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 0553418106
- Language: English
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Goth Culture: Gender, Sexuality and Style
$74.92 Add to cartGoth Culture explores Goths’ expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation.
The book shares vivid accounts of the author’s experience- Series: Dress, Body, Culture
- Author: Brill, Dunja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1845207688
- Language: English
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?
“Equal parts q- Author: McDougall, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 29, 2011
- ISBN10: 0307279189
- Language: English
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
$19.00 Add to cart“Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits.” —The New Yorker
One of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year and Win- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038583
- Language: English
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives
In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben of- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04, 2008
- ISBN10: 0805087222
- Language: English
