Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Leadbelly: Poems
$14.00 Add to cart“It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake.”–Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge
A biography in poems,
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0974635332
- Language: English
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The Detroit Project: Three Plays
$19.95 Add to cartThree provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits … [more below]
- Author: Morisseau, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1559365382
- Language: English
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0553447432
- Language: English
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The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
$17.95 Add to cartIn today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry canvas … [more below]
- Author: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183171
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Equality
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend tow
A Public Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295463
- Language: English
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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
$28.99 Add to cartMore than four billion people–some 60 percent of humanity–live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do wit
- Author: Hickel, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0393651363
- Language: English
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
$10.00 Add to cart“To make man the master of his own form of social organization–to make him free–is the historical mission of the modern proletariat,” writes Engels. Here socialism is placed on a scientific foundati… [more below]
- Author: Engels, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0873489772
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
$19.95 Add to cartOne New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to pris
- Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066024
- Language: English
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Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together
$18.99 Add to cart‘An urgent manifesto for collective healing.’ David Lammy MP
This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more
- Author: Yates, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0008463999
- Language: English
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Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.
‘This book is a gift for an
- Author: Adegoke, Yomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 000837399X
- Language: English
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Good Economics for Hard Times
$22.99 Add to cartThe winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.
Figuring out how to deal with today’s critical economic pr- Author: Banerjee, Abhijit V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 154178894X
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$14.95 Add to cartIn his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552584
- Language: English
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Ti
- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230256
- Language: English
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Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light
$32.65 Add to cartA street-level people’s view of one of the world’s beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris
“Working-class Paris is st- Author: Stangler, Cole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977826
- Language: English
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
$14.00 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Ad- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 21, 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538492
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$26.95 Add to cartFew works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 11 1995
- ISBN10: 0942299795
- Language: English
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations
- Author: McGhee, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509569
- Language: English
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
$17.95 Add to cartIt’s Robert Kiyosaki’s position that “It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else.” He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-se… [more below]
- Author: Kiyosaki, Robert T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18, 2017
- ISBN10: 1612680887
- Language: English
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Finalis- Author: Arsenault, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799686
- Language: English
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On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity
$12.95 Read moreA rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling f
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Thompson, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930724
- Language: English
