Cultural & Social
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
I- Author: Diangelo, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0807047414
- Language: English
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
$35.00 Read moreA riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia–and why killing the dead is better than killing the living
Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global acc- Author: Blair, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 069122479X
- Language: English
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NKJV Study Bible, Hardcover, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: The Complete Resource for Studying God’s Word
$54.99 Add to cartThe full text of the trustworthy New King James Version with robust study notes and dozens of study resources in a convenient size to help you grow deeper in your faith.
With more than 2 million copies
- Author: Thomas Nelson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2208
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0785220348
- Language: English
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart“If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do,” write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Monaghan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853465
- Language: English
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Putting the Fact in Fantasy: Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writing
$20.00 Add to cartA collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right
Whether it’s correctly naming the parts of a- Author: Koboldt, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593331990
- Language: English
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
$24.95 Add to cartAs a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is … [more below]
- Author: McGowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1909394122
- Language: English
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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$21.95 Add to cartMost books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magi
- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1633887022
- Language: English
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All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work
$19.00 Add to cartA deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people–morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners–who work in it and what led them there.
We are surrounded b- Author: Campbell, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250906237
- Language: English
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The Power of Myth
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war.
The Power of Myth launched an extra… [more below]- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385418868
- Language: English
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Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World–And How You Can, Too
$26.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism acros
- Author: Oluo, Ijeoma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063140187
- Language: English
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The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpiece- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107542
- Language: English
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.
Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Sta- Author: Mason, R. H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15, 1997
- ISBN10: 080482097X
- Language: English
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
$19.99 Add to cart“hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” –Cornel West
More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo moveme- Series: Owl Book
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0805050272
- Language: English
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea–a closed world of increasing global importance–hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Revi… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0385523912
- Language: English
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Anthropomorphics: An Originary Grammar of the Center
$17.95 Add to cartDennis Bouvard’s Anthropomorphics is the inauguration of a meta-discipline: a strategy for entering and transforming the secular disciplines.
Where challenges to liberalism often accept some degree of
- Author: Bouvard, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0648690571
- Language: English
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This Book May Cause Side Effects: The Curious and Dangerous Power of the Nocebo Effect, Placebo’s Evil Twin
$30.00 Read moreIn This Book May Cause Side Effects, Dr. Helen Pilcher explores the “nocebo” effect–the shadow side of the placebo–and shows how our convictions can sometimes quite literally harm us
Take the COVID
- Author: Pilcher, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1419774662
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Antropolog?a (the Anthropology Book)
$29.99 Add to cartEntiende las ideas clave de la antropolog?a: el estudio de las sociedades y culturas humanas.
Qu? significa ser humano? Por qu? tenemos rituales? C?mo difieren las estructuras familiares en todo el- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217135448
- Language: Spanish
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Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$39.95 Add to cartCould a Roman bridge carry a modern freight train? How much would it cost to build the Colosseum today? What if the Romans had grown potatoes?
In a series of fast-paced essays, Leaky Aqueducts, Battle- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1493098373
- Language: English
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Health and Safety: A Breakdown
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE – A NEW YORKER, TIME, AND PITCHFORK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memo… [more below]
- Author: Witt, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593469895
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.98 Add to cartHistory teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once antisemitism is unleashed, it knows no bounds and can attack the very fabric of society. This… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Harris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 019780067X
- Language: English
