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Anthropology & Sociology

The Record of the Paper

by Richard Falk and Howard Friel
A scathing examination of the editorial practices of the New York Times.
Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.
Dissecting how facile accusations of "anti-Semitism" are used to stifle dissent.
Reification

by Timothy Bewes
“Bewes’s book is needed like daily bread.”—Slavoj Žižek
Restless Cities

Edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart
Leading writers reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion.
2 posts

The Return of the Public

by Dan Hind
Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas
18 posts
Reversed Realities

by Naila Kabeer
Why development organizations are failing women in poverty.
1 post
Rumba on the River

by Gary Stewart
Rumba on the River presents a snapshot of an era when the currents of tradition and modernization collided along the banks of the Congo.
School Wars

by Melissa Benn
The story of the struggle for Britain’s schools, and a passionate call for education as a public good.
15 posts

Scum Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas
Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.
1 post
Secular Devotion

by Timothy Brennan
Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
A Seventh Man

by John Berger
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.
Sex-pol

by Wilhelm Reich
The role of sexual repression in class domination, and the struggle for sexual liberation.
4 posts

Sexuality and Class Struggle

by Reimut Reiche

This book which combines the methods and results of both Freud and Marx is by one of the leaders of the West German student left during its most...
The Social Origins of Private Life

by Stephanie Coontz
A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit.
Social Theory

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
1 post
Spaces of Global Capitalism

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