Sociology
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Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
$29.95 Add to cartThe spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world’s Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the hear… [more below]
- Series: CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Roy, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231134991
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You’re Doing It
$17.00 Add to cartDrawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Becker, Howard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: January 19 1998
- ISBN10: 0226041247
- Language: English
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The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring
$19.99 Add to cartSince 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months “hanging out” with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their h… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 22 1990
- ISBN10: 0201570033
- Language: English
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Poverty: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNo one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, we find ourselves in a situation where millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank in 2010, 1… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jefferson, Philip N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198716478
- Language: English
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Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Newman, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190213221
- Language: English
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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights
$19.99 Add to cart“Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding.” — Kirkus Reviews
A completely revised and updated edition of the
- Author: Marcus, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0060933917
- Language: English
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Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy
$19.00 Add to cartWe will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671816
- Language: English
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The Mayor and The Judge: The Inside Story of the War Against COVID
$19.99 Add to cartNever Fight a War on Two Fronts… so say military historians and strategists. Yet the War on COVID in the United States became almost as heated in the political arena as it did in the battlefields of
- Author: Wolff, Judge Nelson W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1943492921
- Language: English
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
$35.00 Read moreBased on Oliver Stone’s documentary, JFK Revisited, read the transcripts and interviews that will change the way you think about the John F. Kennedy assassination.
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking G- Author: DiEugenio, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1510772871
- Language: English
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Cross Bronx: A Writing Life
$110.83 Add to cartIn his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.
Cross Bronx is- Author: Quinn, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1531500943
- Language: English
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
$17.99 Read moreBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Her
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Highway, Tomson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1487011237
- Language: English
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is freedom worth to you?
At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime in Viet Nam, Quyen saw his freedoms being taken away.
- Author: Ha, Quyen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736849107
- Language: English
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Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
$18.99 Add to cartNeighborhoods are moving. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience can be vastly different for long-time residents. The rapid movement of people me
- Author: Strong, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1514002388
- Language: English
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The Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People
$30.00 Add to cartThis compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated T
- Author: Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1771605219
- Language: English
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Mi Mar?: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico.
$19.95 Add to cartPuerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane Mar? and its aftermath.
- Series: Voice of Witness
- Author: Chansky, Ricia Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: September 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1642595799
- Language: English
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Freemasonry as a Way of Awakening
$19.95 Add to cartInitiation is by nature indefinable, elusive as the Spirit. Always, it is an initiation to one’s own original nature or ultimate reality, to the Real, to the Absolute, to the Divine, to what remains,
- Author: Boyer, Rémi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1947907107
- Language: English
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We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
$12.95 Add to cartIn the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means–and how we take steps to get there.
“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more like
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1642594539
- Language: English
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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
$34.99 Add to cartThe scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, healthcare, a… [more below]
- Author: Brayne, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0190684097
- Language: English
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The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
$19.95 Read more“This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”–from the foreword by Ralph Nader
American monopolies dominate, control, and cons- Series: Thom Hartmann Hidden History
- Author: Hartmann, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1523087730
- Language: English
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A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
$18.99 Add to cartIn this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academ
- Author: Moore, Caylin Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1400209943
- Language: English
