Sociology
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Growing Up Latino
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who contribute to this volume transport us across geographies and through cultur
- Author: Augenbraum, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0395661242
- Language: English
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Retirement Rocks!: 50 Devotions for All That New Free Time
$14.99 Read moreRetirement Rocks! is the perfect gift for the loved one, friend, or coworker who is embarking on a new season of retirement. Help them celebrate retirement by re-imaging life as you know it in this de… [more below]
- Author: Dayspring
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1648708021
- Language: English
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The Masters of Deception: Gang That Ruled Cyberspace, the
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation’s most powerful computer systems. “An immensely fun and — one cannot em… [more below]
- Author: Slatalla, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060926945
- Language: English
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Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More
$30.00 Add to cartA renowned sociologist and researcher reveals how women can build the life they really want
The term mental load has become more familiar in recent years, but the popular understanding of the concept- Author: Ruppanner, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593850904
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World
$35.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization–from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos
For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have ima- Author: Carvalho, Bruno
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691246556
- Language: English
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Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself
$30.00 Add to cartAn unflinchingly honest and disarmingly funny memoir from an exhausted mom who broke under the pressure to do it all, faced her past, found herself–and learned to let go of perfection and just serve … [more below]
- Author: Ward, Libby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593735218
- Language: English
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Clayton
$22.99 Add to cartCLAYTON is a riveting novel that brings to life the failed hopes and dreams of one man…..a heartbreaking story of homelessness and how one gets there. The book brings out the stark realities of addi
- Author: Stahr, Missy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318820632
- Language: English
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Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures
$28.00 Add to cartInnovative field work reveals how infrastructural systems–buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins–maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape
For decades, Detroit reside
- Author: Caverly, Nicholas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640256
- Language: English
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The Battered Woman
$17.99 Add to cart“A major contribution to this subject. She is thorough, practical, compassionate, and authoritative. It is a reading must.”–Phyllis Chesler
- Author: Walker, Lenore E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 30 1980
- ISBN10: 0060907428
- Language: English
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Creative Ozone: The Artists of Westbeth
$29.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists’ residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York’s cultural landscape for over fifty years
In 1970, the former Bell Telephone- Author: Chaiken, Miriam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1531511775
- Language: English
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The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West
$21.00 Add to cart“Yellowstone meets Matlock” (Tom Clavin) in this dazzling tale of land lust and the American West, chronicling the rise and fall of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggl… [more below]
- Author: Gamerman, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1982158182
- Language: English
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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia: A Memoir
$22.00 Add to cartJohn O’Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved … [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0385721390
- Language: English
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Time for School: How Humans Learn
$29.95 Add to cartDo you go to school?
If you are reading this book, chances are you do. Education allows us to learn about the world, develop new skills and fulfill our dreams for the future. But school can be dramati
- Series: Orca Timeline
- Author: Payne, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1459841506
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea
$29.95 Add to cartA provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own
Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrificatio- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
- Author: Brown-Saracino, Japonica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691244359
- Language: English
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The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
$35.00 Add to cartYou’re probably in a cult. You just don’t know it yet.
In The Culting of America, cult survivor, military veteran, and bestselling author of Uncultured, Daniella Mestyanek Young delivers a gripping i
- Author: Mestyanek Young, Daniella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1955671826
- Language: English
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Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938
$15.99 Add to cartMary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic, was active in the American C… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0156447878
- Language: English
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Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
$30.00 Add to cartA daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige H… [more below]
- Author: Harden, Kathryn Paige
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 059344762X
- Language: English
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The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit
$25.00 Add to cartGentrification is not inevitable, reveals Sharon Cornelissen, in this surprising, close look at the Detroit neighborhood of Brightmoor and the harsh reality of depopulation and urban decline.
In the- Series: Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
- Author: Cornelissen, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844714
- Language: English
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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$19.99 Add to cart“Smart and entertaining . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s like a torpedo.” –NPR, Fresh Air
“Delicious.” –New York Times Book Review The behind-the-scenes story of a p- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639736670
- Language: English
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Anarchy Explained to Children
$17.95 Add to cartBoth an extraordinary 1930s text on anarchism in its original sense of liberatory principles of equality and mutual support, and short chapters with all-age-appropriate illustrations and explanations … [more below]
- Author: Emmanuel, José Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214490
- Language: English
