Cultural & Social
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The Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features
$29.95 Read moreA broad and riveting cultural history of physiognomy, exploring how the desire to divine deeper meaning from our looks has compelled humans for millennia.
How do you read a face? For thousands of year- Author: Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047535
- Language: English
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Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
$34.95 Read moreIn this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler,
- Author: Kerns, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690153
- Language: English
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Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene
$13.95 Read moreOn a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions.
State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security a- Author: Banerjee, Milinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1734643536
- Language: English
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My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains
$19.00 Read moreSharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals.
For many Americans, Kansas represents a visi- Author: Crispin, Jessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0226820106
- Language: English
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Unexplained South: The Underwater Forest of Alabama, Inexplicable Lights Over Texas, the Red-Eyed Monster of Arkansas & More Rich Souther
$23.99 Read moreIn the South, mystery comes heaped with added richness. And in this collection of comfort food for the curious mind, author Alan Brown guides readers into the most delightful medley of mystery the Sou… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Brown, Alan N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153605
- Language: English
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Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
$29.95 Read moreHow statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture wars
The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology- Author: Bevan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761873
- Language: English
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Raven’s Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
$24.95 Read more2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner – Grand Prize
2020 Banff Mountain Book Award Winner – Mountain Literature- Richard K. Nelson was the host of the national public radio series, “Encounters”
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- Author: Lentfer, Hank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1680513079
- Language: English
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
$24.00 Read moreExamining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times–from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive–Victor Da… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 27 2002
- ISBN10: 0385720386
- Language: English
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The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, the Remaking of Racism
$19.95 Read more“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving com
- Author: Goldberg, David Theo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558543
- Language: English
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Susegad: The Goan Art of Happiness
$14.95 Read more‘Susegad’ is a Konkani word that has no exact translation in English. Goans use it to convey the sense of contentment, fulfilment and relaxation that everyone associates with Goa and its culture. Clyd… [more below]
- Author: D’Souza, Clyde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0670094579
- Language: English
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The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy with Recipes
$18.00 Add to cartA delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print eve
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307390373
- Language: English
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The Structure of Twana Culture: With Comparative Notes on the Structure of Yurok Culture
$18.75 Read moreThis remarkable account of Washington’s Twana Indians contains the most complete body of information compiled on any Native American group in the southern coast Salish region. The Structure of Twana C
- Series: Washington State University Press Reprint
- Author: Elmendorf, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 23 1992
- ISBN10: 0874220874
- Language: English
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All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey
$50.00 Add to cartCreated for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today.
In this visually stunning boo- Author: Miller, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1426219725
- Language: English
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Michael Chiago: O’Odham Lifeways Through Art
$26.95 Read moreThis book offers an artistic depiction of O’odham lifeways through the paintings of internationally acclaimed O’odham artist Michael Chiago Sr. Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea collaborated with the artis… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Chiago, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0816544751
- Language: English
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Humour
$15.00 Add to cartA compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture–by one of its greatest exponents
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the natur- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0300255020
- Language: English
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Work: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’. Work — paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory — is woven i… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fineman, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0199699364
- Language: English
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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America
$19.99 Read moreBarbara Ehrenreich’s New York Times bestselling Bright-sided is a sharp-witted knockdown of America’s love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0312658850
- Language: English
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Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle’a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
$32.99 Read moreAttuned to a world of natural signs–the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells–Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing
- Author: Low, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0824877357
- Language: English
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Relic
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signi- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765102282
- Language: English
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Un B?rbaro En Par?s: Textos Sobre La Cultura Francesa / A Barbarian in Paris. Wr Itings about French Culture
$19.95 Read moreEL LIBRO QUE CELEBRA LA ENTRADA DEL PREMIO NOBEL MARIO VARGAS LLOSA EN LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA
«La literatura francesa fue la mejor y sigue siéndolo. La más osada, la más libre, […] la que se … [more below]- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826214
- Language: Spanish
