Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
$27.00 Add to cart“That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feel… [more below]
- Author: Chua, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126350
- Language: English
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Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World
$18.99 Read moreWhen privileged parents say that they “want what’s best” for their child, they don’t consciously add “and not for other children.”
Yet the practical effect of parents with privilege relentlessly pur- Author: Jaffe, Sarah W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 164160767X
- Language: English
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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
$18.95 Add to cartAn inside look at how one of the country’s most elite private schools prepares its students for success
As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Ham- Author: Khan, Shamus Rahman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0691229201
- Language: English
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Understanding and Combating Racism: My Path from Oblivious American to Evolving Activist
$14.99 Add to cartEducated but untaught, involved but unknowing, Catholic but spiritually reserved, white but unwittingly blinded by the ubiquitous whiteness surrounding him. These are some of the many storylines W.E.
- Author: Wynne, W. E. (Bill)
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: November 24 2021
- ISBN10: 195508811X
- Language: English
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
$39.67 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian
A wide-ranging cultural and political history
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1595587071
- Language: English
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Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
$17.00 Add to cartIn this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must–and how we can–make the world safer, fairer,… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982171871
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World
$12.00 Read moreIn the 1960s and ’70s, class struggle surged in U.S. industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in dif… [more below]
- Author: Ignatiev, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860003
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$19.95 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0691227055
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (an Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
$19.99 Add to cart“Marvelous and entertaining.” –Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses–including a Van- Author: MacColl, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0761171959
- Language: English
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Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
$28.99 Read more“One part love letter, one part eulogy, Overdue tells the story of America’s public library system . . . Amanda Oliver proves herself a vibrant new literary voice . . . This is a book for all book lov… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605316
- Language: English
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile jus… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982116374
- Language: English
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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About
$28.43 Add to cartDream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institut
- Author: Reeves, Richard V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0815734484
- Language: English
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Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials
$19.99 Add to cartIn Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences n… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0316510858
- Language: English
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
$46.58 Add to cartA revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation
Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today’s richest people are- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology #24
- Author: Farrell, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0691176671
- Language: English
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about
$19.99 Add to cartIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urba… [more below]
- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644123
- Language: English
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Facing Eviction and Housing Insecurity
$15.99 Add to cartFacing Eviction and Housing Insecurity includes the voices of over fifty men, women, and children who have experienced or witnessed housing injustice. The stories follow the lives of adults and childr
- Author: Rowell, Katherine R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096131
- Language: English
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
$18.00 Read moreAn NPR Favorite Book of the Year
“Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.”
—Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our unders- Author: Jack, Anthony Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248244
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
