Cultural & Social
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Tokyo: A Biography: Disasters, Destruction and Renewal: The Story of an Indomitable City
$9.99 Add to cartThe history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinating, centuries-old city, Tokyo: A Biography is a perfect companion volume for history buffs or Tokyo-… [more below]
- Series: Tuttle Specials
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0804853045
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of North Carolina
$24.99 Add to cartForgotten History in the Tar Heel State
Take an adventure through ruins of ghost towns and lost communities in the Old North State. Explore isolated settlements like Lost Cove, hidden so deep in the mo
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Leah, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1467159794
- Language: English
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The Rules That Make Us: How Culture Shapes the Way We Act, Think, Believe, and Buy
$30.00 Read moreA business anthropologist reveals how cultural intelligence is the essential tool for understanding human behavior
Why do people do what we do? To answer this question, many of us turn to psychology.- Author: Sweet, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1541705777
- Language: English
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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – In this “gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change” (New Statesman), an award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher argue that the glo… [more below]
- Author: Bricker, Darrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1984823221
- Language: English
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How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession
$29.95 Read moreA cultural history of the phenomenon of the ‘haunted house’ as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories.
What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being pa- Author: Blackwell Baines, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100781
- Language: English
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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the author of How the World Moves A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years, Native Americans have told stories about
- Author: Nabokov, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038818
- Language: English
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Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
$56.99 Read moreThere are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We’re fascinated by their houses and estates, t… [more below]
- Author: Doughty, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1529153042
- Language: English
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Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
$24.00 Read moreFood justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a world where everyone has enough? What does it mean to
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Reese, Ashanté M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1324076461
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way
$26.00 Add to cartLong before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes
- Author: Huth, John Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0674088077
- Language: English
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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
China is a country of huge economic influence, with ambitions to alter the balance of power between East and West. At the same time, many of its c- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mitter, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0198931107
- Language: English
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El Antropolog a Cultural: Una Perspectiva Cristiana = Cultural Anthropology = Cultural Anthropology
$17.99 Add to cartEl tema se presenta desde una perspectiva cristiana. Los autores, bas?ndose en su amplia experiencia pastoral, misionera y acad?mica, le ofrecen a usted una introducci?n a este tema y para la apreciac
- Author: Grunlan, Stephen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0829703438
- Language: Spanish
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Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures
$28.00 Add to cartInnovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems–buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins–maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape
For decades, Detroit reside
- Author: Caverly, Nicholas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640256
- Language: English
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
$22.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of he… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlich, Gretel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0679758526
- Language: English
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Together: A Manifesto Against a Heartless World
$18.95 Add to cartNow is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.
In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh po- Series: Canons
- Author: Temelkuran, Ece
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1837263043
- Language: English
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Love Across Difference: Learning Through Story and Dialogue
$20.00 Add to cartLove Across Difference: Learning Through Story and Dialogue
As humans, we love by being loved. Yet, we realize that again and again our attention is drawn to the ways in which human individuals and gro
- Author: Bateson, Mary Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218685072
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations
$22.95 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
“Grindle’s passionate book, including extensive research in Mexico, will ensure that [Zelia Nuttall] is never forgotten.” —Br
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Grindle, Merilee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301544
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.98 Add to cartHistory teaches that antisemitism is a disease which begins with the Jews but does not end with them. Once antisemitism is unleashed, it knows no bounds and can attack the very fabric of society. This… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
- Author: Harris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 019780067X
- Language: English
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Caf? Europa: Life After Communism
$24.00 Add to cart“Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” –Gloria Steinem
Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been repla- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140277722
- Language: English
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A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It
$19.00 Add to cartThis instant New York Times bestselling political book is “an essential companion for anyone who suspects that politics is in fact for everyone, and that the time to put skin in the game is right now”… [more below]
- Author: McGowan, Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668066440
- Language: English
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Down by Law: Criminalization, Solidarity, and Survival in Europe
$21.95 Add to cartDown by Law: Criminalization, Solidarity, and Survival in Europe is a collaborative graphic novel by ethnographers, artists, and activists that starkly and honestly illuminates people’s stories of tho
- Author: Crimscapes Research Group
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887441016
- Language: English
