Anthropology
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Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land
$20.00 Add to cart“‘Gather the Olives’ is an achingly lovely essay collection that celebrates the multiculturalism of Israel and Palestine, lifting up those whose generosity and kindness lights the way to lasting peace
- Author: Lott, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821627
- Language: English
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Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION – FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION – A stunning account of a… [more below]
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0525434240
- Language: English
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How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacy
National political commentator Steve Phillips’s “politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned” (Kirkus Reviews
- Author: Phillips, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978482
- Language: English
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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
$29.95 Add to cartA sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other thi- Author: Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691238774
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$35.00 Add to cartGreat British Bake Off finalist Ruby Bhogal is here to delight us with a flexible approach to baking tasty, sweet treats that give you double helpings of temptation. She brings us 50 like-for-like rec… [more below]
- Author: Bhogal, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1623716799
- 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
$28.00 Read moreNEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE(R) SERIES
On a world where cake is a necessity it takes the Grid to protect the civilized and the deaf from the dire influences of the ambient and to keep- Series: Liaden Universe(r) #26
- Author: Lee, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1982193441
- Language: English
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Sarah and the Garden: And the Time God Heard Her Laughing
$18.00 Add to cartWhy did Sarah laugh? God asks, but no one answers. Is there even an answer to such a question? Sarah’s story is not simple. There is no bitter old woman who laughs at God because she does not believe … [more below]
- Author: Hayes, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: April 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798385240210
- Language: English
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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
$32.00 Add to cartAn impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species–and ourselves
Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex o- Author: Webb, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593543130
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of the Traveller: The Astronomy of Northern Dene
$34.95 Add to cartTeachings from the stars
Much more than stories about the sky, Indigenous astronomies provide powerful, centuries-old models of knowing, being, and relating to the world. Through collaboration with mo
- Author: Cannon, Chris M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 177284098X
- Language: English
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Lost & Found: Nine Life-Changing Lessons about Stuff from Someone Who Lost Everything
$24.95 Read moreWhy do we buy and keep the things we do, and how can we live a less cluttered life? Journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde dives deep to explore, explain, and guide us on the path to liberation from the tyra… [more below]
- Author: Chandler-Wilde, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1797232665
- Language: English
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To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse
$34.99 Add to cartCritical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its thought. In order to understand critical theory today, we must first understand it
- Author: Trueman, Carl R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1087754399
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories – 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.99 Read more**20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION**
This 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.- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1399415921
- Language: English
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The Monumental Andes: Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures in the Peruvian Andes
$44.95 Add to cartWhen geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Peruvian Andes. Amid the plethora of information availa… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Roseanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1647691729
- Language: English
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I Came to Cast Fire: An Introduction to Ren? Girard
$24.95 Add to cartThe Catholic anthropologist Ren? Girard (1923-2015) has emerged as one of the most important thinkers of the past century. His sweeping mimetic theory changed the landscape of both the social sciences… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Fr Elias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1685781667
- Language: English
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
$28.99 Add to cartFor fans of Fantasyland, The Road to Jonestown, and Howard Zinn, a colorful and enlightening pop history of American doomsday belief that proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.
S- Author: Borden, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007800
- Language: English
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Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin
$29.95 Read moreUncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture
Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the foreskin and its position in- Series: Exquisite Corpse
- Author: Allan, Jonathan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1779400306
- Language: English
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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
$17.99 Read moreMuscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athlet
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076224
- Language: English
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
$22.95 Read moreCo-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Society
Rubbing two st
What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around us- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263515
- Language: English
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Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
$18.00 Add to cartThe effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Dav… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0385721943
- Language: English
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Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
$24.00 Add to cart“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal
Bone is a marvel, an
Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.- Author: Black (Brian Switek), Riley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525539123
- Language: English
