Social History
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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
$26.00 Add to cartA history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.
Creat- Author: Franklin, Samuel W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 022665785X
- Language: English
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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
$19.99 Add to cart“Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best–and at it… [more below]
- Author: Druett, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209704
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
$39.95 Read moreAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulen- Author: Schl?gel, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691183740
- Language: English
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We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
$32.00 Add to cartFintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government–in despair, because all the young people were leaving–opened the country to foreign investment and pop
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1631496530
- Language: English
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The Urge: Our History of Addiction
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction–a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood- Author: Fisher, Carl Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0525561463
- Language: English
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People’s Plaza: Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance
$24.95 Add to cartFrom June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashville’s Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B. Wells
- Author: Jones, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0826504973
- Language: English
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Cowboy American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture
$40.00 Read moreMay your belly never grumble
May your heart never ache
May your horse never stumble
May your cinch never break–Cowboy blessing
A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West — a
- Author: Pruitt, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0228104491
- Language: English
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Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
$30.00 Read moreAn exploration into the curation of the self in Western civilization from Da Vinci to Kim Kardashian.
In a technologically-saturated era where nearly everything can be effortlessly and digitally repr- Author: Burton, Tara Isabella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541789016
- Language: English
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
$24.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the world’s most popular drug
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews- Author: Pendergrast, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699386
- Language: English
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Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
$30.00 Add to cart“Subtly altered how I see the world.” –Michelle Goldberg, New York Times
“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I’d never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” –Chuck Klost- Author: Marx, W. David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593296702
- Language: English
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century: Documents of Hope and Resistance
$24.95 Read moreTwenty-first century social movements come to life through speeches, essays, and other documents of activism, protest, and social change.
Gathering more than 100 texts from social movements that have- Author: Arnove, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1644212978
- Language: English
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Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
$29.00 Add to cartThe book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away.
Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hern瀟dez dreamed of traveling through the night skies- Author: Hernández, José M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04, 2012
- ISBN10: 1455522805
- Language: English
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Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
$13.95 Add to cartThey left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdo
- Author: Hoefling, Larry J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 12, 2009
- ISBN10: 0982231326
- Language: English
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
$14.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English–and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Old Eng- Author: Videen, Hana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691237182
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
$35.00 Read moreA timely, well-researched, and “illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world me… [more below]
- Author: England, Vaudine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1982184515
- Language: English
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Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners
$29.95 Add to cart“As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose.”
There is no weapon as insidious, as seductive or as mysterious as poison. In this terrifyin
- Author: Hubbard, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 0233006117
- Language: English
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The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits
$25.95 Add to cartWhile people around the world love Japan’s cultural exports–from manga and anime to Zen–not everyone is familiar with Japan’s unique mythology that shapes these interests, which is enriched by Shint
- Series: Myths #4
- Author: Frydman, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252319
- Language: English
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Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush V. Gore
$28.99 Add to cartIn Restless Giant, acclaimed historical author James Patterson provides a crisp, concise assessment of the twenty-seven years between the resignation of Richard Nixon and the election of George W. Bus… [more below]
- Series: Oxford History of the United States (Paperback)
- Author: Patterson, James T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0195305221
- Language: English
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Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
$30.00 Read moreThe life and times of High Times‘ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who–between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts–battled
- Author: Howe, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0306923912
- Language: English
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
$23.00 Add to cart“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowl
-The New York Times- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0345476395
- Language: English
