Cultural & Social
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Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
$30.00 Read more- Author: Hannaford, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 006325302X
- Language: English
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At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies
$22.00 Add to cart“Hine’s brilliant book demands we stare into [the] abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis.”–Brian Eno, musician
“Maybe it’s time to stop talk
- Author: Hine, Dougald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022803
- Language: English
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Sacred Laws, Spiritual Healing & Doctoring Songs: Interviews with Bernice Torrez, Kashaya Pomo
$37.95 Add to cartHealer, spiritual teacher and culture bearer, Bernice Torrez has left us a treasury of sacred knowledge, traditions and cultural practices. Vibrant stories, legends, visions, dreams, and autobiographi… [more below]
- Author: Carney, Ismana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1478797304
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
$18.99 Add to cartWhat is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Break… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Robert Rowland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1439148686
- Language: English
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Dear Sister
$24.98 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking and heartfelt book, Paula Dannielle presents Dear Sister: There’s Something Black Women Want You to Know, a powerful collection of eight letters that amplify the voices and e
- Author: Dannielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988772507
- Language: English
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
$17.99 Add to cartHow do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one’s behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine’s list of America’s “50 Mos… [more below]
- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0743260163
- Language: English
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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Sastun
$19.99 Add to cartThe compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo’s quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of
- Author: Arvigo, Rosita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 006250259X
- Language: English
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The Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People
$30.00 Add to cartThis compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated T
- Author: Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1771605219
- Language: English
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
$37.92 Add to cartThis fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of … [more below]
- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887596
- Language: English
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village
$24.95 Add to cartMimi Schwartz’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he’d tell her, “We all got along.” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, … [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496221206
- Language: English
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The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in the American Heyday
$15.95 Add to cartA disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly tr… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934848611
- Language: English
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Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America’s Weirdest Music Scene
$16.95 Read moreWHOOP WHOOP The Insane Clown Posse calls itself “the most hated band in the world,” but with 11 million albums sold, the horrorcore hip hop duo from Detroit is a widespread music phenomenon with a c… [more below]
- Series: Scene History
- Author: Rock, Craven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1621063186
- Language: English
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Guardians of Hidden Traditions
$18.95 Add to cartGuardians of Hidden Traditions is a historical novel narrating the experiences of generation after generation of crypto-Jews, beginning in Spain in the late 1300’s and ending in New Mexico in the earl… [more below]
- Series: Western Sephardic Traditions
- Author: Medina-Sandoval, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0982065787
- Language: English
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
$17.99 Add to cartFatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as “enchanting” (The New York Times Book Review), “exubera… [more below]
- Author: Mernissi, Fatema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0743412435
- Language: English
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
$30.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species
“A wondrou- Author: Vince, Gaia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465094902
- Language: English
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
$25.99 Add to cartElizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experience
- Author: Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 031242728X
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
$19.99 Add to cartPeter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such con
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0060935642
- Language: English
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Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten
$20.00 Add to cartThis riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth… [more below]
- Author: Feldman, George Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0911469338
- Language: English
