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  • Reading Classes

    On Culture and Classism in America

    by Barbara Jensen ...
    Discussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. Solely identifying political and economic inequalities between classes offers an incomplete picture of class dynamics in America, and may not connect with people's lived experiences. In Reading Classes, Barbara Jensen explores the anguish caused by class in our society, identifying ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Third World America

    How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

    by Arianna Huffington ...
    It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.The evidence is all around us:Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx

    by Alex Callinicos ...
    An accessible introduction to the author of Capital and coauthor of The Communist Manifesto, with a focus on his relevance in today's world.Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out-of-date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade has gone by since his death in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. And yet, despite their best efforts to bury him, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Money in the World

    by Peter W. Bernstein, Annalyn Swan ...
    From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, this compulsively readable bookgives us the lowdown on today richest Americans.Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the most money in the past twenty-five years, the fields and industries that have produced the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

    by Barrington Moore ...
    This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies—and others as fascist or communist dictatorships.Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore

    Networks of Power and Influence

    by Michael D. Barr ...
    Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family. Barr identifies the crucial ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heaven

    by George F. Walker ...
    Heaven is George F. Walker’s ‘millennium play.’ Well, sort of, if we can free ourselves from the expectation of the usual science-fiction-based projection and imposition of our current personal, cultural and spiritual values on the future of the coming millennium, considered almost mandatory for authors working in this particular genre. As usual, Walker sees things a bit differently: he intimates ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Inequality in America

    Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives

    by Uri Dadush, Kemal Dervis, Sarah P. Milsom ...
    A bedrock American principle is the idea that all individuals should have the opportunity to succeed on the basis of their own effort, skill, and ingenuity.-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben BernankeIncome inequality has been on the rise since the late 1970s, but the economic and financial crisis of 2008 instigated an unemployment epidemic that dramatically compounded this problem in the United States ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sociocultural Systems

    Principles of Structure and Change

    by Frank W. Elwell ...
    Macrosociology—the study of large-scale social structures and the fundamental principles of social organization—was the style of sociology practiced by the founders of the discipline. Today, the social theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer (among others) are commonly studied as part of the history of the field, but, although the macrosociological approach that these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Why the Haves Come Out Ahead: The Classic Essay and New Observations

    by Marc Galanter ...
    Marc Galanter's influential article is now available in a convenient, affordable, and assignable book, with a new introduction by the author that explains the origins and aftermath of the original work. In addition, it features the author's 2006 article applying the original thesis to real-world dilemmas in legal structure and consequence today. The collection also adds a new (2014) Foreword by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sorry I Don't Dance

    Why Men Refuse to Move

    by Maxine Leeds Craig ...
    If you want to learn about masculinity, ask a man if he likes to dance. One man in this study answered, "Music is something that goes on inside my head, and is sort of divorced from, to a large extent, the rest of my body." How did this man's head become divorced from his body? To answer this question, Maxine Craig sought out men who love music but hate to dance. Combining interviews, participant ... Read more

    $34.19 USD