Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, April 2023. Hardcover. In the tradition of Random Family and Evicted, a gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-the-ground reporting and deep social history that follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and childbirth in today's America. In Birth, journalist Rebecca Grant provides..... More
Atria Books, April 2023. Hardcover. A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. The United States is currently home to six generations of people: -the..... More
Bishop Museum Press, 2001. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Quarto. [167 pages]. More
Policy Press, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Father and daughter provides an unique â ~insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley. More
Picador, January 2013. Trade Paperback. More
One World, January 2023. Paper Back. #1 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--now updated, with a new preface. "The most courageous book..... More
Dell, October 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2011. Hardcover. Major New York Times bestseller Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012 Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption. More
Palgrave Macmillan, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption. More
Penguin Books, September 2014. Trade Paperback. The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children, from the author of There Are No Grown-ups. "On questions of how to live, the French never disappoint. . . . Maybe it all starts with childhood..... More
Seal Press, April 2023. Hardcover. A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who..... More
PublicAffairs, March 2023. Hardcover. The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages--which for decades hid violence, abuse, and deaths within their walls For much of the twentieth century, a series of terrible events--abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths--took places inside orphanages. The survivors have been trying to tell their..... More
Harper Paperbacks, March 2011. Trade Paperback. New York Times #1 Bestseller More Than 1 Million Copies Sold Updated With New Material "This book made me happy in the first five pages." --AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to public debate and discussion about the education of women. She argues that women should be educated according to their station, and that they could be more than mere wives to their..... More
Basic Books / perseus books, May 1974. Reprint. Trade Paperback. This modern classic provides an introduction to Levi-Strauss' distinctive approach to anthropology. Octavo. Shelf worn. Remainder mark bottom textblock edge. [410 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, August 2022. First Thus. Paper Back. Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the..... More
Crown, March 2023. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. "Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral..... More
Knopf, August 2018. Hardcover. The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to change the world preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power..... More
Vintage, January 2023. Paper Back. A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of--an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet. "We learn that, if we were..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2009. Reprint. Hardcover. A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands "This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving." --Richard Sennett..... More
Harvard University Press, September 1990. Paper Back. In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries..... More
Funk & Wagnalls Company, November 1943. Cloth. Octavo. Blue cloth covered boards with spotting along spine and rear panel. Gold lettering along spine and on front panel. Non-authorial inscription front panel. First printing of sixth edition. Textblock top edge tinted a faded & discolored blue with one small scar. Tanned..... More
The School of Life, September 2022. Paper Back. A fresh approach to matters of the heart, Relationships inspires closeness and connection to help you not only find love--but to make your love last Since around 1750, we have been living in the era of Romanticism, which has shaped the way..... More
Crown, March 2022. Trade Paperback. WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - A FINANCIAL TIMES, FORTUNE, AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - "The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time."--Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion The definitive story of the rise and..... More
