Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
$18.99 Add to cartThe co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity’s cha… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0316417203
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239938
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$28.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239911
- Language: English
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Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
Millions of Americans work full- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808316
- Language: English
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The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City
$19.00 Add to cartBased on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where
- Author: Garcia, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371899
- Language: English
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Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives
$27.95 Add to cartIn this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.
Venezuela in Crisi
- Author: Bean, Anderson M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888904640
- Language: English
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Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising
$24.00 Add to cartThe dangers of “progressive policing” as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.
Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland’s “law and order” has been shaped for over two hundred y
- Author: Williams, Kristian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1849354286
- Language: English
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The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers
$29.00 Read moreA New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026
“I have found few books lately as immediately compelling as Barrag?n’s, and as a reader, I could not put it down. As an unexpected fresh take- Author: Barragán, Carlos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0374609306
- Language: English
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
$20.00 Add to cartHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods–with good schools and good housing–are only acces
LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD- Author: Appelbaum, Yoni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593449312
- Language: English
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
$19.00 Add to cartYears 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 unacknowle… [more below]
- Author: Bageant, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339378
- Language: English
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Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
$56.99 Read moreThere are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We’re fascinated by their houses and estates, t… [more below]
- Author: Doughty, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1529153042
- Language: English
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Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of Educated and Invisible Child, David Sussillo combines memoir and cutting-edge neuroscience to tell the story of his unlikely journey from group homes and drug-addicted parents to the scien… [more below]
- Author: Sussillo, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1538768577
- Language: English
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Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
$19.99 Add to cartAN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLE
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA’S 2025 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARR MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538740338
- Language: English
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Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
$32.00 Read moreThe story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.
In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployme- Author: Scheiber, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0374610819
- Language: English
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The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It
$30.00 Read more“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times–income inequality–from a new vantage point… [more below]
- Author: Dube, Arindrajit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0593471415
- Language: English
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Understanding Marxism
$18.95 Add to cartRichard D. Wolff masterfully explains why Karl Marx’s analysis of class struggle is fundamental to a proper understanding of capitalism and explores how to build a more sustainable democratic society.
- Series: Democracy at Work #2
- Author: Wolff, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904589
- Language: English
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Understanding Socialism
$18.95 Add to cartSocialism is a yearning for justice, community, and the greater realization of human potential. Cornel West calls it “the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and
- Series: Democracy at Work #3
- Author: Wolff, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904596
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea
$29.95 Add to cartA provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own
Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrificatio- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
- Author: Brown-Saracino, Japonica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691244359
- Language: English
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Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
$29.95 Add to cartA leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.
Between 197- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0674987543
- Language: English
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Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
$22.00 Add to cartTwo 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 communities
In 2001, with fundin- Author: Carr, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0807006149
- Language: English
