Cultural & Social
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Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue
$25.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors ar… [more below]
- Author: Reaser, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685299
- Language: English
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The Natural History of Unicorns
$18.99 Add to cart“Lavers keeps his intellectual detective story passionate and suspenseful.”
— Washington Post Book WorldFrom Biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted pe
- Author: Lavers, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0060874155
- Language: English
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How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention
$29.99 Add to cartA passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.
Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executiv- Author: Grove, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1668062445
- Language: English
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Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
$34.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic in- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1804290866
- Language: English
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Social Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Social science is the study of human behaviour. It offers the tools to understand and explain people’s choices and actions, and how they live toget… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Betts, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 019287182X
- Language: English
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Letters from Congo
$11.00 Add to cartLETTERS FROM CONGO, a powerful collection by Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros Georges, invites readers to journey every air mile traveled by a family trying to survive the perpetual uncertainty o
- Author: Georges, Danielle Legros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1941604056
- Language: English
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Speaking in Tongues
$26.99 Add to cartLanguage, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues–taking the form of a … [more below]
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096454
- Language: English
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The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s
$33.00 Add to cartThe origins of our postsecular present, revealed in a vivid, groundbreaking account of the moment when popular culture became the site of religious conflict.
The 1980s are usually seen as a slick, shr- Author: Elie, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 374272921
- Language: English
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Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
$27.95 Add to cartA mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman
Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think.- Author: Keane, Webb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691270937
- Language: English
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Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths
$29.95 Add to cartBlaming, shaming and flimsy evidence: welcome to the ugly world of Good Mother myths
When Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mother made her guilty and anxious. A researcher with- Author: Bollen, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1804297534
- Language: English
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Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops movin- Author: O’Neill, Kevin Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0520409116
- Language: English
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Blood in the Face (Revised New Edition): White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump
$24.95 Read moreA riveting, jaw-dropping view of America’s white supremacy movement.
- Author: Ridgeway, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1642594652
- Language: English
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rul… [more below]
- Author: Gelfand, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152947
- Language: English
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Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Journal
$21.42 Read moreHelping students apply their anthropological toolkit to the real world
- Author: Guest, Kenneth J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 132404070X
- Language: English
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be i… [more below]
- Author: Zalloua, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730909
- Language: English
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Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
$32.00 Add to cartA richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories ab
- Author: Wade, Lizzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063097303
- Language: English
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Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing
$24.95 Add to cartOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of They Call It Love
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is wher- Author: Gotby, Alva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 180429621X
- Language: English
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Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures
$26.95 Add to cart“Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war…While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Ind
- Author: James, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745350305
- Language: English
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Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us
$32.00 Add to cartA new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides us
How does the body work–and why does it seem to work so differen- Author: Pontzer, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593539303
- Language: English
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The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems
$19.95 Add to cartThe Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and t… [more below]
- Author: Kusserow, Adrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025573
- Language: English
