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  • Social Problems and Inequality

    Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology

    de John Alessio ...
    Series series Solving Social Problems
    Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social problems. Written in clear and understandable language, allowing it to be used for classroom purposes, it addresses the most fundamental principles of how humans, acting through social units, create, and eventually can remedy, social problems. With a central focus on the problem of inequality and ... Leer más

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    A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

    de Jeff Hobbs ...
    *Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) ... Leer más

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  • Don Juan

    de Lord Byron ...
    Lord Byron's satirical poem 'Don Juan' is based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an Epic Satire. Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed he had no ideas in his mind as to what would happen ... Leer más

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  • Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir

    de Joe Bageant ...
    Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of Americas most taboo subject social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe Bageant uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae, and other members of his rambunctious ScotsIrish family to chronicle the often-heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white underclass. ... Leer más

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  • Dream Hoarders

    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the ... Leer más

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  • Glass House

    The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

    A field study of corporate greed and a private equity firm's disastrous effect on a once thriving industrial American town—"Does a remarkable job" ( The New Yorker ).Named a Best/Most Anticipated Book of the Year by New York Post • Newsweek • The Week • Bustle"Should be required reading for people trying to understand Trumpism, inequality, and the sad state of a n... ... Leer más

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  • Crabgrass Frontier

    The Suburbanization of the United States

    This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, ... Leer más

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  • Under the Affluence

    Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

    de Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that exposes the moral sickness at the heart of our culture. Wise's stirring analysis of our predicament is ... Leer más

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  • Homeless Hero

    Understanding the Soul of Home

    de Mike Tapscott ...
    Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 Great Southwest Book Festival and Silver Medal Winner of the 2014 Global Ebook Awards - Homeless Hero: Understanding the Soul of Home considers the human mission to know the soul and navigate life experiences. Tapscott's book explores humanity in a way that is vibrantly vivid and personally accessible to the reader. Many questions that we have probably asked ... Leer más

    1,03 €

  • Dreaming in Public

    Building the Occupy Movement

    Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say?Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the ... Leer más

    15,80 €

  • History of the Future

    The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today

    de Max Singer ...
    History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of transition during which one country after another is following along parallel paths from traditional ... Leer más

    27,45 €

  • Seeing Through the System

    The Invisible Class Struggle in America

    de Gus Bagakis ...
    Most people think of class as a ranking systemthe more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible.Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power ... Leer más

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