Anthropology
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The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, an
- Author: Von Hippel, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 006331925X
- Language: English
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The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One
$29.99 Add to cartIn the thought-provoking tradition of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, a fascinating and reassuring look at the philosophy, psychology, and practice of optimism, an… [more below]
- Author: Paul-Choudhury, Sumit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166803140X
- Language: English
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To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
$26.00 Read more‘A fascinating and multilayered exploration of what it means to endure’
Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure
The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through differen- Author: Crawley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403427
- Language: English
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Christian View of Man:
$13.00 Read moreMan is made by God, in his image, for his glory. This truth, with all its implications, is the theme of Gresham Machen’s popular presentation.
- Author: Machen, J. Gresham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0851511120
- Language: English
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumu- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217077618
- Language: English
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The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
$23.00 Add to cartCapitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, an… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Jerry Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 487
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721668
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Add to cartIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
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Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
$52.99 Add to cartIn Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
In a series o
- Series: Bell Hooks Teaching Trilogy
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0415968208
- Language: English
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 5th Edition
$31.10 Read more“The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a thi
- Author: Anzaldúa, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1951874021
- Language: English
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Cities Made Differently
$19.95 Add to cartFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades ou- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549336
- Language: English
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
$34.95 Add to cartThe traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles… [more below]
- Author: Gillow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0500292213
- Language: English
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The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
$34.95 Read moreThe Upper Tanana Dene conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations. Oral accounts reveal a unique and compelling perspective on a traditional way of life and offe… [more below]
- Author: Simeone, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164642333X
- Language: English
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Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’Ero of Peru
$22.99 Read moreAn intimate glimpse into the world of ancient Peruvian spiritual practice and cosmology
– Reveals the mysteries of the world of living energy (kawsay pacha) through intensive in-depth interviews with- Author: Wilcox, Joan Parisi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1594770123
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
$50.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of ar… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0500251789
- Language: English
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Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity
$19.99 Read moreChemist and Christian Apologist Neil Shenvi Explores the Evidence for Christianity
For centuries, skeptics have disputed the claims of Christianity–such as belief in an eternal God and the resurrect
- Author: Shenvi, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1433579383
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
$22.95 Add to cartFirst published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishin… [more below]
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182973
- Language: English
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
$31.00 Add to cartA vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preservi- Author: Stein, Eliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250281091
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$32.00 Add to cart“[David Graeber’s work] undercuts a lot of conventional thinking… Pointing out the many options that there are for developing more enlightened, more free societies, not just the ones encoded in our
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610223
- Language: English
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Finding Your Third Place: Building Happier Communities (and Making Great Friends Along the Way)
$16.95 Read moreAn exciting new look at the essential gathering spaces in our society where friendships are formed, relationships are nurtured, and the tapestry of community is woven.
Do you have a third place? Your- Series: Servant Leadership
- Author: Kyte, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1682754723
- Language: English
