Social History
-
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s countercultur… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 306835665
- Language: English
-
We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping look back at the protest movements that changed America from activist and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with personal and historical insights into lessons they can teach us today
For many- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593735102
- Language: English
-
The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Huq, Aziz Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 197657427
- Language: English
-
TAVERN TALK Just One More!
$28.95 Add to cartAuthors Bobby & Sandy Orr took us on a fun uplifting journey through the neighborhoods of Springfield Illinois in their first book Tavern Talk published by Outskirts Press in 2019 documenting the valu… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1977219357
- Language: English
-
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
$18.99 Add to cart“Even if read while sober, Andy Lechter’s Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, is a near-transcendent experience.” -New York Times Book Review
Since its rediscovery only fifty years ago, t
- Author: Letcher, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060828293
- Language: English
-
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
$19.99 Add to cartA vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063308517
- Language: English
-
The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
$50.00 Add to cartA first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce.
We may think of “globalism” as a recent development but its or- Author: Nugent, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 168458244X
- Language: English
-
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
$24.00 Add to cartA sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential… [more below]
- Author: Nagourney, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0451499379
- Language: English
-
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
$17.95 Read moreThe Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book–a dramatic, o
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498924
- Language: English
-
The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes–the Spanish flu, the Avian flu, and now, Covid-19
In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a c- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765658
- Language: English
-
Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
$22.00 Read moreIn this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and intersectional examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.
In this fascinating fe- Author: Lennon, Rachael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0711267111
- Language: English
-
How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 Bce to Now
$35.95 Read moreA sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history.
In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the mass
- Series: Information Cultures
- Author: Stephens, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1421446642
- Language: English
-
The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
$30.00 Read moreA journalist delves into the history, science, and practice of fasting, an ancient cure enjoying a dynamic resurgence.
When should we eat, and when shouldn’t we? The answers to these simple questions- Author: Hendricks, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1419748475
- Language: English
-
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
$28.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – An “elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated” (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements–from the 1600… [more below]
- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 152475918X
- Language: English
-
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get ri… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 198480135X
- Language: English
-
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
$25.95 Read moreA field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States–and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future
Cultural- Author: Hass, Kristin Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006718
- Language: English
-
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
-
The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
$30.00 Read moreA delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.
From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high s- Author: Bender, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147573
- Language: English
-
Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
-
A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test
$27.99 Add to cartIn a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.
When Pepper Stetler w
- Author: Stetler, Pepper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769353
- Language: English
