Cultural & Social
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Performing Dreams: Discoveries of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil
$21.95 Add to cartGraham’s welcome study underscores the powerful and often-neglected potential of myths and myth-telling for the creation of cultural identity and social memory of among tribal peoples…. (–Choice)
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- Author: Graham, Laura R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1587361728
- Language: English
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Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
$24.99 Add to cartWho are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding genet
- Author: Nisbett, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393337693
- Language: English
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Journey Without End: Migration from the Global South Through the Americas
$24.95 Add to cartJourney without End chronicles the years-long journey of “extracontinentales”–African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborat… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 082650485X
- Language: English
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Furry Planet: A World Gone Wild: Includes History, Costumes, and Conventions
$26.99 Add to cartFrom a veteran fur comes an immersive entry into the world of furry fandom, with an inside look at an amazing subculture, the timeless human instinct to identify with animals, and color images of furr
- Author: Strike, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1954641109
- Language: English
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Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
$18.99 Add to cartNow in paperback: David French warns of the potential dangers to the country–and the world–if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.
Two decades into the 21st Century, t- Author: French, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250836735
- Language: English
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Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
$34.95 Add to cartSelected by Kirkus for “Best of 2021: Our Favorite Nonfiction”
It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face o
- Author: Shaik, Fatima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0917860802
- Language: English
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Words of the Inuit: A Semantic Stroll Through a Northern Culture
$34.95 Add to cartWords of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #7
- Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0887558623
- Language: English
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Welcome to Wonder Valley: Ruin and Redemption in an American Galapagos
$19.95 Add to cartWelcome to Wonder Valley
You might have passed through there, maybe. Out for a drive with time on your hands you might have noticed the abandoned homestead shacks crumbling along a grid of dirt tracks
- Author: Hillyard, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1733399925
- Language: English
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Introduction to Japanese Culture
$15.95 Add to cartFeaturing full-color photographs and illustrations thoughout, this book presents a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture.
The richness of Japan’s history is renowned worldwide, and the cultural heri- Author: Sosnoski, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 4805313137
- Language: English
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The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920
$21.95 Add to cartThis compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political rel… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, Melissa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282567
- Language: English
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
$17.99 Add to cartThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified soc
- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351165
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia: Multiculturalism and Prosperity: The Shared History of Two Southeast Asian Tigers
$18.99 Add to cartThe fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today!
Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with West–vital choke po- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Hale, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0804854203
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
$34.95 Add to cartA vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power
The first volume of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes- Author: Shetterly, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1613321635
- Language: English
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A History of Modern Japan: In Search of a Nation: 1850 to the Present
$16.99 Add to cart“Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan’s turbocharged (and painful) modernization.” –The Daily Telegraph
In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the un- Author: Harding, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315970
- Language: English
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The Everything Irish History & Heritage Book: From Brian Boru and St. Patrick to Sinn Fein and the Troubles, All You Need to Know about the Emerald Is
$15.99 Add to cartThere’s more to being Irish than kissing a Blarney Stone
Few places on earth match Ireland’s romantic attraction and historical legacy. Every year, millions of visitors flock to the ancient sites and- Series: Everything(r)
- Author: Blackwell, Amy Hackney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1580629806
- Language: English
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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
$19.00 Add to cartOnce upon a time we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the le… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Leah Hager
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 17 1998
- ISBN10: 038549257X
- Language: English
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Five Modern No Plays
$22.00 Add to cartFive No plays–one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world–from one of Japan’s outstanding post-war writers. – “Mishima’s is a wonderful, astonishing, and frightening c… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0307473112
- Language: English
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Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life
$14.99 Add to cart“The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in… [more below]
- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 4805317205
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
$26.99 Read moreTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
“Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it’s worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the
- Author: Reid, Eliza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1728242169
- Language: English
