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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 €

  • Environmental Injustice
    Michael R. Meador MBA
    Unmasking the Unresolved: A Deep Dive into the Lingering Disparities in Socioeconomic and Environmental Justice for Marginalized Communities.Environmental Injustice and the New Civil Rights Movement is a ground-breaking exploration of the intertwined realities of environmental and social inequality. This compelling read delves into the heart of the issue, revealing the often ov...
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    21,57 €

  • Bullshit without Borders
    Susan M. Davis
    For the next generation of changemakers who care too much to settle for just good intentions.The system of 'saving the world' is broken-and it’s time to call bullshit. After seeing good intentions lead to bad outcomes in 30 countries, international development veteran Susan M. Davis is challenging the sacred cows of the aid industrial complex. She urges a radical rethink of how...
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    16,84 €

  • The Workless
    James Morrison
    This book critically analyses historical and contemporary discourses around worklessness, economic inactivity and the factors that contribute to people withdrawing from the conventional labour market. In analysing popular portrayals of ’the workless’, the book draws heavily on the sociological theories of stigma and symbolic annihilation, and conceives of the contemporary nar...
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    38,20 €

  • BigBad Ai
    JN EISENB
    There is only one thing that holds people together more than the bond of love and family, the struggle to survive. A small group of people come together to help settle the differences between the commoners and the Elites. An illegitimate son, Moses, sees the commoners as friends, but in reality they are family. He sends one man, Paul, around the world on a mission of discovery,...
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    10,21 €

  • Class Struggle in 21st Century Science Fiction Cinema
    Cenk Tan
    The futures depicted in modern science fiction cinema are rarely technological utopias; instead, they serve as a stage for severe dystopic struggles and deepening class disparities. This book explores science fiction cinema not as a fantasy of tomorrow, but as a critical arena for social and economic conflict.By examining cult classics and defining works of the genre, essays il...
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    79,36 €

  • Unfinished Business
    David Donaldson
    Notions of ’progress’ can well lead to the positioning of the present as inevitably ’better’ than the past. But when it comes to issues like the systematic exploitation of power for personal or group advantage and the ’othering’ of those who rise in protest, the echoes are still clear and pertinent today as are the current challenges of climate change and the threat from pandem...
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    12,68 €

  • Global Perspectives on Local Economic Development and Innovation
    Globally, socioeconomic challenges are escalating and creating profound consequences for both developed and developing nations. Key among these challenges are poverty, unemployment, and inequality, all of which limit people’s access to the resources and opportunities necessary to improve their lives. Rising income inequality further deepens these problems, widening gaps within ...
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    279,87 €

  • The neoliberal monarch
    Mikael Holmqvist
    In this well-researched and thought-provoking book, sociologist Mikael Holmqvist, an expert on elites, business, and power, offers a convincing argument for why we need to take royals seriously. Through his many speeches, media interviews and public appearances the king consecrates such corporate ideals as entrepreneurship, individual responsibility, positive thinking, healthy ...
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    46,54 €

  • Income Inequality in America
    Robert S. Rycroft / Stacey M. Jones
    This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the USA, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.Carefully researched and scrupulously nonpartisan, this resource examines the history and current state of income inequality in the USA, with a ...
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    37,21 €

  • Politically Correct or Political Crap
    Daniel Cross
    In today’s world, communication feels more complicated than ever. Words are chosen carefully. Conversations are approached cautiously. And in many cases, silence feels safer than speaking openly. But what happens when the effort to communicate thoughtfully begins to interfere with communication itself?Politically Correct or Political Crap? is a clear, thoughtful exploration of ...
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    14,34 €

  • Milk, Honey, And Mutiny
    Junia Ferrowlake
    Every revolt in this book started the same way. Not with a manifesto. Not with a battle cry. With a scale, a granary, and a number that would not add up.In 1524, a countess asked her peasants to leave the harvest and gather snail shells for her thread spools. Within months, three hundred thousand people across the German lands were at war. In 1786, a Massachusetts farmer who ha...
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    33,88 €

  • Paper Fortunes
    Rick Stupart
    In the aftermath of Louis XIV’s death, France teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. The nation’s coffers were empty, its credit destroyed, and its future uncertain. Into this desperate situation stepped an extraordinary figure: John Law-mathematician, gambler, financial theorist, and perhaps the most audacious economic visionary in history.Paper Fortunes tells the remarkable true...
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    19,82 €

  • Living with the Quantum Age
    Gari Johnson
    The convergence is not a future event. It is already in your payslip.Stanford researchers, working with payroll records covering about 25 million workers, found a roughly 13 per cent drop in employment among 22 to 25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed jobs since late 2022. Older workers in the same roles held steady. That is not a forecast. It already happened.Living with the Qua...
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    17,82 €

  • Ambiguous Foundations
    Baruch Menache
    Ambiguous Foundations is a work of contemporary philosophy examining the unstable foundations of consciousness, sociality, institutional process, and conceptual development. Through an original philosophical framework, Baruch Menache explores ambiguity not as confusion alone, but as a formative condition underlying human orientation, social coherence, identity formation, and st...
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    14,13 €

  • What Can We Do?
    James Robb
    The signs of a deep social and economic crisis are all too obvious: massive increases in prices of fuel, food, and electricity; homeless people on the streets; raw sewage fouling the coastlines; hospital waiting lists getting ever longer; crumbling roads; spreading wars. The ruling class has neither the will nor the means to solve these problems: meaningful relief from the rock...
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    10,54 €

  • Chav Solidarity
    D Hunter
    Chav Solidarity by D. HunterPart memoir, part political meditation, part two fingers up at respectability politics, Chav Solidarity is unlike anything else written about class in Britain today.D. Hunter grew up underclass. His first twenty-five years ran on the informal economy: sex work, dealing, robbing, and violence, shaped by addiction, abuse, and life on the streets. For t...
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    14,62 €

  • Didier homme du Peuple
    Maurice Bonneff
    Au cœur de la France du début du XXe siècle, Didier est un homme ordinaire confronté aux injustices sociales, aux difficultés du travail et aux profondes mutations de son époque. Animé par un profond sens de la dignité et de la solidarité, il incarne les espoirs, les luttes et les aspirations d’un peuple en quête d’une vie plus juste.À travers son parcours, Maurice Bonneff dres...
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    11,34 €

  • The People Are Not One
    C. Derick Varn / Daniel Tutt
    In The People Are Not One, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn dismantle the central illusion of contemporary left politics: that 'the people' can serve as a coherent subject of emancipation. Against both right and left populisms, they argue that this fantasy of unity obscures real class antagonisms and traps socialism in a dead-end politics of moral appeal and electoral maneuver.Th...
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    14,18 €

  • Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism
    Madelaine Moore
    This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water. Presenting an incorporated comparison, it analyses the conjuncture following the 2007 financial crisis through the lens of water expropriation and resistance. This brings into view the way that transnational capital has made use of and been facilitated by the strategic select...
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    44,39 €

  • Obscene Wealth
    Tiny Husband
    Great wealth did not simply grow obscene. It slipped beyond reach.For years, something has felt wrong with the arithmetic of ordinary life. Wages that no longer stretch to a home. Work that no longer guarantees security. A cost of living that climbs and climbs while, on the same glowing screens, a handful of private fortunes swell past every figure the mind can hold. In 2026 th...
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    9,98 €

  • The Oligarchs’ Arithmetic of Plunder
    Leslie St. James
    For three decades after World War II, the United States operated under a set of enforceable constraints that forced capital to absorb its own costs. Wages rose with productivity. Pensions were funded. Jobs were stable. A single working-class income could sustain a family, buy a house, and send children to college. Then those constraints were dismantled.The dismantling was not a...
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    72,75 €

  • 居者无声--在自己土地上噤声的人
    荒 岛
    《居者无声》--在自己土地上噤声的人，收录了作者荒岛2020至2025年六年间创作的131篇文章，内容涵盖疫情、房产、民生及中美社会等议题，全书分为'疫·防、房·役、闻·问、西·东'四个部分。对于希望了解和研究中国三年疫情期间及疫后三年真实社会面貌的读者与研究者而言，本书所呈现的社会场景、人物感受、房价下跌、经济冲击与生活巨变，具有切片、样本与史实级别的文献价值。2020至2025年是极不寻常的六年。许多中国人如同经历生死劫难，事业崩塌，家庭破产，甚至有人以极端方式结束了本不该结束的生命。祸不单行--经济下行、疫情封控、内卷盛行接踵而至，被中国人看涨并热炒近二十年的房产价格应声下跌。各级政府的种种应对措施非但收效甚微，无数家庭与企业的动产、不动产更是随之一路缩水。作为长期从事社会观察与非虚构写作的作者，荒岛始终坚守一个原则：发出的声音必须立于事实之上...
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    19,68 €

  • The Rise of the Middle Class
    Sky Adler
    The rise of the middle class is one of the most important stories of the modern world. It is the story of families who sought security through education, steady work, home ownership, respectability, savings, mortgages, holidays, and the hope that their children might begin life from a better place. The Rise of the Middle Class traces how ordinary ambition reshaped homes, jobs, ...
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    20,23 €

  • The Evolution of Ambedkar
    Sandeep Chavan
    The Evolution of Ambedkar: Structural Diagnosis of Ambedkar’s Thought by Sandeep J. Chavan, is a serious, reflective, and non-biographical study of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s intellectual journey.This book does not attempt to write another conventional biography of Ambedkar. It does not worship, attack, defend, or reduce him to a political symbol, slogan, or fixed image. Instead, it ...
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    56,12 €

  • THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH
    Andrew Carnegie / animatarot
    A brief, provocative, and relevant book about wealth, inequality, and social justice. An essential read to understand capitalism, social inequality, selfishness, the creation of wealth, and the role of millionaires in society.A book that has inspired great millionaires: from Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Andrew W. Mellon, and John D. Rockefeller, to oth...
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    12,08 €

  • EL EVANGELIO DE LA RIQUEZA
    Andrew Carnegie / animatarot
    Un libro breve, provocador y vigente sobre la riqueza, la desigualdad economica y la justicia social. Una lectura imprescindible para comprender el capitalismo, la desigualdad social, el egoísmo, la creación de riqueza y el rol de los millonarios en la sociedad.Un libro que ha inspirado a grandes millonarios: desde Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Andrew W...
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    10,40 €

  • Poverty, Disadvantage, and the Promise of Enterprise
    Michael H. Morris / Susana C. Santos
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    50,93 €

  • Le Vicaire de Wakefield
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Dans Le Vicaire de Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith raconte l’histoire du docteur Primrose, un vicaire généreux et profondément attaché aux valeurs familiales, dont la vie paisible bascule à la suite de revers financiers et d’épreuves inattendues. À travers les aventures et les malheurs de sa famille, le roman mêle humour, émotion et critique sociale pour dresser un portrait vivant ...
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    13,67 €

  • When Work Isn’t Enough
    LEO HARTMAN
    When Work Isn’t Enough: The Collapse of the American Dream exposes a grim truth-hard work no longer guarantees a stable life. Dive deep into the devastating effects of the housing crisis as Leo Hartman takes you on a journey through the lives of families forced to live in cars, confronting the harsh realities of poverty and homelessness. With gripping narratives, this book illu...
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    12,94 €


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