Sociology
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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$32.00 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- Language: English
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I Do (I Think): Conversations about Modern Marriage
$28.99 Read more“Allison Raskin’s book unpacks the questions and uncertainties around marriage that so many of us have… a must-read for anyone and everyone that may be curious about the intricacies of modern marria… [more below]
- Author: Raskin, Allison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1335012516
- Language: English
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
$29.99 Add to cartNow collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconom… [more below]
- Author: Smarsh, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668055600
- Language: English
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Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis
$24.95 Read moreIn this incisive work, Bill Donohue pulls no punches as he contends that our moral crisis is a reflection of two competing visions of morality — one religious and the other secular. The former is gro
- Author: Donohue, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889112464
- Language: English
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
$18.00 Add to cartA 1902 collection of essays by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Originally published in “The Nineteenth Century” from 1890 to 1896, the essays examine mutually-beneficial … [more below]
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0241355338
- Language: English
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On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy
$12.95 Add to cartA rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contempo
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Demsas, Jerusalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1638931968
- Language: English
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Direct Action Handbook: A Guide to Organizing & Protesting Safely
$4.95 Add to cartHave you ever wondered how to protest safely and effectively? It’s not just about showing up, chanting, and holding signs. You need to know what your rights are, how to handle the police, how to dress… [more below]
- Author: NULL
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1648413048
- Language: English
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
$19.00 Read moreShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011
“A masterpiece.” –Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book R- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120549
- Language: English
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The Italians
$19.00 Read moreWashington Post bestseller
A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also p
Los Angeles Times bestseller- Author: Hooper, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 19 2016
- ISBN10: 014312840X
- Language: English
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The Werewolf in Lore and Legend
$19.95 Read moreWritten by a venerable author of occult studies, The Werewolf in Lore and Legend is the first definitive book on werewolfery and the remarkable successor to Montague Summers’s popular work, The Vampir… [more below]
- Series: Dover Occult
- Author: Summers, Montague
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0486430901
- Language: English
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships
Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a- Author: Moore, Barrington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807050733
- Language: English
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Do I Have To?: Kids Talk about Responsibility
$9.99 Read moreUses an advice-column format to define responsibility as a character value and demonstrate how it can be used in daily situations.
- Series: Kids Talk
- Author: Loewen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1404803637
- Language: English
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The Power Book: What Is It, Who Has It, and Why?
$21.99 Read moreWith this inspiring and brightly illustrated guide to power, learn about the different types of power, what it means to have power, and what you can do with your own power to create positive change in
- Author: Gay, Roxane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1782409270
- Language: English
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The Way Things Never Were: The Truth about the Good Old Days
$11.95 Add to cartIt seems like kids are always hearing stories about America in the “good old days.” But, in fact, the 1950s and 1960s were not as carefree as they sometimes seem. Through fascinating stories, advertis… [more below]
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0595348084
- Language: English
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The Salem Witch Trials
$5.99 Read moreGet ready to blast back to the past and learn all about the Salem Witch Trials!
When people think about the Salem Witch Trials, things like witchcraft and the Puritans may come to mind. But what were- Series: Blast Back!
- Author: Ohlin, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1499804504
- Language: English
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An Island Grows
$19.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the birth of an island, from the first red-hot glow of magma at the bottom of the ocean, to the flowing lava that hardens and builds up higher and higher until, finally, it breaks
- Author: Schaefer, Lola M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0066239303
- Language: English
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This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias
$18.99 Add to cartAn essential overview of the science behind stereotypes: from why our brains form them to how recognizing them can help us be less biased.
From the time we’re babies, our brains constantly sort and
- Author: Lloyd Kyi, Tanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1525300164
- Language: English
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Fourth of July
$9.99 Read moreOn the Fourth of July, Americans remember the founding of the United States. On this day, people gather for picnics and watch parades and fireworks. Sing along as you explore Holidays in Rhythm and Rh… [more below]
- Series: Holidays in Rhythm and Rhyme
- Author: Bernay, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1684101921
- Language: English
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African Tales: A Barefoot Collection
$16.99 Read moreThis anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales of bravery, wisdom, wit and hero… [more below]
- Author: Mhlophe, Gcina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1782853596
- Language: English
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When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS
$9.99 Add to cartCompassionate and arresting, this exploration of three major diseases that have changed the course of history–the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS–chronicles their fearsome death toll, their lasti… [more below]
- Author: Giblin, James Cross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 11 1997
- ISBN10: 0064461955
- Language: English
