Social History
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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries
“We are the apes who tell stories,” writes William Be
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157106
- Language: English
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
$24.00 Add to cartAmerica’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a “thought-provoking and delicoiusly unsettling” (Publisher’s Weekly) tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomena … [more below]
- Author: Dickey, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 052555758X
- Language: English
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Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
$35.00 Add to cartThe history of selling sex is a hidden one–and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the ey
- Author: Lister, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252440
- Language: English
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The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern wor… [more below]
- Author: Sexton, Jared Yates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185234
- Language: English
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It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History
$21.95 Add to cartPortland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city.
In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nati- Author: Bowstern, Moe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1629633518
- Language: English
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
$22.99 Add to cartNicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living o
- Author: Ostler, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060935723
- Language: English
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Winter in Taos
$26.95 Add to cart“Winter in Taos” starkly contrasts Luhan’s memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust’s “Remembrances of Things Past.” They follow her life through three failed marriages, numero… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Heritage
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0865345937
- Language: English
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African American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being “American” means living in a land of freed… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0190915153
- Language: English
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Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage
$40.00 Add to cartTreasures of Ukraine chronicles the arts and heritage of Ukraine at a time when the country’s people, culture, landmarks, and artworks are facing destruction and devastation. Created in partnership w
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0500026033
- Language: English
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Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
$27.95 Add to cartA sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics
Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global hist- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
- Author: Harper, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230595
- Language: English
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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
$19.95 Add to cartFrom our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it’s also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the… [more below]
- Author: Finlay, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363904
- Language: English
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
$20.00 Add to cartSaidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021586
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$35.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
The story of art collective Gran Fury–which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda–offers lessons in love a- Author: Lowery, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036588
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a
- Author: Janega, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074469
- Language: English
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial guide to life before–and after–Tinder, IVF, and robots.
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of cre- Author: Spar, Debora L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798736
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$32.95 Read moreA blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.
Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, ori- Author: Muthukrishna, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204837X
- Language: English
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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
$29.99 Read moreNEXT BIG IDEA CLUB’s November 2023 Must Read Books – LIBRARY JOURNAL EDITOR PICK – “This vital and accessible study is a must-read for anyone concerned with workplace equality.”–Publishers Weekly (St
- Author: Wingfield, Adia Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 006307981X
- Language: English
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Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
$27.00 Read moreAn expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1
- Author: Baker, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354987
- Language: English
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Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History
$19.99 Add to cartA WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FINALIST
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander provides “an entertaining, broad-ranging history of the tomato” (Mark Pendergrast) in this fascinating and er- Author: Alexander, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1538753332
- Language: English
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Beneath Blue Mesa: The Gunnison River Valley Before the Reservoir
$18.74 Add to cartIn the late 1950s, the United States Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to construct the Curecanti Project, consisting of three dams on the Gunnison River. The largest, Blue Mesa Reservoir, was crea
- Author: Primus, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986476100
- Language: English
