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Vivek Chibber
The Class Matrix

Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural theorists have made the second claim, sidelining materialism. Now, amid deepening in…

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Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E Brown
Rural Versus Urban

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarizationWhy have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Ur…

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Daniel White, Emma Cook, Andrea de Antoni,
Affect as Cultural Critique

Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not t…

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Hilde Østby,
So Lonely

"Loneliness increases your chance of early death by 26 percent, places your body under extreme physical stress, can lead to depression and anxiety, and is so pervasive that it's been recognized as an…

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Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy

Using narrative to provide forms of evidence, self-reflection, and shared understanding, this volume emphasizes the little heard stories of those struggling with the pandemic's effects and provides insigh…

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Thinking with Plants and Fungi

Thinking with Plants and Fungi brings together leading voices from science, the humanities, and the arts to explore how vegetal and fungal life challenge dominant models of consciousness, community, and e…

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Terrell J Winder
Shameless

How young Black queer men in Los Angeles reject stigma and stereotypes and instead find pride in their racial and sexual identitiesShameless is an in-depth exploration of the ways that young Black gay men…

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Jonathan Sacks
The Dignity of Difference

This redesigned and reissued edition of The Dignity of Differencewas Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's radical proposal for reconciling hatreds and includes . Updated for 2025 with a new foreword by Simon Schama.

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Emmanuelle Fantin, Bran Nicol
Jean Baudrillard

The first English biography of the twentieth-century French sociologist and philosopher.Once hailed as a historian of the future, Jean Baudrillard remains a vital figure for understanding the present. Fam…

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The Indian Civil Sphere

Indian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian and disrespectful of civil liberties, the independence of the courts and …

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Rethinking the Social

Rethinking the Social casts a spotlight on Central and Eastern European societies, making their experiences visible and meaningful within postcolonial discourse.Modernization theory overlooked important a…

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Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Stories of Raising Boys

In her poignant, affecting autoethnography, Stories of Raising Boys, Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock investigates the meaning of disability, gender, race, and privilege in contemporary culture. Scott-Pollock is a…

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Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Stories of Raising Boys

In her poignant, affecting autoethnography, Stories of Raising Boys, Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock investigates the meaning of disability, gender, race, and privilege in contemporary culture. Scott-Pollock is a…

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Peter Kivisto, Giuseppe Sciortino
The Civil Sphere

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander's Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original …

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Jennifer Doleac
The Science of Second Chances

Freakonomics for criminal justice, The Science of Second Chances presents a groundbreaking approach to criminal justice reform, revealing how small-scale interventions can reduce people's chances of reoff…

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Peter Kivisto, Giuseppe Sciortino
The Civil Sphere

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander's Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original …

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Elissa Strauss
When You Care

In this "urgent and necessary book" (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and comm…

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Scott Schieman
I Want M.O.R.E.

Have you ever found yourself considering what your life would be like in the absence of work? Would you feel a sense of loss past the finances? More people than ever before believe that a job is just a wa…

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Michelle Jackson
The Division of Rationalized Labor

Specialization should make workers perform an ever-narrower range of tasks. Yet evidence shows that many specialized occupations have grown more complex. Michelle Jackson untangles this paradox, arguing t…

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D Travers Scott
Convenient Discrimination

While social oppression is typically framed in terms of prejudice and hate, D. Travers Scott contends that discrimination against marginalized groups is often rooted in a shockingly banal perspective: the…

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