Anthropology
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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
$43.43 Add to cartIn Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attun… [more below]
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Escobar, Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0822371057
- Language: English
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Me of Little Faith: More Me! Less Faith!
$24.00 Add to cartWhat do we believe? And for God’s sake why?
These are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little F- Author: Black, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1594483779
- Language: English
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Homo Idioticus: Why We Are Stupid and What to Do About It
$17.99 Add to cartHumans are remarkable beings. We have mastered flight, cracked the genetic code, developed quantum mechanics and democracy, been to the moon, and may soon become a multi-planetary species.
Yet, despite
- Author: Pietrasik, Cezary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992410815
- Language: English
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The Anthropology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$29.99 Add to cartExplore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology–the study of human societies and cultures and how they work.
What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family s- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593966813
- Language: English
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Divine Radiance in Human Evolution
$26.00 Add to cartThe popular author and speaker offers a new way to seek spiritual meaning in a world where inherited doctrines and dogmas are falling away.
What if our true human story began with original blessing ra… [more below]- Author: O’Murchu, Diarmuid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1626986126
- Language: English
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Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals about the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
$30.00 Add to cartAnthropomorphism is the human tendency to attribute human-like thoughts, feelings, and intentions to non-human things. It’s a cognitive bias baked into the human mind that distorts our view of the wo
- Author: Gregg, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0316577588
- Language: English
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Gone Gone
$37.43 Add to cartIn Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members … [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031646
- Language: English
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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
$35.00 Add to cartA vast and unprecedented survey of societal collapse–stretching from the Stone Age to the age of silicon–that digs through the ruins of fallen societies to understand the root causes of their downfa… [more below]
- Author: Kemp, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593321359
- Language: English
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Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
$38.93 Add to cartIn Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. N?jera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of educati… [more below]
- Author: Nájera, Jennifer R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030534
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$21.99 Add to cartA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast
“Remarkable. . . … [more below]- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979136
- Language: English
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents–And What They Mean for America’s Future
$21.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another–fro… [more below]
- Author: Twenge, Jean M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1982181621
- Language: English
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Inocencia Racial: Desenmascarando La Antinegritud de Los Latinos Y La Lucha Por La Igualdad
$17.95 Add to cart“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Kater? Hern?ndez is fe… [more below]
- Author: Hernández, Tanya KaterÃ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020400
- Language: Spanish
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
$17.95 Add to cartA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer–from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination–… [more below]
- Author: Howsare, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222504
- Language: English
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in ou… [more below]
- Author: Bohannon, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0345806204
- Language: English
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How to Sound Smart at Parties: An Evening of Fun Facts & Curious Conversations
$25.00 Add to cartWelcome to the most interesting dinner party you’ve ever attended!
Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. You’ll have a front row seat at the party, listening in t- Author: McBride, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744090946
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
$30.00 Add to cartNature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.
While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene–an era many d
- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1503637328
- Language: English
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Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border Volume 57
$27.95 Add to cartTurns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.
American guns have ent- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Jusionyte, Ieva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0520395956
- Language: English
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$18.99 Add to cartParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982179368
- Language: English
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The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
$35.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-fir- Author: Seabright, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 069113300X
- Language: English
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
$36.00 Add to cartA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ance- Author: Mithen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605381
- Language: English
