Cultural & Social
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Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
$32.00 Add to cartA richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories ab
- Author: Wade, Lizzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063097303
- Language: English
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Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing
$24.95 Add to cartOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of They Call It Love
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is wher- Author: Gotby, Alva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 180429621X
- Language: English
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Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures
$26.95 Add to cart“Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war…While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Ind
- Author: James, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745350305
- Language: English
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Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us
$32.00 Add to cartA new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides us
How does the body work–and why does it seem to work so differen- Author: Pontzer, Herman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593539303
- Language: English
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The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems
$19.95 Add to cartThe Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and t… [more below]
- Author: Kusserow, Adrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1478025573
- Language: English
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Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective
$46.65 Add to cartWhat is the role of culture in human experience? This concise yet solid introduction to cultural anthropology helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. Now … [more below]
- Author: Howell, Brian M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 154096101X
- Language: English
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Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartTwo of the world’s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahag?’s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This imme
- Author: De Sahagun, Bernardino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 89
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 160781157X
- Language: English
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Myth: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhere do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean?
In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These appr- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Segal, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198724705
- Language: English
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why
$18.00 Add to cartA “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world’s preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a functio… [more below]
- Author: Nisbett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: April 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0743255356
- Language: English
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Gullah Culture in America
$19.95 Add to cartA history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.
Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of
- Author: Crawford, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949467961
- Language: English
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Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
$29.95 Add to cartWhat is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers’ expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers’ dignity and standing? Hijac… [more below]
- Series: Seeley Lectures
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1009275437
- Language: English
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The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
$21.95 Read moreWe want to believe that there are some things we would never do. We want to believe that there are others we always would. But how can we be sure? What are our limits? Do we have limits? The answer li
- Author: Dias, Dexter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0099592541
- Language: English
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The Raceless Antiracist: Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism
$17.95 Add to cartMany scholars and activists argue that the practice of racialization and the belief in race are necessary because even if race is not real, racism is. While such an approach might help lessen some eff… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Sheena Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 163431252X
- Language: English
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
$24.95 Add to cartFor the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, an
- Author: Von Hippel, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 006331925X
- Language: English
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The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One
$29.99 Add to cartIn the thought-provoking tradition of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, a fascinating and reassuring look at the philosophy, psychology, and practice of optimism, an… [more below]
- Author: Paul-Choudhury, Sumit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166803140X
- Language: English
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To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
$26.00 Read more‘A fascinating and multilayered exploration of what it means to endure’
Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure
The author of Out of Thin Air, winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022, journeys through differen- Author: Crawley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403427
- Language: English
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumu- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217077618
- Language: English
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The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought
$23.00 Add to cartCapitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, an… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Jerry Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 487
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385721668
- Language: English
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Ancestral Future
$14.95 Add to cartIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the … [more below]
- Series: Critical South
- Author: Krenak, Ailton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1509560734
- Language: English
