Social Science
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The Art of the Possible: An Everyday Guide to Politics
$10.95 Add to cartWe all know what a politician looks like, right? They’re old people who wear suits and make long, boring speeches full of indecipherable words. Not so fast As The Art of the Possible explains, everyo… [more below]
- Author: Keenan, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1771474130
- Language: English
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Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime
Part memoir, part scientific investigation, R
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0062973282
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
$29.95 Add to cartAsylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.
In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forci- Author: Wipond, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1637741480
- Language: English
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Atlas of Cities
$49.50 Add to cartA unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of cities
More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to thre- Author: Knox, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0691157812
- Language: English
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The Journalist and the Murderer
$18.00 Add to cartA seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm del… [more below]
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0679731830
- Language: English
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Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story
$26.00 Add to cartIt has sadly become evident that over the past seventy years, Americans have become increasingly ignorant of our nation’s founding principles. Civic education and American history have either not been… [more below]
- Author: Goeglein, Timothy S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1956454136
- Language: English
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Visual Culture
$15.95 Read moreHow to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture.
The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, eve
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Boylan, Alexis L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539365
- Language: English
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Speaking American: How Y’All, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language.
Did you know that … [more below]
- Author: Katz, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0358359937
- Language: English
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Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison
$30.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking expos? of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful convictions
Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innoc- Author: Medwed, Daniel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675916
- Language: English
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Pretty: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award – By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memo… [more below]
- Author: Brookins, Kb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593684885
- Language: English
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Drag Thing: A Memoir of Mania and Mirrors
$21.95 Add to cartA defiant yet tender memoir about drag culture and bipolar disorder that reveals the hard-earned truths of being queer in the American Midwest
In Drag Thing, Gabe Montesanti recounts her immersive entr
- Author: Montesanti, Gabe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1834050227
- Language: English
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American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
$22.99 Add to cart2024 Midwest Book Award Winner in Religion & Philosophy
Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.
Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on C… [more below]- Author: Whitehead, Andrew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 158743718X
- Language: English
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Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past
$15.99 Read moreStories of hope, love, and compassion from a bygone era of Singapore’s history Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact. These neve… [more below]
- Author: Devasahayam, Theresa W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9815127128
- Language: English
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction (Loa #350): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Whichblack Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstructdemocracy i
$45.00 Add to cartA definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War’s aftermath and the legacy of racism in America
Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois’s now classi- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1097
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1598537032
- Language: English
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Hush: How to Radiate Power and Confidence Without Saying a Word
$30.00 Add to cartHarness the power of silence and let your presence speak volumes.
World-renowned body language expert Linda Clemons reveals how to harness nonverbal communication to project confidence, influence, a- Author: Clemons, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783517
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and Other Writings
$22.00 Add to cartIn The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439218
- Language: English
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The LGBTQ Almanac: 500 Years of Queer Culture in American History
$79.95 Add to cartInfluential! Remarkable! Groundbreaking! Discover and celebrate the amazing stories and achievements of some of America’s most inspiring artists, athletes, scholars, advocates and activists, political
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Felder, Deborah G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1578598494
- Language: English
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
$20.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explo- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0399562788
- Language: English
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Running Amok: Inside the Mind of the Lone Mass Killer
$27.95 Add to cartWhat drives someone to commit the unthinkable? Paul E. Mullen, one of the world’s pre-eminent forensic psychiatrists, examines the complex workings of the lone multiple murderer – a spectre haunting m
- Author: Mullen, Paul E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1917569009
- Language: English
