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    Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars

    **One of the Financial Times’ Best Environment, Science, and Technology Books of the Year, 2025Explore the financial, social, ethical, and environmental impacts of our obsession with, and dependency on, cars. Learn how to change the way we use them.**Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, by Professor Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, explores the philosophical ... Read more

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  • Those Who Play With Fire

    Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa

    Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational ... Read more

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  • The Future of Anthropological Knowledge

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    Series series ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
    The Future of Anthropological Knowledge the chapters explore the question of the nature of social knowledge from a variety of perspectives and locations such as China, Africa, the USA and elsewhere. By examining the changing nature of anthropological knowledge and of the production of that knowledge, this book challenges the notion that only western societies have produced social theories of ... Read more

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    Roadkill

    Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars

    Narrated by Beth Parry ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, by Professor Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, explores the philosophical implications of car culture, as well as the practical impacts it has on your money, your taxes, your neighborhood, your planet, your health, and your happiness.While the car has been marketed as a symbol of "freedom", the authors convincingly argue that it ... Read more

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  • Feminism without Borders

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  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society

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  • What Kinship Is-And Is Not

    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... Read more

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  • Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World

    System, Scale, Culture

    In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallerstein ... Read more

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  • 2030

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  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    by Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... Read more

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  • Desiring China

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    Series series Perverse Modernities
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