Category - Social Science
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and...
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Sweat
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in DramaWinner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize "From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed ...
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The Detroit Project: Three Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining...
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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important tech...
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically and today.Product DetailsI...
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of e...
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China's Long and Winding Road to Modernization: Uncertainty, Learning, and Policy Change
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /China's Long and Winding Road to Modernization: Uncertainty, Learning, and Policy Change interprets contemporary China's economic transformation fr...
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Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam's Highlands
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the margins. Devel...
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Imperialism and the Development Myth: How Rich Countries Dominate in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /China and Third World societies cannot 'catch up'. Much of the world's work has moved to the poor countries, yet - through dominating critical aspe...
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The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...
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The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...
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The Economic Statecraft of the Gulf Arab States: Deploying Aid, Investment and Development Across the MENAP
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /This book is a study of a shift in the politics and finance of development from one centered in the institutions and ideas of the post-World War II...
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Development in Africa's Informal Settlements: Below the Proletariat
HardcoverOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /This book discusses the effectiveness of international development programs in African informal settlements (slums). It also represents the voices ...
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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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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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Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, al...
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Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America) / Edition 26
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Eduardo Galeano political critism of exploitation of Latin America. Refered as required reading in many universities. 26th edition Product Det...
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Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /"Rare Earth Frontiers is a timely text. As Klinger notes, rare earths are neither rare nor technically earths, but they are still widely believed...
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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ...
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that...
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study ...
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Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages Is Destroying America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From one of America's leading thinkers, a provocative diagnosis of the cause of America's decline--and a searing indictment of those who caused it ...
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Marable offers profound insight into the deeply intertwined problems of race and class in the United States historically and today.Product DetailsI...
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