A damning account of the latest transformation in mass incarceration, revealing how powerful nonprofits and so-called progressives used the language of social movements to build new jails.
Judgement at Stoney Creek has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC.
'Witty and unusual' George Orwell'Magnificent' W H AudenA lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.
Extrait : "La plupart des arguments qui militent en faveur de l'éducation ont été si souvent développés, qu'en prenant la parole pour traiter ce sujet devant vous, je ne peux que faire appel à votre jugement et à votre bon sens pour en attester l'importance, persuadé qu'il n'est pas besoin de mon propre témoignage pour affermir et fortifier vos sentiments et vos convictions à cet égard.
Las elites han estado en el centro de muchos de los debates de las últimas décadas y a ellas se alude constantemente; sin embargo, la discusión ha estado tradicionalmente constreñida a interpretaciones categóricas que han tendido a criticar la traición de la burguesía a la revolución en pro de su aristocratización.
After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy.
***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh***Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protest turned tragedy; this is the true story of the working class fight for the vote.
Extrait : "Je me suis proposé de constater par la double et parallèle étude des faits et des sentiments, des idées et des résultats acquis, la marche en avant des sociétés modernes et particulièrement la nôtre, dans les voies du travail et de la production, sur le terrain de la liberté et de l'esprit chrétien.
The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.
An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in AmericaKensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty.
An unsettling study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century.
Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later.
Las elites han estado en el centro de muchos de los debates de las últimas décadas y a ellas se alude constantemente; sin embargo, la discusión ha estado tradicionalmente constreñida a interpretaciones categóricas que han tendido a criticar la traición de la burguesía a la revolución en pro de su aristocratización.
In this ground-breaking book on the children of affluence, a well-known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling Americas privileged youth, thanks, in large part, to normalized, intrusive parenting that stunts the crucial development of the self.
A Times Literary Supplement's Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages.
In this controversial and hotly discussed book, Sir Peregrine presents a reactionary and playful look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy.
He aquí el objeto que inquietó y orientó toda la obra sociológica de Bourdieu, la cuestión de las clases sociales y el lugar del poder simbólico en la diferenciación social enclasante.
