Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo…
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1. How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
By: Sarah Glidden
3.72
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly accomplished debut graphic novel, HOW TO UNDERSTAND ISRAEL IN 60 DAYS OR LESS is Sarah… read more
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2. Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
By: Daniel L. Everett
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett w… read more
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3. The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
By: Jonathan Davis , Frans de Waal
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans d… read more
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4. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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5. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.96
Format: 256 pages,
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6. Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
By: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea… read more
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7. The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
By: Joan Wickersham
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
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8. The Civilizing Process
By: Norbert Elias , Johan Goudsblom , None , Eric Dunning , None
3.00
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
The Civilizing Processstands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manne… read more
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9. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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10. My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel
By: Chiara Lagani
3.35
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Elena Ferrante’s New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend , book one of her Neap… read more
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11. Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
By: Brandy Schillace
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “delightfully macabre” ( The New York Times ) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon… a… read more
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12. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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13. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World
By: Karen Armstrong
3.69
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature--and an urgent call to reclaim that power i… read more
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14. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
By: Deborah Blum
3.92
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author … read more
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15. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
By: Charles King
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of wo… read more
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16. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book … read more
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"Racism doesn't wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
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17. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
By: Deborah Cohen
3.79
Format: 557 pages, Hardcover
They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in t… read more
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18. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
By: Benjamin Breen
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more
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19. In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
By: J.P. Daughton
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic po… read more
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20. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
By: Tiya Miles
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more
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21. First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.16
Format: 399 pages, ebook
An urgent investigation into warfare, good, and evil in the age of biometrics, the technology that … read more
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