Social History & Conditions, Social Problems
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A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World CrisesPractitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the two theories in tandem rather than attempting to hierarchize or synthesize them. Doing so...
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HarborsLiterary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Suspended between continents and cultures, Donald Quist charts the forceful undercurrents of an American identity. Through these essays Quist explores feelings of oppression and alienation as he wrestles with a single act of violence in a Washington, DC suburb,...
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Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and DurkheimAuthor: Frederick NeuhouserPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/27/2022Pages: 386Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.18dISBN: 9781009235037
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Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences: An Anthology of Adaptations and InterviewsReclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven adaptations of Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Trojan Women, Hippolytus, Bacchae, Alcestis, and Aristophanes' Frogs, as well as a work...
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Ivan Illich in ConversationFor more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to additional sessoins that continued until 1992 and are now gathered in Ivan Illich in...
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Decoding the Social World: Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of CommunicationHow data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what...
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Handbook of Wise Interventions: How Social Psychology Can Help People ChangePrecise shifts in the ways people make sense of themselves, others, and social situations can help people flourish. This compelling handbook synthesizes the growing body of research on wise interventions--brief, nonclinical strategies that are "wise" to the impact of social-psychological processes on behavior. Leading...
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Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social ActionEmpower your students to become part of the solution. The new Seventh Edition of Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action by Anna Leon-Guerrero goes beyond the typical presentation of contemporary social problems and their consequences by emphasizing the importance and effectiveness of community...
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Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of IdealsContemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while others will find the book only a...
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Need, Speed, and Greed: How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most WickeWorld-renowned economist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran provides a deeply insightful, brilliantly informed guide to the innovation revolution now transforming the world. With echoes of Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma, Tim Brown's Change by Design, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Vaitheeswaran's Need, Speed, and...
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That Was Then, This Is NowAnother classic from the author of the internationally bestselling The OutsidersContinue celebrating 50 years of The Outsiders by reading this companion novel. That Was Then, This is Now is S. E. Hinton's moving portrait of the bond between best friends Bryon and Mark and...
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Another America/Otra AmericaFrom a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry "rich with political and human resonance" (Ursula K. LeGuin)Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver, as a new college graduate in search of adventure, moved to the borderlands of...
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Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable PostersPosters for Change is the kind of project that the world needs right now. - Shepard Fairey Make your voice heard with this collection of 50 tear-out posters created by designers from around the globe This collection of posters is made for--and by--people who...
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight EssaysRead [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here. --The New York Times Book Review In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell...
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Is Reality Optional?: And Other EssaysSowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.Author: Thomas...
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That Was Then, This Is NowAnother classic from the author of the internationally bestselling The OutsidersContinue celebrating 50 years of The Outsiders by reading this companion novel. That Was Then, This is Now is S. E. Hinton's moving portrait of the bond between best friends Bryon and Mark and...
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Dirty TruthsEssays 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 superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the liberal media, terrorist hype, John F....
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Fatal Strategies, New EditionAn 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 many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory...
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy AnalysisAuthor: 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 professor of economics and leading figure in the field of evolutionary economics.
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Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and RevolutionA 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 thousand years of history--from the ancient Secession of the Plebs to the 2017 protests...
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