Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this...
An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for...
Author: Richard R. NelsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1977Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9780393091731About the AuthorNelson, Richard R.: - Richard R. Nelson is a...
A full-color graphic history of global dissent and historical activism, celebrating the possibilities of collective resistance--with an introduction by Charlene Carruthers and a foreword by Rebecca Solnit. Spanning nearly three...
Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he...
Think of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors...
Bertrand Russell is considered "the Voltaire of his time," and Bradley Trevor Greive is considered one of the funniest people of his. Russell was a Nobel Laureate, and Greive is...
Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a...
Presented in collaboration with Amnesty International, this stunning collection of more than a hundred posters charts a visual journey across more than a century of political and social activism. From...
Chesterton gives his remarkably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues more relevant today than even in his own time. In his light and humorous style, yet deadly serious and...
ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist...
Anthology including over 50 works of poetry by 20th century writers on issues related to social justice. Foreword by COMMON.Author: Gail BushPublisher: Norwood House PressPublished: 01/15/2013Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize:...
Poetries - Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning celebrates the best of innovative humanities pedagogy and creative graphic design. Designed and implemented during a time of political divisiveness,...
Get Informed Get Inspired Get Going The New York Times bestselling book of empowerment for kids. Make a difference in your world In a book that tackles the biggest challenges...
First published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the...
Isola; or, The disinherited: A revolt for woman and all the disinherited Isola first appeared in Young Oxford in September, 1902, and ran in serial form for six months through...
Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainI wonder if Fors will let me say any small proportion, this year, of what...
Forty Years of ItThe history of democracys progress in a mid-Western cityso, to introduce this book in specific terms, one perhaps inevitably must call it. Yet in using the word...
Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainOne day last November, at Oxford, as I was going in at the private door...
A Letter to the Parishioners of FulhamThe Cholera has visited Fulham the second time. When it prevailed in 1832, it was always understood that two deaths only in this parish...
The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery - How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go outThis little Work, by an eloquent denunciator...
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest - The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social...
The Crime of Caste in Our CountryHad a Johnstown flood, a Charleston earthquake, a war with Chili, or a Homestead strike occurred on November 8, 1892, instead of an election,...
Causes and ConsequencesAs we unravel political knots, they resolve themselves into proverbs and familiar truth, and thus our explanation becomes a treatise upon human nature,a profession of faith. The idea...