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  • The Death of Socialism
    Robert Corfe
    Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is needed in the cause of creating a fair and egalitarian society for the peoples of our planet. This is a startling yet profound book which strikes at the foundations of established politics in the West. The author’s conclusions are drawn from two directions: an analysis ...
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    18,53 €

  • The Irish Tourist
    Emily Taylor
    ''The Irish Tourist: Or The People And The Provinces Of Ireland'' is a travelogue written by Emily Taylor in 1837. The book provides a detailed account of Taylor’s journey through Ireland, describing the people and provinces she encountered along the way. Taylor’s writing is rich in detail, offering a vivid portrait of the Irish countryside, its customs, and its people. The boo...
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    34,37 €

  • Global Political Economy
    Bill Dunn
    This is an ambitious survey of the history and state of the world economy, covering the major upheavals of the capitalist system over the last 100 years. Bill Dunn provides an original and enlightening explanation of the state of the world economy. He covers all the main aspects of global political economy explaining the theories behind production, trade, finance and relations ...
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    46,83 €

  • Whatever Happened to Class?
    Rina Agarwala
    Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia, yet has fallen from favor. In this volume, original empirical work investigates the contributions and limits of class analysis in understanding politics and allocative patterns of a globalizing South Asia, with suggestions for refining theory. ...
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    64,12 €

  • NeoVouchers
    Kevin G Welner / Kevin G. Welner / Kevin GWelner
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, legality, and policy implications of tuition tax credit policies. At a time when these tax credit policies are becoming a major form of American school choice, this book offers insights into both the strengths and weakness of the approach. ...
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    51,82 €

  • NeoVouchers
    Kevin G. Welner / Kevin Grant Welner / Kevin GWelner
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, legality, and policy implications of tuition tax credit policies. At a time when these tax credit policies are becoming a major form of American school choice, this book offers insights into both the strengths and weakness of the approach. ...
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    126,43 €

  • Catching History On The Wing
    A. Sivanandan / ASivanandan
    The definitive collection of A. Sivanandan’s writing. ...
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    44,62 €

  • Little Dorrit, Book the First - Poverty
    Charles Dickens
    This book is the first volume of Charles Dickens’ 1857 novel, 'Little Doritt'. Amy is the youngest child of a man who has been incarcerated for not paying back a debt. While working as a seamstress, she falls in love with Arthur Clennam, and hopes that she will she be able to win his heart and escape her miserable life. A masterful exploration of social injustices, 'Little Dori...
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    42,98 €

  • Little Dorrit, Book the Second - Riches
    Charles Dickens
    This book is the second volume of Charles Dickens’ 1857 novel, 'Little Doritt'. Amy is the youngest child of a man who has been incarcerated for not paying back a debt. While working as a seamstress, she falls in love with Arthur Clennam, and hopes that she will she be able to win his heart and escape her miserable life. A masterful exploration of social injustices, 'Little Dor...
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    40,93 €

  • Justice
    Discusses a range of fundamental issues about justice. This work addresses issues pertaining to distributive, procedural, and interactional justice using a range of methodologies. It focuses on issues relevant to the processes underlying justice evaluations, including motivations, perceptions, identities, ideologies and exclusionary practices. ...
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    222,34 €

  • Class Construction
    Carrie Freie
    Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium explores the identity development of a group of white working-class high school students in a de-industrialized area of the Northeast. This ethnographic study explores class, racial and gender identity construction, and focuses on the ways the students’ perceptions of their current and future classed...
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    64,49 €

  • Members Only
    Diana Elizabeth Kendall / Diana Kendall
    Members Only addresses how exclusive private clubs maintain and perpetuate class-based privilege and racial/ethnic and religious segregation, and how such patterns of social exclusion heighten social inequality. Members Only continues Kendall’s study of the upper classes, which began with The Power of Good Deeds, and Framing Class. ...
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    54,58 €

  • Transmitting Inequality
    Yuval Elmelech
    In this authoritative study, Elmelech investigates the role that generational heritage plays in social stratification. Transmitting Inequality provides the essential theoretical framework for examining the institutional inequalities that shape the distribution of property and wealth in the United States. ...
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    55,50 €

  • The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
    The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class explores the dynamics of the modern American family and how they have adapted to the changing economy and culture. Contributors from a variety of disciplines redefine the concept of the ’model American family’ and provide well-researched insight into what the new standards for judging family life and its fun...
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    163,29 €

  • The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
    The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class explores the dynamics of the modern American family and how they have adapted to the changing economy and culture. Contributors from a variety of disciplines redefine the concept of the 'model American family' and provide well-researched insight into what the new standards for judging family life and its fun...
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    73,33 €

  • Emergence of the New Majority--Volume 1 of Social Capitalism in Theory and Practice
    Robert Corfe
    In democracies throughout the industrialised world, political systems are everywhere beginning to unravel, and thinking people - even amongst our leaders - are uncertain of the reason why. Whilst most governments drive towards greater equity and justice, the reality is towards an opposite direction, and the greater polarisation of society. The author of this book points the bl...
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    28,85 €

  • Race and Wealth Disparities
    Beverly Moran
    Race and Wealth Disparities is a multidisciplinary reader on the subject of race and wealth primarily, yet not exclusively, within the United States. ...
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    64,21 €

  • Unequal Chances
    Is the United States 'the land of equal opportunity' or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to the...
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    69,31 €

  • Social Exclusion and Community Capital
    Mei-Ling Wang / Vinand Mukatabala Nantulya
    What is social exclusion? Why is social exclusion the most daunting threat to global health and development? Social Exclusion and Community Capital has created a new theory and offers a multi-equitable partnership model to resolve global health challenges. This new theory offers readers a valuable insight into the use of critical links and community capital to improve global de...
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    69,46 €

  • Youth and Social Capital
    Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people themselves, in making the transition from dependent child to independent adult. Through findings from research groups in Finland a...
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    25,39 €

  • Youth and Social Capital
    Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people themselves, in making the transition from dependent child to independent adult. Through findings from research groups in Finland a...
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    60,36 €

  • Black And White
    T. Thomas Fortune / TThomas Fortune
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,43 €

  • In the Wake of Terror
    E. Jr. San Juan / E. San Juan / EJrSan Juan / Epifanio JrSan Juan / ESan Juan Jr
    In the Wake of Terror focuses on the controversies over the linkage of class exploitation and the ideology of racism, the role of nationalism in postcolonial politics, and ethnic exclusion. ...
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    59,95 €

  • In the Wake of Terror
    E Jr San Juan / E. Jr. San Juan / E. San Juan / EJrSan Juan / Epifanio JrSan Juan / ESan Juan Jr
    In the Wake of Terror focuses on the controversies over the linkage of class exploitation and the ideology of racism, the role of nationalism in postcolonial politics, and ethnic exclusion. ...
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    147,14 €

  • Class Construction
    Carrie Freie
    Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium explores the identity development of a group of white working-class high school students in a de-industrialized area of the Northeast. This ethnographic study explores class, racial and gender identity construction, and focuses on the ways the students’ perceptions of their current and future classed...
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    124,02 €

  • AWOL
    Frank Schaeffer / Kathy Roth-Douquet
    In America, it is increasingly the case that the people who make, support, or protest military policy have no military experience. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, the gap between the 'all-volunteer military' and the rest of us is widening, and our country faces a dangerous lack of understanding between those in power and those who d...
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    12,76 €

  • Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class
    Joseph O. Jewell / Joseph OJewell
    Periods of time characterized by large scale social change encourage reinterpretations of the meanings of categories like race and class, strategies for their reproduction, and their relationship to one another as social structures. The racialized nature of class identities makes movements which attempt to redistribute class resources along racial lines a challenge to both raci...
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    55,80 €

  • Class Counts
    Allan COrnstein / Allan Ornstein
    Class counts. Class differences and class warfare have existed since the beginning of western civilization, but the gap in income and wealth between the rich (top 10 percent) and the rest has increased steadily in the last twenty-five years. ...
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    56,63 €

  • Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income
    JA Hobson / John Atkinson Hobson
    “Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income” is a 1931 essay by English social scientist and economist John Atkinson Hobson. Within it, Hobson analyses financial distribution during the early years of Twentieth Century Britain, exploring the important moral questions related to the necessary economic reforms of the period. Hobson argues that under-consumption, over-production, an...
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    31,78 €

  • Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Middle Class
    Ellen Luborsky / Joseph O. Jewell / Joseph OJewell / Lester Luborsky
    Periods of time characterized by large scale social change encourage reinterpretations of the meanings of categories like race and class, strategies for their reproduction, and their relationship to one another as social structures. The racialized nature of class identities makes movements which attempt to redistribute class resources along racial lines a challenge to both raci...
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    140,21 €