Cultural & Social
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The Book of Tea Classic Edition
$18.95 Add to cartNow available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this “object d’art” will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for o… [more below]
- Author: Okakura, Kakuzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0804800693
- Language: English
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How We Got by: 111 People Share Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope Through Hardship
$24.99 Read moreWhen your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorge… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Shaina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1524872318
- Language: English
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A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
$29.00 Add to cartA provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes–and what we can do about it.
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet w- Author: Heying, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593086880
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of tod
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525512179
- Language: English
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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
$29.00 Add to cartIn the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws … [more below]
- Author: Cavender, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 080785493X
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$19.95 Add to cartHow the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China–and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renais- Author: Hathaway, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225907
- Language: English
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How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between)
$15.95 Read more“The book is breezy and entertaining and Hopgood is charmingly self-deprecating about her own mothering of the formidable Sofia, who emerges as a sassy character in her own right.”–Boston Globe
A to- Author: Hopgood, Mei-Ling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 156512958X
- Language: English
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Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
$14.95 Read more– Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other.
– Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy r- Author: Wolff, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 892818662
- Language: English
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN Award
A work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proc- Author: Estes, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1804295507
- Language: English
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
$30.00 Add to cart“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”–Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Prickett, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239059
- Language: English
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
$27.95 Read moreFollowing one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one young whaler’s death against the backdrop of the vast So… [more below]
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Winterbottom, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400906
- Language: English
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book – Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 – One of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of… [more below]
- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 4, 2018
- ISBN10: 0735224897
- Language: English
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Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, And, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in
$40.00 Read moreIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State–and the nation–over the
- Author: Editors of Texas Monthly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063068613
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$32.95 Read moreA blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.
Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, ori- Author: Muthukrishna, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204837X
- Language: English
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
$18.99 Add to cart“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with- Author: Schutt, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 30, 2018
- ISBN10: 1616207434
- Language: English
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Courting the Wild Twin
$24.95 Add to cart‘Fabulous.’ Dan Richards, author of Holloway
‘Terrifically strange and thrilling.’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley
‘A modern-day bard.’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe
This is a book
- Author: Shaw, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1603589503
- Language: English
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So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything
$29.00 Add to cartHow humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.
Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edg- Author: Colwell, Chip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 022680142X
- Language: English
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
$24.93 Add to cartIn 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan enthralled a generation of seekers dissatisfied with… [more below]
- Author: Castaneda, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 520290771
- Language: English
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Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
$14.95 Read moreFor more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobota… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 07 2007
- ISBN10: 1553652673
- Language: English
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set
$125.00 Add to cart*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment
*2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology
For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory
From The Center fo
- Author: Van Horn, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 942
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736862553
- Language: English
