Cultural & Social
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Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals: Death Practices Around the World
$26.95 Add to cartDiscover the world’s most fascinating death and funeral traditions in this illustrated modern-day memento mori.
Embark on a whirlwind tour of burial, preservation, and memorial practices and landmarks- Author: Liak, Yy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1797230042
- Language: English
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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
$43.43 Add to cartIn Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attun… [more below]
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Escobar, Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0822371057
- Language: English
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Me of Little Faith: More Me! Less Faith!
$24.00 Add to cartWhat do we believe? And for God’s sake why?
These are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and bestselling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little F- Author: Black, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1594483779
- Language: English
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The Anthropology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$29.99 Add to cartExplore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology–the study of human societies and cultures and how they work.
What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family s- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0593966813
- Language: English
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Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals about the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
$30.00 Add to cartAnthropomorphism is the human tendency to attribute human-like thoughts, feelings, and intentions to non-human things. It’s a cognitive bias baked into the human mind that distorts our view of the wo
- Author: Gregg, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0316577588
- Language: English
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Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
$38.93 Add to cartIn Learning to Lead, Jennifer R. N?jera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of educati… [more below]
- Author: Nájera, Jennifer R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030534
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$21.99 Add to cartA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast
“Remarkable. . . … [more below]- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979136
- Language: English
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Inocencia Racial: Desenmascarando La Antinegritud de Los Latinos Y La Lucha Por La Igualdad
$17.95 Add to cart“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Kater? Hern?ndez is fe… [more below]
- Author: Hernández, Tanya KaterÃ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020400
- Language: Spanish
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
$17.95 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222504
- Language: English
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
$20.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Bohannon, Cat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0345806204
- Language: English
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How to Sound Smart at Parties: An Evening of Fun Facts & Curious Conversations
$25.00 Add to cartWelcome to the most interesting dinner party you’ve ever attended!
Join seven friends for an evening of trivia, myth-busting, and camaraderie. You’ll have a front row seat at the party, listening in t- Author: McBride, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744090946
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
$30.00 Add to cartNature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.
While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene–an era many d
- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1503637328
- Language: English
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$18.99 Add to cartParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982179368
- Language: English
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The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
$35.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-fir- Author: Seabright, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 069113300X
- Language: English
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Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land
$20.00 Add to cart“‘Gather the Olives’ is an achingly lovely essay collection that celebrates the multiculturalism of Israel and Palestine, lifting up those whose generosity and kindness lights the way to lasting peace
- Author: Lott, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821627
- Language: English
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Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION – FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION – A stunning account of a… [more below]
- Author: Vaillant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0525434240
- Language: English
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How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacy
National political commentator Steve Phillips’s “politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned” (Kirkus Reviews
- Author: Phillips, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978482
- Language: English
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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
$29.95 Add to cartA sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other thi- Author: Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691238774
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$35.00 Add to cartGreat British Bake Off finalist Ruby Bhogal is here to delight us with a flexible approach to baking tasty, sweet treats that give you double helpings of temptation. She brings us 50 like-for-like rec… [more below]
- Author: Bhogal, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1623716799
- Language: English
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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
$32.00 Add to cartAn impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species–and ourselves
Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex o- Author: Webb, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593543130
- Language: English
