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  • Freedom from Work

    Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina

    by Daniel Fridman ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal emphasis on responsibility, individualism, and entrepreneurship binds people together with the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • No Shame in My Game

    The Working Poor in the Inner City

    by Katherine S. Newman ...
    "Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia InquirerIn No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Social and Economic Networks

    by Matthew O. Jackson ...
    Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Broken Ladder

    How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

    by Keith Payne ...
    A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality.Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Elegance of the Hedgehog with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, a thoughtful, witty look at the absurdity of human life. Through the unlikely friendship between a suicidal 12-year-old schoolgirl, an incredibly cultured 54-year-old concierge and a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Be Realistic

    Demand the Impossible

    by Mike Davis ...
    With wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle– what is to be done next?Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Stately Passions

    The Scandals of Britain's Great Houses

    by Jamie Douglas-Home ...
    The story of Britain's great stately homes and the scandals, predominately sexual, which the owners and their families have been involved in from the sixteenth century to the present day. It details some of the most notorious scandals to have engulfed the British royal family and aristocracy and captures not only the events and their era, but also the essence of some of the world's greatest and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    by Stuart Easterling ...
    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • $pread

    The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution

    Edited by Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, Audacia Ray ...
    "A fascinating collection from a group of courageous women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a compelling and intelligent way." —Candida Royalle$pread, an Utne Award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bourgeois

    Between History and Literature

    by Franco Moretti ...
    "I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords – such as ‘useful’ and ‘earnest’, ‘efficiency’ ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Making Race and Nation

    A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

    by Anthony W. Marx ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Educating for Insurgency

    The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty

    by Jay Gillen ...
    A manifesto for today’s broken schools.Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control, where the policing of behavior trumps the expanding of minds. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. That means, at the very least, seeing each student’s rebellion not as violation, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus