SOCIETY
The titles in this category deal with society at large - politics, history, religion, science, crime, etc.
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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
$14.95What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that's ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house? Or Jerry and Alvin, wealthy twin bachelors who filled up matching luxury apartments with countless pieces of fine art, not even leaving themselves room to sleep? Learn More -
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation
$16.00The world's second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America as the leading global economic powerhouse. Learn More -
Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work And What They Mean
$16.95Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. Learn More -
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English
$15.00A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Learn More -
Ninety-Five: Meeting America’s Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs
$19.95Join us as we visit sanctuaries and homes across the country to discover the animals most of us never have a chance to meet – America’s farmed animals. Learn More -
Learning To Love You More
$19.95The best of the groundbreaking website learningtoloveyoumore.com, which asks ordinary people to complete out-of-the-ordinary assignments - with extraordinary results. Learn More -
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
$16.95In the fifteen years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream. Learn More -
Filthy English: The How, Why, When And What of Everyday Swearing
$14.95A frank, funny, and provocative journey through the international culture of swearing, from the shocked seventies to the naughty noughties. Learn More -
Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance
$15.95A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo leaps a 12-foot high wall and mauls three visitors who had been tormenting her, killing one. A circus elephant tramples and gores a sadistic trainer, who had repeatedly fed her lit cigarettes. A pair of orangutans at the San Diego Zoo steal a crowbar and screwdriver and break-out of their enclosure. An orca at Sea World snatches his trainer into the pool and holds her underwater until she drowns. Learn More
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