Category - Social Science
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Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly...
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory ...
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The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles o...
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The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation-...
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The Power of Perceptions in the Middle East: A Study of Contradictory Political and Economic Interests
PaperbackOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book analyzes conflicting political views and narratives held by different forces, both at the local and regional levels in the Middle East. B...
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The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is tak...
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Good Economics for Hard Times
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figu...
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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in t...
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return ...
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The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Philip Bump helps us understand that no matter the troubles of our days, the future of this nation rests with what we do now. And that means all o...
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The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A leading economist answers one of today’s trickiest questions: Why do some great ideas make it big while others fail to ta...
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Trade and Investment in East Africa: Prospects, Challenges and Pathways to Sustainability
PaperbackOriginal price $169.99 - Original price $169.99Original price $169.99$185.99$185.99 - $185.99Current price $185.99| /This book provides a thorough understanding of the key policy debates on international trade and investment for development with a focus on the Eas...
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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and ne...
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Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World: Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives
HardcoverOriginal price $98.99 - Original price $98.99Original price $98.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /This book provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and ne...
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Demographic Deception: Exposing the Overpopulation Myth and Building a Resilient Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When global headlines declared that the world had surpassed 8 billion people, concerns around overpopulation and its impact on our planet escalated...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive dis...
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A Brief History of Equality
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argume...
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The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /How our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes--and what we can do to fix the sys...
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Freakonomics REV Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive dis...
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A Brief History of Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThis is Piketty at his most optimistic and succinct, in what could be considered a conclusion to his magisterial trilog...
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Good Economics for Hard Times
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figur...
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What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neolib...
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Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, ...
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Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality. From San Francisco to Shanghai, many ...
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