Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy
$56.99 Add to cartThere 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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Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind
$30.00 Add to cartFor fans of Educated and Invisible Child, David Sussillo combines memoir and cutting-edge neuroscience to tell the story of his unlikely journey from group homes and drug-addicted parents to the scien… [more below]
- Author: Sussillo, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1538768577
- Language: English
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Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him
$19.99 Add to cartAN IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD HONORARY TITLE
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA’S 2025 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARR MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538740338
- Language: English
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Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
$32.00 Add to cartThe story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.
In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployme- Author: Scheiber, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0374610819
- Language: English
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The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It
$30.00 Add to cart“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times–income inequality–from a new vantage point… [more below]
- Author: Dube, Arindrajit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0593471415
- Language: English
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Understanding Marxism
$18.95 Add to cartRichard D. Wolff masterfully explains why Karl Marx’s analysis of class struggle is fundamental to a proper understanding of capitalism and explores how to build a more sustainable democratic society.
- Series: Democracy at Work #2
- Author: Wolff, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904589
- Language: English
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Understanding Socialism
$18.95 Add to cartSocialism is a yearning for justice, community, and the greater realization of human potential. Cornel West calls it “the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and
- Series: Democracy at Work #3
- Author: Wolff, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904596
- 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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Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
$29.95 Add to cartA 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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Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
$22.00 Read moreTwo sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource–young people–and share what can be done to save these dwindling communities
In 2001, with fundin- Author: Carr, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0807006149
- Language: English
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Understanding Capitalism
$18.95 Add to cart“Why does capitalism fail us?” Richard D. Wolff walks readers through this pressing question in a brilliant takedown of an economic system that benefits the few at the great expense of the many.
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- Series: Democracy at Work #1
- Author: Wolff, Richard D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904602
- Language: English
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Alabama Village: Faith, Hope, and Survival in a Southern Town
$22.95 Add to cartFrom the celebrated writer J. Malcolm Garcia, a narrative nonfiction account of a forgotten Alabama neighborhood through intimate, tender, and gritty profiles of its people as they navigate immense lo… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, J. Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214970
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A New History
$39.95 Read moreA 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 Add to cartHow 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 Add to cart- Author: Depalma, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006346439X
- Language: English
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We Were Promised: How an Appalachian Grandmother Fought a Corporate Giant
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Flint, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1985903067
- Language: English
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Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
$29.99 Add to cartA riveting investigation into a school, a scam, and a notorious college admissions scandal that exposes the inequalities and racial segregation of American education, from two award-winning New York T
- Author: Benner, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1250759102
- Language: English
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Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past
$30.00 Add to cartA bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery, offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal–from the accl… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Dorothy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0593593618
- 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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Power Lines: The Human Costs of American Energy in Transition
$30.00 Add to cartOn American energy and its persisting power to destroy.
In the United States, the promise of a green-energy future is complicated by its realities. The country’s legacy energy systems are decrepit; th
- Author: Carley, Sanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226825620
- Language: English
