Cultural & Social
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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Cultural Sensitivity Training: Developing the Basis for Effective Intercultural Communication
$22.00 Add to cartDevelop your intercultural sensitivity-and confidently manage personal and business relations in an intercultural environment!
With this book, you will learn why we all act ‘automatically’ in interacti
- Author: Kowalski, Susann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3903386138
- Language: English
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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939293715
- Language: English
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
$16.00 Add to cart“One of the season’s most talked about cultural studies” (Los Angeles Times)–an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journ… [more below]
- Author: Nugent, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0743288025
- Language: English
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234442
- Language: English
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‘Behind God’s Back’: Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina
$19.95 Add to cartWhen freedom came to enslaved Africans who toiled on rice plantations in lower Berkeley County, South Carolina, many remained to farm the land and raise their families in settlements near the plantati
- Author: Frazier, Herb J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0982515472
- Language: English
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Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
$14.95 Add to cart*A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR*
Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he’d met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the- Author: Coates, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1857886852
- Language: English
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Young, Robert J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198856830
- Language: English
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Life Is Not Useful
$14.95 Add to cartIndigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, pr
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 150955405X
- Language: English
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Summary and Analysis of Outliers: The Story of Success: Based on the Book by Malcolm Gladwell
$5.99 Add to cartSo much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Outliers tells you what you need to know–before or after you read Malcolm Gladwell’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the s- Series: Smart Summaries
- Author: Worth Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1504046684
- Language: English
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong: Why We Love France, But Not the French
$21.99 Add to cartA historical and cultural guide revealing the French approach to land, food, privacy, language, and more and how globalization led France to become one of the unlikeliest influential countries in the
- Author: Nadeau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1402200455
- Language: English
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
$29.95 Add to cartIn Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the I… [more below]
- Author: Shay, C. Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496223381
- Language: English
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Anarchy–In a Manner of Speaking: Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
$25.00 Read moreDavid Graeber was not only one of today’s most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He was also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of e… [more below]
- Series: Anarchies
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 15 2020
- ISBN10: 3035802262
- Language: English
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Indigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples
$29.95 Add to cartConnecting modern psychology to its Indigenous roots to enhance the healing process and psychology itself
– Shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous people the author has worked with, including the Ju/- Author: Katz, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1620552671
- Language: English
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I Am the Storm: Inspiring Stories of People Who Fight Against Overwhelming Odds
$28.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Janice Dean shares the journeys and lessons she’s learned from everyday heroes taking on long odds.
After her acclaimed memoir, Mostly Sunny, Janice Dean figured she
- Author: Dean, Janice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063243083
- Language: English
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They Must Go
$29.99 Add to cart“Every day,” writes Rabbi Meir Kahane, “the Arabs of Israel move closer to becoming a majority. Are we [Israel] committed to national suicide? Should we allow demography, geography, and democracy to p
- Author: Kahane, Rabbi Meir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1638232563
- Language: English
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Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right
$21.95 Add to cartA startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-r- Author: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0691222940
- Language: English
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Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Ursa Major Award for Best Non-Fiction Work
Furry fandom is a recent phenomenon, but anthropomorphism is an instinct hard-wired into the human mind: the desire to see animals on an- Author: Strike, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 162778232X
- Language: English
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Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
$18.99 Add to cartTwo world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the
- Author: Byrd, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250046572
- Language: English
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Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes: Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World
$33.99 Add to cartThe Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it’s easy to misinterpret important elements–or miss them altogether. In any culture, t
- Author: Richards, E. Randolph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0830852751
- Language: English
