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The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values for African American Families (PB) (2000)
9780471399582$19.95Dr. Joyce A. Ladner brings profound insight to the challenge of raising strong children in ambivalent times, and offers abundant reasons to rejoice in renewing family ties. A treasury of time-tested virtues. -Bookpage [A] wonderful guide . . . . Ladner... -
Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture (PB) (2022)
9781781689820$19.95Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city? In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new... -
An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular (PB) (2018)
9781785356995$16.95There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or... -
Cynicism and Post Modernity (PB) (1997)
9781859841969$29.95Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes undertakes a descent into the modern cynical... -
Integrity (PB) (1996)
9780060928070$15.99Why do we care more about winning than about playing by the rules? Integrity - all of us are in favor of it, but nobody seems to know how to make sure that we get it. From presidential candidates to crusading journalists to the lords of collegiate... -
Hair (PB) (2016)
9781628922868$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious... -
Glitter (PB) (2022)
9781501373763$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Glitter reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Nicole Seymour describes how glitter's consumption and status have...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.95Subtotal: -
Skateboard (PB) (2022)
9781501367489$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. How did the skateboard go from a fad like the hula-hoop to an Olympic sport? Writer and skateboarder Jonathan Russell Clark's Skateboard answers...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.95Subtotal: -
Recipe (PB) (2022)
9781501367106$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instructions on how to prepare a dish or perform a process...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$14.95Subtotal: -
Reformers Arise: Calling Out a People of Dignity to Influence and Action (PB) (2017)
9781784521103$19.95This book is a cry from the heart to see the emergence of a new kind of people - The Reformers. They are 'young' (in age and at heart), they are full of creative energy and passion. They are tired of the status quo, tired of the state of their nations... -
Silence (PB) (2015)
9781628921427$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a... -
Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition (PB) (2017)
9781781689004$16.95A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rightsWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence... -
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (HC) (2022)
9781984825452$27.00A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America's "shame industrial complex" in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics--from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction Shame is a powerful...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.00Subtotal: -
Bird (PB) (2020)
9781501353352$14.95Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too... -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (HC) (2018)
9780674980754$35.00Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public... -
A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past (HC) (2019)
9780374237219$28.00"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we...