Cultural & Social
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One River
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America–Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis–an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.In 1941, … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 05 1997
- ISBN10: 0684834960
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$29.95 Add to cart“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White‘s California Exposures.“–Kirkus Reviews
Before there was such a thing as “Cal
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.- Author: Akins, Damon B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0520280490
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
$15.99 Add to cartExploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times–one iso… [more below]
- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Seth, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0804851026
- Language: English
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Summary and Analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Based on the Book by Jared Diamond
$7.99 Add to cartSo much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Guns, Germs, and Steel tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Jared Diamond’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Book- Series: Smart Summaries
- Author: Worth Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1504046579
- Language: English
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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
$21.95 Add to cartHow the law harms sex workers–and what they want instead
Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?
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- Author: Mac, Juno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1786633612
- Language: English
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The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
$53.33 Add to cartThe unknown inside story of the NYPD’s Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved immigrant community
The story begins in S- Author: Moses, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1479814199
- Language: English
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$19.99 Add to cartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate tw- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 1997
- ISBN10: 0684839296
- Language: English
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Native American Ethnobotany
$80.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to th… [more below]
- Author: Moerman, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 927
- Publish Date: August 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0881924539
- Language: English
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Where the Language Lives: VI Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed
$16.95 Add to cartThe life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who revitalized her native language-Lushootseed-and the culture it expresses.
- Author: Yoder, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1954854269
- Language: English
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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
$19.00 Add to cartFew events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Martin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 1994
- ISBN10: 802130623
- Language: English
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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$31.18 Add to cartGoing beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transfo… [more below]
- Author: Malesic, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 520391527
- Language: English
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior
$21.95 Add to cartUpdated, with new research and over 100 revisions
Ten years later, they’re still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English … [more below]- Author: Fox, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 185788616X
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
$18.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead’s first field work at age 23, establishing Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.
Rarely do sc
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Mead, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0688050336
- Language: English
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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
$29.00 Read moreA best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colon… [more below]
- Author: Sanghera, Sathnam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593316673
- Language: English
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
$19.95 Add to cartA new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism
Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it, “a- Author: Fields, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 183976564X
- Language: English
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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping–Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond
$20.99 Add to cartRevolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with fresh observations and important lessons in this completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving consumer c
- Author: Underhill, Paco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 30, 2008
- ISBN10: 1416595244
- Language: English
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Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter
$26.00 Add to cartHow do we really know that God cares when Black people are still getting killed? How long do we have to wait for the justice of God? I get it, that Christ is Black, but that doesn’t seem to be helping… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, Kelly Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 162698445X
- Language: English
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Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
$24.95 Read more“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Kater? Hern?ndez is fe… [more below]
- Author: Hern?ndez, Tanya Kater?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0807020133
- Language: English
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Population Control: How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseas
- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0062359908
- Language: English
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The Best and the Brightest
$25.00 Add to cartDavid Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
“A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”–The New- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0449908704
- Language: English
