Sociology
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The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
$32.95 Add to cartA manifesto–and a field guide–for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and dis- Author: Schilthuizen, Menno
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049090
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$20.00 Add to cart“I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book…there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up.” –Annie Proulx
*A New York Times Book Review Editors- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031094
- Language: English
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By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered.
Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukrainian cause and adopt Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero,- Author: Leavitt, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 374614334
- Language: English
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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
$29.95 Add to cartHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War
Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory–but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the cham- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1890951919
- 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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Cuz: An American Tragedy
$15.95 Add to cartFirst appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen’s Cuz announced the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this “compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story” (New York Tim… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494945
- Language: English
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Readings for Sociology
$53.55 Add to cartThe perfect mix of classic and contemporary readings
- Author: O’Brien, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132404408X
- Language: English
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A Fake Moon Landing, Alien Life Secrets, and More Conspiracy Theories about Space
$31.32 Read moreWas the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969 faked? Is proof that aliens are real being kept hidden? People believe in many conspiracy theories about space. Get the inside story on each theory to disco… [more below]
- Series: Investigating Conspiracy Theories
- Author: Hunter, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669077403
- Language: English
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The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science
$30.00 Add to cartA surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America.
In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center- Author: Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1541703979
- Language: English
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Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
$28.95 Add to cartNavigating the joys, stigma, and discrimination of disabled parenting–and how the solutions offered by disability culture can transform the way we all raise our kids
Jessica Slice’s disability is exa- Author: Slice, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0807013242
- Language: English
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Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You about Parenting in Community, Raising Independent Kids, and Not Losing Your Mind
$30.00 Add to cartAcclaimed journalist Marina Lopes travels the world to learn how diverse cultures embrace communal parenting, bringing home practical strategies for American parents on how to stop doing it all, reima… [more below]
- Author: Lopes, Marina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0306834413
- Language: English
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The Mother Code: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Myths That Shape Us
$30.00 Add to cartIn this propulsive memoir, an award-winning journalist blends history, science, and cultural criticism to uncover whether motherhood outside of society’s rigid rules and expectations is possible–and … [more below]
- Author: Ackerman, Ruthie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730119
- Language: English
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible
- Author: Perlin, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164196
- Language: English
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Rise and Fall: Great Empires That Shaped the World
$22.99 Add to cartJourney back in time to discover the fascinating histories of nine ancient civilizations, including lesser-known empires such as Ayutthaya and Benin.
You may know of the Vikings, the Aztecs and the Mon
- Author: Allen, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1800660480
- Language: English
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How to Understand Your Relationships: A Practical Guide
$19.95 Read more‘Profound and vulnerable. An essential gift for all of us that relate’ – Anne Mauro
What do we mean when we say ‘relationship’?
How do we separate our needs and desires from norms and expectations?
How- Author: Barker, Meg-John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1787756548
- Language: English
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Sidewalk
$21.00 Add to cartAn exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the bl
- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527253
- Language: English
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The Second Shift: The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
$19.00 Read moreAn updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication.
Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley pro- Author: Hochschild, Arlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120336
- Language: English
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Wartime Secrets, Assassination Plots, and More Conspiracy Theories about U.S. History
$31.32 Read moreWas there a secret plot to kill President John F. Kennedy? Did the U.S. government know that the Pearl Harbor attack was going to happen? Conspiracy theories have cropped up since the U.S. formed. Unc… [more below]
- Series: Investigating Conspiracy Theories
- Author: Simpson, Phillip W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166907756X
- 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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The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture
$29.99 Add to cartFor more than 150 years, the question of nature versus nurture has been one of the most contentious issues in the human sciences. On the one side are “blank-slaters,” who believe we are mainly shaped
- Author: Conley, Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092637
- Language: English
