Social conditions
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the oppor… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1476769907
- Language: English
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Vanquished
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Tomlinson Book Prize
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I–conflicts that wou- Author: Gerwarth, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537186
- Language: English
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The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
$21.99 Add to cartThe Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Soccer in the United Kingdom has evolved from a jaded, working-class tradition to a sport at the heart of popular cultu… [more below]
- Author: Goldblatt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1568585160
- Language: English
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Dandelions
$17.95 Add to cartWhere, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be ‘Italian’ or ‘English’, or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left
- Author: Lenarduzzi, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1913097978
- Language: English
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Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology
$19.99 Add to cartA Louisville Poets Anthology edited by
Louisville native and acclaimed Horsepower author Joy Priest.
Conceived in the aftermath of city-wide
protests in 2020, Once a City Said showcases the polyvocal com… [more below]- Author: Priest, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1956046089
- Language: English
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
$29.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regard… [more below]
- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022605568X
- Language: English
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The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball
$18.99 Add to cartThe inspiring true story of a remarkable coach whose superb undefeated high-school basketball team in 1980s Baltimore produced four NBA players and gave hope to a desperate neighborhood and city–“a f… [more below]
- Author: Danois, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1451666985
- Language: English
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The Idea of Prison Abolition
$39.95 Add to cartAn incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment
Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States- Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture #14
- Author: Shelby, Tommie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691229759
- Language: English
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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Past and Present
$8.94 Add to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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This Side of Paradise
$11.95 Add to cart‘The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.’
Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from in- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0198848110
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$17.95 Add to cart‘For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.’
With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursu- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199686637
- Language: English
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Other Russias
$20.00 Add to cartTranslated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell, Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow’s protests and politi… [more below]
- Author: Lomasko, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 997031840
- Language: English
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The Black Death: A Personal History
$19.99 Add to cartIn this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village.
By focusi… [more below]- Author: Hatcher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0306817926
- Language: English
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Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman
$30.00 Add to cartA beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.
Set in the early twenti- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1101908270
- Language: English
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First Love
$11.00 Read moreIsaiah Berlin’s translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich’s parents,- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443355
- Language: English
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Les Miserables (Omnibus) Vol. 3-4
$19.99 Add to cartFATEFUL DECISIONS, FATAL CHOICES
Jean Valjean has escaped his fate and, as mayor and factory owner, brought prosperity to the small town where he has settled. But when word comes that an innocent man- Series: Les Miserables (Omnibus)
- Author: Arai, Takahiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1638589968
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$8.99 Read moreFresh off of his escapades with Tom Sawyer and with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck’s fortune and will stop at nothing to get his ha
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1435171837
- Language: English
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartHome to the notorious “Blue Book,” which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans’s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2003
- ISBN10: 1560254947
- Language: English
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Les Miserables (Omnibus) Vol. 5-6
$19.99 Add to cartTO THE BARRICADES
Cosette, having grown into a lovely young woman, has attracted the attention of student Marius Pontmercy. Jean Valjean, ever suspicious that his past will be uncovered, stands in the- Series: Les Miserables (Omnibus)
- Author: Arai, Takahiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1685796036
- Language: English
