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Do voters look to the future? Do voters look to the future? Brad Lockerbie "Do voters look to the past, the future, or both when deciding how to vote? In Do Voters Look to the Future?, Brad Lockerbie shows voters to be more sophisticated than much of the work in political s… OL12710041W
Money Has No Smell 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
Constructing Paris in the age of revolution Constructing Paris in the age of revolution Allan Potofsky "Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which… OL15500860W
How the West Was Lost How the West Was Lost Dambisa Moyo "In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the economic supremacy of the West. She examines how the West's flawed financial … OL15673776W
Falling behind Falling behind Robert H. Frank Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry … OL16063641W
The Beautiful and the Damned The Beautiful and the Damned Siddhartha Deb Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercov… OL16096565W
American Indian and Alaska native children and mental health American Indian and Alaska native children and mental health Michelle C. Sarche "This unique book examines the physical, psychological, social, and environmental factors that support or undermine healthy development in American Indian children, including economics, biology, and … OL16134474W
Inside job Inside job Charles H. Ferguson The definitive big picture on the financial crisis from the man behind the film "Inside Job", one of the top 30 documentaries of all time and an Oscar-winning film. Based on explosive interviews cond… OL16451730W
Agenda for a new economy Agenda for a new economy David C. Korten Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. K… OL16948247W
Illusions of prosperity Illusions of prosperity Joel Blau "In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of t… OL1927051W
Democracy in Black Democracy in Black Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. "A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today… OL20030527W
Post-cowboy economics Post-cowboy economics Thomas Michael Power,Richard Barrett Are the economic woes afflicting the North American West caused by increasingly strict environmental regulations on natural resource industries such as mining and logging? In "Post-Cowboy Economics",… OL20904217W
Time to get tough Time to get tough Donald Trump Real estate developer and television personality Donald Trump sets out his diagnosis of what ails America and his proposals for making the country great again. OL20940256W
Adolescent diversity in ethnic, economic, and cultural contexts Adolescent diversity in ethnic, economic, and cultural contexts Raymond Montemayor,Thomas P. Gullotta,Gerald R. Adams By summarising and integrating theory and research on adolescents from a diversity of backgrounds, this text presents a picture of these understudied and misunderstood adolescents by focusing on the … OL20942714W
La congiuntura del primo Trecento in Lombardia (1290-1360) La congiuntura del primo Trecento in Lombardia (1290-1360) Paolo Grillo,François Menant I decenni che precedettero la terribile epidemia di ?Peste Nera? del 1348 in Europa sono stati a lungo presentati univocamente come un periodo di gravi difficoltà, dovute all?instabilità politica e, … OL32573570W
The anatomy of racial inequality The anatomy of racial inequality Glenn C. Loury Why are black Americans so persistently confined to the margins of society? And why do they fail across so many metrics—wages, unemployment, income levels, test scores, incarceration rates, health ou… OL3525828W
Caliban and the Witch Caliban and the Witch Laia Bragulat,Inés Moreno López,Edurne Lazkano Ibarbia,Aitor Arruti Rezabal,Silvia Federici De la emancipación de la servidumbre a las herejías subversivas, un hilo rojo recorre la historia de la transición del feudalismo al capitalismo. Todavía hoy expurgado de la gran mayoría de los manua… OL5450225W
Crossing the green line between the West Bank and Israel Crossing the green line between the West Bank and Israel Avram S. Bornstein "Crossing the Green Line is about passing through checkpoints - specifically those that mark the Green Line, the geopolitical border separating the West Bank from Israel proper - and how their existe… OL6213472W
Surviving in a Material World Surviving in a Material World Ronald Paul Hill "Cutting through the stereotypes that enable many people to dismiss the needs of the impoverished, Surviving in a Material World provides an eye-opening look at the material lives of the poor in Amer… OL9368283W