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  • Savage Inequalitiesby Jonathan Kozol

    Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00

    For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the... more...

  • Night Draws Nearby Anthony Shadid

    Henry Holt and Co. 2006; US$ 15.99

    From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is a riveting account of ordinary people caught between the struggles of nations Like her country, Karima?a widow with eight children?was caught between America and Saddam. It was March 2003 in proud but battered Baghdad. As night drew near, she took her son to... more...

  • Who's Your City?by Richard Florida

    Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.99

    In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn?t matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all, flat. Not so fast. Place, argues the great urbanist Richard Florida, is not only important, it?s more important than ever. In fact, choosing a place to live is as important to your happiness as choosing... more...

  • The Next American Revolutionby Grace Lee Boggs; Scott Kurashige; Danny Glover

    University of California Press 2012; US$ 19.95

    A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis?political, economical, and environmental?and shows how to create the... more...

  • Salt Sugar Fatby Michael Moss

    Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 28.00

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a Pulitzer Prize?winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.   In... more...

  • Salt Sugar Fatby Michael Moss

    McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 32.99

    From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the troubling story of the rise of the processed food industry -- and how it used salt, sugar, and fat to addict us.  Salt Sugar Fat is a journey into the highly secretive world of the processed food giants, and the story of how they have deployed these three essential... more...

  • Big Databy Kenneth Cukier; Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

    John Murray 2013; Not Available

    We are witnessing the beginnings of a revolution. Big data - the explosion of information that digitization has sparked - is changing our world in ways we are just starting to appreciate. more...

  • Religion in the Contemporary Worldby Alan Aldridge

    Wiley 2013; US$ 28.95

    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social... more...

  • Economic Networksby David Knoke

    Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95

    Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchanges involving money, labor, and commodities combine into complexly connected systems. Economic networks span many levels of analysis, from persons (consumers, employees), to groups (households, workteams),... more...

  • What Is Indigenous Knowledge?by Joe L. Kincheloe; Ladislaus M. Semali; Joe L. Kincheloe

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 57.95

    The international panel of contributors analyses knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other important fields. more...