Sociology
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Life Wants You Dead: A Calm, Rational, and Totally Legit Guide to Scaring Yourself Safe
$19.95 Read more“Life wants you dead, and this book wants to be READ! Ha ha I love being a comedian.” –Patton Oswalt
“Truly hilarious!” –Jack Handey, author of Deep Thoughts Fear!!! Scary, right? But what if the o- Author: Waite, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1797219359
- Language: English
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Pleasure District
$17.99 Add to cartAn unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore’s pleasure district
The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st c
- Author: Brown, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060740434
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
$34.00 Add to cartHillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance’s powerful origin story…
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate f
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0063438356
- Language: English
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Interrupting Violence: One Man’s Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself
$29.95 Read morePart memoir and part call to action, Interrupting Violence is a blueprint for cities across America looking for a new way to address community violence. Readers will be energized by the book Kirkus Re
- Author: Williams, Cobe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1538166879
- Language: English
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Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
$19.99 Add to cart“A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.”
What is “woman” if not “mother”?
–Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a Woman
Anything she wants to be. Forgoing mothe- Author: Warrington, Ruby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1649633084
- Language: English
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Susanne Bartsch Presents: Bartschland: Tales of New York City Nightlife
$40.00 Read moreSusanne Bartsch stands peerless in her reign over New York City nightlife.
From the opulence of the late 1980s to the present day, Bartsch possesses an innate ability to capture the spirit of the mom- Author: Bartsch, Susanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1419767569
- Language: English
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning view… [more below]
- Author: Conover, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0525563288
- Language: English
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On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future
$16.95 Read moreA clarion call to recognize the importance of rural farming communities and to build a new agriculture policy for our future
In a twenty-first-century landscape marked by unprecedented challenges, t… [more below]- Series: Speaker’s Corner
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1682754642
- Language: English
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Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life
$31.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Overwhelmed, a deeply reported exploration of why American work isn’t working and how our lives can be made more meaningful
Following Overwhelmed, Brigid- Author: Schulte, Brigid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1250801729
- Language: English
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Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere
$19.99 Add to cartChrist is present and at work in rural communities. How do we lead from that reality?
The temptation to operate from a scarcity mindset is stronger than ever. The tensions unleashed over the past few- Author: Roth, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1513813722
- Language: English
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Country Queers: A Love Letter
$24.95 Add to cartPart photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.
In 2013, Rae Garringer embark- Author: Garringer, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888902486
- Language: English
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Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun
$32.50 Add to cart
“Entertaining, phenomenally weird . . . Rat City may well be the world’s first-ever work of socio-biographical-scientific pop history. . . .a freaky romp down a peculiar passage in the history of ide… [more below]- Author: Adams, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1685890997
- Language: English
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What Is Culture?
$9.95 Read moreCulture is the way people live. It is the languages they speak, the clothes they wear, the foods they eat, the stories they write or tell, their art and history, the kinds of buildings they construct,… [more below]
- Series: Our Multicultural World
- Author: Kalman, Bobbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 077874650X
- Language: English
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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$29.95 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- Language: English
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Trump Derangement Syndrome: A psychological analysis of leftist ideology
$33.27 Add to cartTrump Derangement Syndrome has taken over major portions of society, spreading throughout America, tearing apart the mental stability of those inflicted, taking them to the brink and destroying cities
- Author: Pappas, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1963102258
- Language: English
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I Do (I Think): Conversations about Modern Marriage
$28.99 Add to cart“Allison Raskin’s book unpacks the questions and uncertainties around marriage that so many of us have… a must-read for anyone and everyone that may be curious about the intricacies of modern marria… [more below]
- Author: Raskin, Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1335012516
- Language: English
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
$29.99 Add to cartNow collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconom… [more below]
- Author: Smarsh, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668055600
- Language: English
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Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis
$24.95 Read moreIn this incisive work, Bill Donohue pulls no punches as he contends that our moral crisis is a reflection of two competing visions of morality — one religious and the other secular. The former is gro
- Author: Donohue, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889112464
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
$18.00 Read moreA 1902 collection of essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in “The Nineteenth Century” from 1890 to 1896, the essays examine mutually-beneficial … [more below]
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0241355338
- Language: English
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On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy
$12.95 Read moreA rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contempo
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Demsas, Jerusalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1638931968
- Language: English
