Cultural & Social
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Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. II
$40.00 Add to cartIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on s… [more below]
- Series: Myth of the Machine #2
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 1974
- ISBN10: 0156716100
- Language: English
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
$40.00 Add to cartTrue accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century.
The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to c
- Author: Nicholson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246509
- Language: English
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Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
$19.95 Add to cartLiberal civilisation is in crisis – now is a time of monsters.
While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic right-wing leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, defeating thes- Author: Seymour, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1804294268
- Language: English
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Another Bone-Swapping Event
$29.00 Add to cartBrad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru.
“Brad Fox has traveled to the center- Author: Fox, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603169
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartDrawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber’s most important essays and interviews.
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is somethi- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397642
- Language: English
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Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island
$34.00 Add to cart“The true and fascinating story of Easter Island and its amazing statues” — Ken Follett
“Revelatory…fascinating… wholly convincing” — Daily Mail (UK)
“Striking . . . a stunning unraveling of many
- Author: Pitts, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 006334467X
- Language: English
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$19.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now.” — James Wood, The New Yorker
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and b- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1685892078
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia–and why killing the dead is better than killing the living
Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global acc- Author: Blair, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 069122479X
- Language: English
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The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
$19.99 Add to cartA dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body
What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today’s world of blinding tech- Author: Chang, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891977
- Language: English
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Studying the Image: Critical Issues in Anthropology for Christians
$34.00 Add to cartThe field of anthropology provides rich insights into the world of people and cultures. But it also presents challenges for Christians in the areas of cultural relativism, evolutionary theory, race an… [more below]
- Author: Meneses, Eloise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1532636679
- Language: English
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Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burials
Why, how, and where do we inter our dead?- Author: Luckhurst, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278377
- Language: English
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The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
$18.99 Add to cart“A rollicking tour through humanity’s evolutionary past, and von Hippel is the consummate tour guide. With equal parts wisdom, humor, authority, and charm, he shows how our past explains the present a
- Author: Von Hippel, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0062740407
- Language: English
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
$23.99 Add to cartThe key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understanding the context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural v
- Author: Agar, Michael H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0688149499
- Language: English
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Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World
$21.99 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of creation stories ranging across widely varying times and cultures, including Ancient Egyptian, African, and Native American.
- Author: Sproul, Barbara C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 12 1979
- ISBN10: 0060675012
- Language: English
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The Overspent American
$16.99 Add to cartThe Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental “wish lists” of things to buy or get, a… [more below]
- Author: Schor, Juliet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060977582
- Language: English
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
$25.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose argu- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593734238
- Language: English
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Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron
$29.95 Add to cartMuch of the misunderstanding by foreigners about Japan arises out of their acceptance of certain stereotypes about the Japanese. Harumi Befu spearheaded the critique of the stereotypical and the essen… [more below]
- Series: Japanese Society
- Author: Befu, Harumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1876843055
- Language: English
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Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline
$24.99 Add to cartOriginally published on the 100th anniversary of the science of ethnobotany, this voume provides a comprehensive summary of the history and modern state of the field. The 36 articles from scientists a… [more below]
- Author: Schultes, Richard Evans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0881929727
- Language: English
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Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities
$24.95 Add to cartA historical and philosophical exploration of the impact of design on underserved communities, examining the field’s shortcomings as well as its potential to create positive change. Through essays tha… [more below]
- Author: Souza, Omari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1797223585
- Language: English
