Cultural & Social
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Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective
$46.65 Add to cartWhat is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now … [more below]
- Author: Howell, Brian M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 154096101X
- Language: English
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Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods Volume 1
$30.00 Read moreTwo of the world’s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahag?’s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This imme
- Author: De Sahagun, Bernardino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 160781157X
- Language: English
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Myth: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhere do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean?
In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These appr- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Segal, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724705
- Language: English
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
$18.00 Add to cartA “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world’s preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a functio… [more below]
- Author: Nisbett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: April 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0743255356
- Language: English
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Gullah Culture in America
$19.95 Add to cartA history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.
Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of
- Author: Crawford, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949467961
- Language: English
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Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
$47.42 Add to cartWhat is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijac… [more below]
- Series: Seeley Lectures
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1009275437
- Language: English
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The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
$21.95 Read moreWe want to believe that there are some things we would never do. We want to believe that there are others we always would. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? The answer li
- Author: Dias, Dexter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0099592541
- Language: English
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The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism
$17.95 Add to cartMany scholars and activists argue that the practice of racialization and the belief in race are necessary because even if race is not real, racism is. While such an approach might help lessen some eff… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Sheena Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 163431252X
- Language: English
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
$24.95 Add to cartFor the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, an
- Author: Von Hippel, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 006331925X
- Language: English
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The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One
$29.99 Add to cartIn the thought-provoking tradition of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, a fascinating and reassuring look at the philosophy, psychology, and practice of optimism, an… [more below]
- Author: Paul-Choudhury, Sumit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166803140X
- Language: English
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To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
$26.00 Add to cart‘A fascinating and multilayered exploration of what it means to endure’
Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure
The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through differen- Author: Crawley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403427
- Language: English
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumu- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217077618
- Language: English
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The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
$23.00 Add to cartCapitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, an… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Jerry Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 487
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721668
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Add to cartIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
$52.99 Add to cartIn Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
In a series o
- Series: Bell Hooks Teaching Trilogy
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0415968208
- Language: English
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 5th Edition
$31.10 Read more“The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a thi
- Author: Anzaldúa, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1951874021
- Language: English
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Cities Made Differently
$19.95 Add to cartFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades ou- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549336
- Language: English
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
$34.95 Add to cartThe traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles… [more below]
- Author: Gillow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0500292213
- Language: English
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The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
$36.95 Read moreThe Upper Tanana Dene conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations. Oral accounts reveal a unique and compelling perspective on a traditional way of life and offe… [more below]
- Author: Simeone, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164642333X
- Language: English
