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Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel Publisher Comments From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women by Elliot Liebow Publisher Comments he observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant struggles, their humor, compassion and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer Review "Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly....It owes its distinction to the fact that Hoffer is a born generalizer, with a mind that inclines to the wry epigram and icy aphorism as naturally as did that of the Duc... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare by Jason Deparle Publisher Comments In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America by Ann Powers Publisher Comments American bohemia is alive and well and redefining the way all of us live, love, and work: so declares Ann Powers in an invigorating blend of criticism, journalism, and autobiography that takes us into the heart of alternative America today. Powers, one... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel Best Publisher Comments Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Would Jesus Buy?: Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse by Reverend Billie Publisher Comments The Church of Stop Shopping was founded by Talen to protest the modern culture of commercialization and consumption. This short and powerful book is designed to entertain, to convince the skeptical, and inspire the converted.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang Publisher Comments Contents <P>Introduction<BR>Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred<BR>Chapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable Mother<BR>Chapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program Revisited<BR>Chapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Sociology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Pascalian Meditations by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments Synthesizing forty years' work by France's leading sociologist, this book exemplifies Bourdieu's unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philosophical thought. It makes explicit the presuppositions of a state of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Planet of Slums by Mike Davis Publisher Comments According To The United Nations, More Than One billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison by Wally Lamb Publisher Comments The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author offers an inspiring new collection of writings from the members of his acclaimed writing workshop in Connecticuts York Correctional Facility.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture (Globalization and Community) by John M Hagedorn Publisher Comments “Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade.  But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant Publisher Comments With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments In this monumental work, one of our finest historians reveals the riveting details of Ford Motor Company's epic achievements, from the outlandish success of the Model T and V-8 to the glory days of the Thunderbird, Mustang, and Taurus. Brilliant... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments "Snobbery" is Epstein's "deliciously readable" ("Harper's Bazaar") collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, "Snobbery" takes up its subject in contemporary America, examining the discriminating qualities in all.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Liberals & Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity by Steven Lukes Publisher Comments Asheirs of the Enlightenment, we in the West tend to view ourselves as humane, rational and reasonable. Genocides are atrocities that "others" commit, so revealing their backwardness and essential "otherness." Colin Tatz's study of genocide exposes this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats by Jim Goad Publisher Comments Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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