Social Theory
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When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others
$29.99 Add to cartIn this “brilliantly argued and timely book” (Brigid Schulte, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and com… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Elissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982169273
- Language: English
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Hate Speech
$15.95 Add to cartAn investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread.
Hate speech can happen anywhere–in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in kha- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Carlson, Caitlin Ring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 026253990X
- Language: English
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Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the 20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders revolutionized the study of social deviance.
Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders broke new ground in the early- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1982106220
- Language: English
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
$27.00 Add to cart“That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feel… [more below]
- Author: Chua, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126350
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
$18.99 Read moreThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
“A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theo- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0316404632
- Language: English
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Demography: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person’s life chances, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Harper, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0198725736
- Language: English
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Behavioral Insights
$18.95 Add to cartThe definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.
Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our c… [more below]- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hallsworth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539403
- Language: English
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
$18.99 Add to cartMary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions beg
- Author: Bateson, Mary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060926309
- Language: English
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
$16.95 Add to cartMany people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force in human development. According to this false-yet-familiar story, the divisions between men and women are in nature alone a… [more below]
- Author: Fine, Cordelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355489
- Language: English
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Hablar Con Extraños / Talking to Strangers
$21.95 Add to cartBESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES
Malcolm Gladwell, presentador del podcast Historia Revisionista y autor del libro #1 de las superventas de New York Times Outliers, ofrece una examinaci?n potente de nues- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1644731398
- Language: Spanish
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, Paris, December 1948
$11.00 Add to cartThis edition of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is accompanied by an informative foreword and introduction.
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted- Author: United Nations General Assembly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1851245766
- Language: English
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How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
$14.95 Read moreA unique and irreverent take on everything that’s wrong with our “national conversation about race”–and what to do about it
How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking throug- Author: Fleming, Crystal M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0807039845
- Language: English
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
$18.99 Add to cartA total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dang
- Author: Mander, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 371
- Publish Date: March 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0688082742
- Language: English
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How You Say It: Why We Judge Others by the Way They Talk–And the Costs of This Hidden Bias
$17.99 Add to cartFrom “one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation” (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaking examination of how speech causes some of our deepest social divides–and how it can help us overco… [more below]
- Author: Kinzler, Katherine D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0358567106
- Language: English
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Idol Limerence: The Art of Loving BTS as Phenomena
$20.00 Add to cartWritten by emerging avant-garde theorist and cultural critic, Wallea Eaglehawk, this cross-genre book explores the phenomenal relationship between K-pop group BTS and their fandom, ARMY. Eaglehawk del
- Author: Eaglehawk, Wallea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: March 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0648799948
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$32.50 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0316418536
- Language: English
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Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156232006
- Language: English
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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
$26.95 Read moreHow to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all
Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anyw- Author: Marx, Paris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765887
- Language: English
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Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia
$17.95 Read moreAn exploration of American ideas of utopia through the lens of one millennial’s quest to live a more communal life under late-stage capitalism
Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with field- Author: Shirk, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1640093575
- Language: English
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The Truth about Neo-Marxism, Cultural Maoism, and Anarchy: Exposing Woke Insanity in an Age of Disinformation
$35.00 Read moreThis book exposes the dark, evil ideology that has descended over America. The arch of the Hegelian dialectic culminates only in negation, with millions annihilated in the nightmare apocalypse of post
- Author: Corsi, Jerome R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637585217
- Language: English
