Sociology
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Going Around: Selected Journalism
$29.95 Add to cartA definitive collection of writings by the legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Murray Kempton (1917-1997) with a foreword by Darryl Pinckney, gathering dozens of columns, essays, and critiques f… [more below]
- Author: Kempton, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214512
- Language: English
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In the Merrimack Valley: A Farm Trilogy
$19.95 Add to cart“Of soil and soul…Ms. Brox has restored a lost world.”–Wall Street Journal
A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrimack
- Series: Nonpareil Books #16
- Author: Brox, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928188
- Language: English
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When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “urgent and necessary book” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal l… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Elissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1982169281
- Language: English
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
$21.00 Read moreLike a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City’s streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change… [more below]
- Author: Sadik-Khan, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143128973
- Language: English
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The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers
$34.95 Add to cartHow Mayor Ray Flynn’s leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance
The Battle for Boston captures the rema- Series: Polis: Fordham Urban Studies
- Author: Gillis, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509835
- Language: English
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Hillbilly, Una Eleg?a Rural: Memorias de Una Familia Y Una Cultura En Crisis (Edici?n de la Pel?cula) / Hillbilly Elegy (Movie Tie-In)
$18.95 Add to cartBESTSELLER #1 DEL NEW YORK TIMES
El libro en el que se basa la pel?cula de Netflix. Hillbilly, una eleg?a rural es un relato apasionado y apasionante de una clase social en decadencia: la clase trabaja
- Author: Vance, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 6073920857
- Language: Spanish
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The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
$26.95 Add to cartOne unforgettable journey through seven infrastructure systems across sixteen world cities.
- Author: Derrible, Sybil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493086642
- Language: English
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Social Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Social science is the study of human behaviour. It offers the tools to understand and explain people’s choices and actions, and how they live toget… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Betts, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 019287182X
- Language: English
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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
$24.95 Add to cart“Comes at a perfect time for our collective rethinking of how society can, and must, be reorganized so that all life can flourish” Marina Sitrin, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University
“T
- Series: The Fireworks
- Author: Finley, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745346901
- Language: English
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You’ll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
$19.95 Add to cart“Zug’s wry, clear-eyed history of American marriage shines a new light on an old institution. An absolute pleasure.” — Liz Scheier, author of Never Simple
An illuminating and thought-provoking exami- Author: Zug, Marcia A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1586423967
- Language: English
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The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones
$27.00 Add to cartA road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood–by a leading tech policy expert
It’s no secret that addictive digita- Author: Morell, Clare
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 059373629X
- Language: English
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Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis
$24.95 Add to cartIn an era when “self-care” often revolves around consumption and profit, a health and science journalist emphasizes the genuine health advantages of a culture of caring.
Helping others can enhance ou- Author: Karlis, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0520397606
- Language: English
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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY – LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE – A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The “illuminating” (New Yorker) story of the Great Chic… [more below]
- Author: Berg, Scott W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0804171513
- Language: English
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The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
$32.95 Add to cartA manifesto–and a field guide–for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and dis- Author: Schilthuizen, Menno
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049090
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
$20.00 Add to cart“I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book…there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up.” –Annie Proulx
*A New York Times Book Review Editors- Author: Joyce, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668031094
- Language: English
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By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered.
Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukrainian cause and adopt Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero,- Author: Leavitt, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 374614334
- Language: English
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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
$29.95 Add to cartHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War
Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory–but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the cham- Author: Slobodian, Quinn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1890951919
- Language: English
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rul… [more below]
- Author: Gelfand, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152947
- Language: English
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Cuz: An American Tragedy
$15.95 Add to cartFirst appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen’s Cuz announced the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this “compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story” (New York Tim… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494945
- Language: English
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Readings for Sociology
$52.50 Add to cartThe perfect mix of classic and contemporary readings
- Author: O’Brien, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132404408X
- Language: English
