Cultural Studies
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Paperback
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Paperback
“Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”—Erik Spiekermann, typographer
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Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
Paperback
A vibrant exploration of the world's newest language—where it came from, how it works and where it's going
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Hardback
From a prize-winning scholar of Indigenous history, a landmark work that overturns America's dominant origin story
The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Paperback
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live