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  • Evolution Evolving

    The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity

    by Kevin N. Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus W. Feldman, Scott F. Gilbert ...
    A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolutionA new scientific view of evolution is emerging—one that challenges and expands our understanding of how evolution works. Recent research demonstrates that organisms differ greatly in how effective they are at evolving. Whether and how each organism adapts and diversifies depends critically on the mechanistic details of how ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Social Integration Of Rural-urban Migrants In China: Current Status, Determinants And Consequences

    by Zhongshan Yue, Shuzhuo Li, Marcus W Feldman ...
    Series Book 13 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers. The book provides an updated, systematic, empirically rich, and multifaceted analysis of migrant ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China

    by Jie Li, Shuzhuo Li, Gretchen C. Daily, Marcus Feldman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book considers the challenge of poverty and deterioration of the ecological environment in China, particularly in rural areas. Examining key factors such as the overuse of natural resources and the loss of biodiversity in the face of an expanding population and rapidly developing economy. It focuses on examining the frameworks of rural households in poor mountainous areas in rural China, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Dispatches from America's Class War

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    Years before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war.By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of "the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun ... Read more

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  • THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption

    Enriched edition. Unveiling Societal Norms: The Economics of Conspicuous Consumption

    by Thorstein Veblen, Paige Gibson ...
    In "The Theory of the Leisure Class," Thorstein Veblen presents a critical examination of the socio-economic structures that underpin American society at the turn of the 20th century. Written in a distinctive blend of social theory and economic critique, Veblen's work introduces the concept of "conspicuous consumption"'—the ostentatious display of wealth as a means of achieving social status. His ... Read more

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  • Janesville

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    by Amy Goldstein ...
    Series series A Business Award-Winner
    * Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize? * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book * A Wall Street Journal Best Book * An Economist Best Book * A Business Insider Best Book *“A gripping story of psychological defeat and resilience” (Bob Woodward, Th... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant

    the best of Joe Bageant

    by Joe Bageant ...
    Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to deal with gatekeepers, he began writing about what he was really ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • What I Saw in America

    G. K. Chesterton : A Thought-Provoking Work That Stands the Test of Time

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    What I Saw In America By G. K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton offers a concentrated, compelling experience within fiction / literary. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. ... Read more

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  • Hollowing Out the Middle

    The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

    by Patrick J. Carr, Maria J. Kefalas ...
    Two sociologists reveal how small towns in Middle America are exporting their most precious resource—young people—and share what can be done to save these dwindling communitiesIn 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and ... Read more

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  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    by Anouk de Koning ...
    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Read more

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  • Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa

    Coethnic Strangers

    by Claire L. Adida ...
    This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence. It shows, counterintuitively, that cultural similarities between immigrants and their hosts do not help immigrant integration and may, in fact, disrupt it. This book is one of the first to describe and explain in a systematic way immigrant ... Read more

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  • Boom and Bust

    The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians

    by Royce Kurmelovs ...
    This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past.Australia's mining boom is still talked about with a sense of awe. This once-in-a-lifetime event capped off 25 straight years of economic growth. Thanks to mining we sidestepped the worst of the Global Financial Crisis. To the rest of the world Australia was an economic miracle. And then the boom ended.Now ... Read more

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