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  • Introduction to the Science of Kinship

    by Murray J. Leaf, Dwight Read ...
    Series series Anthropology of Kinship and the Family
    In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is ... Read more

    $113.99 USD

  • Human Thought and Social Organization

    Anthropology on a New Plane

    by Dwight Read, Murray J. Leaf ...
    Human beings have two outstanding characteristics compared to all other species: the apparently enormous elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the elaboration of our forms of social organization. The view taken in Human Thought and Social Organization: Anthropology on a New Plane is that these are intimately interconnected. To understand this connection, the book compares ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Nordic Theory of Everything

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  • The Theory of the Leisure Class (Essential Economics Series: Celebrated Economists)

    by Thorstein Veblen ...
    The Theory of the Leisure Class' was first published in 1899. It's author, Thorstein Veblen, was the son of Norwegian American immigrants. He grew up to become a prominent economist and sociologist, producing many books and articles, and is often remembered for his use evolutionary theory to develop a 20th century theory of economics. This particular work is an economic treatise and detailed ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Astor Regrets

    The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

    by Meryl Gordon ...
    A biography that looks behind the headlines, and the gates of the house of Astor, as the famous family falls apart in public.The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child ... Read more

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  • Capitalism

    A Ghost Story

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    The "courageous and clarion" Booker Prize–winner "continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism" ( Booklist).From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, ... Read more

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    Corporate America's War on Working People

    by Jeremy Gantz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, Chris Hayes, Senator Bernie Sanders ...
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  • The Treason of the Intellectuals

    by Julien Benda, Roger Kimball ...
    Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball.From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals were a breed apart. They were non-materialistic knowledge-seekers who believed in a ... Read more

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    The Failure of Success in America

    by John Brueggemann ...
    Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable—at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface. From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working ... Read more

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  • Cyber-Proletariat

    Global Labour in the Digital Vortex

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