Sociology
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (20th Anniversary Edition)
$21.99 Add to cartWith a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism–and the culture it creates–harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating … [more below]
- Author: Bell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0465014992
- Language: English
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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus
$15.95 Add to cartOffering invaluable insights for students, parents, and educators, Lisa Wade analyzes the mixed messages of hookup culture on today’s college campuses within the history of sexuality, the evolution of
- Author: Wade, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355535
- Language: English
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
$21.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, i- Author: Nordberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0307952509
- Language: English
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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si鐵le Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for bot… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weir, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0190610220
- Language: English
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
$15.99 Add to cartPeggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty a
- Author: Orenstein, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0061711535
- Language: English
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50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist de… [more below]
- Author: Storey, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1447362195
- Language: English
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On Time, Causality, and the Block Universe
$37.99 Add to cartMany of us harbour deep questions on subjects such as the origin of the universe, the concepts of time and causality, the nature of consciousness and free will, the mind-body problems of philosophy, t
- Author: Proctor, Anthony C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1913136434
- Language: English
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Beneath the Veil of Elias Artista: The Rose-Croix as a Way of Awakening: An Oral Tradition
$19.95 Add to cartThis work seeks to distinguish the Initiation in the Garden, to which the Rose-Croix is connected, from the Initiation in the City, with which Freemasonry is associated. This distinction, which is n
- Author: Boyer, Rémi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1947907174
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643138812
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMarriage has not always meant just one man and one woman. For much of human history, over much of the globe, the most common alternative was polygamy: marriage involving more than one spouse. Polygamy… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pearsall, Sarah M. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0197533175
- Language: English
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When They Speak Israel: A Guide to Clarity in Conversations about Israel
$12.95 Add to cartWhen They Speak Israel is a guide for better understanding one’s own and others’ association with Israel. It is a guide written primarily for people who oppose racism and stand for human rights yet wa
- Author: McDonald, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1954221010
- Language: English
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100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet
$27.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we’… [more below]
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593136772
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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The Modern Crisis
$16.00 Read moreSix incisive essays from the father of social ecology.
Murray Bookchin’s frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmental… [more below]
- Author: Bookchin, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354464
- Language: English
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My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie
$37.99 Add to cartBetween the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those … [more below]
- Author: Hoy, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629939
- Language: English
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The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
$49.99 Add to cartExtremely timely topic that has received a lot of press, tends to spark controversy and strong feelings, and has the potential to appeal to both a lay and more scholarly audience
Written accessibly and… [more below]- Author: Campbell, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 3319703285
- Language: English
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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
$21.00 Add to cartA global movement to take back our food is growing. The future of farming is in our hands-and in our cities.This book examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening t… [more below]
- Author: Cockrall-King, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: February 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616144580
- Language: English
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Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results
$18.99 Add to cart“This book is among the very best I have seen in an emerging genre of donor-education literature.”-Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Author: Tierney, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391462
- Language: English
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Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us
$14.95 Add to cartWe have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable.
Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this po- Series: Manchester University Press
- Author: Whyte, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1526146983
- Language: English
