Sociology
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Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do
$15.99 Add to cartWhat is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover i… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1568586388
- Language: English
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A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People
$35.00 Add to cartNamed by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top “100 Books that Shaped America,” this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author’s time as national… [more below]
- Author: Botkin, B. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302535X
- Language: English
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Obsession
$28.99 Add to cartIn Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims an… [more below]
- Author: Douglas, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1451607431
- Language: English
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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
$18.99 Add to cartBy the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1416564047
- Language: English
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
$15.99 Add to cart“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenc- Author: Servon, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745708
- Language: English
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No Place for Autism?: Exploring the Solitary Forager Hypothesis of Autism in Light of Place Identity
$34.95 Add to cartDisability or difference? How autism is understood varies from place to place.
Drawn from lived experience, this book explores the question of what autism is, and how it is best viewed in society. Dr J
- Author: Hoerricks, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271819
- Language: English
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The Soul Journey: How Shamanism, Santeria, Wicca and Charisma Are Connected
$15.75 Add to cartPastor Kent Philpott explored Santer a, the New World version of the West African religion of the “orishas,” a stealth religious movement with more than 180 million adherents in Brazil alone, and disc… [more below]
- Author: Philpott, Kent Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 17 2014
- ISBN10: 097032961X
- Language: English
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
$34.00 Read moreFragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very ima
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299620
- Language: English
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The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hite Report on the Family will cause you to rethink your childhood, your relationships, and quite possibly your life. It is a powerful and original analysis of the changing shape of private life,
- Author: Hite, Shere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: April 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134513
- Language: English
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The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America’s Scapegoats
$18.99 Add to cartCulture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America’s most maligned social group — the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hi… [more below]
- Author: Goad, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0684838648
- Language: English
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Italians
$22.00 Add to cartIn this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great… [more below]
- Author: Barzini, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825007
- Language: English
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Foundations of Statistics
$19.95 Add to cartClassic analysis of the foundations of statistics and development of personal probability, one of the greatest controversies in modern statistical thought. Revised edition. Calculus, probability, stat… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
- Author: Savage, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0486623491
- Language: English
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Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
$29.95 Add to cartThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households
Most research on poverty focuses on the damage c- Author: Newman, Katherine S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0520379101
- Language: English
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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Thinking in an Emergency
$19.99 Add to cartIn Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: equality of survival. She reveals how regular cit
- Series: Amnesty International Global Ethics #0
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340589
- Language: English
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
$21.99 Add to cart“A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more” (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evoluti… [more below]
- Author: Christakis, Nicholas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0316230049
- Language: English
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Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love, Stay in Love, Rekindle Your Love
$18.99 Add to cartPhysician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple he’ll help you improve your marriage through sharing, tou
- Author: Wheat, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 1980
- ISBN10: 310425115
- Language: English
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Food
$19.95 Read moreA consumer’s guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.
Everybody eats. We may ev
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Parasecoli, Fabio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537311
- Language: English
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Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198795548
- Language: English
