Cultural & Social
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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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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 Add to cartA 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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Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists
$18.99 Add to cart“[Dr. Malkin’s] reassuring tone and plethora of case histories offer considered advice and generous encouragement.” — Kirkus Reviews
When most of us hear the word narcissism or narcissist, we envision
- Author: Malkin, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0062348116
- 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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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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Beyond Biology: How Culture Created You
$21.99 Add to cartYour Culture Affects Your Body and Your Choices in Profound and Unexpected Ways.
Culture affects us in ways that are sometimes obvious, like our language and food, but are sometimes not readily appare… [more below]
- Author: Martens, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1459756932
- Language: English
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Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy
$22.00 Read moreAn unforgettable account of the mass suicide of the followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in the jungles of Guyana–an overlooked masterpiece of modern reportage.
First published in 1980, Journey to Nowhere- Author: Naipaul, Shiva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0385551991
- Language: English
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The Dark Water Gospel: An East Tennessee Anthology
$24.95 Add to cartSet in East Tennessee, The Dark Water Gospel examines how civic power operates in small communities through omission, loyalty, and managed memory. Drawing on archives, court records, and lived account
- Author: McDaniel, Douglas Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: May 04 2026
- ISBN10: 9798993585031
- Language: English
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Strip
$22.95 Add to cartThe exotic dancer exists in popular culture most often as scenery. When she is allowed to speak, she does so to the male protagonist and is either the conniving woman attempting to relieve the hero of… [more below]
- Author: Ladd, Catlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1785357379
- Language: English
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The North Sea: Along the Edge of Britain
$27.00 Add to cartRenowned historian Alistair Moffat traces the windswept story of the North Sea throughout British history and examines how it has shaped who we are and how we see ourselves.
The North Sea, a maritime h
- Author: Moffat, Alistair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1837261229
- Language: English
