Cultural & Social
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Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
$52.99 Add to cartIn Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
In a series o
- Series: Bell Hooks Teaching Trilogy
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0415968208
- Language: English
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 5th Edition
$31.10 Read more“The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a thi
- Author: Anzaldúa, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1951874021
- Language: English
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Cities Made Differently
$19.95 Add to cartFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades ou- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549336
- Language: English
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
$34.95 Add to cartThe traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles covers, as no other volume has, the handmade textiles… [more below]
- Author: Gillow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0500292213
- Language: English
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The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
$34.95 Read moreThe Upper Tanana Dene conveys the history and knowledge of Dene elders to current and future generations. Oral accounts reveal a unique and compelling perspective on a traditional way of life and offe… [more below]
- Author: Simeone, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 164642333X
- Language: English
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Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’Ero of Peru
$22.99 Read moreAn intimate glimpse into the world of ancient Peruvian spiritual practice and cosmology
– Reveals the mysteries of the world of living energy (kawsay pacha) through intensive in-depth interviews with- Author: Wilcox, Joan Parisi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1594770123
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
$50.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of ar… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0500251789
- Language: English
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Why Believe?: A Reasoned Approach to Christianity
$19.99 Read moreChemist and Christian Apologist Neil Shenvi Explores the Evidence for Christianity
For centuries, skeptics have disputed the claims of Christianity–such as belief in an eternal God and the resurrect
- Author: Shenvi, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1433579383
- Language: English
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Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
$31.00 Add to cartA vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preservi- Author: Stein, Eliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250281091
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$32.00 Add to cart“[David Graeber’s work] undercuts a lot of conventional thinking… Pointing out the many options that there are for developing more enlightened, more free societies, not just the ones encoded in our
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610223
- Language: English
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Finding Your Third Place: Building Happier Communities (and Making Great Friends Along the Way)
$16.95 Read moreAn exciting new look at the essential gathering spaces in our society where friendships are formed, relationships are nurtured, and the tapestry of community is woven.
Do you have a third place? Your- Series: Servant Leadership
- Author: Kyte, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1682754723
- Language: English
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In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
$27.95 Read moreThe story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilizations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we th
- Author: Moore, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1786499150
- Language: English
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Frequently Asked White Questions
$18.00 Read moreAre you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who is tire… [more below]
- Author: Parasram, Ajay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1773635573
- Language: English
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The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
$24.99 Read moreCompelling evidence that the events of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
– Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to an- Author: Vinci, Felice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594770522
- Language: English
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Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives
$25.99 Add to cartA moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically
It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young g- Author: Odets, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619483
- Language: English
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal
$21.00 Read more“Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers.”
“At a time of growing national chauvinism, M
—Globe and Mail- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260392
- Language: English
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Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Now
$18.00 Read moreOne-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way–“with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini’s book not only transports us to Italy but deep in… [more below]
- Author: Severgnini, Beppe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315634
- Language: English
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
$17.95 Add to cartCalled the “fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century” by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of “social construc… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 1967
- ISBN10: 0385058985
- Language: English
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America
$0.00 Read more“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” –Los Angeles Times
The radical search for the simple life in today’s America. On a frigid April night, a classically tr- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0735216088
- Language: English
