Category: Sociology

Arise Ye Mighty People!: Gender, Class and Race in Popular Struggles

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Africa World Pr

Seller ID: 81950

ISBN-13: 9780865433014

Arise Ye Mighty People witnesses the continuous resistance to the multiple oppressions leveled against women and men of color, throughout the world.
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Japan's Minorities: The illusion of homogeneity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Routledge : January 1997

Seller ID: 85800

ISBN-13: 9780415152181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Safer Saner Schools Restorative Practices in Education

Price: $7.50

Publisher: IIRP

Seller ID: 78994

ISBN-13: 9781934355015

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Work, Occupations and Professionalization

Price: $30.95

Publisher: de Sitter Publications : September 2010

Seller ID: 1705

ISBN-13: 9781897160404

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Work, Occupations and Professionalization presents a thorough examination of how race, gender, and class intersect with one's profession and how inequality is situated in the work space. The text recognizes that work is increasingly dependent upon credentialism, special skills, experience, and education, and that regulatory bodies progressively set standards of professionalism, employment, and practice that are officially recognized in laws, regulations, and policies. This book is ideal for courses on the sociology of work, occupations, professionalization, and industry. Each chapter opens wit...
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A Child Is Not a Toy

By: Baxter, Sheila

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New Star Books : June 1993

Seller ID: 71109

ISBN-13: 9780921586265

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One in six children in Canada lives in poverty. These children go to school hungry, in clothes that aren't warm enough for northern winters. They get sick more often than other children. They are more likely to drop out of school and end up in a low-paying job, out of work or on the street. In "A Child Is Not a Toy," Sheila Baxter provides a voice for adults who had been poor as children, and social workers, teachers and others who work with young people. In search for solutions to these problems, Baxter looks at the federal government's new support programs and the provincial welfare programs...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

By: Boo, Katherine

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : April 2014

Seller ID: 78033

ISBN-13: 9780812979329

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE "Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care."--People "A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece."--Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times - The Washington Post - O: The Oprah Magazine - USA Today - New York - The Miami Herald - San Fr...
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Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age

By: Eksteins, Modris

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada : February 2013

Seller ID: 83483

ISBN-13: 9780307398604

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An acclaimed historian of the 20th century illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today.

Multiculturalism in Canada

By: Fleras, Augie

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Nelson Canada : January 1992

Seller ID: 19560

ISBN-13: 9780176035129

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

#foodcrisis: A graphic novel about global food security

By: Fraser, Evan D.G.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Evan D.G. Fraser : April 2015

Seller ID: 84374

ISBN: B00WMPBBIQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Dealing Crack: The Social World of Streetcorner Selling (New England Series In Criminal Behavior)

By: Jacobs, Bruce A.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Northeastern University Press : April 1999

Seller ID: 75605

ISBN-13: 9781555533878

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This starkly revealing book explores the crack cocaine trade from the candid perspectives of sellers themselves.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition (Modern Library)

By: Jacobs, Jane

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Modern Library : September 2011

Seller ID: 82281

ISBN-13: 9780679644330

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic. The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is firs...
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When China Rules The World: The Rise Of The Middle Kingdom And The End Of The Western World

By: Jacques, Martin

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Penguin UK : March 2012

Seller ID: 73561

ISBN-13: 9780140276046

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, a very different concept of the state, and the principle of contested modernity. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - 'When China Rules the World: The End of t...
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So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)

By: Keene, Donald

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Columbia University Press : April 2010

Seller ID: 67720

ISBN-13: 9780231151467

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible defeat. Nevertheless, until the shattering end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries of well-known writers including Nagai Kafu, Takami Jun, Yamada Futaru, and Hirabayashi Taiko--and the scholar Watanabe Kazuo, varying doubts were vivi...
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Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing (Culture and Communication in Canada)

By: Kline, Stephen

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Verso : December 1995

Seller ID: 78807

ISBN-13: 9781859840597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This timely and innovative book provides a detailed history of marketing to children, revealing the strategies that shape the design of toys and have a powerful impact on the way children play. Stephen Kline looks at the history and development of children's play culture and toys from the teddy bear to the Barbie doll, Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He profiles the rise of children's mass media--books, comics, film and television--and that of the specialty stores such as Toys 'R' Us, revealing how the opportunity to reach large audiences of children was a pivotal point in develop...
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Panic encyclopedia: The definitive guide to the postmodern scene (CultureTexts)

By: Kroker, Arthur

Price: $10.50

Publisher: New World Perspectives : January 1989

Seller ID: 72107

ISBN-13: 9780920393116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Milanese Encounters: Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy (Anthropological Horizons)

By: Moretti, Cristina

Price: $9.95

Publisher: University of Toronto Press : March 2015

Seller ID: 82770

ISBN-13: 9781442626997

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.Cristina Moretti's ethnographic study reveals how the meanings of Milan's public spaces shift as the city's various inhabitants use, appropriate, and travel through them. Moretti's extensive fieldwork covers international migrants, social justice organizations, and middle-class citizens groups in locations such as community centers, abandoned industrial areas...
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Japanese Society

By: Nakane, Chie

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle : January 1984

Seller ID: 85694

ISBN-13: 9784805304891

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Class Language & Education: Class Struggle & Sociolinguistics in an African Situation

By: Newsum, H. E.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Africa World Press : December 1989

Seller ID: 37494

ISBN-13: 9780865431409

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Great Good Place

By: Oldenburg, Ray

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Marlowe & Company : August 1999

Seller ID: 81427

ISBN-13: 9781569246818

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revivalA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Third places, or great good places, are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair ...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

By: Postman, Neil

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Knopf : March 1992

Seller ID: 73785

ISBN-13: 9780394582726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

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Category: Sociology