Cultural & Social
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Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
$19.95 Add to cartGrave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and dis… [more below]
- Series: Fourth World Rising
- Author: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803269080
- Language: English
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
$24.95 Add to cartHidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generati… [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803260989
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
$17.00 Add to cartA revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most … [more below]
- Author: Keltner, Dacher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110292
- Language: English
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Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice
$39.95 Add to cartFranz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology a… [more below]
- Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
- Author: Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496216911
- Language: English
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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
$21.99 Add to cartThis “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Eric Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982111313
- Language: English
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Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
$30.00 Read more- Author: Hannaford, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 006325302X
- Language: English
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At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies
$22.00 Add to cart“Hine’s brilliant book demands we stare into [the] abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis.”–Brian Eno, musician
“Maybe it’s time to stop talk
- Author: Hine, Dougald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1645022803
- Language: English
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Sacred Laws, Spiritual Healing & Doctoring Songs: Interviews with Bernice Torrez, Kashaya Pomo
$37.95 Add to cartHealer, spiritual teacher and culture bearer, Bernice Torrez has left us a treasury of sacred knowledge, traditions and cultural practices. Vibrant stories, legends, visions, dreams, and autobiographi… [more below]
- Author: Carney, Ismana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1478797304
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
$18.99 Add to cartWhat is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Break… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Robert Rowland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1439148686
- Language: English
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Dear Sister
$24.98 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking and heartfelt book, Paula Dannielle presents Dear Sister: There’s Something Black Women Want You to Know, a powerful collection of eight letters that amplify the voices and e
- Author: Dannielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988772507
- Language: English
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
$17.99 Add to cartHow do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one’s behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine’s list of America’s “50 Mos… [more below]
- Author: Sapolsky, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0743260163
- Language: English
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
$21.00 Add to cart“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our … [more below]
- Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226619516
- Language: English
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Sastun
$19.99 Add to cartThe compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigo’s quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of
- Author: Arvigo, Rosita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 006250259X
- Language: English
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The Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People
$30.00 Add to cartThis compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated T
- Author: Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1771605219
- Language: English
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
$37.92 Add to cartThis fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of … [more below]
- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887596
- Language: English
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Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village
$24.95 Add to cartMimi Schwartz’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he’d tell her, “We all got along.” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, … [more below]
- Author: Schwartz, Mimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496221206
- Language: English
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The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in the American Heyday
$15.95 Add to cartA disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly tr… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934848611
- Language: English
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Juggalo Country: Inside the World of Insane Clown Posse and America’s Weirdest Music Scene
$16.95 Read moreWHOOP WHOOP The Insane Clown Posse calls itself “the most hated band in the world,” but with 11 million albums sold, the horrorcore hip hop duo from Detroit is a widespread music phenomenon with a c… [more below]
- Series: Scene History
- Author: Rock, Craven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1621063186
- Language: English
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Guardians of Hidden Traditions
$18.95 Add to cartGuardians of Hidden Traditions is a historical novel narrating the experiences of generation after generation of crypto-Jews, beginning in Spain in the late 1300’s and ending in New Mexico in the earl… [more below]
- Series: Western Sephardic Traditions
- Author: Medina-Sandoval, Isabelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0982065787
- Language: English
