SOCIETY
The titles in this category deal with society at large - politics, history, religion, science, crime, etc.
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The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits
$14.99“An irreverent romp through history’s best bits,” The Mental Floss History of the World is an amazingly entertaining joyride through 60,000 years of human civilization. Learn More -
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
$27.95Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. Learn More -
The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
$25.00The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. Learn More -
The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"
$19.95When the historian Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New york Times’s Bob Herbert, “peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history.” Learn More -
The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight
$24.99A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dieting. Learn More -
The History of White People
$17.95Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. Learn More -
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
$16.95Howard Zinn's life and work are the stuff of legend. His People's History of the United States has sold over two million copies and has altered how we see and teach history. A hero in word and deed, Zinn's views on freedom, fairness, history, democracy, and our own human potential are educational and transformative. Learn More -
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
$35.00A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. Learn More -
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
$27.00AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Learn More -
The Fixer And Other Stories
$19.95Using old-fashioned pen and paper, award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco reports from the sidelines of wars around the world. Learn More
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