Sociology
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
$17.00 Add to cartNow with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a funny and irreverent study of class and status by the master of New Journalism.
Tom Wolfe’s two-ac- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321883
- Language: English
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Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
$40.00 Add to cart“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures. Mostly seen in older Northeastern cities with rowhomes or part… [more below]
- Author: Lester, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924090
- Language: English
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What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
$24.00 Add to cartBiologically, race does not exist. Scientists have proven that human DNA is 99.9 percent identical. But we know that racism and its structural impacts shape our health, opportunities, and lives in pro
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Bliss, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021764
- Language: English
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The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
$32.00 Add to cartThe real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream.
The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo- Author: Martin, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030342
- Language: English
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The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas about How to Be a Good Mom
$28.00 Add to cartTimely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a “good” mom.
When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself sudd- Author: Reddy, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250336643
- Language: English
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Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
$17.95 Add to cartAbolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.
Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for a- Author: Rosenthal, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cart“A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago … an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development.”-Kirkus Reviews
In the years after World War II, a movement began to brin
- Author: Hertz, Daniel Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1948742098
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths
$18.00 Add to cartImagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine s… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0143191101
- Language: English
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Future Skills
$18.95 Read moreWhat will humanity look like in twenty years . . . in fifty? Which skills should we be cultivating in an age of ceaseless technological progress?
Finnish inventor, composer, and futurist Perttu P??en- Author: P?l?nen, Perttu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1632280744
- Language: English
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Irish Folktales
$22.00 Add to cartHere are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing throug… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Glassie, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 1997
- ISBN10: 0679774122
- Language: English
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Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
$22.95 Add to cartIts mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, … [more below]
- Author: Robinson, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1590771486
- Language: English
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The Hero
$9.99 Read moreTHE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN
What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child…
‘It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?’ Karin Slaughter
‘I don’t know another aut
- Author: Child, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0008361878
- Language: English
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An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
$18.95 Add to cartEd Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories–the LA Review of Books calls it an epic, atomic history of the Steel City.
The land surrounding the confluence o
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1948742926
- Language: English
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Tools for Conviviality
$23.67 Add to cartIvan Illich argues for individual personal control over life, the tools and energy we use. A work of seminal importance.
The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is o- Author: Illich, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1842300113
- Language: English
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Planet of Slums
$19.95 Read moreThe “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization–by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize-winning autho… [more below]
- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786616
- Language: English
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The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness
$19.95 Add to cartThe Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing on cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symb… [more below]
- Author: Murdock, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1611808308
- Language: English
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A Short History of Myth
$18.00 Add to cartAs long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that
- Series: Canons
- Author: Armstrong, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 178211890X
- Language: English
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Santeria: The Religion: Faith, Rites, Magic
$21.99 Read moreBrought to Cuba as slaves, the Yoruba people of West Africa preserved their religion’s heritage by disguising their gods as Catholic saints and worshipping them in secret. The resulting religion is kn
- Series: Llewellyn’s World Religion & Magick
- Author: González-Wippler, Migene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2002
- ISBN10: 1567183298
- Language: English
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The Answer
$29.99 Read moreBillions seek the answer to world’s ills, conflicts, prejudices and injustice, and David Icke reveals what that is in his appropriately named new book, The Answer.
It is not religious, economic or pol- Author: Icke, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2020
- ISBN10: 191602582X
- Language: English
