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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.

4 posts
Reflections on Anti-Semitism

by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, et al.

Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissent.

47 posts
Reification

by Timothy Bewes
“Bewes’s book is needed like daily bread.”—Slavoj Žižek
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney
A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalism
5 posts

Restless Cities

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

by Dan Hind

Winner 2011 Best Book of Ideas at the Bristol Festival of Ideas

13 posts
The Return of the White Plague

Edited by Matthew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla

A global health catastrophe threatens to undermine all efforts to eradicate poverty and human suffering.
Reversed Realities

by Naila Kabeer
Why development organizations are failing women in poverty.
6 posts

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.
4 posts
School Wars

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

by Jean Baudrillard

“The most influential prophet of the media since Marshall McLuhan.”–i-D Magazine

4 posts
SCUM Manifesto

by Valerie Solanas

Avital Ronell reconsiders Solanas in light of her social milieu.

14 posts

Secular Devotion

by Timothy Brennan
Illuminating exploration of Afro-Latin music’s challenge to Western cultural imperialism.
3 posts
Separate and Dominate

by Christine Delphy

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures

60 posts
A Seventh Man

by John Berger

New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.

24 posts
Sex-pol

by Wilhelm Reich
The role of sexual repression in class domination, and the struggle for sexual liberation.
11 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...

3 posts
Social Class in Europe

by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Pénissat, et al.

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout Europe

1 post
Social Division

by Alan Carling

Social divisions are systematic social inequalities which are frequently regarded as unjust, and are fateful in the lives of individuals.
The Social Origins of Private Life

by Stephanie Coontz

A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit.

7 posts