Sociology
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
$21.99 Add to cart“A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more” (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evoluti… [more below]
- Author: Christakis, Nicholas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316230049
- Language: English
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Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love, Stay in Love, Rekindle Your Love
$18.99 Add to cartPhysician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple he’ll help you improve your marriage through sharing, tou
- Author: Wheat, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 1980
- ISBN10: 310425115
- Language: English
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Food
$19.95 Read moreA consumer’s guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.
Everybody eats. We may ev
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Parasecoli, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537311
- Language: English
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Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198795548
- Language: English
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Secularism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUntil the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Copson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198747225
- Language: English
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Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
$24.99 Add to cartAn old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso, haul… [more below]
- Author: Leeming, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 1996
- ISBN10: 0195104625
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
$15.99 Read moreCombining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of
- Author: Van Voorst, Roanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063005891
- Language: English
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Capturing the Moon
$25.95 Add to cartRabbi Ed Feinstein narrates thirty-six classic and modern folktales that transmit our culture, inform our values, and educate our people. Stories take readers from ancient Israel to the European shtet
- Author: Feinstein, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0874418402
- Language: English
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How Modern Media Destroys Our Minds: Calming the Chaos
$21.99 Add to cartA guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off.
Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturate
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1912891883
- Language: English
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Grandes Misterios de la Humanidad: Incluye 2 Libros en 1 – TeorÃas de Conspiración que han Impactado al Mundo, Las Sociedades Secretas más Misteriosas
$23.99 Add to cartTe has preguntado qué secretos ocultan los gobiernos y lÃderes del mundo a las personas? Te gustarÃa saber cuales son los grupos más misteriosos e impactantes de todos los tiempos? Porqué much
- Author: Aguilar, Blake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1646945964
- Language: Spanish
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Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century
$22.00 Add to cartA new, inclusive union movement with a contemporary vision and an eye toward building social and economic power can remake society.
Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the… [more below]
- Author: Wetzel, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354707
- Language: English
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Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
$29.95 Add to cartAn invaluable compendium of Hul′q′umi′num′ traditional knowledge.
Respected Cowichan Tribe Elder and botanical expert, Luschiim Arvid Charlie, began his education in early chil
- Author: Charlie, Luschiim Arvid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1550179454
- Language: English
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work
$19.95 Read moreWhen House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been dis
- Author: Brown, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 162963638X
- Language: English
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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
$24.95 Read moreThe Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For a thousand years and more before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished in thes… [more below]
- Series: Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
- Author: Bringhurst, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1553658396
- Language: English
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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
$30.00 Add to cartA RICH SURVEY OF FOLK PRACTICES PRIOR TO MORTUARIES AND THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents… [more below]
- Author: Burnett, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1496804600
- Language: English
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Pagan Orgins Of The Christ Myth Hardcover
$24.00 Add to cartPagan Orgins Of The Christ Myth Hardcover
- Author: Jackson, John G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 01 1989
- ISBN10: 1639233199
- Language: English
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Skateboarding, Power and Change
$44.99 Add to cartThis book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the ‘ethical turn’ in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders
- Author: Willing, Indigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: June 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9819912334
- Language: English
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How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body
$24.95 Read more“In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Beaumont reminds us that walking is far from a neutral activity. With the help of Frantz Fanon, Beaumont locates freedom at the level of the body; free from… [more below]
- Author: Beaumont, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290076
- Language: English
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The Bell Witch in Myth and Memory: From Local Legend to International Folktale
$19.95 Add to cartApparently, slumber parties in the mid-South 1970s were plied with a strange ritual. At midnight attendees would gather before a mirror and chant “I don’t believe in the Bell Witch” three times to se
- Author: Gregory, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1621908372
- Language: English
