Cultural & Social
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
$15.95 Read moreA brilliant example of the comparative method, The Gift presents the first systematic study of the custom–widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia–of exchanging g
- Author: Mauss, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 039332043X
- Language: English
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Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
$18.00 Add to cartAs seen on 60 Minutes, a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at “prepper” communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.
Currently, 3.7 milli- Author: Garrett, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188569
- Language: English
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Geishas and the Floating World: Inside Tokyo’s Yoshiwara Pleasure District
$14.99 Add to cartGeishas and the Floating World returns readers to a lost world of sensuality and seduction, rich with hedonism, abandon, and sexual and personal politics.
“Floating World” refers to Japan’s traditiona- Author: Longstreet, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315431
- Language: English
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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
$31.00 Read moreThe hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordi
- Series: Zone / Near Futures
- Author: Feher, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1942130120
- Language: English
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What about Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot
$19.95 Read morePunk arrived in Soviet Russia in 1978, spreading slowly at first through black market vinyl records and soon exploding into state-controlled performance halls, where authorities found the raucous yout… [more below]
- Series: Punx
- Author: Herbert, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1621064042
- Language: English
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Ancient Symbol Worship: The Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity
$12.95 Add to cartPhallic worship has been practiced by many varied and widespread cultures throughout the world for thousands of years. The male phallic was recognized as the bringer of life and the progenitor of the … [more below]
- Author: Westropp, Hodder M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 19 1999
- ISBN10: 1585090484
- Language: English
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Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
$26.95 Add to cartTwentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword
From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on- Series: Public Planet Books
- Author: Levinson, Sanford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1478002808
- Language: English
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Tikanga: An Introduction to Te Ao Maori
$29.95 Read moreThe book we’ve all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the Maori world for Pakeha, and for Maori people wishing to learn more about tikanga.
With simple lucidity and great expertise, K- Author: Opai, Keri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1990003176
- Language: English
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The Dinka History the Ancients of Sudan from Abuk and Garang at Creation to the Present Day Dinka 2015
$50.00 Add to cartThis book serves as a tribute to the rich heritage and legacy of the Dinka people, whose traditions and history span millennia. As a valuable contribution to the global pursuit of knowledge about huma… [more below]
- Author: Madut-Kueendit, Lewis Anei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 796
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0994363133
- Language: English
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
$15.99 Add to cartCombining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of
- Author: Van Voorst, Roanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063005891
- Language: English
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
$34.99 Add to cart“A profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?”
— Gabor Maté M.D., autho- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0865719543
- Language: English
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Our Culture, What’s Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
$25.43 Add to cartThis new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple’s bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. It suggests comparison with t… [more below]
- Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 156663721X
- Language: English
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, a History of Power from the Beginning to Ad 1760
$48.00 Add to cartDistinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this fir… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1107635977
- Language: English
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The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture
$15.99 Add to cartUnderstanding a people and their culture through code words and language.
Today, South Korea is an economic, technological and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war, p- Author: De Mente, Boye Lafayette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0804848157
- Language: English
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Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
$18.00 Read moreMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve-… [more below]
- Author: Paglia, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433864
- Language: English
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In the Land of Israel
$14.95 Add to cart“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemi… [more below]
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0156481146
- Language: English
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The Art of Action: 10th Anniversary Edition
$34.95 Read moreThe 10th Anniversary Edition of the Leadership Classic
The surprisingly common sense approach to leading a global company, based on a theoretical framework first used by the nineteenth-century Prussia- Author: Bungay, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1529376963
- Language: English
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
$26.00 Add to cartA narrative history of America’s deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings
After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers bel- Author: McWhirter, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1250009065
- Language: English
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural i
- Author: Dedek, Peter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180386
- Language: English
