Social History
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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
$19.99 Add to cartThis classic bestseller — the inspiration for the PBS series — is an “illuminating and even inspiring” portrait of medieval Spain that explores the golden age when Muslims, Jews, and Christians live… [more below]
- Author: Menocal, Maria Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0316168718
- Language: English
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Spoken Word: A Cultural History
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential pract
- Author: Bennett, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525657010
- Language: English
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
$27.00 Add to cartWhat won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?
Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as- Author: Kang, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17, 2017
- ISBN10: 0761189815
- Language: English
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Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Florida Book Award, Gold Medal for Nonfiction “A tall but telescopic-sight-true tale of Hunter Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and a large cavorting cast running around with sand i… [more below]
- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 6, 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062314
- Language: English
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Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History
$19.99 Add to cartA WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FINALIST
New York Times bestselling author William Alexander provides “an entertaining, broad-ranging history of the tomato” (Mark Pendergrast) in this fascinating and er- Author: Alexander, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1538753332
- Language: English
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$26.95 Read moreFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0807014540
- Language: English
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The Power of Art: A Human History of Art: From Babylon to New York City
$39.95 Add to cartAn epic work of art history that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art.
Taking readers from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, t- Author: Campbell, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365494
- Language: English
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Beneath Blue Mesa: The Gunnison River Valley Before the Reservoir
$18.74 Add to cartIn the late 1950s, the United States Bureau of Reclamation was authorized to construct the Curecanti Project, consisting of three dams on the Gunnison River. The largest, Blue Mesa Reservoir, was crea
- Author: Primus, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986476100
- Language: English
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$27.99 Read moreParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 198217935X
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society
$30.00 Read moreWhat makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a
- Author: Janega, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393867811
- Language: English
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
$28.99 Read moreWinner of the National Jewish Book Award – New York Times Bestseller
“A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it p
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 63112337
- Language: English
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
$21.99 Add to cartUpdated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet–the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of w… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-20
- ISBN10: 1982130849
- Language: English
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You’ll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
$29.95 Read moreAn illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage, from the Colonial era through the #MeToo age
Perfect for fans of Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Traister- Author: Zug, Marcia A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1586423746
- Language: English
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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
$18.00 Add to cartJournalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and w
- Author: Melville, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1419754866
- Language: English
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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
$32.50 Add to cartStarting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0393882144
- Language: English
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A Little History of Music
$26.00 Read moreA lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Philip, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300257740
- Language: English
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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
$17.95 Add to cartCalled “powerful and provocative” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white femin
- Author: Hamad, Ruby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06, 2020
- ISBN10: 194822674X
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t
$29.00 Read moreA “piercing, unsentimental” (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? O- Author: Conn, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826902
- Language: English
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love
$21.99 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller–a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles- Author: Talbot, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 1439108242
- Language: English
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Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort
$21.99 Add to cartA beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century
Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the she
- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1118014014
- Language: English
