Sociology
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Disability Praxis: The Body as a Site of Struggle
$50.58 Add to cart‘A masterful intervention that is particularly pertinent for an age of austerity, pandemic, and rising living costs’ Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality
‘A brilliant and much-needed contribut
- Author: Williams-Findlay, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745340989
- Language: English
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
$8.00 Read more“The most impressive satirist of his day.” — Time Magazine
With devastating satiric wit, this book examines the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term “conspicuous consumption” (coined by Veblen
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Veblen, Thorstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280624
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
$42.99 Add to cartWe all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and c… [more below]
- Author: Brunvand, Jan Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323587
- Language: English
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
$28.99 Add to cartFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life–how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dresse… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313913
- Language: English
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis #0
- Author: Nelson, Richard R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0393091732
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00 Add to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
$33.99 Add to cartHailed as “a feast” (Washington Post) and “a modern-day bestiary” (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma’s On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters–how they have evolved over… [more below]
- Author: Asma, Stephen T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 019533616X
- Language: English
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The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
$17.00 Add to cartNow made public for the first time–an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium
For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla–a tiny village on a remo- Series: Compass
- Author: Mails, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140195459
- Language: English
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: How the Working Poor Became Big Business
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries–the business of poverty. Bro… [more below]
- Author: Rivlin, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061733202
- Language: English
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The Everyday Life of Memorials
$38.00 Read moreA timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary–and oftentimes unseen–lives of memorials
Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just a- Author: Shanken, Andrew M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942130724
- Language: English
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We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
$16.95 Read moreA graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting–and beating–calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their comm… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1644212420
- Language: English
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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
$29.95 Add to cartThis updated reissue of Mark LeVine’s acclaimed, revolutionary book on sub- and countercultural music in the Middle East brings this groundbreaking portrait of the region’s youth cultures to a new gen… [more below]
- Author: Levine, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0520389387
- Language: English
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The Papyrus Ebers: Ancient Egyptian Medicine by Cyril P Bryan and G Elliot Smith
$17.00 Add to cartThe Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to circa 1550 BC. Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, it was
- Author: Bryan, Cyril P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1639230963
- Language: English
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Generation We: The Power and Promise of Gen Z
$18.99 Add to cartThere are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.
2020 was one of these moments.
Now, at this critical juncture, a new generation is coming of age and demanding a
- Author: Hayek, Annemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1544523130
- Language: English
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Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games
$18.99 Add to cartFor fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls–and anyone wanting to know more about them–Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games to those played
- Author: Sattin, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0358616379
- Language: English
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Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
$29.95 Add to cartA uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpe
- Author: Reeves, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674257715
- Language: English
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Relationship Anarchy: Occupy Intimacy!
$21.90 Add to cartA revolution from intimacy is the main proposal of this book, which interweaves the principles of social anarchism with the desire to extend the realm of the political to the forms we give to our rela… [more below]
- Author: P?rez-Cort?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 8409627477
- Language: English
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Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History
$22.95 Add to cartThe impact of Indian boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks continue to affect their descendants today. Michigan was home to three: in Baraga, H
- Author: Brunner, Sharon Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: April 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1615998020
- Language: English
