Cultural & Social
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
$24.99 Add to cartThe age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habit… [more below]
- Author: Menzel, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0984074422
- Language: English
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Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
$21.95 Add to cartWhen the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion were first discovered, Freemasons and Zionist Jews everywhere screamed and complained that these 24 Protocols are a hoax, a forgery, even a blood taint… [more below]
- Author: Marrs, Texe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1930004567
- Language: English
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Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies
$14.99 Add to cart“If you have ever dreamed of taking a class from the highly regarded scholar Dr. Jeana Jorgensen, this comprehensive text will grant your wish. Dr. Jorgensen’s presentation of material in Folklore 10
- Author: Jorgensen, Jeana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 9798985159202
- Language: English
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The Wayfinders
$17.99 Read moreEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and Nat
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0887848427
- Language: English
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society
$19.99 Add to cartA passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics–former
- Author: Deresiewicz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858631
- Language: English
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What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism
$24.95 Read moreThis scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a better way to fight it
Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally- Author: Kundnani, Arun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1839762764
- Language: English
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The Book of Tea Classic Edition
$18.95 Add to cartNow available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this “object d’art” will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for o… [more below]
- Author: Okakura, Kakuzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0804800693
- Language: English
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How We Got by: 111 People Share Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope Through Hardship
$24.99 Read moreWhen your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorge… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Shaina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1524872318
- Language: English
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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
$50.00 Add to cart#1 Most Important Political Book of 2023, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the
A Best Book of 2023, The Telegraph (Great Britain)- Author: Trentmann, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1524732915
- Language: English
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A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
$29.00 Add to cartA provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes–and what we can do about it.
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet w- Author: Heying, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593086880
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of tod
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525512179
- Language: English
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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
$29.00 Add to cartIn the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws … [more below]
- Author: Cavender, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 080785493X
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225907
- Language: English
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How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between)
$15.95 Read more“The book is breezy and entertaining and Hopgood is charmingly self-deprecating about her own mothering of the formidable Sofia, who emerges as a sassy character in her own right.”–Boston Globe
A to- Author: Hopgood, Mei-Ling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 156512958X
- Language: English
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Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
$14.95 Add to cart– Explores the lifestyle of indigenous peoples of the world who exist in complete harmony with the natural world and with each other.
– Reveals a model of a society built on trust, patience, and joy r- Author: Wolff, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 892818662
- Language: English
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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN Award
A work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proc- Author: Estes, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1804295507
- Language: English
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
$30.00 Add to cart“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”–Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Prickett, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239059
- Language: English
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
$27.95 Add to cartFollowing one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one young whaler’s death against the backdrop of the vast So… [more below]
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Winterbottom, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400906
- Language: English
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
$32.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction – A New York Times Notable Book – Bloomberg Best Book of 2018 – One of Bill Gates’s Top Five Books of… [more below]
- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 4, 2018
- ISBN10: 0735224897
- Language: English
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Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, And, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in
$40.00 Read moreIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star State–and the nation–over the
- Author: Editors of Texas Monthly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063068613
- Language: English
