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Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human by Jesse Bering Publisher Comments Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does “free will” really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway? ... (read more) Available July 3, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation by Jean Dennison Publisher Comments From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom by David Galef Publisher Comments What does a native Japanese speaker mean by expressions like "the leftover piece is lucky" or "a red lacquer dish needs no decoration"? How do Japanese speakers relate to English maxims like "talk is cheap" and "you get what you pay for"? Proverbs hold... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Representing Red and Blue: How the Culture Wars Change the Way Citizens Speak and Politicians Listen (Series in Political Psychology) by David C. Barker Publisher Comments What is a political representative's job, really? Are they supposed to simply figure out what "the people" want and deliver it, or are they charged to do what they think is best for their constituents -- even if that means sometimes ignoring those... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality (Future of the Religious Past) by Dick Houtman Publisher Comments That relation has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, privileging spirit above matter, belief above ritual and objects, meaning above form, and "inward" contemplation above "outward" action. After all, wasn't the opposition between spirituality... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
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Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture by Sarah Banet-weiser Publisher Comments Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed “greening” of institutions and merchant goods... (read more) Available November 26, 2012 Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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Culture and Customs of Iraq (Culture and Customs of the Middle East) by Ghazi Nassir Publisher Comments Iraqi culture stems from three main sources: family, religion, and language. To understand the Iraqi people, one must understand these three components as well as know Iraq's long history, which incorporates the influences of many great civilizations... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $62.75 New - Hardcover
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Brazilian Food: Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines by Jane Fajans Publisher Comments Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and enormous variation from geography and climate to cultures and languages. Within these boundaries are definable regions in which certain customs, history, and shared views help define an identity and cohesion. In... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos by Robert Arthur Publisher Comments "A highly entertaining look at social lies and phobias, and the way the worst sort of laws are created and empowered. Unusual and fascinating."—Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing Taboos, by definition, are off-limit topics. As a book that covers... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $28.00 New - Trade Paper
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Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas by Felicity Schaeffer-grabiel Publisher Comments The spread of the Internet is remaking marriage markets, altering the process of courtship and the geographic trajectory of intimacy in the 21st century. For some Latin American women and U.S. men, the advent of the cybermarriage industry offers new... (read more) Available December 3, 2012 Your price: $29.75 New - Trade Paper
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Museum Basics (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) by Timothy Ambrose Publisher Comments Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $56.95 New - Trade Paper
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Philip Selznick: Ideals in the World (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) by Martin Krygier Publisher Comments Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved himself a major figure across a range of fields including... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Museums: A Visual Anthropology (Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture) by Mary Bouquet Publisher Comments Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums... (read more) Available July 3, 2012 Your price: $109.25 New - Hardcover
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The American Success Myth on Film by Julie Levinson Publisher Comments In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America.... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $94.25 New - Hardcover
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A Theory of Grocery Shopping by Shelley L. Koch Publisher Comments Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $40.25 New - Trade Paper
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On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves) by Jonnie Hughes Publisher Comments Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. In this book, science writer and documentary filmmaker Jonnie Hughes investigates the evolution of ideas... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture Between the World Wars by Lisa Silverman Publisher Comments The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Designing Human Practices: An Experiment with Synthetic Biology by Paul Rabinow Publisher Comments In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme by Asher D. Biemann Publisher Comments Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. It argues that Jewish intellectuals found themselves in the image of... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $45.95 New - Hardcover
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Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible by Bruce Baum Publisher Comments In the Jewish tradition, reading of the Torah follows a calendar cycle, with a specific portion assigned each week. Following on this ancient tradition, Torah Queeries brings together some of the worlds leading rabbis, scholars, and writers to interpret... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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