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  • Return from the Natives

    by Mr. Peter Mandler ...
    Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. This fascinating book follows Mead and her closest collaborators—her lover and mentor Ruth Benedict, her third husband ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    This masterwork of the esoteric places humankind at the very heart of the vast, invisible processes of cosmic evolution. Esoteric science is the science of what takes place esoterically, in the sense that it is perceived not outside in nature but where one's soul turns when it directs its inner being toward the spirit. Rudolf Steiner worked on rosicrucian cosmology for many years to make it ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gate

    A Memoir

    by Francois Bizot ...
    In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot was taken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained in a jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years later Bizot became the intermediary between the now victorious Khmer Rouge and the occupants of the besieged French embassy in Phnom Penh, eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safety across the ... Read more

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  • Spin

    Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age

    by Clive Veroni ...
    Spin has been updated with a new introduction reflecting on the current era of Brexit and Trump.Aided by masses of data, sophisticated computer modelling, and smart manipulation of social media, political strategists are reshaping the way voters think. And act. Clive Veroni analyzes the inner workings of campaign organizations to show how they build and motivate teams, and how they approach ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not a Scientist

    How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science

    by Dave Levitan ...
    An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected officials attack scientific findings that conflict with their political agendas. The next time you ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Putin's Propaganda Machine

    Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy

    by Marcel H. Van Herpen ...
    Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia’s “information war,” one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin’s propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia’s soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main instruments of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Max Weber in America

    by Lawrence A. Scaff ...
    Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful but not always reliable 1926 biography of her husband.Max ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Lies of the Land

    An Honest History of Political Deceit

    by Adam Macqueen ...
    Trust in our politicians is at an all-time low. We're in a "post-truth" era, where feelings trump facts, and where brazen rhetoric beats honesty. But do politicians lie more than they used to? And do we even want them to tell the truth? In a history full of wit and political acumen, Private Eye journalist Adam Macqueen dissects the gripping stories of the biggest political lies of the last half ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Famous Scientists

    Scientists whose inventions famously made life easy for us

    by Rajeev Garg ...
    Written in simple and lucid language, these biographical sketches of great scientists have been put together for ready reference. History of the world is replete with such instances of such men and women who went against all the odds and achieved great heights and changed the shape of the world. In fact, reading about the life-sketch of a scientist and his achievements, has certainly great ... Read more

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  • Father and Daughter

    Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science

    by Ann Oakley ...
    Father and daughter provides an unique ‘insider perspective’ on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and defender of the welfare state, to offer an absorbing view of the connections between private lives and public ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

    Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin

    Edited by Richard J. Preston ...
    A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North.A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people’s ability to make informed choices ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Irving Howe

    A Life of Passionate Dissent

    by Gerald Sorin ...
    A New York Times "Books for Summer Reading" selectionWinner of the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for HistoryBy the time he died in 1993 at the age of 73, Irving Howe was one of the twentieth century's most important public thinkers. Deeply passionate, committed to social reform and secular Jewishness, ardently devoted to fiction and poetry, in love with baseball, music, and ballet, Howe wrote ... Read more

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