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Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France has replaced the old left-right split, leaving many on "the periphery." As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country's new economic citadels suffer disproportionately...
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The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets....
264) Bolivia: Viracocha
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Viracocha features mestizos and campesinos in the Andean highlands interacting within a near-subsistance economic system. Market days and fiestas provide opportunities for Spanish-speaking mestizos, alternately benign and abusive, to assert their traditional social dominance over the Aymara and Quechua campesinos.
266) The last hours
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When the Black Death enters England in June of 1348, Lady Anne decides to quarantine her estate of Develish, including two hundred bonded serfs she must bring inside the walls. But with this sudden overturning of the accepted social order, where serfs exist only to serve their lords, conflicts soon arise and a dreadful event threatens the safety of everyone inside the walls.
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"One of the Economist.com "Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year" in Culture" Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Warhol Economy and Starstruck . Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons....
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When many of us think of the free press, we don't immediately think of massive corporations owned and orchestrated by still larger entities-we think of good and honest journalism. And that is exactly what they want you to think.
It's Not Right-Left, It's Top-Down: The Truth About The Media dives deep into the corporate and political landscape of America's leading news networks. This book includes stories and insights from individuals like:
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"Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association" "Longlisted for the 2018 Spirited Awards Best New Book on Drinks, Culture, History, or Spirits, Tales of the Cocktail" Richard E. Ocejo is associate professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New...
272) St Lucia Travel Tips and Hacks: To see an Amazing Island, you Need to Know the Best Places and Th
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The allure of tropical vacations is too strong to resist. This beautiful Caribbean island has something for everyone: stunning scenery, great beaches and plenty of activities to keep you busy. But before you head off on your dream vacation, there are a few things you need to know. So, here are top tips for traveling to St Lucia!
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Mientras se van moderando los ecos de la crisis sanitaria provocada por el covid-19, sus consecuencias económicas y sociales más profundas están todavía lejos de haberse revelado por completo. ¿Qué cambios fueron coyunturales y cuáles significaron transformaciones duraderas que modificarán nuestra imagen y nuestra experiencia de la sociedad argentina? Este libro, que reúne los hallazgos de un verdadero experimento de ciencias sociales en...
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Esta colección de ensayos o «constelación de ideas», como le llama John Holloway, representa la determinación del autor de entretejer la teoría crítica—encarnada en el pensamiento de Walter Benjamin, Mijaíl Bajtín, Theodor Adorno, entre otros—y la propuesta revolucionaria del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, gestada en Chiapas. La voz de Tischler se complementa con la experiencia zapatista en un afán por liberar estas ideas...
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Meet Money Rock-young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer-in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history-by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic-of a striving African American...
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Con gran soltura, lucidez crítica y sentido del humor, el reconocido filósofo Gerald A. Cohen defiende en este libro la necesidad de superar el carácter depredador de las sociedades de mercado. Los textos de Por una vuelta al socialismo son un ataque al capitalismo: demuestran que la extendida creencia según la cual este sistema ofrece una mayor libertad a los individuos se basa sobre una serie de errores conceptuales. De hecho, ¿qué libertad...
277) Joder a México
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El monero tiene que mirar, escuchar, leer, reflexionar y pensar, para dibujar un suceso a fin de que el lector lo vea muchas horas después. En este libro de cartón político, Chavo del Toro presenta un análisis de lo que ha sucedido en México el último año, una muestra de la crisis política y económica más severa de la historia reciente de este país.
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En tiempos en que la protesta social contra la histórica desigualdad en Chile ocupa las primeras planas de los medios periodísticos internacionales, este libro es un excelente recurso para entender las inequidades en dicha sociedad y sistema educativo, pero también posibles avenidas para contribuir a una sociedad más justa y equitativa. Todos aquellos interesados en conocer más a fondo la realidad social y educativa de Chile, y que estrategias...
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In Degrees of Failure, Randle Nelsen brings together such diverse topics as campus parking, college sports, helicopter parents, edu-business as edu-tainment, and technology in teaching to show how continuing inequities, grounded in large part upon social class differences, are maintained and reproduced in our universities. Paying special attention to the role played by professors in solidifying status-quo arrangements, Nelsen makes the strange familiar...
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