Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss
Jonathan Cape Ltd / Cape Editions, London, June 1969. Paper Back. Soft cover with a jacket as issued. More
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Atlantic Monthly Press, December 2018. Hardcover. English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer..... More
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Grove Press, December 2016. Paper Back. Whether you're a frequent visitor to Europe or just an armchair traveler, the surprising and extraordinary stories in Lingo will forever change the way you think about the continent, and may even make you want to learn a new language. Lingo spins the reader..... More
Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race
Oneworld Publications, August 2019. Hardcover. Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask). MYTH: Early Europeans were white. REALITY: The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes. MYTH: Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a 'cognitive revolution' led to the birth of..... More
Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds
Pantheon, August 2019. Hardcover. A breakthrough work in neuroscience--and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience--that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and..... More
From Parlor to Prison (New Feminist Library)
Monthly Review Press, January 1985. Trade Paperback. More
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage)
Vintage, February 2013. Trade Paperback. New York Times Bestseller In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidt challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty..... More
Factfulness Illustrated: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Flatiron Books, November 2019. Hardcover. The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES is now available in a gift edition with the illustrations in color throughout. "A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." --Barack Obama..... More
Factfulness Illustrated: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Flatiron Books, November 2019. Hardcover. The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES is now available in a gift edition with the illustrations in color throughout. "A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." --Barack Obama..... More
Social organization, the science of man and other writings (Harper torchbooks. The Academy library)
Harper & Row, January 1964. Trade Paperback. More
Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
Zone Books (NY), September 1998. Trade Paperback. "The Culture of the Copy" is an unprecedented attempt to make sense of our Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. In a work that is breathtaking in both its synthetic and critical achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our entanglement with..... More
Folklore and the sea, (The American maritime library)
Published for the Marine Historical Association, Mystic Seaport, by Wesleyan University Press, January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. In discolored jacket with tears to back panel. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown. More
After '-Yuh mamma'
Seals, January 1972. Stapled Soft Cover. 42 pages. No markings. Solid. Several previous dealer price stickers on cover. Else clean & very good+ all around. More
How to Be an Antiracist
One World, August 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in..... More
So You Want to Talk About Race
Seal Press, September 2019. Paper Back. In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still..... More
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Moral
Michie Company, January 1959. Soft Cover. More
Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know About Sex, Love, and Consent
Penguin Books, August 2019. Paper Back. "A straightforward, accessible guide to help young men navigate sex, relationships, consent, gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual health and more." --USA Today An all-encompassing guide to help guys navigate sex, relationships, and consent in the post-#MeToo world. The world has changed, and the revelations..... More
The Fruit of All My Grief: Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream
Seven Stories Press, October 2019. Paper Back. Like the Russian author Svetlana Alexievich, award-winning journalist J. Malcolm Garcia lets the people he writes about speak for themselves. His writing highlights the struggles and the dignity of people quietly fighting for their lives. They include families and small businesses still recovering..... More
Freud: An Introduction to His Life and Work
Polity, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Drawing upon both published and unpublished material, this book shows how Freud's theories were influenced by his own development. Isbister traces Freud's work from the early pre-analytic phase to his key studies of dreams, parapraxes and jokes. More
Black English
Vintage, July 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The many worlds of man: the Meaning and Value of Racial and Cultural Differences (A-173)
Thomas Y. Crowell (Apollo editions), January 1968. Paper Back. More
Democracy's Last Stand, the Role of the New Urban University
Texas Wesleyan University, January 1999. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. More
The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development,' Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
University of Minnesota Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce..... More
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Free Press, July 1994. Trade Paperback. Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but..... More
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Free Press, July 1994. Trade Paperback. Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but..... More
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