Sociology
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Standing in Gaps
$22.95 Add to cartSeamus O’Rourke humorously reflects on his underwhelming adventures in New York, Dublin, and London before returning to his uneventful rural life, filled with self-reflection and his father’s comicall… [more below]
- Author: O’Rourke, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1804581488
- Language: English
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossi… [more below]
- Author: Pinker, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1668011573
- Language: English
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
$20.00 Add to cartNOW IN PAPERBACK The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that gives us a “generous but disconcerting look at Tea Party backers in Louisiana to explain the way many people in thi… [more below]
- Author: Russell Hochschild, Arlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1620973499
- Language: English
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Terroni: All That Has Been Done to Ensure That the Italians of the South Became “Southerners”
$20.00 Add to cartIn a passionate and polemical manner, Pino Aprile’s “Terroni” examines the effect that the unification of Italy has had on Southern Italy and analyzes what some of the ramifications are today. A bests… [more below]
- Series: VIA Folios
- Author: Aprile, Pino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1599540312
- Language: English
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Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
$15.00 Add to cartIn this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Rangi… [more below]
- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1509565507
- Language: English
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The Socionomic Theory of Finance
$79.00 Add to cartThe Socionomic Theory of Finance is a 13-year-long effort by Robert Prechter. It includes supporting chapters from twelve other scholars, writers, researchers and analysts. In contrast to the dismal s
- Author: Prechter, Robert R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 820
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0977611256
- Language: English
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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images
$34.95 Read moreEnhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty and expanse, starting with its First Peoples. Depending on the season, the four Plateau
- Author: Scheuerman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638640262
- Language: English
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Feeding a Divided America: Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
$24.95 Add to cartIn Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the “rural-urban divide
- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Stockton, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366104
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartA 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 New Tourist: Waking Up to the Power and Perils of Travel
$30.00 Add to cart“A genuinely helpful framework for thinking about our own voyages” (The Atlantic), The New Tourist explores how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse, and offers essential reading for… [more below]
- Author: McClanahan, Paige
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1668011778
- 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
