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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class
    Thorstein Veblen
    First published in 1899 by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, “The Theory of the Leisure Class” is a classic and important examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society at the end of the 19th century. In this work, Veblen, influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Adam Smith, contends that t...
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    12,22 €

  • The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation
    Federico M. Rossi / Federico MRossi
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    40,44 €

  • Solidarity Forever?
    Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) remains one of the best examples of a labor union that traces its origins to radical anti-racist principles. Today, very few mainstream unions remain that were founded on militant, radical, and 'anti-racist' principles. The ILWU remains the strongest port union in the United States, and its members are among the highest pai...
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    54,49 €

  • Emerson on Sound Money
    Willis George Emerson
    First published in 1896, 'Emerson on Sound Money' is the transcript of a speech delivered by Willis G. Emerson to the Young Men’s Republican Club at Lockerby Hall Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1896. The speech primarily concerns money and finances, referring to the contemporary political situation and providing suggestions as to how it can be improved. Willis George Emerson (1856 -...
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    14,78 €

  • The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality
    Melvin L Kohn / Melvin L. Kohn
    Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality. ...
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    114,89 €

  • The Key to (Almost) Everything
    James Wright
    The Key to (Almost) Everything is an engaging, contemporary and concise approach to sociology written for adults, students and just about anybody who could profit from knowing about the discipline of sociology. It is expertly written by an author drawing on 40 years of teaching on the fundamental social structures and processes characteristic of human societies. Each of the boo...
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    56,70 €

  • The Key to (Almost) Everything
    James Wright
    The Key to (Almost) Everything is an engaging, contemporary and concise approach to sociology written for adults, students and just about anybody who could profit from knowing about the discipline of sociology. It is expertly written by an author drawing on 40 years of teaching on the fundamental social structures and processes characteristic of human societies. Each of the boo...
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    114,84 €

  • The Educated Underclass
    Gary Roth
    Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.’ - Steve Fraser, author of ’Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion’ ’A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and ...
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    25,33 €

  • The Educated Underclass
    Gary Roth
    Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.’ - Steve Fraser, author of ’Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion’ ’A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and ...
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    127,25 €

  • Intimations of Modernity
    Louis A. Pérez Jr.
    Louis A. Perez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to ...
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    38,06 €

  • Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État?
    Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sièyes
    «... Qui donc oserait dire que le Tiers-État n’a pas en lui tout ce qu’il faut pour former une Nation complète ? Il est l’homme fort et robuste dont un bras est encore enchaîné. Si l’on ôtait l’Ordre privilégié, la Nation ne serait pas quelque chose de moins, mais quelque chose de plus. Ainsi, qu’est-ce que le Tiers ? tout, mais un tout entravé et opprimé. Que serait-il sans l’...
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    9,76 €

  • Poverty and Place
    Anjanette Wells / Vetta L Thompson / Vetta L. Sanders Thompson / Vetta LSanders Thompson / Will Ross
    This book examines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequities even in the most advanced society of the world. This volume, while articulating health disparities in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, including East St. Louis, Illinois, seeks to move beyond deficit models to focus on health equity. As cancer disparities continue to p...
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    122,41 €

  • Social Rule - A Study of the Will to Power
    Elsie Clews Parsons
    'Social Rule - A Study of the Will to Power' is a fascinating treatise on society by Elsie C. Parsons, exploring in particular how power structures are created and operate within various different cultures around the world and in history. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in anthropology or sociology, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors ...
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    23,47 €

  • My Country, My People
    Chen Wu Chu
    My Country, My People: Reflections on the Implementation of the “One China” Principle is a collection of 32 essays. The author, Chen Wu Chu, was a public servant doing secretarial work for the President of the Executive Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China. Chu frequently composed investigative reports and analytical essays on economic, financial and social affairs for Cabinet membe...
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    24,96 €

  • Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi
    Derese G. Kassa / Derese GKassa
    Kenya has been the third major outlet through which hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan flee from political persecution and for better livelihoods. This book is a commentary of Nairobi as an urban refugee space. It provides an in-depth ethnographic account and analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi focusing mainly on the li...
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    122,77 €

  • Appalachian Reckoning
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    24,74 €

  • SDG1 - No Poverty
    Amanda Lange Salvia / Katarzyna Cichos
    This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1). ...
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    104,48 €

  • Democratizing Finance
    Clifford N. Rosenthal / Clifford NRosenthal
    Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to 'unbankable' communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, and even a new bank-organizations ...
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    61,07 €

  • Democratizing Finance
    Clifford N. Rosenthal / Clifford NRosenthal
    Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to 'unbankable' communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, and even a new bank-organizations ...
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    48,42 €

  • The Tiny House Movement
    Tracey Harris
    The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Consumer Culture features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, as well as the author’s insights from her fieldwork of living tiny. In it, we learn how the movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home. This book highlights...
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    115,72 €

  • Identity, Rights, and Awareness
    Jeremy A. Rinker / Jeremy ARinker / Jeremy Rinker
    For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparative approach to India’s modern anti-caste resistance, Dr. Rinker emphasizes the complex interdependence between narrative practices and social transformation in understanding the centuries old caste basis of India’s most fundamental ...
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    129,14 €

  • Strategic Leadership
    Hairuddin Mohd Ali Ph.D. / Inas Zulkipli Ph.D.
    Strategic leadership is considered alienated to the education administrators’ fraternity. The scholars of education were unaware of this knowledge because education stood by itself. The dynamic globalization changed the world in almost everything, including education. This dynamic and fast-changing environment almost shocked the education fraternity. Instantaneously, they felt ...
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    18,72 €

  • After Coal
    Tom Hansell
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    27,76 €

  • A Radical History of the World
    Neil Faulkner
    History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future.This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominins, hunters and herders; of emperors and slaves; of patriarchs and women; of rich and poor; of dictators and revolutionaries. From the an...
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    32,84 €

  • A Radical History of the World
    Neil Faulkner
    History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future.This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominins, hunters and herders; of emperors and slaves; of patriarchs and women; of rich and poor; of dictators and revolutionaries. From the an...
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    124,89 €

  • Buying God
    Eve Poole
    Christians are deeply concerned about consumerism, but lack the tools to be able to engage robustly in the debate about its future. Economists obfuscate, politicians polarise, and church leaders bluff. While desire to consume is a fundamentally human trait, consumerism offers only illusory satisfaction. Yet Christianity happens to be unusually well-equipped to lead the fight ag...
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    33,85 €

  • Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
    Barry Eidlin
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    37,39 €

  • Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education
    Stuart Billingham
    This collection of essays illuminates the benefits, drawbacks, challenges and opportunities of the push to widen access to success and social mobility through university and other post-secondary education experiences in the UK and internationally. ...
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    103,89 €

  • Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
    Tom Woodin
    From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. ...
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    157,22 €

  • The Sons of Belial
    David Walsh
    It has been generally accepted that the eighteenth century witnessed a series of transformative processes that dramatically changed the social, political and economic fabric of Britain, yet few have determined just when and where the transformation began to have meaningful effects. The process of industrialisation had undoubted revolutionary significance, not only in the manner...
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    23,75 €


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