Anthropology
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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$34.93 Add to cartGoing beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transfo… [more below]
- Author: Malesic, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 520344073
- Language: English
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A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers Volume 3
$34.95 Read moreBetween the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers–a cast … [more below]
- Author: Blevins, Brooks
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0252044053
- Language: English
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At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs: Indian People and Deer Isle, Maine, 1605-2005
$15.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, native people lived, loved and labored on Deer Isle as well as the surrounding islands and peninsulas of east Penobscot Bay. Then, just over 400 years ago, their lives were dis
- Author: Haviland, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1882190807
- Language: English
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The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
$21.95 Add to cartInspiring stories of 10 people who left urban Japan to live ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains–for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese counterculture, and Eastern spirituality
“Su- Author: Couturier, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1623171326
- Language: English
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Architects of the Culture of Death
$19.95 Add to cartThe phrase, the Culture of Death, is bandied about as a catch-all term that covers abortion, euthanasia and other attacks on the sanctity of life. In Architects of the Culture of Death, authors Donald… [more below]
- Author: Wiker, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1586170163
- Language: English
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
$21.95 Add to cartDoctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-h
- Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Author: de Rond, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1501705482
- Language: English
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Sapiens/Homo Deus Box Set
$75.00 Add to cartDiscover humanity’s past and its future in this in this special box set featuring the bestselling Sapiens–a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg–and its acclaimed
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0062834312
- Language: English
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Poor People
$19.99 Add to cartThat was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann’s fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0060878843
- Language: English
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Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, an eye-opening, informative, “entertaining, and enlightening” (BookPage) celebration of the human-canine rel… [more below]
- Author: Horowitz, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1501175017
- Language: English
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A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity
$26.95 Read moreWhat is the origin of music? In the last few decades this centuries-old puzzle has been reinvigorated by new archaeological evidence and developments in the fields of cognitive science, linguistics, a
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Tomlinson, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1890951528
- Language: English
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Foxfire 8
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #8
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 20 1984
- ISBN10: 0385177410
- Language: English
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Relevance of the Stars: Christ, Culture, Destiny
$19.00 Add to cartFrom popes to television personalities to high school students, everyone who encountered Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete knew there was no one like him. He could engage you with a joke about a New Yorker c
- Author: Albacete, Lorenzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1639820841
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$27.95 Add to cartHow the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China–and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renais- Author: Hathaway, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691225885
- Language: English
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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
$39.58 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.
One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal
The islands of … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619838
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Add to cartHow 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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What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Fat
$25.95 Read moreFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What- Author: Gordon, Aubrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 0807041300
- Language: English
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Between Two Trees: Our Transformation from Death to Life
$14.99 Add to cartThe problem of Eden is much worse than you thought, but the solution is much better than you could have ever imagined.
Between Two Trees reveals that the real tragedy of Eden is a union with death, a u
- Author: Wood, Shane J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1684260701
- Language: English
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The Omnivores Dilemma
$14.95 Add to cartThe bestselling author of the Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century.
- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 710
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1594132054
- Language: English
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Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way
$18.99 Add to cartMary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions beg
- Author: Bateson, Mary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060926309
- Language: English
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Decolonize Self-Care
$19.95 Read moreFor radical twentieth-century feminists, it was a rallying cry for bodily autonomy and political power. For influencers and lifestyle brands, it’s buying fancy nutrition and body products at a premium
- Series: Decolonize That!
- Author: Spurgas, Alyson K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193357
- Language: English
