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  • Hollowing Out the Middle

    The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

    by Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas ...
    Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communitiesIn 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Clean Streets

    Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism

    by Patrick J. Carr ...
    Series Book 8 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
    With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. In Clean Streets, Patrick Carr draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago’s South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe. Carr details the singular event for this community and the resulting ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Tilted

    The Trials of Conrad Black, Second Edition

    by Steven Skurka ...
    It was the trial that captivated observers on both sides of the Atlantic. Media titan Conrad Black, by turns respected and reviled for decades in Canada and around the world, faced off with U.S. prosecutors on charges of criminal fraud stemming from his activities with Hollinger International.As the only Canadian writer to attend the trials of Conrad Black, lawyer Steven Skurka delivers a thorough ... Read more

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  • Deer Hunting with Jesus

    Dispatches from America's Class War

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Read more

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  • Guilty by Reason of Insanity

    A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

    by Dorothy Otnow Lewis Ph.D. ...
    A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them.From a juvenile ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Justice Miscarried

    Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada

    by Helena Katz ...
    Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up. In 1989 he was convicted for a crime that never happened. His wife, Brenda, was later ruled to have choked to death on breakfast cereal not strangled as a pathologist had initially claimed. Dalton's daughter, Alison, was in kindergarten when he was charged with second-degree murder in 1988. He attended her high ... Read more

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  • THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS (Annotated With Author Biography)

    by Thorstein Veblen ...
    Step into the intriguing world of Thorstein Veblen's masterwork, "The Theory of the Leisure Class," where societal nuances are dissected with unparalleled insight. Published in 1899, this groundbreaking treatise thrusts readers into the heart of Gilded Age America, unraveling the complexities of a society obsessed with conspicuous consumption and status.Veblen, a maverick economist and social ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • History of the Mafia

    by Salvatore Lupo ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    When we think of the Italian Mafia, we think of Marlon Brando, Tony Soprano, and the Corleones-iconic actors and characters who give shady dealings a mythical pop presence. Yet these sensational depictions take us only so far. The true story of the Mafia reveals both an organization and mindset dedicated to the preservation of tradition. It is no accident that the rise of the Mafia coincided with ... Read more

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  • Dispensing with the Truth

    The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen

    by Alicia Mundy ...
    Semi-finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book AwardIn 1996, a terrible epidemic began killing young American women. Some died quickly, literally dropping in their steps. Others took more time, from a few months to a few years. Those who weren't killed suffered damage to their lungs and hearts, much of it permanent and reparable only with major surgery. Doctors suspected what the killer was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Janesville

    An American Story

    by Amy Goldstein ...
    Series series A Business Award-Winner
    * Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize? * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book * A Wall Street Journal Best Book * An Economist Best Book * A Business Insider Best Book *“A gripping story of psychological defeat and resilience” (Bob Woodward, Th... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Snatched!

    The Peculiar Kidnapping of Beer Tycoon John Labatt

    by Susan Goldenberg ...
    In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the trials of the abductors. From a heavily populated ... Read more

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  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

    the best of Joe Bageant

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really ... Read more

    $36.99 USD