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Original Gospel of Ramakrishna by Joseph Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Sri Ramakrishna is the most famous saint of modern India. This book is the original version of the most famous work about him, translated into English by the author M himself. A short biography of Ramakrishna, written by his famous disciple Swami... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Murder in Notting Hill by Mark Olden Publisher Comments A search for the truth about a distant unsolved murder.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East by Mohamad Riad El Ghonemy Publisher Comments Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East uses extensive emperical evidence to help us understand the causes and consequences of co-existing affluence and poverty.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $33.64 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Class by Gary Day Synopsis Drawing on historical, sociological and literary writings, this fresh new account traces the phenomenon of class from the medieval to the postmodern period and examines its relevance to literary and cultural analysis today.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $15.39 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality: Higher Education in America by Gary A. Berg Publisher Comments Drawing upon quantitative data gathered from the U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Education, as well as interviews with students from a variety of socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality examines... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $76.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Approaches to Class Analysis by Erik Olin Wright Publisher Comments Sociologists disagree not only on how best to define class but also as to its general role in social theory and continued relevance to sociological analysis. This book explores the theoretical foundations of six major perspectives of class through the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $26.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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To the Working People and The Candle by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Publisher Comments Both of these works present Tolstoys intense sympathy for the peasants of his country. Addressing them, he points out what their problems are and suggests ample solutions for them. Inspiring them to follow the path of progress without being violent, he... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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A Miscellany of Men by G. K. Chesterton Synopsis The brilliant G. K. Chesterton examines a variety of human types, including the Fool, the Miser, the Mystagogue, the Separatist, the Aristocrat, and 33 more. A fascinating study of human nature from one who had eyes to see. Newly designed and typeset by... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $4.39 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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High Tech Low Pay: A Marxist Analysis of the Changing Character of the Working Class by Sam Marcy Publisher Comments Its theories eerily prescient of modern-day times, this treatise-first published more than 20 years ago-examines the devastating impact of the scientific and technological revolution on wages and employment in the United States and illustrates how this... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Fitting into Place? by Yvette Taylor Publisher Comments Class, race and gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past',... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $96.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Privilege: A Reader by Michael S. Kimmel Publisher Comments Innovative and thought-provoking, this timely anthology expands the concept of privilege in America beyond the traditional limiters of being white and male. In addition to readings from well-known authors in the field, this edition includes pieces from... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Rich, Free, and Miserable: The Failure of Success in America by John Brueggemann Publisher Comments "This book is a searing indictment of the invasion of market thinking into every corner of American life, including areas where market considerations should never be primary, as when we hear about `the health industry' or `the education industry.' John... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $22.18 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Achieving Effective Social Protection for All in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Right to Reality by David A. Robalino Publisher Comments The study focuses on three fundamental questions: how to protect the most vulnerable without promoting informality and dampening incentives to work and save; how to ensure that scarce public resources are used for subsidies that are transparent, fair... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sorting Letters, Sorting Lives by Linda B. Benbow Publisher Comments "Sorting Letters, Sorting Lives" offers an examination of a workplace that for many years has employed an extraordinarily diverse workforce: the United States Postal Service. In the post-civil rights era, the Postal Service took a leading role in... (read more) List Price $74.99 Your price: $66.55 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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"Social Justice and the Multi-Racial Working Class: Proposals to the NAACP and the AFL-CIO for their 21st Century Programs... with Appendices One and by Thomas Kuna-Jacob, J. Publisher Comments Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos, Arabs, Moslems, many Asians, and Rose (a.k.a. 'white') youth all suffer the exceptionally high rates of unemployment and underemployment that the capitalist market always eventually produces. Indeed, this 'productivity... (read more) Your price: $9.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Culture and the Middle Classes by Simon Stewart Publisher Comments This book is a sociological study of a societal grouping popularly titled as middle class . It illustrates the extent to which social groups utilize the various assets at their disposal and seek to maintain the legitimacy of their cultural practices... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $96.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Class Reunion by Lois Weis Publisher Comments Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work.In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price: $42.30 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Sport of Kings by Rebecca Cassidy Publisher Comments 'Behind the scenes' description of British flat racing based on Cassidy's experiences working in Newmarket.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $26.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen by Sidney Plotkin Publisher Comments Thorstein Veblen is best known for his authorship of The Theory of the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise, which made him a celebrated figure in the fields of economics and sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. In this book... (read more) Your price: $30.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socio-Economic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana by Claire C. Robertson List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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