Cultural & Social
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
$19.00 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’–the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”–Kyle Harper, The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229436
- Language: English
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Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice
$22.00 Read moreIn his bestselling book Dancing with a Ghost, Rupert Ross began his exploration of Aboriginal approaches to justice and the visions of life that shape them. Returning to the Teachings takes this explo… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0143055593
- Language: English
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Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
$29.95 Read moreSanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more im- Author: McFarlane, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1839760540
- Language: English
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Palestinian Costume
$40.00 Read moreThe traditional costumes of the Palestinian villagers and Bedouin are of exceptional beauty and diversity, especially the festive costumes of the women with their lavish silk embroidery and patchwork … [more below]
- Author: Weir, Shelagh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1566567270
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$35.00 Read moreFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cu… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610397967
- Language: English
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
$18.00 Add to cartBased upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.
This book … [more below]- Author: Goffman, Erving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 1959
- ISBN10: 0385094027
- Language: English
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Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
$18.00 Add to cartAn evolutionary psychologist traces the roots of political divisions back to our primate ancestors and male-dominated social hierarchies. Through the lens of evolutionary science, this book offers a n… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Hector A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1633885143
- Language: English
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madne… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 1980
- ISBN10: 039473954X
- Language: English
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Culture
$18.00 Read moreOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture a- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270615
- Language: English
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
$46.58 Read moreA mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life
Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected,- Author: Dawdy, Shannon Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691210640
- Language: English
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Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
$22.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness- Author: Allman, T. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122302
- Language: English
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The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
$20.00 Read moreA Best Book of 2020 (NPR)
A Best Book of 2020 (The Economist)
A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 (Smithsonian)
A Best Science and Technology Book of 2020 (Library Journal)
A Must-Read Book to Escape the… [more below]- Author: Marchant, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593183045
- Language: English
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The Journey of Humanity: A New History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future
$19.00 Read moreA landmark, radically uplifting account of our species‘ progress, from one of the world’s preeminent thinkers.
“Unparalleled in its scope and ambition…All readers will learn something, and many wil- Author: Galor, Oded
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593186001
- Language: English
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Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
$20.00 Read moreIn this scintillating combination of critical race theory, social commentary, veganism, and gender analysis, media studies scholar Aph Ko offers a compelling vision of a reimagined social justice move… [more below]
- Author: Ko, Aph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1590565967
- Language: English
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In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos
$49.95 Read more- Author: Sarkisova, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048272
- Language: English
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural ant- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525432329
- Language: English
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet
$25.00 Read more*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology
Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of plane
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1736862502
- Language: English
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From Behind the Mask: Essays on South Louisiana Mardi Gras Runs
$30.00 Read more- Author: Ancelet, Barry Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1946160911
- Language: English
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Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
$19.95 Read moreA provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space.
- Author: Auge, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292605
- Language: English
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The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront
$22.00 Add to cartAn essay on Black-Jewish relations, primarily in the United States, by a professor of African American History who became embroiled in controversy over his classroom use of a book detailing the well- … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1574781855
- Language: English
