Sociology
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Yiddish Folktales
$23.00 Add to cartFilled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the sm… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Weinreich, Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 1997
- ISBN10: 0805210903
- Language: English
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Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence
$23.99 Add to cartPeace In the Hood evokes the reality of gangland warfare but also acknowledges the possibility of peace. Written by Basheer, a pioneer of the interventionist movement, it documents the lessons he lear… [more below]
- Author: Basheer, Aquil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 089793704X
- Language: English
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I Ain’t Resisting: The City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith
$20.00 Add to cartIn September of 2018, Marcus Deon Smith, a Black man who had committed no crime, died in the custody of the Greensboro Police Department. His death was eventually ruled a homicide.
Ian McDowell explor
- Author: McDowell, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1959104012
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
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Soccer in Sun and Shadow
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game
In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1645030377
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
$40.00 Add to cartA macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world to
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252610
- Language: English
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Earth Medicine: Ancestor’s Ways of Harmony for Many Moons
$15.99 Add to cartThe true spirit of Native American ways of knowing shines through in these heartfelt meditations, poems, and stories. In 364 daily offerings organised according to the cycles of the moon, Jamie Sams o
- Series: Healing Arts
- Author: Sams, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 07 1994
- ISBN10: 0062510630
- Language: English
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Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion
$24.95 Read moreHow feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe are making self-managed abortion available to all-and the strong transnational feminist movement they have built along the way
The feminists acro- Author: Braine, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292060
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
$31.18 Add to cartThis collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians’ own stories, told for generations around their fire… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Ella E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 520239261
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
$19.95 Read moreInspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. Th
- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1629631108
- Language: English
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Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and Bdsm Communities
$19.95 Add to cartWhether you’re a trembling novice or a jaded expert, there’s always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing, complex and titillating world of kink.
While there are plenty of other boo… [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0937609587
- Language: English
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An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
$25.99 Read moreAn eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author
When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Ba
- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978725
- Language: English
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Psychology of Personality: Islamic Perspectives
$24.99 Add to cartThe International Association of Islamic Psychology has republished this classic in Islamic Psychology literature which has been out of print for almost a decade. First published in 2009, the original… [more below]
- Author: Haque, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737281627
- Language: English
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But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past
$18.00 Add to cart“Full of intelligence and insights, as the author gleefully turns ideas upside down to better understand them. . . Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challe… [more below]
- Author: Klosterman, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0399184139
- Language: English
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Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
$29.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2023 by Inc.
Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential “self”–our selves are social
- Author: Lowery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 006291300X
- Language: English
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Bloodbath Nation
$24.00 Read moreAn intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and “genuine American original” (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration wi
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 080216045X
- Language: English
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities–and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward
“Megan Kimble manages to … [more below]- Author: Kimble, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443780
- Language: English
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
$53.33 Add to cartHow American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom
In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an Amer- Author: Clavin, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1479823244
- Language: English
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All-Of-A-Kind Family Downtown
$12.95 Read moreElla, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie are back In the fourth entry in the All-of-a-Kind Family series–set right after the first book–Charlie is growing up. Ella gets a big role in the Purim pla
- Author: Taylor, Sydney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1939601258
- Language: English
