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  • Bernie Madoff and the Crisis

    The Public Trial of Capitalism

    by Colleen P Eren ...
    A sociological deconstruction of the public response to Bernie Madoff and his crimes.Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bernie Madoff and the Crisis

    The Public Trial of Capitalism

    by Colleen P. Eren ...
    Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm—Madoff's story was a media magnet, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Reform Nation

    The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration

    by Colleen P. Eren ...
    How one law tells the story of America's modern criminal justice movementIn late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump just hours before a government shutdown. It was one of few major pieces of federal criminal justice reform since the 1970s to move toward reversing the incarceration frenzy that had characterized United States policy. While it did not amount to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on US Institutions

    A Sociology of Law Primer

    by Robert Costello, Colleen Eren ...
    This book bridges the disciplines of legal studies and sociology in its engaging introduction to the history, purpose, function, and influence of the Supreme Court, demonstrating through ten landmark decisions the Court’s impact on the five key sociological institutions in the United States: family, education, religion, government, and economy. It gives an insightful picture of how these major ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens

    Counterstories and Counterspaces

    by John R. Chaney, Joni Schwartz, Tiheba Bain, Michael Baston, Michael Carey, Terrance Coffie, Norman Conti, Cory Feldman0, Elaine Frantz1, Tony Gaskew2, Joshua Halberstam3, Davon T. Harris4, Jane MacKillop5, Brian Miller6, Paul J. Schwartz7, Dwayne Simpson8, Timothy Stater9, Carlyle Van Thompson0, Colleen P. Eren1, Joserichsen Mondesir2, Michael Holzman3 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice
    This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal justice professionals are interwoven with first-person narratives from formerly incarcerated ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • The Sum of Us

    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    by Heather McGhee ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • White Working Class

    Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

    by Joan C. Williams ...
    "I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save AmericaAn Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dear White America

    Letter to a New Minority

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation's diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    by Craig Aaron, Eric Alterman, C. Edwin Baker, Yochai Benkler, Michael J. Copps, Michael Schudson, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, Chris Hedges, Janine Jackson, Pamela Newkirk, John Nichols, Clay Shirkey, David Simon, Paul Starr, Leonard Downie ...
    Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." — Library JournalThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Gon' Be Alright

    Notes on Race and Resegregation

    by Jeff Chang ...
    A provocative and timely collection of essays from a celebrated cultural critic on race, diversity, and resegregation."The Smartest Book of the Year" ( The Washington Post)In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang ( Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    by Robert W. McChesney ...
    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus