Cultural & Social
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The Professional Soldier: A Social and Political Portrait
$22.00 Add to cartA timeless resource that describes the evolution of the US military in the first half of the 20th century.More than 50 years after its publication, The Professional Soldier remains a path-breaking stu… [more below]
- Author: Janowitz, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1501179322
- Language: English
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Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an Anthropology for Liberation
$18.00 Add to cart“provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology.” Bolles American Ethnologist, 1994 “groundbreaking” Levinson The Teachers College Record, 2008 DECOLO… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Faye V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0913167835
- Language: English
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$17.95 Read moreFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093335
- Language: English
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
$21.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of … [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825252
- Language: English
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My Life as an Indian
$19.95 Add to cartIn this fascinating memoir, first published as a book in 1907, the author recalls the remarkable story of his journey westward as a young man to the Montana Territory. Traveling in the days before rai… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Schultz, J. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0486296148
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias
$42.95 Add to cartLearn how you can help combat micro and macroaggressions against socially devalued groups with this authoritative new resource
Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle In
- Author: Sue, Derald Wing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1119769965
- Language: English
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Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée Sauvage”
$34.50 Read moreAs the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguisti
- Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 022641308X
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- Language: English
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Localism in the Mass Age
$34.00 Add to cartIn the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Re… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Mark T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1532614438
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
$18.99 Add to cartThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
“A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theo- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0316404632
- Language: English
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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$34.93 Add to cartGoing beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transfo… [more below]
- Author: Malesic, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 520344073
- Language: English
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A History of the Ozarks, Volume 3: The Ozarkers Volume 3
$34.95 Read moreBetween the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers–a cast … [more below]
- Author: Blevins, Brooks
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0252044053
- Language: English
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At the Place of the Lobsters and Crabs: Indian People and Deer Isle, Maine, 1605-2005
$15.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, native people lived, loved and labored on Deer Isle as well as the surrounding islands and peninsulas of east Penobscot Bay. Then, just over 400 years ago, their lives were dis
- Author: Haviland, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1882190807
- Language: English
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The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
$21.95 Add to cartInspiring stories of 10 people who left urban Japan to live ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains–for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese counterculture, and Eastern spirituality
“Su- Author: Couturier, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1623171326
- Language: English
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Architects of the Culture of Death
$19.95 Add to cartThe phrase, the Culture of Death, is bandied about as a catch-all term that covers abortion, euthanasia and other attacks on the sanctity of life. In Architects of the Culture of Death, authors Donald… [more below]
- Author: Wiker, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1586170163
- Language: English
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Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital
$21.95 Add to cartDoctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-h
- Series: Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
- Author: de Rond, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1501705482
- Language: English
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Poor People
$19.99 Add to cartThat was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann’s fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously
- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0060878843
- Language: English
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Foxfire 8
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #8
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 20 1984
- ISBN10: 0385177410
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$27.95 Add to cartHow the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China–and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renais- Author: Hathaway, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691225885
- Language: English
