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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 €

  • Working Class Women Writing CLASS
    Petty
    In a society marked by economic upheaval and increasing ideological shifts to the right, whose stories are truly heard? This ground-breaking volume places working-class women centre stage-both in fiction and autobiography-challenging the silences and stereotypes that have long dominated British literature. From the hard-hitting realism of Livi Michael and Joan Riley’s nov...
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    31,63 €

  • Rich Man, Poor Man
    John Hilton
    First published in 1944 (Sir Halley Stewart Lectures 1938), the original blurb reads: 'In Rich Man, Poor Man, Professor John Hilton examines the facts as to the distribution of wealth in this country. ... The book tells of a special study of three hundred poor families....' ...
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    56,01 €

  • Under the Table
    FootRubSlave
    In the glittering apartments and gated enclaves of Delhi and Gurgaon, elite women host kitty parties, network, and indulge in self-care-relaxed, empowered, and unseen. Beneath the table, however, lies another reality: the invisible labor of service providers who make it all possible.Under the Table: Hidden Lives in India’s Elite Social Circles offers an intimate, anonymized gli...
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    5,60 €

  • The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment
    Arthur H. Garrison
    This book examines how this White populism rose to dominate the Republican Party primary base, how the populist campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump, and how he maintains narrative dominance over both parties and American political discourse. ...
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    75,98 €

  • The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment
    Arthur H. Garrison
    This book examines how this White populism rose to dominate the Republican Party primary base, how the populist campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump, and how he maintains narrative dominance over both parties and American political discourse. ...
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    266,71 €

  • Sunday Under Three Heads
    Charles Dickens
    With wit, moral insight, and humane charity, Charles Dickens examines the Sabbath as it is observed, neglected, and misunderstood. Sunday Under Three Heads contrasts legalism, indifference, and Christian mercy, offering a sharp yet compassionate defense of a Sunday shaped by rest, worship, and concern for the poor. ...
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    11,78 €

  • The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia
    Alexandrina Vanke
    Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societies. However, working-class people are often stigmatised, morally judged and depicted negatively in dominant discourses. This book challenges stereotypical representations of workers, building on research into the everyday worlds ...
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    44,29 €

  • Second Chances
    Pamela Connell
    Second Chances: African Derivatives and a Modern Day Cult by Pamela Connell initially began as a way to celebrate African art and culture. However, the book evolved to address other topics, including systemic racism, race relations in a U.S. Midwestern city, faith, and the political climate leading up to the 2024 presidential election.Connell, a middle-class White woman, throug...
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    15,71 €

  • The Human Cost of Corruption
    MBIDA MBIDA CAMILLE
    Every year, billions of CFA francs are committed to public projects meant to improve people’s lives. Yet in many countries, poverty endures, hospitals lack basic resources, schools fall into disrepair, and hope steadily erodes. Where does the money go? And above all, who truly pays the price of corruption?The Human Cost of Corruption is a powerful and deeply human essay that e...
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    15,67 €

  • The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream
    The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 3 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars to further develop the themes and issues explored in the previous two volumes. ...
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    393,31 €

  • The double game of music
    The double game of music imagines music education as a series of games - each with its own rules, play currency and players - to challenge readers to rethink the significance of music and musical upbringing in shaping social structures. Drawing on their own empirical research and a wide range of international contributions, the authors unravel the intertwining of social positio...
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    58,83 €

  • Troubled Kids Need Jesus Too
    Larry D. Veal
    Some kids grow up surrounded by danger, pressure, and expectations that point them toward one ending. Set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this memoir tells the story of a young boy growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana, coming of age in the middle of gang culture, violence, drug activity, racism, and judgment, while carrying a deep desire to belong and be seen. Though the deca...
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    12,05 €

  • Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility
    Peggy Froerer
    Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility brings ethnographic nuance to the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk, whose transformative potential is not as straightforward as proponents suggest. This book examines the relationship bet...
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    184,40 €

  • Class Inequality and Health Care
    Vivienne Walters
    The book, originally published in 1980 argues that the politics of health go deeper than administrators will readily admit, and that examination of the links between illness nd the structure of class relations in Britain is essential if patterns of illness are to be adequately explained. ...
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    126,34 €

  • Caste-Class Hegemony and State Power
    Ghanshyam Shah
    The book analyses the politics and socio-cultural forces in Gujarat for the last five decades. ...
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    267,86 €

  • Thai Girl Naked
    Noi Thawattana
    Tourists see the fantasy. Noi Thawattana lived the reality.In the neon haze of Bangkok’s nightlife, the truth is rarely unspoken. Western men arrive with 'beer goggles' and cultural ignorance, seeing only what they want to see in the go-go bars and massage parlors. They write memoirs filled with male bravado, totally missing the actual story.Until now.Noi Thawattana is a former...
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    16,52 €

  • Housing and Family Wealth
    Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society. The contributions include analyses from the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Greece, France, Sweden and Hungary. ...
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    193,10 €

  • Redundancy, Layoffs and Plant Closures
    Raymond M Lee
    Originally published in 1987, this book, based on extensive original research, examines the nature of redundancy and its effects. It focuses on the process of redundancy itself, on the complex relationship between redundancy situations and the labour market, and on the relationship between redundancy and issues of race, gender and politics. ...
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    125,51 €

  • Status
    Bernd Reiter
    With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America. ...
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    83,00 €

  • Status
    Bernd Reiter
    With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America. ...
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    268,32 €

  • Social Media and the Reproduction of the Social Capital of the New Middle Class
    Guo Jin
    This book examines how China’s emerging middle class uses social media platforms, especially WeChat, to build and maintain social networks that enhance their status in society. ...
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    268,26 €

  • Count Petöfy
    Theodor Fontane
    First English translation of an unjustly overlooked novel by the great German realist novelist Theodor Fontane.Set in Austria and Hungary in the 1870s, this novel is the story of Count Adam Petöfy, a lifelong bachelor, who at age seventy, unexpectedly proposes marriage to a young actress, Franziska Franz. He explains that he is only looking for companionship and affectionate re...
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    108,20 €

  • Russian reforms / Российские реформы
    Igor Lipsits
    RUПочему экономические реформы 90-х в России, призванные сотворить экономическое чудо, обернулись для миллионов граждан одним из самых травматичных периодов в истории страны? Исследование профессора, доктора экономических наук Игоря Липсица Российские реформы представляет собой анализ сложнейшего этапа постсоветской России.Наследие плановой экономики СССР и почему ее крах был н...
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    58,53 €

  • CHARLIE KIRK QUOTES
    Felicity Graham Cohen / Michael D. Butler
    Few voices have inspired more young Americans to stand for faith, freedom, and truth than Charlie Kirk. From his early days speaking on college campuses to building one of the largest student movements in America, Kirk’s passion for truth and courage in the face of cultural opposition have defined a generation.Compiled by Felicity Graham Cohen,Charlie Kirk Quotes: The Courageou...
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    15,94 €

  • 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 €

  • La política de la élite
    María Luisa Méndez / Modesto Gayo
    Durante la última década, la investigación comparada sobre las élites ha visibilizado tanto la elevada concentración de la riqueza como los mecanismos para su transmisión intergeneracional. En conexión con esas perspectivas recientes, este libro sitúa su atención en el comportamiento político y la ideología que caracterizan a las clases sociales más privilegiadas de Chile. A tr...
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    19,76 €

  • 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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    74,19 €

  • 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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    267,62 €


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