Category - Social Science
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bol...
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Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in b...
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Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /#1 New York Times Bestseller “No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading Aliv...
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Ponds of Kalambayi: A Peace Corps Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Lovers of fine travel and adventure writing will savor Mike Tidwell's richly acclaimed narrative of his days as a Peace Corps volunteer. His task...
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory...
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 12...
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Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of t...
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El Vértigo Horizontal / Horizontal Vertigo
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Con mirada atenta y pulso firme, Juan Villoro se desdobla en periodista, transe nte, comprador de plumas, adulto nost lgico, padre responsable, bri...
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Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler's Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A state-by-state (and Canada too!) tour of monuments, events, sites, and festivals of Indigenous American historyFrom ancient rock drawings, hist...
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Virginia Landmarks of Black History: Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places
HardcoverOriginal price $49.50 - Original price $49.50Original price $49.50$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /The 64 sites described in this book are a testament to the contribution that African-Americans have made to Virginia history over the last four cen...
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A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. N...
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The Village of Waiting
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Back in print, the "masterful" (The New York Times Book Review) account of an American in West AfricaNow restored to print with a new Foreword by P...
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A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade: Containing I. the History of the Late Conquest of the Kingdom of Whidaw by the King of Dah
PaperbackOriginal price $29.75Original price $29.75 - Original price $29.75Original price $29.75Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Title: A new account of some parts of Guinea, and the slave-trade: containing I. The history of the late conquest of the kingdom of Whidaw by the ...
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A new Account of Some Parts of Guinea, I. The History of the Late Conquest of the Kingdom of Whidaw by the King of Dahomè II. The Manner how the Negro
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in th...
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Finding Soul from Silicon Valley to Africa: A Travel Memoir and Personal Journey Through Twenty Countries in Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An inspiring story about a rather unsuccessful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who traveled to 19 countries in Africa and learned deeply about empathy,...
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Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a ...
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African Memoirs and Cultural Representations: Narrating Traditions
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporar...
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Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination--a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawa...
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A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Revised and Expanded with New Topics)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Created specifically for fans of Japanese "cool culture," A Geek in Japan is one of the most iconic, hip, and concise cultural guides available. ...
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Introduction to Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, this text is a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture. The richness of Japan's hi...
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Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as th...
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The Orchard: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family’s New England apple farm from going under during the Great Dep...
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Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick MirrorIn place-nam...
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On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the ric...
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