Social Theory
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
$14.00 Add to cartIn Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there’s no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0609805363
- Language: English
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Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing
$19.95 Add to cartWhy should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
In Permanent Red, John Berg- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298476
- Language: English
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More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn’t Working
$27.50 Add to cartThis study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand–and perhaps alleviate–the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy.
For a widely dreaded, often mundane- Author: Lane, Carrie M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832775
- Language: English
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Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge
$24.95 Read moreDrugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy?
Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamine- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Y. Fong, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290173
- Language: English
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Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
$19.00 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Most Ancitipated Book of Spring 2025
A bold call to abandon the myth of endless economic growth and embrace a sustainable, just, and thriving future.
One of the most deeply ingraine
- Author: Parrique, Timothée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661016
- Language: English
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Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange
$24.95 Add to cart“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philoso… [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1859844928
- Language: English
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The Age of Grievance
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Brilliant…Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision.” —Wall Street Journal – “The best prescription for our redemption.” —The New York Times – “A wise and humane… [more below]
- Author: Bruni, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1668016443
- 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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When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “urgent and necessary book” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal l… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Elissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1982169281
- Language: English
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Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
$24.95 Read more“Comes at a perfect time for our collective rethinking of how society can, and must, be reorganized so that all life can flourish” Marina Sitrin, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University
“T
- Series: The Fireworks
- Author: Finley, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745346901
- Language: English
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
$19.99 Add to cartA celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countries, cultures, and individuals take rules more seriously and how following the rul… [more below]
- Author: Gelfand, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1501152947
- Language: English
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Readings for Sociology
$52.50 Add to cartThe perfect mix of classic and contemporary readings
- Author: O’Brien, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132404408X
- Language: English
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Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing
$24.95 Add to cartOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of They Call It Love
Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is wher- Author: Gotby, Alva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 180429621X
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution
$30.00 Add to cartOne hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer w
- Series: Kairos
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1629638749
- Language: English
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Soccer in Sun and Shadow
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game
In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1645030377
- Language: English
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Selfless: The Social Creation of “You”
$29.99 Read moreA Best Book of 2023 by Inc.
Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing that there is no essential “self”–our selves are social
- Author: Lowery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 006291300X
- Language: English
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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningf… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0812993268
- Language: English
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The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life
$19.95 Add to cartA leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation
When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Pari- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804295310
- Language: English
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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time
$19.99 Read moreEnough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?
In contemporary society, much of o
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Williams, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1487013426
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$32.00 Add to cart“[David Graeber’s work] undercuts a lot of conventional thinking… Pointing out the many options that there are for developing more enlightened, more free societies, not just the ones encoded in our
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610223
- Language: English
