Aspects (Academic)/Sociological
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Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica
$22.95 Add to cartDr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, author of Encounters With Star People, vowed as a teenager to follow in the footsteps of two 19th-century explorers, John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who brought t… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, Ardy Sixkiller
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1601633475
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Race
$28.00 Add to cartThomas Sowell’s incisive critique of the intellectuals’ destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the r- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0465058728
- Language: English
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Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
$14.95 Read moreIn Accompanying, Staughton Lynd distinguishes two strategies of social change. The first, characteristic of the 1960s Movement in the United States, is “organizing.” The second, articulated by Archbis
- Author: Lynd, Staughton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1604866667
- Language: English
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Work: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’. Work — paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory — is woven i… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fineman, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0199699364
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Add to cartWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders
$29.95 Read moreMany significant failures–from FEMA’s response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse–could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communic… [more below]
- Author: Chaleff, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1605092738
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Read moreWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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Our Only World: Ten Essays
$16.95 Add to cart“Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rura… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1619027003
- Language: English
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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
$30.00 Add to cartA RICH SURVEY OF FOLK PRACTICES PRIOR TO MORTUARIES AND THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents… [more below]
- Author: Burnett, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1496804600
- Language: English
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Victorian City
$39.00 Add to cartThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the worl
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068266
- Language: English
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In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum
$21.95 Add to cartAs a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture–a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: “Ski as much as poss… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803228392
- Language: English
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The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience and Farming
$34.99 Read more“Anyone who eats should read this book: You will come to the table with new appreciation for the intersections between race and food . . . powerful.”–Anna Lapp?, author of Diet for a Hot Planet
The
- Author: Bowens, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0865717893
- Language: English
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Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution
$16.95 Add to cart“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incon
- Author: Moran, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351971
- Language: English
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
$19.99 Add to cartEmily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascinating book “chock-full of historical context, strong … [more below]
- Series: Night Glow Board Books
- Author: Matchar, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1451665458
- Language: English
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Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research
$68.00 Add to cartIn this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with… [more below]
- Series: Analytical Methods for Social Research
- Author: Morgan, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: November 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1107694167
- Language: English
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Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
$26.00 Add to cart“”If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?”” –President Barack ObamaThe 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida, and the subse
- Author: Douglas, Kelly Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1626981094
- Language: English
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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons
$19.00 Add to cartA timely and empowering book featuring “solid, practical advice for women on how to properly nurture their sons” (Kirkus Reviews).
From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her t… [more below]- Author: Meeker, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0345518101
- Language: English
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
$19.95 Add to cartLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 163149113X
- Language: English
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Risk: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe find risk everywhere–from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own ac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fischhoff, Baruch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0199576203
- Language: English
