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  • A Radical History of the World
    Neil Faulkner
    History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future.This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominins, hunters and herders; of emperors and slaves; of patriarchs and women; of rich and poor; of dictators and revolutionaries. From the an...
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    32,84 €

  • A Radical History of the World
    Neil Faulkner
    History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future.This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominins, hunters and herders; of emperors and slaves; of patriarchs and women; of rich and poor; of dictators and revolutionaries. From the an...
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    124,89 €

  • Buying God
    Eve Poole
    Christians are deeply concerned about consumerism, but lack the tools to be able to engage robustly in the debate about its future. Economists obfuscate, politicians polarise, and church leaders bluff. While desire to consume is a fundamentally human trait, consumerism offers only illusory satisfaction. Yet Christianity happens to be unusually well-equipped to lead the fight ag...
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    33,85 €

  • Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
    Barry Eidlin
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    35,09 €

  • Access to Success and Social Mobility through Higher Education
    Stuart Billingham
    This collection of essays illuminates the benefits, drawbacks, challenges and opportunities of the push to widen access to success and social mobility through university and other post-secondary education experiences in the UK and internationally. ...
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    103,89 €

  • Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
    Tom Woodin
    From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. ...
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    157,22 €

  • The Sons of Belial
    David Walsh
    It has been generally accepted that the eighteenth century witnessed a series of transformative processes that dramatically changed the social, political and economic fabric of Britain, yet few have determined just when and where the transformation began to have meaningful effects. The process of industrialisation had undoubted revolutionary significance, not only in the manner...
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    23,75 €

  • Class Attitudes in America
    Spencer Piston
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    26,05 €

  • After the Fire
    Alan Everett
    In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, the local parish church became a focal point of the relief effort, and a gathering place for a traumatised community. In the months that followed, it worked closely with other community and faith groups to provide a compassionate network of support.In this bold and prophetic challenge, Alan Everett shows that the church'...
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    24,19 €

  • Smash the Pillars
    Smash the Pillars explores the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory and resist the physical, epistemological, and psychological violence imposed by the Dutch state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. ...
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    135,72 €

  • We shall not be moved
    Brian Marren
    This critique explores six case studies which will illustrate how elements of a highly politicised local working-class fought against the rapid rise in forced redundancies and industrial closures. ...
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    36,84 €

  • Conflict Resolution
    Geoff Dyer
    Conflict resolution is the process of peacefully resolving any conflict by sharing information, understanding the cause of the conflict and diplomatic negotiation. Conflicts can be political or culture-based in nature. Counselling and mediation are also two effective policies for conflict management. This book studies, analyses and upholds the pillars of conflict resolution and...
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    168,37 €

  • Class Matters
    Charles Umney
    Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of ’ordinary working people’ and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis o...
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    127,12 €

  • ALTRUISM
    Valdemar Malin
    About Kindness, Altruism and Modern Altruism—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.Lungs breathe air, produce 99% of required oxygen and supply it to other organs. They keep some oxygen to sustain their life too. Yet, they are accused of egoism and self-interest by Mind. “Lungs must live for others—not themselves,” Mind demands. “Breathing is selfish and anti-social—1% owns all oxygen...
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    23,44 €

  • Dynamics of Class and Stratification in Poland
    Henryk Domański / Irina Tomescu-Dubrow / Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow / Kazimierz M Slomczynski / Kazimierz M. Slomczynski
    This book is about long-term changes to class and inequality in Poland. Drawing upon major social surveys, the team of authors from the Polish Academy of Sciences offer the rare comprehensive study of important changes to the social structure from the communist era to the present.The core argument is that, even during extreme societal transformations, key features of social lif...
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    114,81 €

  • The New Power Elite
    Alan Shipman / Bryan Turner / June Edmunds
    ’Greedy Elites’ explains why today’s revolt against the ’rich and powerful’ is led by billionaires and political insiders, sidelining elites’ traditional enemies. It links social, economic and political theory and evidence to show how rivalries within an elite always eclipse (and co-opt) popular or class-based rebellions in driving social change. ...
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    165,50 €

  • Working-Class Comic Book Heroes
    Marc DiPaolo
    Contributions by Phil Bevin, Blair Davis, Marc DiPaolo, Michele Fazio, James Gifford, Kelly Kanayama, Orion Ussner Kidder, Christina M. Knopf, Kevin Michael Scott, Andrew Alan Smith, and Terrence R. WandtkeIn comic books, superhero stories often depict working-class characters who struggle to make ends meet, lead fulfilling lives, and remain faithful to themselves and their own...
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    50,08 €

  • The Meritocracy Myth
    Stephen J McNamee / Stephen J. McNamee / Stephen JMcNamee
    This book challenges the widely held belief in meritocracy—that everyone has an equal chance of success based on individual merit and effort. The book considers non-merit factors such as social connections and discrimination. The fourth edition features new material on the current political climate, a new chapter on marriage and mobility, and more. ...
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    52,97 €

  • The Meritocracy Myth
    Stephen J McNamee / Stephen J. McNamee / Stephen JMcNamee
    This book challenges the widely held belief in meritocracy—that everyone has an equal chance of success based on individual merit and effort. The book considers non-merit factors such as social connections and discrimination. The fourth edition features new material on the current political climate, a new chapter on marriage and mobility, and more. ...
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    135,98 €

  • Power and Privilege in Roman Society
    Richard Duncan-Jones
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    35,78 €

  • No Longer Homeless
    David Wagner / Gemma Atticks
    No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about—those who have formerly been on the streets—sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness. ...
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    47,70 €

  • Unbanking of America
    Lisa Servon
    "[A] startling and absorbing expose . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich."--Publishers Weekly, starred review"Exceptional . . . thorough, and even gut-wrenching. A significant contribution."--American ProspectWhy Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once ...
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    16,45 €

  • Communist Manifesto (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition) (2016)
    Friedrich Engels / Karl Marx
    THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one...
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    20,14 €

  • The State of State Theory
    Abbey S Willis / Abbey S. Willis / Abbey SWillis / Davita Silfen Glasberg / Deric Shannon
    This book engages broadly with the tradition of state theory, arguing that contemporary state theory must account for multiple sites of power. The authors build on and expand traditional state theory offering tools to rethink how we analyze the state. ...
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    122,34 €

  • On Security, Peace and Equal Distribution of Wealth
    Chen Wu Chu
    On Security, Peace and Equal Distribution of Wealth is a collection of 30 essays on economics and management. The author, Chen Wu Chu, was a public servant doing secretarial work for the President of the Executive Yuan. He frequently composed investigative reports and analytical essays on economic, financial and social affairs for Cabinet members as decision-making references. ...
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    10,76 €

  • Narrativa proletaria norteamericana 1929-1941
    Emili Olcina i Aya
    La pobreza, el desempleo, los desahucios, el aumento de las desigualdades durante la Gran Depresión de 1929-1941 impulsaron en los Estados Unidos una literatura socialmente comprometida que cuestionaba el orden capitalista y la manera de gestionarlo.Lejos del maniqueísmo panfletario, la litetatura proletaria norteamericana de la década de los 1930 generó muchas obras maestras. ...
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    16,64 €

  • Precarious Work
    This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life. ...
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    244,05 €

  • The Beginnings of the Labor Unions
    Baby Professor
    Labor unions are groups of organized individuals that aim to protect and further their rights and interests. Before there were labor unions, there were issues of slavery, unsanitary working conditions and a high number of work-related illnesses and even deaths. So where did the idea of labor unions start? Who started the first labor union? Know the answers in this history book ...
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    18,19 €

  • Research on Economic Inequality
    This volume presents ten chapters that discuss the economics of poverty, inequality and welfare. They address how we measure poverty, inequality and welfare and how we use such measurements to devise policies to deliver social mobility. They consider both theoretical and empirical topics with special reference to developing countries. ...
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    209,99 €

  • Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement
    John Leveille
    This book is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street social movement. It uses a revisionist Marxist framework, informed by critical theory, to understand and explain the organization and activities of this protest group. ...
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    149,49 €


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