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Joseph P Viteritti

Radical Dreamers

In Radical Dreamers, Joseph P. Viteritti presents a wide-ranging history of the most controversial educational reform movement in America: school choice. Using it as a lens for observing the broader histo…

Patrick Eiden-Offe

The Poetry of Class

In the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon…

China in Contemporary Capitalism

China in Contemporary Capitalism presents outstanding research in Political Economy on the economic, social, and political development of China from a unique Global South-centred perspective.The authors c…

J Malcolm Garcia

Alabama Village

From the celebrated writer J. Malcolm Garcia, a narrative nonfiction account of a forgotten Alabama neighborhood through intimate, tender, and gritty profiles of its people as they navigate immense loss a…

Robert Wuthnow

The Left Behind

"Wuthnow cogently confronts the question: Why are so many of the people living in small-town America filled with rage? Instead of condemning, he listens. In this highly accessible, instructive book, …

Robert J Sampson

Marked by Time

A leading sociologist's groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children's futures.Between 1970 and…

John A Powell, Stephen Menendian

Belonging Without Othering

"In a world marked by extreme divisions--from global conflicts to grave human rights violations--public figures struggle to find words that capture humanity's inclination to fracture itself. Througho…

Deborah James

Clawing Back

"The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings whe…

Deborah James

Clawing Back

"The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings whe…

Kristian Williams

Policing the Progressive City

The dangers of "progressive policing" as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland's "law and order" has been shaped for ov…

The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists

Back in print for the first time in decades. A classic in US labor history.On May 1, 1886, Albert and Lucy Parsons led upwards of 80,000 striking workers and their supporters through the streets of Chicag…

Melissa S Kearney

The Two-Parent Privilege

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems.In The Two-Parent Privilege , Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for …

Gönenç Uysal

Class, Capital, State, and Late Development

In Class, Capital, State, and Late Development: The Political Economy of Military Interventions in Turkey, Gönenç Uysal discusses state-military-society relations in Turkey from the late Ottoman era to to…

CBGB: A New York Soundtrack 1975 - 1986

Brian Bean,

Their End Is Our Beginning

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did "modern policing&…

Brian Bean,

Their End Is Our Beginning

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did "modern policing&…

Daniel Horowitz

On Retirement

How longer lives, greater prosperity, and policy shifts are reshaping aging and retirementOnce considered a period of frailty and physical decline, aging and retirement has transformed into a chapter of c…

A Mechele Dickerson

The Middle-Class New Deal

"We are at a moment of reckoning as a country, and this bold and ambitious book should be at the center of the conversation on what can be done to make the American Dream more realistic for the many-…

Stephen B Bright, James Kwak

The Fear of Too Much Justice

The book John Grisham calls "a clear and poignant indictment of criminal injustice in America"Called "passionate and eye-opening" by Booklist , The Fear of Too Much Justice, by the leg…