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No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (French List) by Marc Auge Publisher Comments In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to... (read more) Your price: $20.25 New - Hardcover
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Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific by Christine R. Yano Publisher Comments In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization—the... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer, M.d. Publisher Comments "Paul Farmer's deserved fame as global health expert, medical anthropologist, and advocate for the poor and the marginal centers on his moral commitment to doing good in the world and on the extraordinary influence of his personal call to a generation of... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir by Kak (edt) Sanjay Publisher Comments The pieces in this volume voice the rage and helplessness sweeping through the Kashmir Valley while offering rare insights into the lives of those caught in the crossfire. This book is a timely collection of the most exciting writing that has recently... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America by Angelique Haugerud Publisher Comments Growing economic inequality, corporate influence in politics, an eroding middle class. Many Americans leave it to politicians and the media to debate these topics in the public sphere. Yet other seemingly ordinary Americans have decided to enter the... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China's New Rich by John Osburg Publisher Comments Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the... (read more) Your price: $24.25 New - Trade Paper
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Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors of Emancipation by Hoang Gia Phan Publisher Comments In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, enslaved, and... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski Publisher Comments A new paperback edition of Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind, with a foreword by Richard Dawkins Dr. Jacob Bronowksi's classic traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Clash!: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are by Hazel Rose Markus Publisher Comments What kind of person are you? Are you independent—individual, unique, and in control of your world? Are you interdependent—relational, similar to others, and good at adjusting to situations? Or are you both? In Clash!, leading cultural... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Vicodin Thieves: Biopsying L.A.'s Grifters, Gloryhounds, and Goliaths by Chip Jacobs Synopsis Investigative reporter Chip Jacobs goes deep into some of his most compelling journalism pieces of the last three decades with his signature spotlight on strange corruption, seedy individuals, megalomaniacs, bright ideas, and transgressive game-changers.... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities by Mark Anthony Neal Publisher Comments Mark Anthony Neals Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities by Mark Anthony Neal Publisher Comments Mark Anthony Neals Looking for Leroy is an engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture. Neal argues that black men and boys are bound, in... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America by Peter Coviello Publisher Comments “Dazzling intelligence radiates here, out from sentences giving such pleasure, yielding the finest devotion Ive seen to literatures own theoretical force. Coviello listens, carefully, brilliantly, for the flickerings, the liquid meanderings, all... (read more) Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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Moral Blindness by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the... (read more) Your price: $82.50 New - Hardcover
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The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing by Greg Carter Publisher Comments “This provocative, ambitious, and important book rewrites U.S. history, placing foundational leaders, unheralded prophets, insurgent social movements, pivotal judicial decisions, and central cultural values within an unfolding story of ongoing... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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What's the Matter with White People?: Finding Our Way in the Next America by Joan Walsh Publisher Comments A CLEAR-EYED, COGENT CLARION CALL FOR ENDING THE DIVISIVE CLASS WARS THAT THREATEN THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS DREAM In Whats the Matter with White People? Walsh argues that the biggest divide in America today is based not on party or ideology but on two... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital by Vivek Chibber Publisher Comments Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany by Stefan Sperling Publisher Comments The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? In Reasons... (read more) Your price: $39.50 New - Trade Paper
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No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America by Angelique Haugerud Publisher Comments Growing economic inequality, corporate influence in politics, an eroding middle class. Many Americans leave it to politicians and the media to debate these topics in the public sphere. Yet other seemingly ordinary Americans have decided to enter the... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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