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  • Inequality by Design

    Cracking the Bell Curve Myth

    As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a ... Leer más

    $822 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    Eine kurze Geschichte der Golden Gate Bridge: Die Brücke, deren Bau als unmöglich galt

    de Samuel Voss ...
    Narrado por Samuel Voss ...

    Completo

    2 hora 19 minutos

    Erlebe in dieser historischen Erzählung den riskanten Triumph der Ingenieurskunst über tödliche Naturgewalten. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln, tauchst du tief in die stürmischen Strömungen und dichten Nebelbänke der Bucht von San Francisco ein. Spüre die raue Atmosphäre einer Ära, in der eiserner Wille auf unerbittliche bürokratische und finanzielle Hürden prallte.Lass dich von der ... Leer más

    $173 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Made in America

    A Social History of American Culture and Character

    Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today?With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

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    Lurching Towards Happiness in America

    Narrado por Sean Pratt ...

    Completo

    2 hora 24 minutos

    The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one's own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it, and rancorous debate over government's role in securing it for ... Leer más

    Antes $346 MXN Ahora $242 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    de Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Leer más

    $273 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Affluence and Influence

    Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

    de Martin Gilens ...
    Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and ... Leer más

    $411 MXN

  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Leer más

    $235 MXN

  • Happiness

    A Revolution in Economics

    de Bruno S. Frey ...
    Series series Munich Lectures in Economics
    A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge make it difficult to introduce new ideas not in line with received theory. Happiness research, however ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

  • Losing Ground (10th Anniversary Edition)

    American Social Policy, 1950-1980

    This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by recommending that we abolish welfare reform, but his position launched a debate culminating in President ... Leer más

    $220 MXN

  • The Public School Advantage

    Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools

    Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help ... Leer más

    $274 MXN

  • Stuck in Place

    Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

    In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened to African American communities over the last several decades. In Stuck in Place, Sharkey describes how ... Leer más

    $226 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Marriage-Go-Round

    The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

    In a landmark book that's "intriguing [and] provocative" and presents "an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox—we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times).Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce ... Leer más

    $132 MXN