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Black Bourgeoisie
$19.99 Add to cartA classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
When it was first published in 1957, E. Fr- Author: Frazier, Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832410
- Language: English
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Creating a World That Works for All
$17.00 Add to cartThe world is a mess. The privileged few prosper. The masses suffer. And everyone feels spiritually empty. Most people would blame capitalism, racism, or some other “”ism.”” But according to Sharif M. … [more below]
- Author: Abdullah, Sharif M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1576750620
- Language: English
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Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror
$19.95 Add to cartBlind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience… [more below]
- Author: Volkan, Vamik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0972887539
- Language: English
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Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
$18.95 Add to cartHow tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity
Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores- Author: Chen, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0691220883
- Language: English
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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world–one small change at a time
“A true gift to our movements for justice.”–Michelle Alexander, author- Author: Benjamin, Ruha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691224935
- Language: English
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
$23.95 Add to cartIn World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and develop… [more below]
- Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Author: Wallerstein, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0822334429
- Language: English
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The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartAn unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread. The Undertow is both inquiry and meditation,
- Author: Sharlet, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074515
- Language: English
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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$31.18 Add to cartGoing beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transfo… [more below]
- Author: Malesic, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 520391527
- Language: English
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Community: The Structure of Belonging
$25.95 Add to cartAs a response to the increasing violence in our culture, the widening ideological divides, and the growing gap in economic well-being, there is greater awareness that a deeper sense of community is de… [more below]
- Author: Block, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1523095563
- Language: English
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This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are
$18.00 Add to cartIn the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live
The aver- Author: Warnick, Melody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 014312966X
- Language: English
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The Division of Labor in Society
$20.99 Add to cartRevised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by lea… [more below]
- Author: Durkheim, Emile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1476749736
- Language: English
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A Way of Being
$17.99 Add to cartA profound and deeply personal collection of essays by renowned psychologist Carl Rogers
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement and father of client-centered therapy, base
- Author: Rogers, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 1995
- ISBN10: 0395755301
- Language: English
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
$35.00 Add to cartOutline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #16
- Author: Bourdieu, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: June 02 1977
- ISBN10: 052129164X
- Language: English
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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
$50.00 Add to cart#1 Most Important Political Book of 2023, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the
A Best Book of 2023, The Telegraph (Great Britain)- Author: Trentmann, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1524732915
- Language: English
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
$19.00 Read moreSusan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.
In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420137
- Language: English
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
$0.00 Read moreTechnology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intel
- Author: Nichols, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 0190865970
- Language: English
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
$18.99 Add to cartWhen The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also
- Author: Lasch, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356175
- Language: English
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Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
$26.60 Add to cartWhy too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companies-and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line
Today’s ways of working are not working-even for pr- Author: Kelly, Erin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 069122708X
- Language: English
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The Sociological Imagination
$23.99 Add to cartC. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cog… [more below]
- Author: Mills, C. Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 2000
- ISBN10: 0195133730
- Language: English
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The Technological Society
$15.95 Add to cartAs insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of te… [more below]
- Author: Ellul, Jacques
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: 12-Oct-67
- ISBN10: 0394703901
- Language: English
