Sociology
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
$46.58 Read moreA mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life
Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected,- Author: Dawdy, Shannon Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691210640
- Language: English
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The Complete Language of Food: A Definitive & Illustrated History
$24.99 Read moreAwaken both your inner foodie and your inner yogi as you journey into the consciousness of everyday foods, from their origins in myth to modern interpretations today.
Have you ever considered the cu- Series: Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia #10
- Author: Dietz, S. Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 157715259X
- Language: English
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The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
$32.50 Add to cartA compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and- Author: Marwick, Alice E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300229623
- Language: English
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
$18.99 Read moreThis definitive guide to America’s present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd.
For many, the story of the wee- Author: Cottman, Michael H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1538737833
- Language: English
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Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral
$26.99 Read moreThe Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning Traditions
Why do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? When–and why–did we- Author: Harra, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1683648056
- Language: English
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Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us
$28.95 Read moreA revealing trip down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories -their appeal, who believes them, how they spread -with an eye to helping people deal with the alt-right conspiracists in their own lives.C… [more below]
- Author: Neiwert, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1633886263
- Language: English
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The Viking Hondbók: Eat, Dress, and Fight Like a Warrior
$18.00 Read moreLearn what it was like to live as a Norseman in this fun and fascinating look at Vikings and the Viking Age.
Vikings, those ancient Norse seafarers, have inspired plenty of pop culture phenomena, from… [more below]- Author: Egerdahl, Kjersti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0762495898
- Language: English
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The Queens Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
$24.95 Add to cartThe only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City’s largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody Knows
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City–some six-- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691166889
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Add to cartWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America
$15.95 Read moreHow a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans
What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trum- Author: Wuthnow, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191662
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future
$21.95 Read moreLetters to a Young Farmer is for everyone who appreciates good food grown with respect for the earth, people, animals, and community. Three dozen esteemed writers, farmers, chefs, activists, and visio… [more below]
- Author: Stone Barns Center for Food and Agricult
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1616895306
- Language: English
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Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting
$24.95 Add to cart“I would say that learning this material … has lifted some of the existential weight from me. Things aren’t as bad as they are trumpeted to be. In fact, they’re quite a bit better, and they’re getti
- Author: Bailey, Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1948647737
- Language: English
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Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
$29.00 Read moreHow to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this “utterly fascinating” (Adam Grant) big-idea book.
Most of what we know about how ideas spread come- Author: Centola, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0316457337
- Language: English
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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
$29.95 Read moreHow to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”
Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots- Author: Gigerenzer, Gerd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046954
- Language: English
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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
$32.65 Read moreTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, orde
- Author: Freeman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977427
- Language: English
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Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Citie S We Need
$19.95 Read moreHow the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream–and build–better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone.
Speculative futures–design approaches that help us visualize n- Author: Hoffman, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1623177367
- Language: English
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Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
$29.99 Read moreTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner – 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Winner – 2023 John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Winner – 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous Writer
Winner – 2022 Man
- Author: Sniderman, Andrew Stobo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1443466301
- Language: English
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The Fall of Public Man
$19.99 Read moreA sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the c… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353745
- Language: English
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Invasion on: D-Day, the Press, and the Making of an American Narrative
$39.95 Read moreIn Invasion On Stephen M. Rusiecki describes the process of how and why Americans developed a standing narrative of the World War II operation known as D-Day based upon a common, press-enabled, themat… [more below]
- Author: Rusiecki, Stephen M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168247920X
- Language: English
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The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion
$18.95 Add to cartHow does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi … [more below]
- Author: McAleer, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1551527693
- Language: English
