Cultural & Social
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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
$17.00 Add to cartThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
I- Author: Diangelo, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0807047414
- Language: English
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart“If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do,” write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Monaghan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853465
- Language: English
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Putting the Fact in Fantasy: Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writing
$20.00 Add to cartA collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right
Whether it’s correctly naming the parts of a- Author: Koboldt, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593331990
- Language: English
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
$24.95 Add to cartAs a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is … [more below]
- Author: McGowan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1909394122
- Language: English
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Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
$21.95 Add to cartMost books on the Roman and Greek Empires deal with famous figures or events, but Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants focuses on things that seldom appear in history books: myths and magi
- Author: Ryan, Garrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1633887022
- Language: English
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All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work
$19.00 Add to cartA deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people–morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners–who work in it and what led them there.
We are surrounded b- Author: Campbell, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250906237
- Language: English
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The Power of Myth
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war.
The Power of Myth launched an extra… [more below]- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385418868
- Language: English
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Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World–And How You Can, Too
$26.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism acros
- Author: Oluo, Ijeoma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063140187
- Language: English
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The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cart“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpiece- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107542
- Language: English
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A History of Japan: Revised Edition
$18.95 Add to cartA classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.
Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Sta- Author: Mason, R. H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15, 1997
- ISBN10: 080482097X
- Language: English
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
$19.99 Add to cart“hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” –Cornel West
More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo moveme- Series: Owl Book
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0805050272
- Language: English
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea–a closed world of increasing global importance–hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Revi… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0385523912
- Language: English
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East of Dreams
$18.95 Add to cartDisplaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history.
The work- Author: Martin, Nastassja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379341
- Language: English
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No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining
$17.95 Read moreAn assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.
To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara
- Author: Ahmed, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1558613684
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
$22.95 Add to cart“[An] extraordinary book.”–Brian Eno – “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”–Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir – “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work o
- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Yurchak, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691284482
- Language: English
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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World
$29.95 Add to cartA transformative way of understanding addiction–and an invitation to find connection in the pleasures of life we know are bad for us
Elizabeth Roberts has experienced the suffering wrought by addicti- Author: Roberts, Elizabeth F. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0691245800
- Language: English
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
$19.00 Add to cartAn “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American cultu… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1668007827
- Language: English
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To See Beyond
$17.99 Read moreA globe-spanning essay collection on the human condition from the author James McBride calls “one of the most creative and important nonfiction writers in our era”
Our hyper-informed digital era of cli
- Author: Badkhen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1954276540
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$19.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER – NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO – NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE
“Gossip is the only- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1538757419
- Language: English
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Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. L… [more below]
- Author: Rutherford, Danilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1478029250
- Language: English
