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  • A Farewell To Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery

    by Jeffrey Cohen ...
    Work-at-home dad, devoted husband, hustling freelance writer, aspiring screenwriter-all ways to describe the unwilling sleuth Aaron Tucker, whom one reviewer dubbed a combination of "Bart Simpson and James Bond". In A Farewell to Legs, the second installment of the Aaron Tucker Mystery Series, Aaron is back on the trail again, this time trying to ferret out the murderer of a former high school ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Earth

    by Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer described it, “this litel spot of erthe,” the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Eating Grasshoppers

    Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them

    by Jeffrey H. Cohen ...
    An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca.Chapulines (toasted grasshoppers) are not a delicacy in Oaxaca. They are just food—good food—and a protein-rich seasonal snack that is the product of a long-standing industry based overwhelmingly on the labor of women. Jeffrey Cohen has interviewed dozens of these chapulineras, who harvest insects from corn ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • As Dog Is My Witness: Another Aaron Tucker Mystery

    by Jeffrey Cohen ...
    In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to "take meetings" on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking his dog at night. The young man accused of the crime has Asperger's Syndrome, the same autism-related disorder that Aaron's son Ethan has had ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • For Whom The Minivan Rolls: An Aaron Tucker Mystery

    by Jeffrey Cohen ...
    Aaron Tucker isn't a detective. An aspiring screenwriter, freelance reporter, stay-at-home dad, and expert on consumer electronics, Aaron actually defies all traditional characteristics of a detective. He's 5'4," and weighs less than Robert B. Parker's leather jacket. And he doesn't have any investigative training. But he's funny, down-to-earth, lovable, and resourceful. He has good and loyal ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Monster Theory

    Reading Culture

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to Monster ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Let My People Go

    by Jeffrey Cohen ...
    Let My People Go: Insights to Passover and the Haggadah offers an analysis of ancient and modern perspectives on the themes of slavery and freedom. Rabbi Jeffrey M. Cohen provides an original interpretation of the central biblical sources of Passover, with particular focus on the Haggadah and its manifold rituals. Topics discussed include, Why We Were Slaves in Egypt, Is Freedom a Jewish Concept?, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Economic Development

    An Anthropological Approach

    by Jeffrey Cohen, Nils Gilman, Patricia Lyons Johnson, Nitish Jha, Mike Woost, Gracia Clark, Elizabeth T. Kennedy, Michael Chibnik, Lee Cronk & Shannon Steadman, Cynthia Ann Werner, Ty Matejowsky, Rhoda H. Halperin, Monica Lindh de Montoya, Miguel Montoya ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development. Chapters cover the key topics of market systems, agricultural knowledge, modernization, population growth, participatory development, conservation strategies, culturally sustainable ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Earth

    Object Lessons

    by Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton ...
    Narrated by Mack Gordon, Rachel Handshaw ...
    Series series Object Lessons

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    Bloomsbury presents Earth by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, read by Rachel Handshaw and Mack Gordon.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Cultures of Migration

    The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility

    by Jeffrey H. Cohen, Ibrahim Sirkeci ...
    Around the globe, people leave their homes to better themselves, to satisfy needs, and to care for their families. They also migrate to escape undesirable conditions, ranging from a lack of economic opportunities to violent conflicts at home or in the community. Most studies of migration have analyzed the topic at either the macro level of national and global economic and political forces, or the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Noah's Arkive

    by Jeffrey J. Cohen, Julian Yates ...
    A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters roseMost people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and an uncomplicated vision of survival. Noah’s ark, however, will forever be haunted by what it leaves to the rising waters so that the world can begin again.In ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Eating Soup without a Spoon

    Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World

    by Jeffrey H. Cohen ...
    Significant scholarship exists on anthropological fieldwork and methodologies. Some anthropologists have also published memoirs of their research experiences. Renowned anthropologist Jeffrey Cohen’s Eating Soup without a Spoon is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of the two, expertly melding story with methodology to create a compelling narrative of fieldwork that is deeply grounded in anthropological ... Read more

    $26.59 USD