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Anthropology & Sociology

Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
2 posts
Against Method

by Paul Feyerabend
Beyond Popper and Kuhn to an anarchist philosophy of science.
Agency of Fear

by Edward Jay Epstein
A sharp exposé of the true motivations behind the war on drugs.
Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

by Max Weber
In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome
1 post

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

by Marshall Berman
A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization.
1 post
America

by Jean Baudrillard
“A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left.”—New York Times
2 posts
Animals Like Us

by Mark Rowlands
A manifesto for the moral rights of animals.
Antagonistics

by Gopal Balakrishnan
A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.

Anything But Mexican

by Rodolfo F. Acuña
“Will stand amongst the classics in Chicano Studies.”—Teresa Cordova, University of New Mexico
2 posts
Atheism in Christianity

by Ernst Bloch
Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible.
2 posts
Barbaric Sport

by Marc Perelman
Globalized sport as savage spectacle and ‘opium of the people’
4 posts
Barbecued Husbands

by Betty Mindlin
Winner of the coveted Associacao Paulista de Criticos de Arte Prize: an anthology of the stories of the tribes of the Amazon.

Beyond Black and White

by Manning Marable
America's foremost radical black intellectual dissects the 'new racism.'
4 posts
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

by Michele Wallace
“Courageous, outspoken, clear-eyed.”—Publishers Weekly
1 post
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst
Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life.
7 posts
A Book of Migrations

by Rebecca Solnit
"A brilliant meditation on travel."—The New York Times
3 posts

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