Cultural & Social
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In the Footsteps of the Traveller: The Astronomy of Northern Dene
$34.95 Add to cartTeachings from the stars
Much more than stories about the sky, Indigenous astronomies provide powerful, centuries-old models of knowing, being, and relating to the world. Through collaboration with mo
- Author: Cannon, Chris M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 10 2025
- ISBN10: 177284098X
- Language: English
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Lost & Found: Nine Life-Changing Lessons about Stuff from Someone Who Lost Everything
$24.95 Read moreWhy do we buy and keep the things we do, and how can we live a less cluttered life? Journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde dives deep to explore, explain, and guide us on the path to liberation from the tyra… [more below]
- Author: Chandler-Wilde, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1797232665
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories – 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.99 Read more**20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION**
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world.- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1399415921
- Language: English
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The Monumental Andes: Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures in the Peruvian Andes
$44.95 Add to cartWhen geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Peruvian Andes. Amid the plethora of information availa… [more below]
- Author: Chambers, Roseanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1647691729
- Language: English
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I Came to Cast Fire: An Introduction to Ren? Girard
$24.95 Add to cartThe Catholic anthropologist Ren? Girard (1923-2015) has emerged as one of the most important thinkers of the past century. His sweeping mimetic theory changed the landscape of both the social sciences… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Fr Elias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1685781667
- Language: English
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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
$28.99 Add to cartFor fans of Fantasyland, The Road to Jonestown, and Howard Zinn, a colorful and enlightening pop history of American doomsday belief that proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.
S- Author: Borden, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668007800
- Language: English
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Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin
$29.95 Read moreUncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture
Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the foreskin and its position in- Series: Exquisite Corpse
- Author: Allan, Jonathan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1779400306
- Language: English
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Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think
$18.00 Add to cartThe effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Dav… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0385721943
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Eugenics: From Science to Atrocity – How a Dangerous Movement Shaped the World, and Why It Persists
$16.95 Add to cartFor the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear child
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Peterson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 189101188X
- Language: English
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The Wonder and Complexity of the 1904 World’s Fair
$30.00 Add to cartSt. Louis scholars contribute essays on the untold stories of the 1904 World’s Fair.
The 1904 World’s Fair was a complex, fascinating event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand.- Author: The Missouri Historical Society Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$30.00 Add to cart“Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible” – Samantha Irby, #1 NYT bestselling author
A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with g- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538757400
- 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
$20.95 Add to cartAwards:
One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022.
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020.
One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development- Author: Estes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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La Contracultura En M?xico / Mexican Counterculture
$15.95 Read more«Una audaz radiograf?a sobre los movimientos contraculturales en M?xico en voz de uno de sus mayores exponentes. 190 p?ginas llenas de salvajes historias de rebeld?a, ingenuidad, incorrecci?n, d… [more below]
- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073824130
- Language: Spanish
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Tristes Tropiques
$22.00 Add to cartA milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology
This watershed work records Claude L?i-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106252
- Language: English
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Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel
$18.95 Read moreDance of the Four Winds recounts the adventures of the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo as he journeys to Peru to explore the visionary ceremonies of the native shamans. Here Quecha masters use … [more below]
- Author: Villoldo, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0892815140
- Language: English
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A Short History of Myth
$18.00 Add to cartAs long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that
- Series: Canons
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 178211890X
- Language: English
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Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery
$27.00 Read moreRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy
Chl- Author: Aridjis, Chloe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221826
- Language: English
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Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed founder of environmental neuroscience, Dr. Marc Berman, comes a groundbreaking guide that reveals how interacting with nature can be the secret to improved mental and physical healt… [more below]
- Author: Berman, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1668058774
- Language: English
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America
$29.99 Add to cartThis New York Times headline was no joke.
In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in The … [more below]
- Author: Baron, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324090669
- Language: English
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The Bront?s’ Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$24.99 Add to cartThe Bront?s’ Christmas invites you to step back in time and explore the delights of a Victorian Christmas through the eyes of our most beloved authors.
While the Bront? family’s celebrations weren’t t
- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1803997605
- Language: English
