Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
$19.99 Add to cart**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
“An
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**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**- Author: Thrasher, Steven W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250796644
- Language: English
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The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Wilde Anderson, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1501195999
- Language: English
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
$16.00 Add to cart“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker
The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic Harry Crews grew up as the s- Author: Crews, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0143135333
- Language: English
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On the Line: Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union
$16.99 Read more“Lyrical . . . candid, clear-eyed and utterly engrossing, Pitkin’s writing couldn’t come at a better–or more necessary–time.” –Jessica Bruder, New York Times bestselling author of Nomadland
“A riv- Author: Pitkin, Daisy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753398
- Language: English
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There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster–Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
$19.99 Add to cartA journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been
- Author: Singer, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982129689
- Language: English
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
$29.99 Read more**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION**
“An
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE**
**WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE**- Author: Thrasher, Steven W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1250796636
- Language: English
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Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
$20.95 Read moreHow social class determines who lands the best jobs
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it i- Author: Rivera, Lauren A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169276
- Language: English
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Leadbelly: Poems
$14.00 Add to cart“It is exhilarating to be invited into a world so large and muscular, so rooted in history, a world where so much is at stake.”–Brigit Pegeen Kelly, National Poetry Series judge
A biography in poems,
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Jess, Tyehimba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0974635332
- Language: English
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The Detroit Project: Three Plays
$19.95 Add to cartThree provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits … [more below]
- Author: Morisseau, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1559365382
- Language: English
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0553447432
- Language: English
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The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
$17.95 Add to cartIn today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry canvas … [more below]
- Author: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183171
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Equality
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend tow
A Public Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295463
- Language: English
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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
$28.99 Add to cartMore than four billion people–some 60 percent of humanity–live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do wit
- Author: Hickel, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0393651363
- Language: English
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
$10.00 Add to cart“To make man the master of his own form of social organization–to make him free–is the historical mission of the modern proletariat,” writes Engels. Here socialism is placed on a scientific foundati… [more below]
- Author: Engels, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0873489772
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
$19.95 Add to cartOne New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to pris
- Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066024
- Language: English
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Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together
$18.99 Add to cart‘An urgent manifesto for collective healing.’ David Lammy MP
This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more
- Author: Yates, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0008463999
- Language: English
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Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.
‘This book is a gift for an
- Author: Adegoke, Yomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 000837399X
- Language: English
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Good Economics for Hard Times
$22.99 Read moreThe winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.
Figuring out how to deal with today’s critical economic pr- Author: Banerjee, Abhijit V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 154178894X
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$14.95 Add to cartIn his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552584
- Language: English
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Ti
- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230256
- Language: English
