Cultural & Social
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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
$17.99 Add to cartFatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as “enchanting” (The New York Times Book Review), “exubera… [more below]
- Author: Mernissi, Fatema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0743412435
- Language: English
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
$30.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species
“A wondrou- Author: Vince, Gaia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465094902
- Language: English
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
$25.99 Add to cartElizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experience
- Author: Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 031242728X
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
$19.99 Add to cartPeter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such con
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0060935642
- Language: English
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Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America: A History Forgotten
$20.00 Add to cartThis riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth… [more below]
- Author: Feldman, George Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0911469338
- Language: English
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Othello’s Children in the New World: Moorish History and Identity in the African American Experience
$17.50 Add to cart“In the early decades of the 20th century, a North Carolinian named Timothy Drew established a political and religious organization known today as the Moorish Science Temple of America Inc (M.S.T.A.)…. [more below]
- Author: Pimienta-Bey, Josi V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0759686157
- Language: English
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Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
$42.00 Add to cartThis book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of religion’s evolutionary significance, and its ine… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #110
- Author: Rappaport, Roy a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: March 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0521296900
- Language: English
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The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Inupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska
$32.95 Add to cartThe rich storytelling tradition of the Inupiat of Alaska is showcased in this remarkable collection of over eighty stories. Meticulously compiled from six villages in Northwest Alaska between 1966 and… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Wanni W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1646424107
- Language: English
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
$25.00 Add to cart“Don’t miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher.” –The Washington Post
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus- Author: Doniger, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 014311669X
- Language: English
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The Way of Tea: Health, Harmony, and Inner Calm
$15.99 Add to cartClarity. Health. Peace of mind. These are the goals of The Way of Tea.
In this book, readers will learn more about all aspects of tea–from the practical to the spiritual–and how they can implement- Author: Fisher, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 080485436X
- Language: English
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Southeast Asia: A History in Objects
$45.00 Read moreCreated in collaboration with the British Museum, this richly illustrated volume displays the arts, histories, and cultures of Southeast Asia from about 6,000 years ago to the twenty-first century, co
- Series: British Museum: A History in Objects
- Author: Green, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0500480877
- Language: English
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From Superman to Man
$14.95 Add to cartA classic work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance
Joel Augustus Roger’s seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revol
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0960229442
- Language: English
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Americans: A Collision of Histories
$23.99 Add to cartIn this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America’s different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic
- Author: Countryman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0809015986
- Language: English
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The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use
$26.95 Add to cartWhen the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a tremendous resurgence of interest in the Indian way
- Author: Laubin, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0806122366
- Language: English
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Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey
$22.95 Add to cartAt one time Spain was the center of Jewish life in Europe. Most European Jews were Spanish Jews. The most important scholars and yeshivas were there. But, Spain turned against its Jews, who had been t
- Author: Duncan Hart, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 14 2020
- ISBN10: 193560483X
- Language: English
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
$49.92 Add to cartThe hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith
How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people–as if th- Author: Luhrmann, T. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691164460
- Language: English
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At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
$19.99 Add to cartBringing light to the shadows of history through a “rich weave of citation and archival evidence” (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by
- Author: Ekirch, A. Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329011
- Language: English
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
$9.99 Add to cartHawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultur
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Westervelt, W. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1513295896
- Language: English
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A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
$15.99 Add to cartFor readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we’ve designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that w… [more below]
- Author: Malchik, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0738234885
- Language: English
