Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The European Union	Chris Rumford	The European Union is the first full-length treatment of European integration from a sociological perspective. It redirects the core concerns of political sociology away from nationally bounded socie…	OL11996001W
The new Jim Crow	Karen Chilton,Michelle Alexander	This work argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race…	OL13826369W
Les cols blancs	C. Wright Mills	"The late C.Wright Mills was former Professor of Sociology at Columbia University."--BOOK JACKET.	OL14863142W
Daisy sisters	Henning Mankell	Henning Mankell (Estocolmo, 1948-Göteborg, 2015) ha sido conocido en todo el mundo por su serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el célebre inspector Kurt Wallander, traducidas a cuarenta y d…	OL14969878W
Artistic Citizenship	Mary Schmidt Campbell	How do people in the creative arts prepare for, and participate in, civic life? This question is central to anyone involved in arts education and in the creation of public policy for the arts. Celebr…	OL15177598W
Housing and Social Change	Ray Forrest	This book aims to provide a wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing. It is both policy-oriented and theoretical and draws on a group of intern…	OL15177806W
Solidarity first	Robert O'Brien	"Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada. Contributors examine how social cohesion functions on multip…	OL15594243W
Darkness in El Dorado	Patrick Tierney	Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yanomami Indians, one of the Amazon Basin's oldest tribes.	OL15835650W
Pakistan	Carolyn Black	Explores how the history, climate, geography, and religion of Pakistan have shaped the customs and practices of modern daily life.	OL15930910W
Время сэконд хэнд	Светлана Алексиевич	"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the …	OL16813790W
Servants	Lucy Lethbridge	From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, serv…	OL17188371W
Downsize This!	Michael Moore	Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American is a book by American author and producer Michael Moore. The book is a look at the state of business and industry in the United States and th…	OL1806447W
Brother, I'm dying	Edwidge Danticat	From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so …	OL1806975W
Immigrants, integration and cities		Contains a selection of papers prepared for an experts' meeting held in Paris, March 18-19, 1996, for the purpose of providing a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and urban…	OL18298574W
The unfinished journey	William Henry Chafe	Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America, William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, incl…	OL1912830W
Why geography matters	Harm J. de Blij	"Preparing for climate change, averting a cold war with China, defeating terrorism: all of this requires geographic knowledge. In Why Geography Matters, Harm de Blij makes an urgent call to restore g…	OL1942096W
Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico	Jay Kinsbruner	"Based on examination of housing patterns in San Juan and demographic data from four of its 19th-century barrios, work provides a much-needed exploration of racial prejudice in Puerto Rico. Challenge…	OL19540961W
Perspectives on feminist political thought in European history	Siep Stuurman,Tjitske Akkerman	Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. Conventional…	OL19894152W
Honky	Dalton Conley	"This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de…	OL1998365W
Interpreter of maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	Oorspr. titel: Interpreter of maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. Verhalen over Indiase emigranten in de Verenigde Staten.	OL2001058W