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Anthropology & Sociology

Words & Money

by André Schiffrin

A publishing luminary analyzes the crisis of the media and considers the alternatives.

20 posts
A Seventh Man

by John Berger

New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.

24 posts
The Pope Is Not Gay!

by Angelo Quattrocchi

A provocative exploration of Pope Benedict XVI’s stance on homosexuality.

7 posts
America

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

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

by Marshall Berman
A kaleidoscopic journey into the experience of modernization.
9 posts
Deep Mountain

by Ece Temelkuran
A personal and political journey to the heart of the Turkey-Armenia conflict, by Turkey’s most famous female journalist.
11 posts
Against Method

by Paul Feyerabend

Beyond Popper and Kuhn to an anarchist philosophy of science.

1 post
Restless Cities

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

Food and Love

by Jack Goody
A subversive thinker draws out the historical significance of the most intimate corners of our lives.
1 post
Suffering as Identity

by Esther Benbassa
An analysis of the discourse of victimhood in Judaism.
4 posts
The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

15 posts
I, Rigoberta Menchú

by Rigoberta Menchú
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
14 posts

Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
12 posts
Gender Equality

Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers
An urgent call for real-world solutions to gender inequality.
12 posts
In and Out of the West

by Maurice Godelier
Analyzing the role and trajectory of anthropology.
6 posts
Atheism in Christianity

by Ernst Bloch
Visionary utopian thinker finds the atheist core of the Bible.
4 posts

Antagonistics

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

by André Pichot

As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics.
Adam Smith in Beijing

by Giovanni Arrighi
Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.
15 posts
Non-Places

by Marc Augé

A provocative study of the 'non-space' which defines our age's love for excess of information and space.

1 post