Women spend their working lives adapting to an environment set up for men, by men: from altering the way they speak to changing the clothes they wear to power posing. But still the gender gap...

Sex work and conditions within the sex industry are frequent topics of discussion in mainstream culture and media, but rarely do these discussions include sex workers themselves, and rarely do they...

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Max Weber was the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century; Economy and Society is Weber's most famous work after The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It consists of diverse...

The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with a new prologue by Jim Bouton. When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners,...

A global history of martial arts and a celebration of their diverse forms, communities, and significance. Martial arts, both traditional and modern styles, enjoy widespread popularity, and many...

"Award-winning sociologist Rhacel Salazar Parreñas explains the warped psychology and perfectly legal practices that allow modern-day slavery to persist."--Christine L. Williams, author of Gaslighted...

From the best-selling and always-prescient author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal comes a bold indictment of America’s chronic obsession with creativity and innovation, showing...

From former NHL general manager and bestselling author of Draft Day comes an insider's look at the toughest job in sports. There is no other job in professional sports more dynamic than that of a...

The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman RushdieOn the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was...

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. We live in one of the most divisive times in our history, one in which we tend to...

A Sleeping Tiger is a rare book-length treatment of urbanization among Dayaks and also offers a fresh perspective on ethnicity, class, and the context in which they function to the benefit of some...

Der Göttinger Historiker Werner Rösener rückt mit seinem Buch das einseitige Bild vom adeligen Charakter des Mittelalters zurecht. Es geht um mittelalterliche Kleidungsformen, Grundformen der...

Frankfurt am Main. 18 cm. 200 p. Encuadernacin en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Alemn .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y seales de su anterior propietario...

Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America. The pillars of its economy-Macy's, the...

maqthematics has penetrated sociology, psychology, medicine, and linguistics. under the name of cliometry, it has been infiltrating the field of history, much to the shock of old timers. why is this...

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding--and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves National Public Radio...