Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Poverty, by America
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239938
- Language: English
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Poverty, by America
$28.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239911
- Language: English
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Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
$56.99 Read moreThere are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We’re fascinated by their houses and estates, t… [more below]
- Author: Doughty, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1529153042
- Language: English
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Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
$29.95 Read moreA leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.
Between 197- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0674987543
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A New History
$39.95 Add to cartA rich and long history of revolutions–the English Civil War, the American War of Independence, the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions–and their lasting transformations.
Revolutions is a spark- Author: Sassoon, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1804299928
- Language: English
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Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft
$24.95 Read moreHow we can meet the challenges of our age by moving away from the political and economic philosophies of both the left and right to a more equitable re-organization of society, economy, land and food … [more below]
- Author: Smaje, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1915294738
- Language: English
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On This Ground: Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America
$30.00 Read more- Author: Depalma, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006346439X
- Language: English
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Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
$18.00 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of 2024
“A powerful case for limitarianism–the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-r
A History Today Book of the Year- Author: Robeyns, Ingrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603363
- Language: English
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Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet
$27.99 Add to cartA scathing expos? of the hidden impact of America’s ultra wealthy on our social, economic, political, and ecological landscape–as well as a path toward a more equitable future
“The three hundred large- Author: Collins, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979098
- Language: English
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What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives.
At 22 years old, Kris- Author: Collier, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538764989
- Language: English
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We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
$19.95 Add to cartHow a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status–without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged
Society has never been more egalitarian–in theory. Prejudi- Author: Al-Gharbi, Musa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0691235341
- Language: English
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The Mismeasurement of America: How Outdated Government Statistics Mask the Economic Struggle of Everyday Americans
$28.00 Add to cart“A hard-hitting indictment of the data underpinning federal economic policies.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The Mismeasurement of America reveals, at long last, why public perceptions of the econo
- Author: Ludwig, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311341
- Language: English
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$12.00 Add to cartHow do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their supery
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Harrington, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110325
- Language: English
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Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
$27.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial Times
A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field“Unjust D
- Author: Jacoby, Melissa B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977869
- Language: English
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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor
$28.99 Add to cartA Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book
A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”-the myriad businesses that profit from the poorPoverty is big business in America. The federal g
- Author: Kim, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977818
- Language: English
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The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
$24.99 Add to cart“A profoundly moving, well-researched examination of a uniquely American crisis.” —Library Journal, starred review
The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it’s time we start treating it
- Author: Watson, Jamal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1506495168
- Language: English
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Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay Is Good for Business and Great for America
$17.99 Add to cartFrom an unlikely source, a compelling argument that when workers are paid fairly, everyone, including businesses, benefits
“I’m not any more altruistic than the next guy, I’m just greedy for a differe
- Author: Driscoll, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978822
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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Seeing Others: How Recognition Works–And How It Can Heal a Divided World
$18.99 Add to cart“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Mich?le Lamont that makes the case for reexamining what we value–the quest for respect–in an age… [more below]
- Author: Lamont, Mich?le
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982153792
- Language: English
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Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
$30.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US.
Is there a single change that could- Author: Williams, Joan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1250368960
- Language: English
