Cultural & Social
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$38.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0374157359
- Language: English
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$37.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in ou
- Author: Bohannon, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593793005
- Language: English
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The Loneliness Files
$17.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and … [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Athena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1959030124
- Language: English
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The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
$29.00 Read more***A National Bestseller***
A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestse- Author: Robbins, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1101986751
- Language: English
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
$16.99 Add to cartA paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability–and offers a new
- Author: Yunkaporta, Tyson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0062975625
- Language: English
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The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations
$20.00 Add to cartUncover new sides of family members you’ve known your entire life with this indispensable guide that includes space for journaling.
Just as the oral histories of people around the world are disappeari- Author: Keating, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593420926
- Language: English
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You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths about Fat People
$15.95 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”–Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast The
AN INDIE BESTSELLER- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Gordon, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006475
- Language: English
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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
$30.00 Add to cart“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” … [more below]
- Author: Turchin, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0593490509
- Language: English
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The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
$28.00 Add to cart“Superb.”–Oliver Burkeman
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches. From the moment we ask children what they want to “be” when they grow up, we exalt the- Author: Stolzoff, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 059353896X
- Language: English
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Raving
$15.95 Add to cartWhat is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techn… [more below]
- Series: Practices
- Author: Wark, McKenzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019387
- Language: English
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
$28.00 Read moreA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer–from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination–… [more below]
- Author: Howsare, Erika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221346
- Language: English
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
$18.95 Add to cartWhat a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world–and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern h- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 691220557
- Language: English
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
$32.50 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION – A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relations
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1524732850
- Language: English
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$36.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in ou… [more below]
- Author: Bohannon, Cat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0385350546
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
$16.99 Add to cartTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick
Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it’s worth striving
- Author: Reid, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 172825941X
- Language: English
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The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
$25.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020
A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020
A- Author: Henrich, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800072
- Language: English
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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, part memoir, part journalistic investigation, the acclaimed writer and poet, a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, reveals how wellness culture has become a luxury good built on
- Author: Roisin, Fariha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063077086
- Language: English
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
$20.00 Add to cartIn this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise–the color and the gem–to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.
From t- Author: Meloy, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0375708138
- Language: English
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$21.99 Add to cartExplores the concept of land ownership and how it has shaped history, examining how people fight over, steward, and occasionally share land, and what humanity’s proprietary relationship with land mean
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062938347
- Language: English
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Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection
$22.99 Add to cartThroughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science an… [more below]
- Series: Sterling Chronologies
- Author: Pickover, Clifford A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1454914343
- Language: English
