Cultural & Social
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Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down
$28.00 Add to cartAn anthropologist’s quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.
In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trum
- Author: Pandian, Anand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1503637875
- Language: English
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A Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
$17.99 Add to cart“In Member of the Club. [Graham writes of] heartbreaking ironies and contradictions, indignities and betrayals in the life of an upper-class black man.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
Informed and driven by h
- Author: Graham, Lawrence Otis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0060984309
- Language: English
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Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
$20.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A riveting feat of science writing that recasts that most familiar of celestial objects into something eerily extraordinary, pivotal to … [more below]
- Author: Boyle, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593129741
- Language: English
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Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism
$22.95 Add to cartAmericans have been sold a version of social justice that fails to deliver
The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But f- Author: Pan, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1804294225
- Language: English
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Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
$28.95 Read moreIn 1980, Charles Wetli—a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions—identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners b… [more below]
- Author: Beliso-de Jes?s, Aisha M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030550
- Language: English
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Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue
$25.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors ar… [more below]
- Author: Reaser, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685299
- Language: English
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The Natural History of Unicorns
$18.99 Add to cart“Lavers keeps his intellectual detective story passionate and suspenseful.”
— Washington Post Book WorldFrom Biblical stories about virgins to adventures with Harry Potter, unicorns have enchanted pe
- Author: Lavers, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0060874155
- Language: English
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How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention
$29.99 Add to cartA passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.
Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executiv- Author: Grove, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1668062445
- Language: English
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Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
$34.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film
Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic in- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1804290866
- Language: English
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Social Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Social science is the study of human behaviour. It offers the tools to understand and explain people’s choices and actions, and how they live toget… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Betts, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 019287182X
- Language: English
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Letters from Congo
$11.00 Add to cartLETTERS FROM CONGO, a powerful collection by Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros Georges, invites readers to journey every air mile traveled by a family trying to survive the perpetual uncertainty o
- Author: Georges, Danielle Legros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: August 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1941604056
- Language: English
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Speaking in Tongues
$26.99 Add to cartLanguage, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues–taking the form of a … [more below]
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096454
- Language: English
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The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s
$33.00 Add to cartThe origins of our postsecular present, revealed in a vivid, groundbreaking account of the moment when popular culture became the site of religious conflict.
The 1980s are usually seen as a slick, shr- Author: Elie, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 374272921
- Language: English
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Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
$27.95 Add to cartA mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman
Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think.- Author: Keane, Webb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691270937
- Language: English
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Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths
$29.95 Add to cartBlaming, shaming and flimsy evidence: welcome to the ugly world of Good Mother myths
When Alex Bollen had her first baby, the fear of being a bad mother made her guilty and anxious. A researcher with- Author: Bollen, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1804297534
- Language: English
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Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops movin- Author: O’Neill, Kevin Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0520409116
- Language: English
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Blood in the Face (Revised New Edition): White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump
$24.95 Add to cartA riveting, jaw-dropping view of America’s white supremacy movement.
- Author: Ridgeway, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1642594652
- Language: English
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rul… [more below]
- Author: Gelfand, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152947
- Language: English
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Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork Journal
$21.00 Read moreHelping students apply their anthropological toolkit to the real world
- Author: Guest, Kenneth J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 132404070X
- Language: English
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migration, and ethnicity to reframe what it means to be i… [more below]
- Author: Zalloua, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730909
- Language: English
