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  • Micro-Segregation

    A Social History

    by Martin Ruef, Angelina Grigoryeva ...
    We often envision segregation by class or caste at a large scale and in objective terms. It seems easy to identify a "slum city" or a "ghetto," particularly when profound differences in infrastructure differentiate them from other neighborhoods and residents have been explicitly minoritized. But what about the segregated microcosms that are peppered throughout human existence? In Micro-Segregation ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Managing Outliers and Anomalies

    Tools for Understanding Unusual Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Organizations

    by Martin Ruef, Colin Birkhead ...
    Series series New Horizons in Management series
    In this timely book, Martin Ruef and Colin Birkhead consider how academics and practitioners can learn from unusual entrepreneurs, leaders, and organizations. They clarify how researchers make sense of extremes – in particular, whether they see them as outliers (extreme cases) or anomalies (extreme events).Chapters examine key outliers and anomalies throughout economic history, including eBay, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Between Slavery and Capitalism

    The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South

    by Martin Ruef ...
    An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Organizations Evolving

    Third Edition

    by Howard E. Aldrich, Martin Ruef, Stephen Lippmann ...
    Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to organization theory, this updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory.Key features of the third ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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  • Social Justice Fallacies

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement“Light on rhetoric, seriously heavy on data, and accessible in style, there is a reason why Sowell has been described as ‘among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today’ by Harvard University’s Steven Pinker and an ‘American sage’ by the Wall Street ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Intellectuals and Race

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Urban Outcasts

    A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality

    by Loïc Wacquant ...
    Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, Loïc Wacquant shows that the involution of America's urban core after the ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth

    The Legacy of Douglass North

    Edited by Sebastian Galiani, Itai Sened ...
    This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass North, winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely about his legacy across multiple social sciences disciplines, specifically on scholarship ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Mergers and Acquisitions

    Edited by David Faulkner, Satu Teerikangas, Richard J. Joseph ...
    With its inception at the end of the nineteenth century as a means of consolidation and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have since become quasi-institutionalized as one of the primary strategic options for organizations, as they seek to secure their position in an ever more competitive and globalizing market place. Despite the optimism surrounding M&A as strategic moves, research on ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • History and Power in the Study of Law

    New Directions in Legal Anthropology

    Edited by June Starr, Jane F. Collier ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who suggest that the subfield is dying and advocate a reintegration of legal anthropology into a renewed ... Read more

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  • Democracy

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD