Anthropology
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Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$21.95 Add to cartIn a series of fast-paced essays, Leaky Aqueducts, War Pigeons, and Mystery Cults answers 36 questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has been asked in the classroom and through his popular YouTu… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1493090607
- Language: English
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Anthropomorphics: An Originary Grammar of the Center
$17.95 Add to cartDennis Bouvard’s Anthropomorphics is the inauguration of a meta-discipline: a strategy for entering and transforming the secular disciplines.
Where challenges to liberalism often accept some degree of
- Author: Bouvard, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 16 2020
- ISBN10: 0648690571
- Language: English
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This Book May Cause Side Effects: The Curious and Dangerous Power of the Nocebo Effect, Placebo’s Evil Twin
$30.00 Read moreIn This Book May Cause Side Effects, Dr. Helen Pilcher explores the “nocebo” effect–the shadow side of the placebo–and shows how our convictions can sometimes quite literally harm us
Take the COVID
- Author: Pilcher, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1419774662
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Antropolog?a (the Anthropology Book)
$29.99 Add to cartEntiende las ideas clave de la antropolog?a: el estudio de las sociedades y culturas humanas.
Qu? significa ser humano? Por qu? tenemos rituales? C?mo difieren las estructuras familiares en todo el- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217135448
- Language: Spanish
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Pets and Their People
$40.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary mix of psychology, science, and cultural history exploring the relationship between humans and their pets.
Humans have been domesticating animals for over ten thousand years. Why do w
- Author: Foster, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1851246460
- Language: English
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The Sleepless Ape: The Story of Sleep in Human Evolution
$32.00 Add to cartHow the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution–and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep today
Despite sleep’s critical role i- Author: Samson, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0691259739
- Language: English
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Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$39.95 Add to cartCould a Roman bridge carry a modern freight train? How much would it cost to build the Colosseum today? What if the Romans had grown potatoes?
In a series of fast-paced essays, Leaky Aqueducts, Battle- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1493098373
- Language: English
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Health and Safety: A Breakdown
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE – A NEW YORKER, TIME, AND PITCHFORK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memo… [more below]
- Author: Witt, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593469895
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.98 Add to cartHistory teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once antisemitism is unleashed, it knows no bounds and can attack the very fabric of society. This… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Harris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 019780067X
- Language: English
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To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
$26.00 Add to cart‘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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Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, R
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0062973282
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Read moreHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
$22.00 Add to cartIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories–Hermes in Greec
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532559
- Language: English
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Posmacho Alfa. Arquetipos de Valor Para Hombres de Otra Era / Post-Macho Alpha
$15.95 Add to cartLa idea predominante de masculinidad est? en crisis y lo que significa ser hombre, en completa redefinici?n.
A lo largo de la historia, la masculinidad ha estado asociada a la fortaleza, al dominio, al… [more below]- Author: Nogués, Nicko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 6073853076
- Language: Spanish
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Unproven, Unlikely, and Firmly Believed: Why We Fall for History’s Most Seductive Conspiracy Theories, and How We Rediscover Reality
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vax movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it’s always been human nature to believe we’re being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be fair, we absolu
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031508
- Language: English
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Teaching Tools for Anthropology Careers
$25.00 Add to cartHow do you prepare anthropology graduates for meaningful careers?
This book contains 37 tools that provide straightforward guidance about career readiness for programs and individual instructors. The t
- Author: Nolan, Riall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: February 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991219822
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Freedom: Love, Hate and America’s Future
$31.95 Add to cartAn illuminating account of how Americans have been divided by the very value that unites them.
America today is being torn apart by the struggle over a single concept, deeply rooted in the country’s s- Author: Butcher, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1526185415
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$21.99 Add to cartIn this extraordinary book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
“Terrific… Tamim Ansary explores the underappreciated ways- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1541706226
- Language: English
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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
$33.00 Read moreAn urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose–culturally, politically, and personally–when a language is silenced?
“A vivid, hopefu- Author: Galer, Sophia Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217086979
- Language: English
