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Vendor: Joseph Henrich
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you're rather psychologically...- $34.99
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Vendor: Tanya Selvaratnam
Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence
Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America. When Tanya Selvaratnam met then New York State Attorney General...- $29.99
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Vendor: Helena Andrews-Dyer
Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters
In the tradition of Notorious RBG, a lively celebration of the life, wisdom, wit, legacy, and fearless style of iconic American Congresswoman Maxine Waters."Let me just say this: I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. I cannot...- $29.99
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Vendor: Madeleine Blais
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle: A True Story of Hoop Dreams and One Very Special Team
"Beautifully written . . . A celebration of girls and athletics." The national bestselling sports classic from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (USA Today). Expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Madeleine Blais' book tells the story of a season in the life of the...- $14.99
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Vendor: Andrew Blauner (Editor)
The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip - and the life lessons it can teach us - from a stellar array of writers and artists Over the span of 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Leonard Sax
Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed--And What Parents Can Do
A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self.In Girls on the Edge, psychologist and physician Leonard Sax argues that many girls today have a brittle sense...- $35.00
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Vendor: Matthew Van Meter
Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
The unforgettable story of one lawyer and his defendant who together changed American law during the height of the Civil Rights eraIn 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop...- $35.00
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Vendor: Tiffany Cross
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy
A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country's rising majority and exposing political forces aligned...- $29.99
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Vendor: Chad M. Bauman
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, with particular attention to the 2007-2008 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious...- $34.95
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Vendor: Guenter Lewy
Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy
Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day. The Weimar Republic era--the fifteen years between Germany's defeat in World War I (1918) and...- $35.00
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Vendor: Peggy Orenstein
Boys & Sex Lib/E: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men, once again offering both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve...- $49.99
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Vendor: Abhijit V. Banerjee
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our dayThe experience of the last decade has not been kind to the image of economists: asleep at the wheel (perhaps with the foot...- $35.00
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Vendor: Maxine Eichner
The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored)
US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the top, professional...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jason Reynolds
Stamped Lib/E: Racism, Antiracism, and You; A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has...- $90.99
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Vendor: Layla F. Saad
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Based off the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy teaches listeners how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.When Layla Saad began...- $29.95
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Vendor: Margaret M. Grubiak
Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America
The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus...- $49.50
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Vendor: Heather Cox Richardson
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jessica Care Moore
We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection...- $19.99
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Vendor: Richard Wagamese
One Story, One Song
A collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the bestselling One Native LifeSince its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese's One Native Life. In quiet tones and luminous language, wrote the Winnipeg Free Press, Wagamese shares...- $29.95
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Vendor: Jose Antonio Vargas
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called "the most famous undocumented immigrant in America," tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms."This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book--at it's...- $29.99
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Vendor: Paul Farmer
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges...- $9.99
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Vendor: Author
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.In this extraordinary...- $35.00
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Vendor: Andrew Yang
The War on Normal People: The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The...- $35.00
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Vendor: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
How to Be an Elder: Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est s Presents Volume Five of the Dangerous Old Woman Series "What makes an elder, a heartfelt spirit, a clear mind, a talented heart, one who is young while old and old while young, an activist for the Soul? Is it...- $69.95
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Vendor: Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon Lib/E: The Story of the Last \Black Cargo\
A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic...- $39.99
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Vendor: Safiya Umoja Noble
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms. Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as...- $14.99
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Vendor: Nicole Starosielski
The Undersea Network
In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network, Nicole Starosielski...- $9.99
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Vendor: Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal.This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope...- $44.99
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Vendor: Cass R. Sunstein
World According to Star Wars
Star Wars is the ultimate mythological tale of our age, a hero's journey that is a tribute to the beauty of human freedom as well as an exploration of its dark complexities. In this gem of a book, the brilliant Cass Sunstein uses the...- $39.99
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Vendor: J. D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a...- $29.99
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Vendor: Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that's been hailed as the definitive authority on...everything. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world's most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader...- $29.99
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Vendor: Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
#1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious...- $34.99
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Vendor: Richie Jackson
Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son
Chosen by data-redactor-tag=em>Town & Country as one of the most anticipated books of the year Named An LGBTQ Book That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020 by data-redactor-tag=em>O: The Oprah MagazineIn this poignant and urgent love letter to his son, award-winning Broadway, TV and...- $25.99
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