Sciences Sociales / Anthropologie

Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

de Robert Rowland Smith

Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy...

Something for Nothing: Luck in America

de Jackson Lears

Since Tocqueville compared American society to "a vast lottery," America has had a distinctive—and highly contradictory—attitude towards gambling and the very idea of chance. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING is a counter-history...

Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

de Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler & Eleanor Wilkinson

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate...

Refuge

de Adrie Kusserow

An anthropologist writes poems about globalization, culture, war, and fieldwork in South Sudan, Uganda, Botswana, and across the world.

The Vicodin Thieves: Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths

de Chip Jacobs

Investigative reporter Chip Jacobs goes deep into some of his most compelling journalism pieces of the last three decades with his signature spotlight on strange corruption, seedy individuals, megalomaniacs,...

The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton

de Robert Grant Haliburton

Canadian lawyer Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years collecting folklore relating to an alleged pygmy group in the Atlas Mountains and vicinity. This collection brings together the various papers he...

The cremationist evolution

de Stefano Boscolo & Marcello Alberto Porro

We could assert, that the cremation is an high moral act, free and very personal choise, autonomus and aware choise, decision unique and rich of history, with endless sense of life! In Turin, the fantastic progress...

The Unfolding of Language

de Guy Deutscher

Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language

Language is...

Telling It Straight

de Marina Mahathir

An outspoken commentator on Malaysia's social and political affairs, Marina Mahathir takes on the issues, ideas and institutions of the day in her latest book, Telling it Straight. She highlights unpalatable...

In Liberal Doses

de Marina Mahathir

Marina Mahathir is one of Malaysia's most fascinating voices: compassionate, outspoken, liberated and unabashedly liberal, usually generous, sometimes wicked, never parochial and always proudly Malaysian. Marina's...

Women East and West: Impressions of a Sex Expert

de Magnus Hirschfeld

German sex expert Magnus Hirschfeld originally published these sexological observations in 1935. He noted sex customs among people in the Far East, the Pacific Islands, India, and the Near East. This digital...

The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858

de Kenneth M. Cuno

A study of peasant land-owning and its attendant social and economic changes during the making of modern Egypt. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

de Michel Foucault

Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad?

Norse Greenland: A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks)

de Jared Diamond

A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland-excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond's Collapse

This excerpt from the New York Times-bestselling...

As I Rode by Granard Moat

de Benedict Kiely

Rescued from memory by Ireland's leading short-story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes and highways...

Yemen Chronicle

de Steven C. Caton

A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East

In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran...

No More Heroes

de Richard A. Gabriel

No More Heroes is an in depth exploration of madness and psychiatry in war.

The Shape of Things to Come

de Greil Marcus

From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity

"America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime...

Rumspringa

de Tom Shachtman

A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before

Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa--the period of "running around" that begins...

Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck

de Eric G. Wilson

Why can’t we look away?

Whether we admit it or not, we’re fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and...