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  • Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials
    Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
    Looking specifically at the factors impacting on health and health care differentials, this book examines the health and health care issues of both patients and providers of care in the United States and around the globe. Chapters focus on linkages to policy, population concerns and patients and providers of care as ways to meet health care needs. ...
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    189,61 €

  • Poverty Politics
    Sarah Robertson
    Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and, at best, regarded as the passive victims of wider, socioeconomic policies. In Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing, author Sarah Robertson pushes beyond these...
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    50,29 €

  • Surplus Citizens
    Dimitra Kotouza
    The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza’s electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe.In Surplus Citizens, Dimitra Kotouza questions the terms of the debate by demonstrating how the national fr...
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    134,65 €

  • La danza del cóndor y el águila
    Pablo Felipe Gómez Montañez
    El llamado 'despertar muisca' es un gran proyecto de las actuales comunidades y organizaciones para que su cultura y sus espacios de representación retornen al centro del campo etnopolítico de Colombia, Su principal desafío es sustentar su existencia como un actor étnico válido, Este libro analiza las fuerzas que concentran y tensionan a la comunidad en el logro de este reconoc...
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    19,72 €

  • The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price
    Comprising eight case studies from around the world, this volume investigates the social, political and ethical implications of markets through the specific lens of prices. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in economic anthropology, it represents the first systematic attempt to address ethnographically the ancient debate on the 'just price' ...
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    174,62 €

  • War of the Classes
    Jack London
    John Griffith London (1876 - 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. London is famous for his contributions to early science fiction and also...
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    19,20 €

  • When God Laughs, and Other Stories
    Jack London
    This vintage book contains a collection of short stories by American writer Jack London. The stories include: 'When God Laughs', 'The Apostate', 'A Wicked Woman', 'Just Meat', 'Created He Them', 'The Chinago', 'Make Westing', 'Semper Idem', 'A Nose For The King', 'The ’Frances Spaight’', 'A Curious Fragment', 'A Piece Of Steak', etc. John Griffith London (1876 - 1916), commonly...
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    21,31 €

  • The Theory of the Leisure Class
    Thorstein Veblen
    First published in 1899 by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, “The Theory of the Leisure Class” is a classic and important examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society at the end of the 19th century. In this work, Veblen, influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Adam Smith, contends that t...
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    12,22 €

  • The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation
    Federico M. Rossi / Federico MRossi
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    37,98 €

  • Solidarity Forever?
    Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
    Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California. ...
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    54,49 €

  • Emerson on Sound Money
    Willis George Emerson
    First published in 1896, 'Emerson on Sound Money' is the transcript of a speech delivered by Willis G. Emerson to the Young Men’s Republican Club at Lockerby Hall Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1896. The speech primarily concerns money and finances, referring to the contemporary political situation and providing suggestions as to how it can be improved. Willis George Emerson (1856 -...
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    14,78 €

  • The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality
    Melvin L Kohn / Melvin L. Kohn
    Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality. ...
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    114,89 €

  • The Key to (Almost) Everything
    James Wright
    The Key to (Almost) Everything is an engaging, contemporary and concise approach to sociology written for adults, students and just about anybody who could profit from knowing about the discipline of sociology. ...
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    56,70 €

  • The Key to (Almost) Everything
    James Wright
    The Key to (Almost) Everything is an engaging, contemporary and concise approach to sociology written for adults, students and just about anybody who could profit from knowing about the discipline of sociology. ...
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    114,84 €

  • The Educated Underclass
    Gary Roth
    Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.’ - Steve Fraser, author of ’Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion’ ’A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and ...
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    25,33 €

  • The Educated Underclass
    Gary Roth
    Modern American capitalism is producing a vast population of under-employed and unemployed yet highly educated people. Gary Roth provides a meticulously researched dissection of this phenomenon.’ - Steve Fraser, author of ’Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion’ ’A fascinating analysis that plots the distance between what we think we know about education and ...
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    127,25 €

  • Intimations of Modernity
    Louis A. Pérez Jr.
    Louis A. Perez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to ...
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    38,06 €

  • Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-État?
    Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sièyes
    «... Qui donc oserait dire que le Tiers-État n’a pas en lui tout ce qu’il faut pour former une Nation complète ? Il est l’homme fort et robuste dont un bras est encore enchaîné. Si l’on ôtait l’Ordre privilégié, la Nation ne serait pas quelque chose de moins, mais quelque chose de plus. Ainsi, qu’est-ce que le Tiers ? tout, mais un tout entravé et opprimé. Que serait-il sans l’...
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    9,76 €

  • Poverty and Place
    Anjanette Wells / Vetta L Thompson / Vetta L. Sanders Thompson / Vetta LSanders Thompson / Will Ross
    This bookexamines ways in which cancer health disparities exist due to class and context inequalities. The volume demonstrates that poverty is a health issue because it erodes the social, political, and economic support systems that enhance well-being and healthy lifestyles necessary for human development and human betterment. ...
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    122,41 €

  • Social Rule - A Study of the Will to Power
    Elsie Clews Parsons
    'Social Rule - A Study of the Will to Power' is a fascinating treatise on society by Elsie C. Parsons, exploring in particular how power structures are created and operate within various different cultures around the world and in history. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in anthropology or sociology, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors ...
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    23,47 €

  • My Country, My People
    Chen Wu Chu
    My Country, My People: Reflections on the Implementation of the “One China” Principle is a collection of 32 essays. The author, Chen Wu Chu, was a public servant doing secretarial work for the President of the Executive Yuan, Taiwan, Republic of China. Chu frequently composed investigative reports and analytical essays on economic, financial and social affairs for Cabinet membe...
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    24,96 €

  • Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi
    Derese G. Kassa / Derese GKassa
    Derese G. Kassa provides an in-depth ethnographic account and analysis of state-refugee relations in Nairobi, Kenya, with a focus on the lived experience of Ethiopian refugees. This book is a timely and remarkable addition to comparative urban studies, African studies, and refugee studies. ...
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    122,77 €

  • Appalachian Reckoning
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    24,74 €

  • SDG1 - No Poverty
    Amanda Lange Salvia / Katarzyna Cichos
    This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1). ...
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    104,48 €

  • Democratizing Finance
    Clifford N. Rosenthal / Clifford NRosenthal
    Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to 'unbankable' communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, and even a new bank-organizations ...
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    61,07 €

  • Democratizing Finance
    Clifford N. Rosenthal / Clifford NRosenthal
    Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to 'unbankable' communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, and even a new bank-organizations ...
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    48,42 €

  • The Tiny House Movement
    Tracey Harris
    This book features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, which Tracey Harris uses to explore how the tiny house movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home. ...
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    115,72 €

  • Identity, Rights, and Awareness
    Jeremy A. Rinker / Jeremy ARinker / Jeremy Rinker
    Identity, Rights, and Awareness opens a much needed critical analysis of subaltern Dalit voice in India. Filling a lacuna in comparative analysis of the connections between anticaste social movement, communal identities, and marginalized voice, this book argues for the important role of narrative strategy in contending against oppressive systems. ...
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    129,14 €

  • Strategic Leadership
    Hairuddin Mohd Ali Ph.D. / Inas Zulkipli Ph.D.
    Strategic leadership is considered alienated to the education administrators’ fraternity. The scholars of education were unaware of this knowledge because education stood by itself. The dynamic globalization changed the world in almost everything, including education. This dynamic and fast-changing environment almost shocked the education fraternity. Instantaneously, they felt ...
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    18,72 €

  • After Coal
    Tom Hansell
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    27,76 €