SOCIETY
The titles in this category deal with society at large - politics, history, religion, science, crime, etc.
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A Common Pornography: A Memoir
$13.99In 2003 Kevin Sampsell authored a chapbook memoir of the same title. It was written as a kind of "memory experiment," in which he recollected luminous details from his childhood in independently amusing chapters. It functioned as an experiential catalogue of American youth in the 70s and 80s. Learn More -
A Field Guide To Household Technology
$14.95An informative guide to curious household gadgets and gizmos. Learn More -
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
$16.00Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. Learn More -
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
$15.95When first published, A Gentle Madness astounded and delighted readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. Learn More -
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
$18.95A Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Learn More -
A Neoist Research Project
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The first really good book on Neoism - the most extreme cultural movement of the '80s and '90s consisting only of work and documentation by actual Neoists! Learn More -
A New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James: "Every Cook Can Govern" and "The Invading Socialist Society"
$16.95C.L.R. James was a leading figure in the independence movement in the West Indies, and the black and working-class movements in both Britain and the United States. Learn More -
A People's History Of American Empire
$19.00Adapted from historian Howard Zinn's bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world is told in comics form! Learn More -
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A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
$18.95In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin’s eyes, sports are never mere games, but a reflection of—and spur toward—the political conflicts that shape American society. Learn More
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