Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$19.95 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0691227055
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (an Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
$19.99 Add to cart“Marvelous and entertaining.” –Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses–including a Van- Author: MacColl, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0761171959
- Language: English
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Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
$24.95 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the econo- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1609807367
- Language: English
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Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
$28.99 Add to cart“One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America’s public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book lov… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605316
- Language: English
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile jus… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982116374
- Language: English
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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About
$31.58 Add to cartDream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institut
- Author: Reeves, Richard V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0815734484
- Language: English
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Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials
$16.99 Read moreIn Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences n… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0316510858
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$46.58 Add to cartA revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24
- Author: Farrell, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0691176671
- Language: English
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about
$19.99 Add to cartIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urba… [more below]
- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644123
- Language: English
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Facing Eviction and Housing Insecurity
$15.99 Add to cartFacing Eviction and Housing Insecurity includes the voices of over fifty men, women, and children who have experienced or witnessed housing injustice. The stories follow the lives of adults and childr
- Author: Rowell, Katherine R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096131
- Language: English
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
$18.00 Read moreAn NPR Favorite Book of the Year
“Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”
—Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our unders- Author: Jack, Anthony Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248244
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
$28.99 Add to cartThe controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and p… [more below]
- Author: Herrnstein, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: January 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0684824299
- Language: English
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The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
$15.95 Add to cartWho do you think you are? That’s a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, a
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1631495976
- Language: English
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Janesville: An American Story
$17.00 Add to cart* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102265
- Language: English
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I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People
$19.99 Add to cart- 2020 American Express NGen Leadership Award
We don’t care about what we don’t see. Countless people are invisible to us. We overlook the poor and homeless, partly because we don’t share much space wit
- Author: Lester, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0830845720
- Language: English
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the defining factors of each group, from customs to fashion to h
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01, 1992
- ISBN10: 0671792253
- Language: English
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Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
$31.48 Add to cartA compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them
“Conniff brings her skills and- Author: Conniff, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976374
- Language: English
