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Told You So
The Big Book of Weekly Columns
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
“What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.”
**—*****The New York Times ***
The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen’s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big...
Class War
The Privatization of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollers
In an age of austerity, elite corporate education reformers have found new ways to transfer the costs of raising children from the state to individual families. Public schools, tasked with providing...
Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa
Imagining the End of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond.
From Max Weber
Essays in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
Brother Bill
President Clinton and the Politics of Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
“This book is a fascinating analysis of race and class in the age of President Bill Clinton. It provides much-needed clarity in regards to the myth of the ‘First Black President.’ It contributes much to our understanding of the history that informs our present moment!”
—Cornel West
As...
One Nation, One Standard
An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups.
As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S....
Gay Conservatives
Group Consciousness and Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover why LGBT voters support conservative political platforms that don’t benefit the LGBT community
Recent studies show that the vast majority of the LGBT community considers itself politically liberally. Yet nearly 25% of all LGBT voters helped re-elect George W. Bush in 2004-who are...
The War on Drugs in Sport
Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate. Drawing on Max Weber’s work on moral authority and legitimacy, McDermott argues that doping scandals create a crisis of legitimacy for sport governing bodies and other...
Population Issues
An Interdisciplinary Focus
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume marks the end of an eight-year program of research on population issues, launched in 1990 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: The NWO Priority Program on Population Issues. Initiatives for this program of research were taken over ten years ago by Hans Van Ginkel-who...
by John Hannigan
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The third edition of John Hannigan’s classic undergraduate text has been fully updated and revised to highlight contemporary trends and controversies within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology offers a distinctive, balanced treatment of environmental issues, reconciling Hannigan’s...
Against Inclusiveness
How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.—ubiquitous words in 21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real conversation"? How do these terms function as mere...
by Rongxing Guo
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Although the majority of China’s population is of the Han nationality (which accounts for more than 90% of China’s population), the non-Han ethnic groups have a population...
The Third Pillar
How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
**A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week
From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.**
Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist,...
by Michael Gerson, Stephanie Summers, Katie Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
There is a perfect storm undermining something important about America: the opportunity for people born into poverty to advance over their lifetimes.This book explores how to unleash opportunity in five key areas: early childhood, the graduation gap, foster care, juvenile justice, and predatory...