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  • Hidden Truth

    Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison

    by Adam Reich ...
    Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. Adam D. Reich, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes vividly and memorably about the young men he came to know, and in the process extends theories of masculinity, crime, and social reproduction into a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Inside Jobs

    Prison Work in the Making of the American Labor Market

    by Adam Reich ...
    From the stone quarries of Sing Sing that supplied marble for early New York City landmarks, to twenty-first-century construction projects staffed by formerly incarcerated workers, Inside Jobs traces the relationship between prison work and the labor market over the past two hundred years. Sociologist Adam Reich demonstrates how prison labor has repeatedly been used to solve economic problems ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Working for Respect

    Community and Conflict at Walmart

    by Adam Reich, Peter Bearman ...
    Series series The Middle Range Series
    Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Working for Respect

    Community and Conflict at Walmart

    by Adam Reich, Peter Bearman ...
    Series series The Middle Range Series
    Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich’s Introduction both clarifies Smith ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    by Adam Dalton Reich ...
    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Fab Four Friends

    The Boys Who Became the Beatles

    by Susanna Reich ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    In 1957 in Liverpool, England, a young lad named John Lennon and his band played music at a local church fair. In the audience was Paul McCartney, who liked what he heard and soon joined the group. Paul's friend George Harrison kept showing up at rehearsals until the older boys finally let him in. Eventually they found the perfect drummer, Ringo Starr, and the perfect name: The Beatles.Told ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • With God on Our Side

    The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital

    by Adam D. Reich ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers' rights to decent pay or better working conditions with the more venal financial motives of management. But how does labor confront management when management itself has moral legitimacy? In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa ... Read more

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  • The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Translated by David Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his major work The World as Will and Representation, are presented here in more accessible, self ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Wealth of Nations (Active TOC) (A to Z Classics)

    by Adam Smith, AtoZ Classics ...
    **With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)** and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook.Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dance with Dragons

    A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five

    by George R. R. Martin ...
    Series Book 5 - A Song of Ice and Fire
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONESNAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADEHere is the fifth book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece in the making.A DANCE WITH DRAGONSIn the aftermath of a colossal battle, Daenerys Targaryen rules with her ... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)

    by Suzanne Collins ...
    Series Book 1 - The Hunger Games
    This Special Edition of The Hunger Games includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of The Hunger Games; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special Edition answers many questions fans have had over the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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