SOCIETY
The titles in this category deal with society at large - politics, history, religion, science, crime, etc.
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Wisconsin Death Trip
$34.95A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling—socially, morally, physically and emotionally—under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is now available again in paperback. Learn More -
What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library DVD
$37.95For the first time on DVD, three acclaimed Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party: Off the Pig; Mayday; and Repression. Learn More -
Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA
$35.00While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what's truly remarkable that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon’s motive. Learn More -
Waging Heavy Peace
$30.00For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical creativity. Learn More -
Thinking, Fast and Slow
$30.00Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book. Learn More -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
$36.00Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Learn More -
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (CD Audio)
$34.99A beguiling concoction-equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller. Learn More -
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
$30.00In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. 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 Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
$30.00From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Learn More
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