Sex and Repression in Savage Society
Meridian Books, New York, 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate cover wear. Ninth printing. More
Social Sciences
The Language Instinct
Perennial (HarperCollins), February 1995. Trade Paperback. In "The Language Instinct," Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved..... More
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Crown, May 2022. Hardcover. A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The..... More
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Back Bay Books, September 2021. Trade Paperback. Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong--now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book..... More
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Broadway, January 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts--and how introverts see themselves--by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration "Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone..... More
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Palgrave Macmillan Trade, January 2016. Hardcover. **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment** **A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017** After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity)..... More
Essays in Philosophical Psychology
Anchor Books, 1964. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor original. Slight darkening of spine. Shelf worn. Previous owner's name in ink. [403 pages plus 5 page list of Anchor/Dolphin titles then available]. More
Folklore From the Working Folk of Americ
Doubleday Anchor, 1974. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with worn corners and edges. Originally published in hardcover 1973. [468 pages]. More
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to..... More
At a Journal Workshop (Revised)
Tarcherperigee, May 1992. Trade Paperback. What would you like your life to be? Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal Process combines one of the oldest methods of self-exploration and expression--keeping a journal--with a structured format that enables you to get to know the inner core of your life on ever-deeper levels and..... More
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Doubleday Books, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing--and one of the most decorated journalists of our time--twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a...... More
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture
University of Illinois Press, November 2008. Hardcover. This study explores contemporary novels, films, performances, and reenactments that depict American slavery and its traumatic effects by invoking a time-travel paradigm to produce a representational strategy of bodily epistemology. Disrupting the prevailing view of traumatic knowledge that claims that traumatic events are..... 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
Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice
The New Press, February 2023. Hardcover. How to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors "An extraordinary and long overdue collection offering myriad ways that we can and must completely overhaul the way we imagine as..... More
The School of Life: On Being Nice: A guide to friendship and connection (Lessons for Life)
The School of Life, October 2022. Paper Back. How to reclaim kindness as our greatest human strength. We're surrounded by books telling us how to be rich, or thin. This book is different from other self-help books--because it teaches us to be nicer. Niceness might not have the immediate allure..... More
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2022. Paper Back. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "vivid and devastating" (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl--from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott "From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken..... More
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Crown, May 2022. Hardcover. A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The..... More
Staff Pick
Culture and society, 1780-1950
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. First Edition. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with some dog-eared pages. Previous reader's name written in ink on half title page. Darkened spine. [382 pages]. More
America's Coming-of-Age
Doubleday Anchor, January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback with mild wear and likewise mild darkening of spine. [183 pages]. More
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
Women of Fair Hope
NewSouth Books, June 1993. Paper Back. During the depression of the 1890s, a young Iowa newspaperman, indignant over the excesses of the Gilded Age, led a group of midwesterners to the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, where they established a model community based on the utopian ideals of Henry George..... More
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
New Press, May 1996. Trade Paperback. What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under fire from the political right? This foundational essay collection, which defines key terms and includes case studies, is the essential work to understand the intellectual movement Why did the president of the United States..... More
Liberated To the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy Series, 7)
AK Press, November 2022. Paper Back. A way to deepen our understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healing--healing as individuals, communities, and societies. The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing..... More
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
Haymarket Books, October 2022. Paper Back. After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who..... More
