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  • Science Under Siege?

    Interest Groups and the Science Wars

    by Leon E. Trachtman, Robert Perrucci ...
    The combative metaphor of Oscience warsO has taken on a predominant position within the collective conscious, from being featured on the programs of scientific meetings to being splashed across the pages of leading national magazines and newspapers. Some in the scientific community perceive their profession to be under siege by members of the academic left, radical environmentalists, religious ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Deep Inequality

    Understanding the New Normal and How to Challenge It

    by Robert Perrucci, Earl Wysong ...
    Forbes reports that the richest 1 percent of the world’s population owns nearly half the world’s wealth, and the gap between the richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not only wealth inequality but also rising disparities in other elements of life—from education to the media. The authors argue that inequality ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The New Class Society

    Goodbye American Dream?

    by Robert Perrucci, David Wright, Earl Wysong ...
    The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever.The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized throughout, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Agenda for Social Justice

    Solutions for 2016

    Edited by Glenn W. Muschert, Brian V. Klocke, Robert Perrucci, Jon Shefner ...
    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), it offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy makers, and ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland

    Corporatism and Community

    by Robert Perrucci ...
    The idea for this book was formed during the early 1980s when the author was studying the impact of plant closings on displaced workers and communities. In one community, workers who were displaced by a plant closing expected to receive retraining funds through the Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA), only to find that the state had committed all the JTPA funds to train new workers for a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Global Agenda for Social Justice

    Volume One

    by Brian V. Klocke, Joachim J. Savelsberg, Mangala Subramaniam, Diana Rodriguez-Spahia, Rosemary Barberet, Richelle Frabotta, Kyle Ashlee, Terence D. Miethe, Michelle Christian, Jon Shefner1, Massimo Ragnedda3, James L. Scherrer4, Ajanaw Alemie5, Miranda Mirosa6, David Reynolds7, Shannon Golden8, Vasundhara Kaul9, Zachary Palmer0, Jacqueline Daugherty1, Glenn W. Muschert2, Brandon J. Cash4, Michael P. Loeffelman5, Leland Spencer6, Sean Sweeney7, Todd Vachon8, Nirmala Lekhak9, Moushumi Roy0, Tirth R. Bhatta1, Majia Nadesan2, Eric Mykhalovskiy3, Edwin Bernard4, Carrie Foote5, Tereza Trejbalová6, Craig Boylstein7, Hannah E Hurrle8, Robert Aponte9, Luis A. Fernandez0 ...
    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage

    by Daria Roithmayr ...
    Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantageThis book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress ... Read more

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  • Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education

    What's at Stake?

    by Michael Fabricant, Michelle Fine ...
    This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color.  Instead, they use empirical evidence to determine whether charter schooling offers an authentic alternative for these children. In ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed.

    by Dennis Raphael ...
    Series Book 11 - About Canada
    Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: Health and Illness tells a different story.In this new, updated edition, Dennis Raphael shows that living ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The New Geography of Jobs

    by Enrico Moretti ...
    "A timely and smart discussion of how different cities and regions have made a changing economy work for them—and how policymakers can learn from that." —Barack ObamaWe're used to thinking of the United States in opposing terms: red versus blue, haves versus have-nots. But today there are three Americas. At one extreme are the brain hubs—cities like San Francisco, Boston, and Durham—with workers ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complacent Class

    The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolution, is the first thing I read every morning. And his brilliant new book, The Complacent Class, has been on my nightstand after I devoured it in one sitting. I am at round-the-clock Cowen saturation right now."--Malcolm GladwellSince Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Getting Better

    Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

    by Charles Kenny ...
    As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD