Regional Studies
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
$38.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?
These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cu
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 20 2008
- ISBN10: 041596816X
- Language: English
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I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
$18.00 Read moreA gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world
When Ga- Author: Romig, Rollo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0143135287
- Language: English
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Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories and Fairy Tales
$17.95 Add to cartA unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins.
Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in t
- Author: Kerven, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 06 2019
- ISBN10: 184994542X
- Language: English
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Small Town Living: A Coast-To-Coast Guide to People, Places, and Communities
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrate the joys of small town life in this stunning, coast-to-coast photographic ode to country stores, main streets, and the inspiring creatives who have embraced life outside the city center.
B- Author: Abbott, Erin Austen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484292
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Read moreWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now–As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
$19.99 Add to cart“A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor’s p
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0062005863
- Language: English
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
$21.95 Add to cart**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The countr- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844585
- Language: English
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Mardi Gras Beads
$22.95 Add to cartBeads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman’s trumpet. They are Louisiana’s version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tou
- Series: Louisiana True
- Author: Maccash, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177091
- Language: English
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The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City’s world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture and their cultural i
- Author: Dedek, Peter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180386
- Language: English
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The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
$21.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.
“An astonishingly clear picture of this resourceful, i- Author: Nordberg, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0307952509
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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A Stranger at My Door: Finding My Humanity on the U.S./Mexico Border
$16.95 Add to cartA Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family home in the Sonoran desert. Attempts to do the right th
- Author: Bowden, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0989200930
- Language: English
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Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations
$15.95 Read moreJapanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and remarkably readable journey through Japan’s cultural history.
This much-anticipated sequel to- Author: Davies, Roger J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 4805311630
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Stories from Home
$25.00 Add to cartBrimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower’s book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It also shows the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show busines… [more below]
- Author: Clower, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1617030708
- Language: English
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Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
$26.95 Add to cartE. Patrick Johnson’s Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her peopl… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, E. Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1478006536
- Language: English
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Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartFrom 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure o
- Author: Landau, Emily Epstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 21, 2018
- ISBN10: 0807169269
- Language: English
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Bourbon Street: A History
$49.95 Add to cartNew Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a y
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0807155055
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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We Are the Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything
$28.99 Read moreBlack Chicago culture is American culture.
During the Great Migration, more than a half million Black Americans moved from the South to Chicago, and with them, they brought the blues, amplifying what- Author: Nettles, Arionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1641608307
- Language: English
