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  • Somerset
    Daniel Donaghy
    Somerset is an elegy for the Kensington section of Philadelphia in which the author was raised. Using a variety of styles and forms, it remembers people and cultures struggling to survive in the aftermath of deindustrialization and, now, an opioid epidemic. It is also a study in how our past continually informs our present, how we never fully leave those places in which our you...
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    15,52 €

  • Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa
    Efua Tembisa Prah
    This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children. ...
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    159,85 €

  • Le Foyer
    Octave Mirbeau
    Le Foyer est une pièce de théâtre satirique dans laquelle Octave Mirbeau dévoile avec une lucidité implacable l’hypocrisie morale et la corruption cachée derrière les institutions charitables. À travers une intrigue vive et des dialogues incisifs, Mirbeau dénonce le pouvoir de façade, les manipulations politiques et les intérêts personnels qui se dissimulent sous des discours v...
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    15,95 €

  • Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays
    Mario Barrera
    In Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays, Mario Barrera puts forth his seminal theory of racial inequality based on a synthesis of class and colonial analysis together with several essays and selections from Barrera’s memoir that show how his thinking developed throughout his work. ...
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    70,14 €

  • Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays
    Mario Barrera
    In Race and Class in the Southwest and Other Essays, Mario Barrera puts forth his seminal theory of racial inequality based on a synthesis of class and colonial analysis together with several essays and selections from Barrera’s memoir that show how his thinking developed throughout his work. ...
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    254,10 €

  • Middle Ground
    Joe Carpenter
    A powerful, eye-opening account of life on the frontlines of Britain’s broken social housing system - told by Joe Carpenter, who has spent over a decade inside it.In Middle Ground: A Frontline Journey In Social Housing, Joe Carpenter draws on 13 years and over 14,000 repairs to expose the human cost of a system in collapse. From leaking ceilings and mould-covered walls to evict...
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    13,54 €

  • From Dropout to Doctorate
    Terence Lester
    'The author’s message is potent and timely... this is a vital call to reform a broken system.' - Publishers Weekly Review, June 2025 Discover An Inspiring Personal Story of Resilience, Redemption, and Advocacy Born into an impoverished community in a two-parent household that later fractured, Terence Lester and his sister were moved from place to place by their mother in a sear...
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    22,16 €

  • Introduction to Global Social Problems
    Isaac Zvi Christiansen
    Introduction to Global Social Problems introduces undergraduate students to social problems from a critical sociological perspective, presenting clear descriptions explaining key concepts and providing students with the relevant theoretical tools needed to grasp the interconnected nature of these phenomena. ...
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    71,93 €

  • Introduction to Global Social Problems
    Isaac Zvi Christiansen
    Introduction to Global Social Problems introduces undergraduate students to social problems from a critical sociological perspective, presenting clear descriptions explaining key concepts and providing students with the relevant theoretical tools needed to grasp the interconnected nature of these phenomena. ...
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    253,19 €

  • Class, Race and Education under Neoliberal Capitalism
    Dave Hill
    In this collection of essays, Dave Hill lays bare how the capitalist class in the knowledge industry/academia, use ideological (and repressive) state apparatuses, such as education, to divide, disarm and demoralise critical, Marxist analysis and activism. ...
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    75,81 €

  • Privileged Migrants Across the Globe
    Diotima Chattoraj
    Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse. ...
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    254,71 €

  • Society as I Have Found It
    Ward McAllister
    Step back into the glittering and often rigid world of New York’s high society during the Gilded Age, a period of opulence, ambition, and unyielding social codes. Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister offers a fascinating, first-hand account of the elaborate customs, manners, and intricate social dances that defined the upper echelons of American life in the late 19th c...
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    17,10 €

  • Corporate Crime
    This volume speaks to the fundamental issues inherent in trying to understand the who-what-where-and-whys of corporate crime. Only in addressing these larger issues does it become possible to begin to integrate the study of corporate crime into the larger criminological theory literature. ...
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    254,26 €

  • Society as I Have Found It
    Ward McAllister
    Step back into the glittering and often rigid world of New York’s high society during the Gilded Age, a period of opulence, ambition, and unyielding social codes. Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister offers a fascinating, first-hand account of the elaborate customs, manners, and intricate social dances that defined the upper echelons of American life in the late 19th c...
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    8,00 €

  • Family and Class in a London Suburb
    Michael Young / Peter Willmott
    Originally published in 1960, the authors of Family and Kinship in East London then made an intensive study of a middle-class dormitory suburb. Here families were more often on their own than in the East End, but, despite the differences between the districts, there were some similarities. ...
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    53,18 €

  • Faraones sindicales
    William Z. Foster
    En Faraones Sindicales, el histórico dirigente del movimiento obrero norteamericano William Z. Foster retrata la génesis y práctica de la capa parasitaria burocrática que tomó control de los grandes sindicatos de Estados Unidos. Con total honestidad, Foster retrata el obsecuente servilismo de esta capa ante los monopolios y el Estado burgués, sus repetidas acciones de sabotaje ...
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    21,32 €

  • Southern interregnum
    Alf Gunvald Nilsen / Karl von Holdt / Ruy Braga
    This book maps the ruptures and mutations that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the wider world-system. Analysing political and economic dynamics across Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, it proposes a novel reading of durable crisis, hegemonic projects, and possibilities for popular resistance. ...
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    157,58 €

  • Léa Roback
    Tara Goldstein
    Who was Léa Roback? And what can we learn from activism?Léa Roback (1903-2000) gained renown for her seven decades of activism in Quebec, particularly championing union rights and women rights. Yet, despite her significant accomplishments no English-language biography exists. In our current geo-political climate, marked by polarization and lack of dialogue, documenting Roback’s...
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    28,71 €

  • Human Resources
    Erin Murphy
    'Do not bother to smile/ for your photo ID / in Human Resources. / In Human Resources / no one has a face,' Erin Murphy writes. Yet in this book of documentary poems exploring labor and employment issues, Murphy gives a face and a voice to those who have been marginalized by impersonal-even brutal-working conditions. With subjects ranging from migrant farmers in the Southwest U...
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    15,66 €

  • Political Economy, Nationalistic Populism, and Immigration in Today’s World
    Jacqueline Murray Brux
    The text weaves together an understanding of the interconnected topics: of global nationalistic populism; authoritarianism; immigration; conditions in developing countries; social systems and safety nets; diversity; and ultimately, happiness as measured by global happiness surveys. ...
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    254,32 €

  • Political Economy, Nationalistic Populism, and Immigration in Today’s World
    Jacqueline Murray Brux
    The text weaves together an understanding of the interconnected topics: of global nationalistic populism; authoritarianism; immigration; conditions in developing countries; social systems and safety nets; diversity; and ultimately, happiness as measured by global happiness surveys. ...
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    73,06 €

  • Class and Politics in Malaysian and Singaporean Nation Building
    Muhamad M. N. Nadzri
    Nadzri explores a range of factors that have influenced nation-building in Malaysia and Singapore, with principal emphasis on the importance of social and economic class. A valuable read for scholars and students of politics in Malaysia and Singapore, that will also be of interest to scholars of comparative approaches to nation-building. ...
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    254,50 €

  • How to Peacefully Overthrow the U.S. Government
    James Ergle
    How to Peacefully Overthrow the U.S. Government is not a call to violence-it’s a clear, unapologetic plan for reclaiming democracy through legal, collective, mass-scale action. Written for everyday citizens who are fed up with performative politics and corporate control, this book lays out ten concrete steps anyone can take to force real change without firing a shot.James Ergle...
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    36,29 €

  • How to Peacefully Overthrow the U.S. Government
    James Ergle
    How to Peacefully Overthrow the U.S. Government is a ten-step guide for forcing systemic political change in the United States-without violence, conspiracy, or false hope. Written for everyday people, this book explains exactly how power operates in modern America and how to pressure it legally, strategically, and collectively.James Ergle, a capital murder mitigation specialist...
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    19,79 €

  • Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation
    Ben Spies-Butcher
    Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia. ...
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    50,27 €

  • What To Do? Thoughts Evoked By The Census Of Moscow
    graf Leo Tolstoy / Isabel Florence Hapgood
    Unlock the profound insights of a literary giant with 'What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow' by Leo Tolstoy, now available after decades out of print. This timeless masterpiece, republished by Alpha Editions, has been meticulously restored for today’s and future generations, offering a rare glimpse into Tolstoy’s compelling exploration of social justice and moral...
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    16,85 €

  • Social Class, Language and Communication
    D. Henderson / W. Brandis
    Originally published in 1970, this title explores the different effects of parental social class, the ability and sex of the child and a measure of the mother’s reported communication to her child, upon aspects of five-year-old children’s speech. ...
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    146,71 €

  • Social Control and Socialization
    Jenny Cook-Gumperz
    Basil Bernstein’s theory of social control was the basis for this pioneer study. First published in 1973, the author’s research was particularly important in that it made use of analytical methods which could measure numerically the manifestations of the 3 kinds of control - imperative, positional, personal - that Bernstein distinguished. ...
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    179,85 €

  • Talk Reform
    D. M. Gahagan / G. A. Gahagan
    First published in 1970, this title describes the development of an exploratory language enrichment programme devised by the authors and carried out by teachers in a group of primary schools in a working-class area of London. Inspired by Bernstein’s theory of different language codes and their relation to educational underachievement. ...
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    146,71 €

  • A Question of Answers
    Susan J. Rackstraw / W. P. Robinson
    First published in 1972, this book presents a theoretical framework for describing linguistic features of a range of verbally expressed answers and their associated questions. Bernstein’s theory is used to generate predictions about the variety and quality of answers that mothers and children are likely to offer to ’wh’ questions. ...
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    146,62 €