Category - Social Science
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Luschiim's Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An invaluable compendium of Hul′q′umi′num′ traditional knowledge. Respected Cowichan Tribe Elder and botanical expert, Luschiim Arvid Charlie, bega...
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Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Is life without parole the perfect compromise to the death penalty? Or is it as ethically fraught as capital punishment? This comprehensive, interd...
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The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.Ben Barres wa...
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Before the Streetlights Come on: Black America's Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Climate change. Two words that are quickly becoming the clarion call to action in the twenty-first century. It is a voter issue, an economy driver,...
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and histor...
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of scien...
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of scien...
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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservatio...
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Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological...
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The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many fac...
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Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and ...
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting cr...
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopes...
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Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent year...
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Fossil Legends of the First Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were...
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Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Page for page, I may not have ever learned more from a book.... Womb is a history book as well as a biology book but it’s also an adventure and ...
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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behavio...
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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWha...
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The World Without Us
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Time #1 Nonfiction Book* An Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book *A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circl...
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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of mothe...
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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psych...
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasiesEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Dro...
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The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Guardian Book of the WeekLonglisted for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardAn award-winning physician and scientist makes the...
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Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"A beautiful catalogue of 80 plants, revered by indigenous people for their nourishing, healing, and symbolic properties." —Gardens Illustrated T...
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