Cultural & Social
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Direct Action: An Ethnography
$29.95 Add to cartAnthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1904859798
- Language: English
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Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass
$24.95 Read more“With potent, lyrical language and a profound knowledge of storytelling, Shaw encourages and illuminates the mythic in our own lives. He is a modern-day bard.” – Madeline Miller, author of Circe and T
- Author: Shaw, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1645020959
- Language: English
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In the Eye of the Wild
$16.95 Add to cartAfter enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East’s Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous di… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Nastassja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375850
- Language: English
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Anthropology for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartStudy the science of all of us
Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to view homo sapiens as a species and ask questions like: Given our comm
- Author: Smith, Cameron M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1119784204
- Language: English
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Race and Culture: A World View
$31.65 Add to cartEncompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minori… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 1995
- ISBN10: 0465067972
- Language: English
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Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the Covid-19 Pandemic
$25.00 Add to cartMichelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face. People… [more below]
- Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in Association with
- Author: Fishburne, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1469671239
- Language: English
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
$32.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford’s massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the … [more below]
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 23 1968
- ISBN10: 0156180359
- Language: English
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
$29.00 Add to cartSchama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0679781242
- Language: English
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Racism: A Short History
$22.95 Add to cartA concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn’t racism appear in Europe before t- Series: Princeton Classics #106
- Author: Fredrickson, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167052
- Language: English
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K Culture: K-Pop, Cuisine, on Screen, and More – Celebrating the Korean Wave
$45.00 Read moreCelebrate Korean culture whilst learning about its past and present in this comprehensive and fascinating guide.
In recent years, Korean popular culture has taken the form of a tidal wave sweeping ov- Author: Clair, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1837830878
- Language: English
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Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual
$25.00 Read moreFirst published 20 years ago, Modern Primitives is still called “the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground.” Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction by original editor… [more below]
- Series: Re/Search #12
- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1889307262
- Language: English
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The Temper of Our Time
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1933435224
- Language: English
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A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People’s Republic
$16.99 Add to cartA comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China’s history through a modern lens.
For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0804850054
- Language: English
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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
$26.99 Add to cart“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche.
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 125061953X
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Guide to Samurai History and Culture: From the Age of Musashi to Contemporary Pop Culture
$29.99 Add to cartThe ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture!
The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting the- Author: Blair, Gavin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316594
- Language: English
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
$24.95 Read moreShortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year
How gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767545
- Language: English
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A History of the American People
$26.99 Add to cart“As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson’s] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compe
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: February 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0060930349
- Language: English
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Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals
$24.95 Add to cartModeration is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labelled ‘mo… [more below]
- Author: Craiutu, Aurelian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1108494951
- Language: English
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Foxfire 9
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #9
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 17 1986
- ISBN10: 0385177445
- Language: English
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
$24.95 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition
A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation
A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live- Author: Kopenawa, Davi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292138
- Language: English
