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Passions Between Women

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Fabric of Civilization
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Keywords

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Words Matter

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The Prodigal Tongue

No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
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The Creation of Inequality

The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
The Big Myth
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
How Doctors Think
The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
The Great American Shopping Experience: The History of American Retail from Main Street to the Mall
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay
Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History
Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
System Error
Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Recoding Gender
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
The Misinformation Age
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Tech Stress

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The Political Brain

Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
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American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
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The Psychology of Computer Programming

Lurking: How a Person Became a User
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Atlas of AI

Hackers
The Soul of A New Machine
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Coders
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
Uncanny Valley
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
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Insurrections of the Mind

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The Second Amendment
Laziness Does Not Exist
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Our Babies, Ourselves
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Between Us
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Buried
Adrift: America in 100 Charts
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency
Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism
The Weaponisation of Everything
O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
The Chaos Machine
American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea
Beyond Rationality
They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
Smashing Statues
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
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Odd Girl Out

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Liquidated

Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment
The Gospel of Wellness
Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Mythology of the White Proletariat
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
Kids These Days
The Great Leveler
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
A History of the Breast
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The Founding Myth

Founding Myths
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Bears: A Brief History
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