Anthropology
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How to Speak Midwestern
$18.95 Add to cart“A dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance.”―The New York Times
In this book on Midwestern accents and sayings, Edward McClelland
- Author: McClelland, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997774274
- Language: English
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
$26.99 Add to cartAn NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancie
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478767
- Language: English
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Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering
$26.99 Add to cartWorld Magazine Book of the Year
Creative Quarterly Professional Graphic Design Runner-Up
Christianity Today‘s Book of the Year Winner
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award“This book will make no attempt to de
- Author: Kapic, Kelly M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0830851798
- Language: English
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate l… [more below]
- Author: Grinnell, George Bird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803271093
- Language: English
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God Made Boys and Girls: Helping Children Understand the Gift of Gender
$16.99 Add to cartGod Made Boys and Girls helps children understand that their gender is a gift from the God who made them and loves them. The story begins as the girls and boys at Grace Christian School are discussing
- Series: God Made Me
- Author: Machowski, Marty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 02, 2019
- ISBN10: 164507031X
- Language: English
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
$22.00 Read moreIn 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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Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
$21.99 Read moreIn Shame Interrupted, bestselling author Edward T. Welch empowers readers to live in light of the gospel of God’s grace, which breaks the lingering power of shame.
Providing immediate application to e
- Author: Welch, Edward T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1935273981
- Language: English
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
$18.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan.
The World War II-era study by the cultural anthr
- Author: Benedict, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618619593
- Language: English
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The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think
$34.95 Add to cartHow do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eig
- Series: Myths That Shape the Way We Think #1
- Author: Buxton, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0500518807
- Language: English
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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
$18.00 Add to cart“This book is a tour de force.” –Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzm- Author: Suzman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561773
- Language: English
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How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don’t) Say about Human Difference
$14.95 Read moreRace is not a biological reality.
Racism thrives on our not knowing this.In fact, racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 161519830X
- Language: English
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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller about how cats conquered the world and our hearts in this “deep and illuminating perspective on our favorite household companion” (Huffington Post).House cats rule bedrooms… [more below]
- Author: Tucker, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1476738246
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
$29.95 Read moreThis remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world. Using a wealth of examples,
- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1472976185
- Language: English
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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
$35.00 Read moreAn original history of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped his- Author: Sixsmith, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399409867
- Language: English
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to h
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0671792253
- Language: English
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When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
$19.99 Add to cartA must-read for anyone who has ever asked God, “Why me?”
It’s easy to trust God when things are going our way and the world makes sense. But when suffering strikes–especially seemingly senseless suffe
- Author: Tada, Joni Eareckson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0310238358
- Language: English
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Awakenings: American Jewish Transformations in Identity, Leadership, and Belonging
$24.95 Read more“Strong debut . . . this nuanced portrait of the state of American Judaism proffers a cogent vision of how to revitalize the faith.” –Publisher’s Weekly
Why are religious organizations on the decline
- Author: Stanton, Rabbi Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1681150891
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed
$16.99 Add to cartA comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam’s long and tumultuous history
A Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the new- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Hayton, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0804854181
- Language: English
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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Cultural Sensitivity Training: Developing the Basis for Effective Intercultural Communication
$22.00 Add to cartDevelop your intercultural sensitivity-and confidently manage personal and business relations in an intercultural environment!
With this book, you will learn why we all act ‘automatically’ in interacti
- Author: Kowalski, Susann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3903386138
- Language: English
