Social Theory
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Fooled by the Winners: How Survivor Bias Deceives Us
$25.95 Read moreFooled by the Winners will change the way you think about the stock market, health care, global warming, diets, lotteries, restaurants, and your siblings. It will reshape your perspective of the past … [more below]
- Author: Lockwood, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348804
- Language: English
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The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life
$29.95 Read moreUsing the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation
The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross’s attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, pra- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768312
- Language: English
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The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony
$29.95 Read moreThinking beyond pandemic capitalism
The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of- Author: Lapavitsas, Costas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767847
- Language: English
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The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
$27.99 Read more“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s a
- Author: Bloom, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910566
- Language: English
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The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
$20.00 Read moreA “meticulously researched and buoyantly written” (Esquire) look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nat… [more below]
- Author: Keohane, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855794
- Language: English
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The Abuse of Property
$17.95 Read moreA fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change.
In The Abuse of Property, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique of the conce- Series: Untimely Meditations
- Author: Loick, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545500
- Language: English
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
$18.95 Read moreBy 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea’s origi
- Author: Makari, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050446
- Language: English
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
$18.00 Add to cartBased upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.
This book … [more below]- Author: Goffman, Erving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 1959
- ISBN10: 0385094027
- Language: English
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The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Read moreLearn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about S- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: Tomley, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1465436502
- Language: English
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Team Human
$17.99 Add to cartTeam Human is a manifesto–a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, h
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541533
- Language: English
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The Fall of Public Man
$19.99 Read moreA sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the c… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353745
- Language: English
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Class War: A Literary History
$29.95 Read moreA bold new history of the global class war
A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolution- Author: Steven, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1839760699
- Language: English
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Desire and Fate
$24.00 Add to cartAt a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff’s essays offer a bracing antidote. The writings collected in Desire… [more below]
- Author: Rieff, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1912475383
- Language: English
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Confessions of the Flesh: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4
$19.00 Read moreThe fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public
One of the most influential thinkers of t- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0525565418
- Language: English
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Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace
$19.95 Read moreThere are no unorganisable workers, only workers yet to be organised.
There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech- Author: Hughes, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767103
- Language: English
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Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics
$19.95 Read moreSalvaging a decolonised future
Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anti-colonial struggles in Africa. Kevin Ochieng Okoth revisits historical moments when- Series: Salvage Editions
- Author: Okoth, Kevin Ochieng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767375
- Language: English
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¡Cómo Salir del Pozo! / How to Get Out of the Well!
$18.95 Read moreSEG?N ESTUDIOS DE ESTADOS UNIDOS, LAS PERSONAS FELICES VIVEN ENTRE SEIS Y DIEZ A?OS M?S QUE LAS NO FELICES.
Una ola de descontento recorre el mundo, y cada vez menos personas se sienten verdaderamente- Author: Oppenheimer, Andr?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1644739496
- Language: Spanish
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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough
$27.00 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle Finalist
“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”–Viet Thanh Nguyen From the author of The Ungrateful Refugee–finalist- Author: Nayeri, Dina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220722
- Language: English
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
$19.00 Add to cartWith vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753354
- Language: English
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Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
$27.99 Read more“Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang.” —People
Loneliness is an epidemic; it feels harder than ever to- Author: Liming, Sheila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1685890059
- Language: English
