Cultural & Social
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To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
$26.00 Add to cart‘A fascinating and multilayered exploration of what it means to endure’
Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure
The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through differen- Author: Crawley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403427
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Read moreHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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Posmacho Alfa. Arquetipos de Valor Para Hombres de Otra Era / Post-Macho Alpha
$15.95 Add to cartLa idea predominante de masculinidad est? en crisis y lo que significa ser hombre, en completa redefinici?n.
A lo largo de la historia, la masculinidad ha estado asociada a la fortaleza, al dominio, al… [more below]- Author: Nogués, Nicko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 6073853076
- Language: Spanish
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Unproven, Unlikely, and Firmly Believed: Why We Fall for History’s Most Seductive Conspiracy Theories, and How We Rediscover Reality
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vax movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it’s always been human nature to believe we’re being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be fair, we absolu
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031508
- Language: English
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Teaching Tools for Anthropology Careers
$25.00 Add to cartHow do you prepare anthropology graduates for meaningful careers?
This book contains 37 tools that provide straightforward guidance about career readiness for programs and individual instructors. The t
- Author: Nolan, Riall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991219822
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future
$31.95 Add to cartAn illuminating account of how Americans have been divided by the very value that unites them.
America today is being torn apart by the struggle over a single concept, deeply rooted in the country’s s- Author: Butcher, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1526185415
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$21.99 Add to cartIn this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
“Terrific… Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1541706226
- Language: English
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East of Dreams
$18.95 Add to cartDisplaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history.
The work- Author: Martin, Nastassja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379341
- Language: English
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No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining
$17.95 Add to cartAn assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.
To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara
- Author: Ahmed, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1558613684
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
$22.95 Add to cart“[An] extraordinary book.”–Brian Eno – “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”–Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir – “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work o
- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Yurchak, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284482
- Language: English
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World
$29.95 Add to cartA transformative way of understanding addiction–and an invitation to find connection in the pleasures of life we know are bad for us
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addicti- Author: Roberts, Elizabeth F. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0691245800
- Language: English
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
$19.00 Add to cartAn “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American cultu… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1668007827
- Language: English
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To See Beyond
$17.99 Add to cartA globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls “one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era”
Our hyper-informed digital era of cli
- Author: Badkhen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1954276540
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$19.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER – NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO – NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE
“Gossip is the only- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1538757419
- Language: English
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Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. L… [more below]
- Author: Rutherford, Danilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1478029250
- Language: English
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
$9.99 Add to cartThe history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a perfect companion volume for history buffs or Tokyo-… [more below]
- Series: Tuttle Specials
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0804853045
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of North Carolina
$24.99 Add to cartForgotten History in the Tar Heel State
Take an adventure through ruins of ghost towns and lost communities in the Old North State. Explore isolated settlements like Lost Cove, hidden so deep in the mo
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Leah, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1467159794
- Language: English
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The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy
$30.00 Add to cartA business anthropologist reveals how cultural intelligence is the essential tool for understanding human behavior
Why do people do what we do? To answer this question, many of us turn to psychology.- Author: Sweet, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541705777
- Language: English
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this “gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change” (New Statesman), an award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher argue that the glo… [more below]
- Author: Bricker, Darrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1984823221
- Language: English
