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Anthropology & Sociology

No Sweat

Edited by Andrew Ross
Shocking investigations into the sweatshops producing today’s high street clothing.
The Circular Structure of Power

by Torben Bech Dyrberg
A challenging investigation into the concept of power.
Mexican Postcards

by Carlos Monsiváis
A wide-ranging, vivacious portrait of contemporary Mexican life and culture.
Cynicism and Postmodernity

by Timothy Bewes
A critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society and the political crisis posed by cynicism.

An Injury to All

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
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Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
Inside Babylon

Edited by Clive Harris and Winston James
A lively and informed reflection on the experience of black people in Britain.
The War of Gods

by Michael Lowy
How liberation theology has brought politics and religion together in Latin America.
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What Should Legal Analysis Become?

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in legal and social theory.
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Media Manifestos

by Régis Debray
A tool-kit with which to rethink the whole business of mediation.
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Enforcing Normalcy

by Lennard J. Davis
A challenge to expand our thinking about disability and oppression.
Out of the Garden

by Stephen Kline
“Alerts and sensitises one to things that should have been obvious but weren’t.”—Observer

A Millennium of Family Change

by Wally Seccombe
A powerful study of the changing structure of families.
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life

by Andrew Ross
The return of Malthusian ideas about scarcity, in the name of environmentalism.
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Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña
“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico
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Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.