Category - Social Science
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Renegades: Born in the USA
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Notes From Black ReadsBarack Obama and Bruce Springsteen — “Barack” and “The Boss.” Two friends whose words and songs so many have looked to fo...
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all ...
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The Land Is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performancesWhat does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist...
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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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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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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our ...
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Size: How It Explains the World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our wo...
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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice...
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation details the developments in computer...
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Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets
PaperbackOriginal price $33.99 - Original price $33.99Original price $33.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /"What a rich life it is to have these memories of time spent with the young Azmari singer Tigabu, the Lalibela poet Tilahun, and the other spirits ...
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Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful D...
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Library BindingOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9798885794657 Media Type: Library Binding Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Comp Publication Date: 12-06-...
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Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the acclaimed director who has gone behind the scenes with many of the greatest athletes in the world, a memoir-meets-manifesto featuring neve...
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Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $52.80Original price $52.80 - Original price $52.80Original price $52.80Current price $51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers fro...
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Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Warren Zevon and Philosophy is a collection of chapters on Zevon’s life and music, authored by philosophers who are also Zevon fans, providing ne...
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Feedback: Uncovering the Hidden Connections Between Life and the Universe
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /We live in a world where things come and go, rise and fall, grow and decay, tracing out cycles of change that are ordered and predictable.But among...
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking...
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
HardcoverOriginal price $36.00Original price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR"My new favorite book of all time." ...
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The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The term "Metaverse" is suddenly everywhere, from the front pages of national newspapers and the latest fashion trends to the plans of the most pow...
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
HardcoverOriginal price $107.95 - Original price $107.95Original price $107.95$127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our re...
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a r...
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR"My new favorite book of all time." ...
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Explaining Life Through Evolution
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 broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives. Explaining Life through Evolution tells the o...
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking...
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