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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Paperback) By Jenny Odell $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (Paperback) By Gregory Boyle $16.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Civilization and Its Discontents (Paperback) By Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by), James Strachey (Translated by), James Strachey (Editor), Peter Gay (Afterword by) $14.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Foucault Reader (Paperback) By Michel Foucault $19.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover) By Arlie Russell Hochschild $27.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Orphan Trains to Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers #1) (Paperback) By Michael D. Patrick, Evelyn Goodrich Trickel $18.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback) By Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann $17.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy (Paperback) By Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone $16.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship (Hardcover) By Gregory Boyle $26.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (Hardcover) By Jeff Sharlet $28.95 Add to Wish List Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture (Hardcover) By Virginia Sole-Smith $29.99 Add to Wish List Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Material World: A Global Family Portrait (Paperback) By Peter Menzel $32.00 Add to Wish List Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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