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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ladies of the Grand Tour	Brian Dolan	"According to the 1747 publication The Art of Governing a Wife, women in Georgian England were to "lay up and save, look to the house; talk to few and take of all within." However, some women broke f…	OL100267W
English social history	George Macaulay Trevelyan	This is volume 3 of 4 volumes. I actually loathe Trevelyan but even so he does come in useful (not to say indispensible) at times	OL10439947W
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen	Johan Huizinga	Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen is het bekendste werk van de historicus Johan Huizinga uit 1919. In het werk presenteert Huizinga het idee dat de overdreven formaliteit en romantiek van het laatmiddele…	OL1141875W
A man with no talents	Shirō Ōyama	"San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tok…	OL11636759W
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
Only yesterday	Frederick Lewis Allen	A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh…	OL1212453W
Money Has No Smell	Paul Stoller	Blending ethnographic description with social analysis, Stoller shows how West African entrepreneurs have built cohesive and effective multinational trading networks in New York. Their stories illumi…	OL13372974W
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
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
Outlaw Culture	Bell Hooks	Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran…	OL15053153W
Aftershock	Robert B. Reich	When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He …	OL15091463W
Blaming the victim	Ryan, William	Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.	OL15134458W
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
A nation under our feet	Steven Hahn	This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people-an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural Afr…	OL15838669W
Random family	Adrian Nicole LeBlanc	The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles a…	OL15844775W
Afghanistan's endless war	Larry P. Goodson	"Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned fundamentalists, Larry Goodson combines Taliban interviews and field research with concise analysis to expla…	OL15860335W
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feeling…	OL17201654W
Bonheur d'occasion	Gabrielle Roy	Dans le quartier montre alais de Saint-Henri, un peuple d'ouvriers et de petits employe s canadiens-franc ʹais est de sespe rement en que te de bonheur. Florentine croit avoir trouve le sien dans l'…	OL17713632W
Rebellion and Revolt	Gary Jeffrey,Terry Riley	The heroes of rebellion in medieval England are featured in three historic stories told in graphic novel format: William Wallace and his Scottish rebels take on English knights at Stirling Bridge in…	OL17903125W
Stupid white men	Michael Moore	OCLC 685134910 ISBN13 9788589362146	OL1806446W