Houghton Mifflin, January 1999. Trade Paperback. How do you pronounce affluent: AF-loo-int or uh-FLOO-int? Does it make a difference? Charles Harrington Elster believes that yes, it does make a difference (and that, for the record, one should pronounce the word AF-loo-int). More

Pantheon Books, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition {8 & 1/2' x 5 & 3/4'} Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth covered boards with red (fading) lettering along spine and a darker grey lettered title on front board. Dust staining to textblock edges. Lightly tanned spine and board edges..... More

Viking Adult, December 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that..... More

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

University of Texas Press, November 2022. Paper Back. The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment..... More

Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1989. Trade Paperback. The first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death--and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. In Who Dies?, the Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama..... More

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2012. Hardcover. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "How We Decide" comes a sparkling and..... More

Harvard Univ Pr, April 1987. Trade Paperback. Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could..... More

Columbia University Press, April 1996. Paper Back. The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and..... More

Penguin Press, September 2022. Hardcover. An instant New York Times Bestseller! "Stirring...Lithwick's approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring."--New York Times Book Review "In Dahlia Lithwick's urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story that begins in hope."--Boston Globe Dahlia Lithwick..... More

St. Martin's Press, April 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Interviews with more than one thousand gay servicepeople highlight an investigation into the presence and treatment of homosexuals in the military. The bestselling author of And the Band Played On follows with a book of even greater power and sweep as he..... More

Basic Books, February 1976. Trade Paperback. The definitive edition of one of Freud's most important works in which he describes his theory of the development, transformation, and aberrations of the sexual instinct from its earliest beginnings in childhood. More