Regional Studies
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True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
$21.95 Add to cart“True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique.”
–HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder
From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Ga… [more below]
- Author: Quammen, Betsy Gaines
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814870
- Language: English
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South–and thus of America–by an esteemed daughter of
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062977377
- Language: English
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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
$17.99 Add to cartA bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine
In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977257
- Language: English
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Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class
$20.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.
First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthrop- Author: Davis, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0226817989
- Language: English
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
$23.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1978, the B-52’s conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band’s self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music crit… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664054
- Language: English
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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
$19.00 Add to cartIn Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”–the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.
Richard Grant and his girlfriend were l- Author: Grant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1476709645
- Language: English
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The Battle for Justice in Palestine
$17.00 Add to cartAli Abunimah provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine.
- Author: Abunimah, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 25, 2014
- ISBN10: 1608463249
- Language: English
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
$30.00 Read moreSo often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-nee
- Author: Faloyin, Dipo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0393881539
- Language: English
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True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America
$28.95 Add to cart“True West disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique.”
–HAMPTON SIDES, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder
From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy G
- Author: Quammen, Betsy Gaines
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1948814919
- Language: English
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
$32.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South–and thus of America–by an esteemed daughter of
- Author: Perry, Imani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0062977407
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691216436
- Language: English
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
$18.00 Add to cart– A New Republic Best Book of the Year – The Globalist Top Books of the Year – Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction
Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presid- Author: Woodard, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 25, 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122029
- Language: English
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Oh, Florida!: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
To some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it’s both of these and, more important, it’s a Petri dish, producing trends that end- Author: Pittman, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250143640
- Language: English
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
$15.95 Add to cartThe arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn’t stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at f
- Author: Hesse, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494511
- Language: English
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A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
$18.95 Add to cartEssays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.
- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 168134002X
- Language: English
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
$24.99 Add to cartTwo years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas in America that have been offered up … [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1568588240
- Language: English
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
$21.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on Chi
- Author: Schmitz, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 0553418106
- Language: English
