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  • Walking Mannequins

    How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work

    by Joya Misra, Kyla Walters ...
    In malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist "beauty" standards by ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The New Handbook of Political Sociology

    Edited by Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, Isaac William Martin ...
    Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: ... Read more

    $240.29 USD

  • A World-Systems Reader

    New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology

    by Tim Bartley, Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Wilma A. Dunaway, Stephen W. K. Chiu, Colin Flint, Peter Grimes, Leslie S. Laczko, Peter N. Peregrine, Fred M. Shelley, David A. Smith0, Alvin Y. So1, Yodit Solomon2, Elon Stander3, Debra Straussfogel4, Carol Ward5, Albert Bergesen6, Thomas D. Hall7, Joya Misra9, William R. Thompson0 ...
    This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

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  • The Professor Is In

    The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job

    by Karen Kelsky ...
    UPDATED FOR 2026 • The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs, and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their PhD into their ideal job—now refreshed with new material to equip readers for today’s job market“If you want unvarnished straight talk about the academic job market—and how to navigate it—then heed Karen Kelsky, and heed her now.”—Rebecca Schuman, education ... Read more

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  • Unsettling the Settler Within

    Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

    by Paulette Regan ...
    In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system.Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Red Skin, White Masks

    Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

    by Glen Sean Coulthard ...
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    WINNER OF:Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book from the Caribbean Philosophical AssociationCanadian Political Science Association’s C.B. MacPherson PrizeStudies in Political Economy Book PrizeOver the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term “recognition” shapes debates over ... Read more

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  • Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

    The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

    by Frances Widdowson, Albert Howard ...
    By examining the root causes of aboriginal problems, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard expose the industry that has grown up around land claim settlements, showing that aboriginal policy development over the past thirty years has been manipulated by non-aboriginal lawyers and consultants. They analyse all the major aboriginal policies, examine issues that have received little critical attention ... Read more

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  • Maverick

    A Biography of Thomas Sowell

    by Jason L Riley ...
    A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkersThomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental ... Read more

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  • Managers Not MBAs

    A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development

    by Henry Mintzberg ...
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  • Ending Denial

    Understanding Aboriginal Issues

    by Wayne Warry ...
    There is an unconscious racism at work in Canada—an ignorance of Aboriginal peoples and culture that breeds indifference to, and ambivalence about, Aboriginal poverty and ill health. Warry examines conservative arguments and mainstream views that promote assimilation and integration as the solution to Aboriginal marginalization. He argues that we must acknowledge our denial of colonialism in order ... Read more

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