Sociology
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$14.99 Add to cartSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book Award
Silver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a coll
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691796
- Language: English
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The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World
$32.00 Read moreA first-of-its-kind look at the outrage gripping organizations worldwide–and how leaders can respond to it.
Outrage is everywhere–on the left and on the right–and many companies have found themselve
- Author: Ramanna, Karthik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1647826292
- Language: English
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Forging Queer Leaders: How the Lgbtqia+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
$21.95 Read more‘Helps us all step into our power as queer leaders’ – Ben Pechey
LGBTQ+ individuals disproportionately encounter bias, adversity, stigma, and marginalization throughout their lives. It’s an enormous o- Author: Fram, Bree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1839978392
- Language: English
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Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers
$32.50 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers–a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildin… [more below]
- Author: Barr, Jason M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1982174218
- Language: English
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
$18.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the Z?calo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker “Wry and re- Author: Grabar, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1984881159
- Language: English
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The Countryside: Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire
$30.00 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editors’ Pick
Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal rural Britain’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism–a “revelatory travelogue-cum-expos?” (Publishers Weekly, st- Author: Fowler, Corinne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 166800397X
- Language: English
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Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist It
$21.99 Add to cartThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.
There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded
- Author: Dodsworth, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0008600856
- Language: English
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The Art of Crying: The Healing Power of Tears
$28.00 Add to cartExplore the healing, transformative power of shedding tears in this vibrant illustrated study of crying, one of the most uniquely human things we do.
What if crying wasn’t just an involuntary reactio- Author: Sandwich, Pepita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 031653255X
- Language: English
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Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the “timely” (The New Yorker), “fascinating, and morally serious,” (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vows–what they mean and why they s… [more below]
- Author: Mendelson, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1668021560
- Language: English
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Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy
$28.99 Read more“Focusing on greater Chicago, Masciotra argues that the exurbs, home to both monster trucks and liberals, are becoming a key political arena.” – New York Times Book Review
The suburbs have become too- Author: Masciotra, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 168589089X
- Language: English
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Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net
$30.00 Add to cartOther countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.
America runs on women–women who are tasked with holding society together- Author: Calarco, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593538129
- Language: English
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They Came for the Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America’s Classrooms
$32.50 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public e
- Author: Hixenbaugh, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0063307243
- Language: English
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YA D?jame En Paz, Mam? (Y T? Tambi?n, Pap?) / Leave Me Alone Mom (and You Too, Dad )
$18.95 Add to cartC?mo silenciar la voz interior que heredamos de nuestros padres
A veces queremos imponer a nuestros hijos la forma de hacer las cosas porque as? aprendimos, as? nos educaron, o s?lo porque creemos q… [more below]- Author: Guerra, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 607384820X
- Language: Spanish
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How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World
$29.95 Add to cartThere are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us–like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites u… [more below]
- Author: Hopkins, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1915294517
- Language: English
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
$14.00 Add to cartIn Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there’s no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0609805363
- Language: English
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Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing
$19.95 Add to cartWhy should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
In Permanent Red, John Berg- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298476
- Language: English
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The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The Other Significant Others…fundamentally, it’s become my new Bible.” — Trevor Noah
AN INDIE BESTSELLER
“An arresting work of compassion and insight.” ―Lori Gottlieb
“I lov- Author: Cohen, Rhaina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1250843480
- Language: English
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From the Bronx to the Bosphorus: Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics of New York
$34.95 Add to cartDiscover the vibrant journey of music from New York’s melting pot to the mystical shores of the Bosphorus
From the Bronx to the Bosphorus explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture o- Author: Feldman, Walter Zev
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509762
- Language: English
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Leaning on Gates
$29.95 Read moreSeamus O’Rourke’s humorous memoir, capturing the slow-paced, absurd lives of rural Ireland in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.
When actor, playwright and comedian Seamus O’Rourke first published Standing in G… [more below]
- Author: O’Rourke, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1804580376
- Language: English
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Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything
$21.95 Add to cartCan messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?
Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a po
- Author: Ebrahim, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455033
- Language: English
