Social History
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The Naughty Nineties: The Decade That Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web
$24.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenu… [more below]
- Author: Friend, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 153876749X
- Language: English
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Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America
$18.00 Add to cartA new collection from one of Latin America’s most dynamic radical thinkers–in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.
Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of
- Author: Zibechi, Ra?l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355428
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$28.00 Read more*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography*
A vivid, deeply researched work o
*Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award*
*Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1501188526
- Language: English
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A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test
$27.99 Add to cartIn a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.
When Pepper Stetler w
- Author: Stetler, Pepper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769353
- Language: English
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Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Read moreBiology: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in biology in concise, 100-word s… [more below]
- Author: Amsen, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0744093783
- Language: English
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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
$22.00 Add to cartThe essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time c- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 079530109X
- Language: English
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Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul
$29.99 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the all but forgotten though no less shocking 1979 racial tragedy that divided Greensboro, N.C., and the nation, and the grassroots activists who, in their tireless fight for ju
- Author: Shetterly, Aran Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062858211
- Language: English
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The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet
$37.99 Read more- Series: Springer Praxis Books
- Author: Hollander, Justin B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: February 02 2023
- ISBN10: 3031075277
- Language: English
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
$18.00 Read moreNow featuring an updated introduction commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
“The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers.” -New York ObserverA
- Author: Kaiser, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147208
- Language: English
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- Language: English
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Whose Language Is English?
$28.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization
Whose language is English? Although we often think o- Author: Kiaer, Jieun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300264054
- Language: English
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Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta
$26.95 Add to cartIN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Marti… [more below]
- Author: Howell, Bill Blade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141722
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 1 (Loa #376): 1876 – 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
$37.50 Read moreThis collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I
A vital resource for- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537660
- Language: English
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Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
$29.99 Add to cartAn urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis.
College costs more today than ever and is wor
- Author: Liebenthal, Ryann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0358353963
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Read more“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists, and Ignoramuses
$26.99 Add to cartDiscover the Point of View of a Real Mountaineer
For far too many decades, the residents of the Appalachian Mountains have faced the ridicule, prejudice, and misunderstanding from those outside the reg
- Author: Kilgore, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1733364420
- Language: English
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Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
$30.00 Add to cartA renowned jewelry expert recounts her career working with nature’s most extraordinary treasures–gemstones–and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions… [more below]
- Author: Molesworth, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593500881
- Language: English
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Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartFor readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy–and prescribe a plan for be… [more below]
- Author: Michaels, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1668023237
- Language: English
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The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends
$25.95 Read moreThe myths of Korea may seem a complex and intriguing mix of ghosts, spirits, and superstition, but they form the bedrock of one of the most vibrant global cultures today. In the past few decades, Sout
- Series: Myths #8
- Author: Fenkl, Heinz Insu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027668
- Language: English
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
$18.99 Add to cartAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063028018
- Language: English
