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  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    New York Times Bestseller: A “marvelous” account of how the tiny sect of Christianity rapidly became the dominant religion in the West (Reza Aslan, New York Times–bestselling author of Zealot).How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire become the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Kissing the Mask

    Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines

    “Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.”—BooklistWilliam T. Vollmann, the National Book Award–winning author of Europe Central, offers a charming, evocative, and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theatre and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Human Diversity

    The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

    All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:- ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Road to Wigan Pier

    by George Orwell ...
    Orwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nonverts

    The Making of Ex-Christian America

    An entertaining and insightful exploration of the American ex-religious The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion. The great majority of these religious "nones" also say that they used to belong to a religion but no longer do. These are the nonverts: think ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Brooklyn Was Mine

    A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers.Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though its literary history runs deep-Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer are just a few of its storied inhabitants-in recent years the borough ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Affluenza

    How Overconsumption Is Killing Us—and How to Fight Back

    A “witty yet hard-hitting” look at the symptoms, causes, and cures for America’s addiction to buying more stuff (Library Journal).NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDaffluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Science of Happily Ever After

    What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love

    by Ty Tashiro ...
    **"A new approach to dating." – NPRThere may be no formula for love, but that certainly doesn’t mean there’s no science behind it. In this fascinating analysis, acclaimed relationship psychologist Dr. Ty Tashiro sets out to revolutionize the ways we search for love.**Dr. Tashiro’s research looks at the studies and research data behind romance and relationships. He pinpoints why our decision-making ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Dinner Lady Detectives

    A charming British village cosy mystery

    by Hannah Hendy ...
    Series Book 1 - The Dinner Lady Detectives
    Murder is a dish best served ice cold...Margery and Clementine are enjoying a peaceful middle-age together in the small, idyllic town of Dewstow, and eagerly awaiting retirement from their work on the front line serving meals to the students at Summerview secondary school.Their calm life is shattered when their kitchen manager is found dead in the school’s walk-in freezer. The police are adamant ... Read more

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  • The Road to Character

    by David Brooks ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMISTWith the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Bias That Divides Us

    The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

    A provocative, timely analysis that asks: What does science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics?We don’t live in a ‘post-truth’ society—but a ‘myside’ society in which no one can agree on accepted truth and facts.In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don’t live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside society. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Third Millennium Thinking

    Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

    Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.In our deluge of information, it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Discarded

    Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

    In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The New Political Economy of Urban Education

    Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Spår

    En kall vinterkväll 2001, bara några dagar före jul, förs två män ut till ett väntande flygplan på Bromma flygplats. De har blivit upplockade av poliser på väg hem till sina familjer, och har nu fått sina kläder uppskurna av maskerade män i rånarluvor och leds barfota ut till planet försedda i handbojor, fotbojor, och huvor. Dagen efter torteras av Mubarakregimens säkerhetstjänst i Egypten.Tre år ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Other Significant Others

    Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

    by Rhaina Cohen ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLER"An arresting work of compassion and insight." ―Lori Gottlieb"I loved and recommend [The Other Significant Others] to everybody." —Ezra Klein**"I feel like I've been waiting for this book for my entire adult life." ―Anne Helen PetersenWhy do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    by J. D. Vance ...
    THE#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO**"You will not read a more important book about America this year.**"—The Economist"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal**"Essential reading."—David Brooks,**New York TimesHillbilly Elegy is a passionate ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Main Street

    How a City's Heart Connects Us All

    Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communitiesAfter an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to “help us name and solve our problems.” In an era of compounding crises including racial injustice, climate change, and COVID-19, the ability to rely ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

    by G. C. Jones ...
    This classic memoir is “an absorbing tale” of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depression (The Washington Post).G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad Therapy

    Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children**In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Svensk maffia : en kartläggning av de kriminella gängen

    En grånad gubbe som älskar mammas tomatsås och styr över liv och död med diskreta nickningar? Verklighetens mafioso är en helt annan. Wierup och Larsson tecknar den sanna bilden av modern maffiakultur i Sverige idag.Hells Angels, Bandidos, Brödraskapet, Original Gangsters, Naserligan - maffian är inte längre en avlägsen företeelse som bara gör sig påmind på film, utan en högst påtaglig realitet i ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Caste

    The Origins of Our Discontents

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Co-habiting with Ghosts

    Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny

    by Caron Lipman ...
    How does it feel to live in a ’haunted home’? How do people negotiate their everyday lives with the experience of uncanny, anomalous or strange events within the domestic interior? What do such experiences reveal of the intersection between the material, immaterial and temporal within the home? How do people interpret, share and narrate experiences which are uncertain and unpredictable? What does ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Long Descent

    A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

    The author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change.Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different, and the crisis may not easily be resolved ... Read more

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