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  • Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis

    A Collective Journal

    by Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, Maitrayee Basu, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Ayan-Yue Gupta, Milena Katsarska, Sebastian Schuller, John Seed, Peter H. Tu ...
    This book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. Featuring contributors located in India, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us with simultaneous multiple histories of our time.The volume documents the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Mediocracy

    The Politics of the Extreme Centre

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Truth

    How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality

    by Hector Macdonald ...
    For fans of Nudge, Sway, and The Art of Thinking Clearly, a fascinating dive into the many ways in which "competing truths" shape our opinions, behaviors, and beliefs."In a time when truth is under assault, Hector Macdonald is here to defend it. He offers clear-eyed, compelling guidelines for becoming a more accurate consumer and producer of information."—Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The End of Power

    Moisés Naím's masterpiece summarized in only 30 pages

    by Anonymous ...
    Series Book 1 - Summary
    "In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use and easier to lose", states Moisés Naím in his book The End of Power. In this review we outline his key ideas, which explain why power scattered among many actors, agents of new micropowers, poses one of the greatest current challenges. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This is not a Diary

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our times in their movement - possibly at birth, at a stage when they are still barely perceptible, and in any case before they have matured into common, all too familiar forms, escaping our attention due to ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • A Third University Is Possible

    by la paperson ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Many Globalizations

    Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World

    Edited by Peter L. Berger, Samuel P. Huntington ...
    Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and Huntington bring together an array of experts who paint a subtle and richly shaded portrait, showing both the power and the unexpected consequences of this great force. The stereotypes of globalization--characterized ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Women and Power : A Short Overview of Social Changes and Women’s Empowerment

    by Zahra Al Timimi ...
    The relationship of man and women in the society has been a topic of discussion from time immemorial. In recent decade, there has been a revival of the women empowerment movement at global level. Many reports and essays have been written in recent years on Women and how their role in a global society has rapidly changed. This short overview of Women Empowerment in past decades will serves as an ... Read more

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  • Occupy

    Three Inquiries in Disobedience

    by W.J.T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, Michael Taussig ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Toronto Protocol: The Real Plan of the Global Elite?

    by Brian Nugent ...
    This short but explosive text was first leaked by Serge Monast in Canada in 1995. It is reported to be the plan of an elite group who are manipulating the general public and governments across the world to bring about their long term goal of a world government. They cover in this document a wide variety of areas, including world food supplies and pollution, the question of parental rights as ... Read more

    $4.66 USD