Anthropology
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Endangered Languages
$16.95 Read moreA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
58% of the world’s languages–or, approximately 4,000 languages–are endangere
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Adamou, Evangelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548704
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Eugenics: From Science to Atrocity – How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
$16.95 Add to cartFor the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear child
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Peterson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 189101188X
- Language: English
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The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
$18.99 Add to cartA fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring stories from the Lore podcast–now a streaming television series–including “They Made a … [more below]
- Series: World of Lore
- Author: Mahnke, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1524797987
- Language: English
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The Wonder and Complexity of the 1904 World’s Fair
$30.00 Add to cartSt. Louis scholars contribute essays on the untold stories of the 1904 World’s Fair.
The 1904 World’s Fair was a complex, fascinating event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand.- Author: The Missouri Historical Society Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$30.00 Add to cart“Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible” – Samantha Irby, #1 NYT bestselling author
A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with g- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538757400
- Language: English
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
$20.95 Add to cartAwards:
One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022.
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020.
One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development- Author: Estes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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La Contracultura En M?xico / Mexican Counterculture
$15.95 Read more«Una audaz radiograf?a sobre los movimientos contraculturales en M?xico en voz de uno de sus mayores exponentes. 190 p?ginas llenas de salvajes historias de rebeld?a, ingenuidad, incorrecci?n, d… [more below]
- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073824130
- Language: Spanish
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The Social Conquest of Earth
$18.99 Add to cartSparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story o… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403633
- Language: English
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The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
$22.95 Add to cartOne spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their disc
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Glob, P. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170903
- Language: English
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Tristes Tropiques
$22.00 Add to cartA milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology
This watershed work records Claude L?i-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106252
- Language: English
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Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel
$18.95 Read moreDance of the Four Winds recounts the adventures of the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo as he journeys to Peru to explore the visionary ceremonies of the native shamans. Here Quecha masters use … [more below]
- Author: Villoldo, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0892815140
- Language: English
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What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves
$17.99 Add to cart“God’s eternal plan for us involves our body. We can’t write off our physical life as spiritually irrelevant.” —Sam Allberry
There’s a danger in focusing too much on the body. There’s also a danger i
- Author: Allberry, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1433570157
- Language: English
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A Short History of Myth
$18.00 Add to cartAs long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that
- Series: Canons
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 178211890X
- Language: English
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Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery
$27.00 Read moreRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy
Chl- Author: Aridjis, Chloe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221826
- Language: English
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Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed founder of environmental neuroscience, Dr. Marc Berman, comes a groundbreaking guide that reveals how interacting with nature can be the secret to improved mental and physical healt… [more below]
- Author: Berman, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1668058774
- Language: English
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America
$29.99 Add to cartThis New York Times headline was no joke.
In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in The … [more below]
- Author: Baron, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324090669
- Language: English
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The Bront?s’ Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$24.99 Add to cartThe Bront?s’ Christmas invites you to step back in time and explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of our most beloved authors.
While the Bront? family’s celebrations weren’t t
- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1803997605
- Language: English
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Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down
$28.00 Add to cartAn anthropologist’s quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.
In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trum
- Author: Pandian, Anand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1503637875
- Language: English
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A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
$17.99 Add to cart“In Member of the Club. [Graham writes of] heartbreaking ironies and contradictions, indignities and betrayals in the life of an upper-class black man.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
Informed and driven by h
- Author: Graham, Lawrence Otis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0060984309
- Language: English
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Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
$20.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to … [more below]
- Author: Boyle, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593129741
- Language: English
