Social Sciences

The Trayvon Generation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Grand Central Publishing, April 2022. Hardcover. From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race. *Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times..... More
Group Psychology and Political Theory
Yale University Press, November 1994. Hardcover. In this innovative book, C. Fred Alford argues that the group - not the individual - is the most fundamental reality in society and that political theory has overlooked the insights of group psychology and leadership. Basing his argument on his experience with the..... More
Gardens of Lono: Archaeological Investigations at the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden, Kealakekua, Hawaii
Bishop Museum Press, 2001. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Quarto. [167 pages]. More
The Nature of Prejudice (Anchor Doubleday, A149) Abridged
Doubleday Anchor, 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild shelfwear. {498 pp.]. More
Rainbow Parenting
Griffin, May 2023. Paper Back. An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space. In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. While they may not..... More
Kings English : A Guide to Modern Usage
St Martins Pr, August 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, "The King's English "is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than" Fowler's Modern Usage, " lighter than the "Oxford..... More
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination
Mariner Books, November 2022. Hardcover. "Absolutely essential reading for every LEGO fan." --Blocks The definitive history of LEGO, based on unprecedented access to the company's archives and rare interviews with the founding family who still owns the company "This book tells the story of how my family built the LEGO..... More
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Bloomsbury Publishing, March 2023. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception-now with a new introduction and afterword from the author..... More
Virtually Normal
Vintage, September 1996. Trade Paperback. This incisively reasoned book by the editor of The New Republic addresses the full range of viewpoints on the issue. Sulllivan draws from both his personal experience and on rigorous argument to explore how a predominantly heterosexual society should treat those citizens who love members..... More
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Mariner Books, August 2014. Paper Back. A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier's bestselling guide to--and celebration of--the female body ¶ National Book Award finalist¶ A New York Times notable book ¶"A tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book." --The New York Times Book Review¶ Woman..... More
The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World
Pegasus Books, September 2022. Hardcover. A spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it's cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years. More than any other technology, cars have transformed American popular culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom..... More
Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society
University of Chicago Press, April 1992. First Thus. Paper Back. How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on deep knowledge..... More
The World of C. Wright Mills
Marzani & Munsell, January 1960. Trade Paperback. Cover wear; previous owner's name. More
Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier
Mariner Books, January 2023. Hardcover. "Gripping. ... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia -- and how hard it will be to eradicate." -- New York Times Book Review "A raw account of the..... More
Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier
Mariner Books, January 2023. Hardcover. "Gripping. ... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia -- and how hard it will be to eradicate." -- New York Times Book Review "A raw account of the..... More
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (V-286)
Vintage Books, July 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the..... More
Main Currents in Sociological Thought I & II (2 volume set)
Doubleday Anchor, 1968, 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear. Sunned spines. Previous owner's name stamped veso of front cover, top textblock edge and last page of book. (354 pages, vol. I; 346 vol. II). More
On war (A171)
Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Edgeworn cover with bruise and creased from hard strike midway of spine. Tanned margins of cover. Mildly duststained textblock edges. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. 143 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available. More
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2023. Hardcover. "A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book." --Robert Kolker, The Washington Post "[A] moving and superbly reported book ." --Jessica Winter, The New Yorker "A harrowing account . . . [and] a...... More
Bloodbath Nation
Grove Press, January 2023. Hardcover. An 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 with photographer Spencer Ostrander Like most American boys of his generation, Paul Auster grew up playing..... More
Bloodbath Nation
Grove Press, January 2023. Hardcover. An 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 with photographer Spencer Ostrander Like most American boys of his generation, Paul Auster grew up playing..... More
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2022. Hardcover. One of the top ten books of the year at The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vulture/New York magazine A best book of the year at Los Angeles Times, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Vogue..... More
Race Course Against White Supremacy
Third World Press, February 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days--and that it is..... More
Neurolinguistics (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
The MIT Press, May 2022. Paper Back. An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders. Neurolinguistics, the study of language in the brain, describes the anatomical structures (networks of neurons in the brain) and physiological processes (ways for..... More