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  • The Residential Is Racial

    A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership

    by Adrienne Brown ...
    Series series Post*45
    Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership in changing the definition, perception, and value of race.In The Residential is Racial Adrienne Brown reveals how mass homeownership remade the rubrics of race, from the early cases realtors made for ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Way We Never Were

    American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

    by Stephanie Coontz ...
    **The classic, myth-shattering history of the American family.“The Way We Never Were effectively demolishes the normal, traditional nuclear family as neither normal nor traditional, and not even nuclear.” ―Nation**Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man’s home has never been his castle, the “male breadwinner marriage” is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Civil Rights

    Rhetoric or Reality

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Collective Action

    Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, With a New Preface and Appendix

    by Mancur Olson Jr. ...
    Series Book 124 - Harvard Economic Studies
    This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mancur Olson examines the extent to which the individuals that share a common interest find it ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Economic Principles

    The Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics

    by David Warsh ...
    For nearly ten years, readers of the Sunday Boston Globe and newspapers around America have delighted in David Warsh's column, "Economic Principals." This collection shows why. Taken as a whole, Warsh's writings amount to a vast and colorful group portrait of the personalities who dominate modem economics -- from the luminaries to unknown soldiers to eccentrics who add sparkle to the tapestry ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Corruption of Economics

    by Mason Gaffney, Fred Harrison ...
    Series Book 1 - Shepheard Walwyn Classics
    Some years ago, The Economist carried a lead editorial, ‘The puzzling failure of economics’. The frank admission was provoked by the publication of a new edition of Paul Samuelson’s Economist. The editorial concluded that it ‘is not a failure of economics, in fact, but of modern [neo-classical] economics’.The authors argue there is nothing puzzling about this failure. They document how the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Purchase of Intimacy

    by Viviana A. Zelizer ...
    In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

    How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by George Lipsitz ...
    In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Real Economy

    History and Theory

    by Jonathan Levy ...
    A provocative new theory of “the economy,” its history, and its politics that better unites history and economicsWhat is the economy, really? Is it a “market sector,” a “general equilibrium,” or the “gross domestic product”? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists risk losing sight of the economy itself. Meanwhile, other disciplines, although often intent on ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • How Our Days Became Numbered

    Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual

    by Dan Bouk ...
    "It is hard to write engagingly about insurance and the history of statistics. Bouk has succeeded in this feat . . . a very ambitious book." ― The American Historical ReviewLong before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"—and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Parenthood

    Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric of maternal responsibility are issues of power, resources, and control. "Berry's book could be a significant impetus for corporate executives and political leaders, conservatives and liberals, and mothers and fathers to support parental involvement ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD