Sociology
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I Was Told There’d Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood Through the Power of Connection
$30.00 Add to cartFinally, a positive and realistic strategy for easing the burden of parenting: Melissa Wirt shows how to build a supportive “village” to transform oppressive, solitary motherhood into a connected–eve
- Author: Wirt, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1538759055
- Language: English
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Fool’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
$30.00 Add to cartAn investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California.
Take a close look at today’s- Author: Crabtree, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1546008039
- Language: English
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Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes
$19.95 Add to cartStories and photographs of bookstore engagements and weddings that celebrate literature and love.
What is the most romantic place to get engaged? A bookstore, of course. The perfect wedding venue? A- Author: Rosen, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1684582547
- Language: English
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It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths about Love That Will Change Your Life
$33.00 Add to cartThe beloved relationship coach, teacher, and host of the top relationship podcast Jillian on Love reveals nine core truths about love and self-acceptance and provides powerful self-healing techniques
- Author: Turecki, Jillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063433583
- Language: English
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How to Date Authentically: End the Dating “Game” and Find Lasting Love
$14.99 Add to cartDoes dating feel like a dead-end maze of bad matches, mixed signals, and heartbreak? Imagine a new way-a way where dating is joyful, authentic, and leads to lasting love.
In How to Date Authentically,
- Author: Whitney, Sam D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1940498392
- Language: English
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My Brother
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shoc- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250340608
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$30.00 Add to cartThrough the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend–the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America
The- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593237145
- Language: English
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More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working
$27.50 Add to cartThis study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand–and perhaps alleviate–the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy.
For a widely dreaded, often mundane- Author: Lane, Carrie M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832775
- Language: English
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
$17.00 Add to cartNow with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a funny and irreverent study of class and status by the master of New Journalism.
Tom Wolfe’s two-ac- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321883
- Language: English
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
$40.00 Add to cart“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or part… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924090
- Language: English
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What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
$24.00 Add to cartBiologically, race does not exist. Scientists have proven that human DNA is 99.9 percent identical. But we know that racism and its structural impacts shape our health, opportunities, and lives in pro
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Bliss, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021764
- Language: English
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The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
$32.00 Add to cartThe real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream.
The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo- Author: Martin, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030342
- Language: English
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The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas about How to Be a Good Mom
$28.00 Add to cartTimely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a “good” mom.
When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself sudd- Author: Reddy, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250336643
- Language: English
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Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
$17.95 Add to cartAbolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.
Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for a- Author: Rosenthal, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cart“A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago … an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development.”-Kirkus Reviews
In the years after World War II, a movement began to brin
- Author: Hertz, Daniel Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1948742098
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths
$18.00 Add to cartImagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine s… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0143191101
- Language: English
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Future Skills
$18.95 Read moreWhat will humanity look like in twenty years . . . in fifty? Which skills should we be cultivating in an age of ceaseless technological progress?
Finnish inventor, composer, and futurist Perttu P??en- Author: P?l?nen, Perttu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1632280744
- Language: English
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Irish Folktales
$22.00 Add to cartHere are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing throug… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Glassie, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 1997
- ISBN10: 0679774122
- Language: English
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Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
$22.95 Add to cartIts mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, … [more below]
- Author: Robinson, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1590771486
- Language: English
