Cultural & Social
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
$25.00 Add to cartWe have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding–“tribes.” This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the ke… [more below]
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 1455566381
- Language: English
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Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)
$17.99 Add to cartA great story can lead a reader on a journey of discovery#8212;especially if it’s presented in two languages!
Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners of- Series: Stories for Language Learners
- Author: McNulty, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21, 2018
- ISBN10: 4805314680
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t
$29.00 Read moreA “piercing, unsentimental” (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? O- Author: Conn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826902
- Language: English
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
$21.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker)
No metropolis has been more lov- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1786635895
- Language: English
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Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
$21.95 Add to cart‘Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.’
True Love- Author: Costello, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1839970014
- Language: English
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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
$28.95 Add to cart“A deft combination of adventure, history, reportage and elegy.”–Washington Post
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on- Author: Goodheart, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1567926827
- Language: English
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The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
$19.99 Add to cartFinalist, 2024 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working f
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1487011938
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$38.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0374157359
- Language: English
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$37.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST – THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in ou
- Author: Bohannon, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593793005
- Language: English
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The Loneliness Files
$17.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and … [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Athena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1959030124
- Language: English
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The Teachers: A Year Inside America’s Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
$29.00 Read more***A National Bestseller***
A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestse- Author: Robbins, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1101986751
- Language: English
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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
$16.99 Add to cartA paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability–and offers a new
- Author: Yunkaporta, Tyson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0062975625
- Language: English
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The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations
$20.00 Add to cartUncover new sides of family members you’ve known your entire life with this indispensable guide that includes space for journaling.
Just as the oral histories of people around the world are disappeari- Author: Keating, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593420926
- Language: English
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You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths about Fat People
$15.95 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”–Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast The
AN INDIE BESTSELLER- Series: Myths Made in America
- Author: Gordon, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006475
- Language: English
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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
$30.00 Add to cart“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” … [more below]
- Author: Turchin, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0593490509
- Language: English
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The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
$28.00 Add to cart“Superb.”–Oliver Burkeman
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches. From the moment we ask children what they want to “be” when they grow up, we exalt the- Author: Stolzoff, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 059353896X
- Language: English
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Raving
$15.95 Add to cartWhat is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techn… [more below]
- Series: Practices
- Author: Wark, McKenzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019387
- Language: English
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
$28.00 Read moreA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer–from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination–… [more below]
- Author: Howsare, Erika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221346
- Language: English
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
$18.95 Add to cartWhat a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world–and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern h- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 691220557
- Language: English
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
$32.50 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION – A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relations
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1524732850
- Language: English
