Anthropology & Sociology

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  Political Interventions

  by Pierre Bourdieu
  Urgent political writings of the major twentieth-century sociologist.
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  What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

  by Göran Therborn
  The intricate practices of the elite and how they maintain their dominance.

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  Homo Juridicus

  by Alain Supiot
  A provocative investigation of how law shapes everyday life.
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  The Gospels

  In this new presentation of the Gospels, renowned thinker Terry Eagleton asks: was Jesus a revolutionary?

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  The New Spirit of Capitalism

  by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
  A major new work examining network-based organizations and post-Fordist work structures.

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  The Wages of Whiteness

  by David R. Roediger
  An original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States.

  3 posts

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  The Record of the Paper

  by Richard Falk and Howard Friel
  A scathing examination of the editorial practices of the New York Times.
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  Infancy and History

  by Giorgio Agamben
  A profound meditation on language and philosophy, nature and culture, and the birth of the subject.

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  City of Quartz

  by Mike Davis
  This new edition of Mike Davis’s visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.
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  Inequalities of the World

  Edited by Göran Therborn
  A groundbreaking exploration of global inequality.
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  Moving Mountains

  by Anne-Christine D'Adesky
  Fully updated analysis of the global fight to treat HIV and AIDS.
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  Spaces of Global Capitalism

  by David Harvey
  An essential introduction to the field of historical geography.

  3 posts

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  Wanderlust

  by Rebecca Solnit
  The first general history of walking—provocative and profound.

  3 posts

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  The Politics of Friendship

  by Jacques Derrida
  Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences.
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  The Metastases of Enjoyment

  by Slavoj Žižek
  The status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics.
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  Portents of the Real

  by Susan Willis
  The deeper meanings of popular cultural phenomena in post-9/11 America.

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