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Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong—and Right—About America’s Leading Universities

Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong—and Right—About...

Author: Derek Bok
ISBN: 9780300273601
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A former Harvard president reflects on how elite universities are responding to critiques from the left and the...  Read More >>

The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos

The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and...

Author: Angela Garcia
ISBN: 9780374605780
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A powerful journey into Mexico City’s and California’s anexos, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers...  Read More >>

Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse

Literature for the People: How The Pioneering Macmillan...

Author: Sarah Harkness
ISBN: 9781035008933
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created...  Read More >>

Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy

Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy

Author: Julie Morris
ISBN: 9781032644387
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy teaches foundational sociological concepts using comedy, first considering...  Read More >>

Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy

Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy

Author: Julie Morris
ISBN: 9781032745060
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Introduction to Sociology Through Comedy teaches foundational sociological concepts using comedy, first considering...  Read More >>

Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381

Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the...

Author: Rodney Hilton ,  Phillipp R. Schofield (Aberystwyth University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032641959
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Rodney Hilton's superb account of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 remains a classic and widely read and admired since...  Read More >>

Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility

Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social...

Author: Melissa Osborne
ISBN: 9780226833026
Format: Hardback
$190.95

An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students....  Read More >>

Just ACT: We Are the Solution to Poverty

Just ACT: We Are the Solution to Poverty

Author: Angie Peters
ISBN: 9781998815173
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Poverty ended for Angie Peter's family in one generation because of the intervention of ordinary people who cared....  Read More >>

Le Citoyen Patriote

Le Citoyen Patriote

Author: Benak
ISBN: 9798224043095
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Dans le domaine de la litt�rature, il existe une oeuvre rare qui transcende les simples mots sur une page, offrant...  Read More >>

Global Platform Work: Negotiating Relations in a Translocal Assemblage

Global Platform Work: Negotiating Relations in a Translocal...

Author: Anna Oechslen
ISBN: 9783593518077
Format: Paperback
$74.95

An overview of how graphic designers in India use global platforms. Digital freelance platforms promise workers...  Read More >>

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia: Kyrgyzstan’s ‘First Capitalists’ Since the Late Soviet Era

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across...

Author: Philipp Schröder (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
ISBN: 9781032657295
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the unfolding of capitalism across Eurasia. It will...  Read More >>

Sailing and Social Class

Sailing and Social Class

Author: Alan O'Connor (Trent University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781032703572
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical...  Read More >>

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society...

Author: Joseph Stiglitz
ISBN: 9780241687888
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite...  Read More >>

Elite Networks: The Political Economy of Inequality

Elite Networks: The Political Economy of Inequality...

Author: Vuk Vuković (CIO, CIO, Oraclum Capital (ORCA))
ISBN: 9780197774229
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political...  Read More >>

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

Author: David Fleming
ISBN: 9781803996516
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous...  Read More >>

The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture

The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: The Balyan...

Author: Alyson Wharton
ISBN: 9780755655137
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State...

Author: Lyle C. May
ISBN: 9781642599718
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature.  , Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique...  Read More >>

Democracy and Social Ethics: Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Democracy and Social Ethics: Nobel Peace Prize Winner...

Author: Jane Addams
ISBN: 9782384553143
Format: Paperback
$29.01

In this groundbreaking work, Jane Addams, a pioneering figure in the realms of social reform and activism, delves...  Read More >>

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society...

Author: Joseph Stiglitz
ISBN: 9780241703878
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite...  Read More >>

Drive: Scraping By in Uber's America, One Ride at a Time

Drive: Scraping By in Uber's America, One Ride at a...

Author: Jonathan Rigsby
ISBN: 9780807007938
Format: Hardback
$73.79

"""For readers of Maid and Heartland, a father's darkly humorous yet humanizing account of working long hours and...  Read More >>

Resettled: Beginning (Again) in Appalachia

Resettled: Beginning (Again) in Appalachia

Author: Katrina M. Powell ,  Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9798888901014
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Appalachia has been a place of movement and migration—for individuals, families, and entire communities—for centuries....  Read More >>

Social Mobility, Social Inequality, and the Role of Higher Education

Social Mobility, Social Inequality, and the Role of...

Author: Elena G. Popkova ,  Bruno S. Sergi
ISBN: 9798888902387
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Social Mobility, Social Inequality, and the Role of Higher Education explores the role of higher education in increasing...  Read More >>

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

Soviet Russia: An Introduction

Author: Jacob Miller
ISBN: 9781032674773
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large...  Read More >>

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