Category - Social Science
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The Force of Witness: Contra Feminicide
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violenc...
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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews "A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."--Publishers Weekly A powerful account of...
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Black Disability Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to...
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Casa Pueblo: A Puerto Rican Model of Self-Governance
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that ...
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough's Whatever It Takes is "one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, an...
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Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called soc...
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Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as As...
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Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Received a 2016 Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book from the American Library Association Selected as one of “The ...
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Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /Received a 2016 Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book from the American Library Association Selected as one of “The ...
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Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making...
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Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their ...
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Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled actors involved in the obje...
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare...
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition...
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The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /How small-town America's surprising success reshapes our understanding of the nation's urban-rural divide, offering "the most balanced and broadest...
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Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta...
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Robots Won't Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, ri...
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Making the Public Service Millennial: Generational Diversity in Public Service
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics....
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Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people arou...
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Queer Victimology: Understanding the Victim Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This book provides a much-needed focus on the victimization experiences of those within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Queer, intersex, o...
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Working with High-Risk Youth: A Relationship-Based Practice Framework
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This fully revised and expanded second edition focusses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, the...
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Across the Generations: Old People and Young Volunteers
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Voluntary work is sometimes praised, sometimes criticised, but was seldom the subject of objective evaluation. Given the importance of the volunt...
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Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I'll ever read."--Mary Roach FROM AN AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST comes an urgent investigation of environme...
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Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /The third edition of the manual for community organizers tells readers how to most effectively implement community action for social change, clearl...
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