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Inequality

There is little question about the colossal importance of inequality in society today. With huge amounts of wealth concentrated in the ha...

Marx's Others - Bodies, Affects and Experience

While there recently has been renewed interest in Marx, we cannot simply apply his nearly 200-year-old texts to today's world. Capitalism...

Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the em...

Hanging Out - The Radical Power of Killing Time

"Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance of unstructured pre-digital hang." —Pe...

Catalytic Mega-Events - Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation

Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these ...

Conspiracies - History's Greatest Plots, Collusions and Cover Ups

This fascinating hardback guide brings together the most intriguing and compelling conspiracy theories, illustrated with striking full-co...

Engaging Erik Olin Wright - Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias

A LIFEWORK FINDING THE SEEDS OF EMANCIPATION IN EXISTING INSTITUTIONS

What Gender Should Be

What is gender? More importantly, what should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights fr...

Planning for the Wrong Pandemic - Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge

The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask: why...

Masculinities Ageing between Cultures - Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue

Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies,...

Inequality and Globalization - Improving Measurement through Integrated Financial Accounts

A remedy for the gap between micro and macro data, making measures of inequality and national income consistent with each otherIncreasing...

Happy Apocalypse - A History of Technological Risk

How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution

My Glorious Defeats - Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump's America. This is his story. Af...

The Contemporary Black Church - The New Dynamics of African American Religion

Charts the changing dynamics of religion and spirituality among African Americans Recent decades have ushered in a profound transformatio...

Competing Climate Cultures in Germany - Variations in the Collective Denying of Responsibility and Efficacy

Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have ...

Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality - Let's Talk Wealtherty

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentles...

My Child Is Trans, Now What? - A Joy-Centered Approach to Support

A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a "warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of ...

Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

"Aligning discourses surrounding hegemonic colonial visions of the environment and disability, this volume illustrates the ways in which ...

Safe or Free? - Comparative Analysis of Media Discourses on Security

One of the biggest dilemmas of our times is how much safety and security we desire and what price we are prepared to pay for it. By apply...

As Gods Among Men - A History of the Rich in the West

How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn’t help) ...

Contours of Israeli Politics - Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy

Forthcoming Fall 2024

The Good, Bad, and Challenging Migrant - Contested Religious Identities in Postmigrant Societies Between New Turkey and New Tyrol

In post-migrant societies belonging, identity and transnationality go far beyond inclusion and exclusion. Intersecting elements behind ci...

Riverine Citizenship - A Bosnian City in Love with the River

Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans which gave rise to a surge in hydropower investments unparal...

Queer as Folklore - The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Queer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and f...

Demographic Change and Policy Responses - The Case of Japan

This book explores how people have perceived and acted on the changes in four different population components, namely, fertility, mortali...

Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Edition] - Essays

New York Times Bestseller From Roxane Gay comes this collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most...

Afropea - A Post-Western and Post-Racist Utopia

Challenging conventional notions of racial and regional identity, Léonora Miano provides a fresh perspective on the complexities of self-...

2020 - A Reckoning

Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply r...

Institutional Engineering and Hybrid Power-sharing in Divided Societies - The Cases of Indonesia and Sub-Saharan

Many societies are strongly divided, especially in ethnic, religious, racial, and ideological terms. Such divisions are usually related t...

The Cities We Need - Essential Stories of Everyday Places

"Through photography and creative nonfiction, we see Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA through new eyes-alongside the critical importance of e...

In the Name of God - Who Knew What When?

In the Name of God - Who Knew What When? will take the readers back to the beginning of the 2002 Catholic Church sex scandal implosion th...

Who's Afraid of Gender?

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE SCOTSMAN...

Integrity - The Rise of a Distinctive Western Idea and Its Destiny

Public life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity. The behaviour of elected politicians like Donald Trump and B...

The Pool Is Closed - Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim

In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social enco...

New Orleans Pralines - Plantation Sugar, Louisiana Pecans, and the Marketing of Southern Nostalgia

"New Orleans Pralines: Plantation Sugar, Louisiana Pecans, and the Marketing of Southern Nostalgia follows the development of the praline...

The Every Body Book of Consent - An Lgbtqia-Inclusive Guide to Respecting Boundaries, Bodies, and Beyond

An LGBTQ+ inclusive guide to consent for children aged 8-12, with beautiful illustrations and questions for further discussion, from the ...

In/Visibility of Flight - Images and Narratives of Forced Migration

In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. It is part of political...

Rhythms of Change - Reflections on the Regent Park Revitalization

In the early 2000s, a remarkable renewal of Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood began. Designed as a "garden city" in the 1940s, the area...

Whatever the Hell You Want - An Escape Plan to Break Out of Life's Little Boxes and Live Free from Expectations

F*ck the expectations. You can live a life that is bigger than the little boxes others have tried to put you in. Are you expected to: mar...

Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences - Discourse on the Condition of Im-possibility

Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret hi...

Built to Punish - How the Criminal Justice System Undermines American Society

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. With only about 4.5% of the world's population, it holds about 20% of ...

Radical Cartography - Visual Argument in the Age of Data

Ending the Pursuit - Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity

A groundbreaking deep dive into the history, politics and lived experiences of three often-misunderstood identities: Asexuality, Aromanti...

Where We Stand

Inspired and Outraged - The Making of a Feminist Physician

A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist f...

Should We Go Extinct? - A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times

Should we bring new humans into the world? Or would it be better off without us? These days it’s harder than ever to watch TV, scroll soc...

Reinventing Love - How the Patriarchy Sabotages Heterosexual Relations

"A new work by the author of "In Defense of Witches" that seeks to redefine heterosexual relationships and give women back their voice. A...

Undivided - The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

"In a country torn apart by racial tension, the story of how one Evangelical church tried to bridge the divide, with notable, if not comp...

Nations, States and Empires

This book traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nati...

What Is Political Sociology?

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a ...

Carbon Societies - The Social Logic of Fossil Fuels

The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we ar...

The Darwinian Trap - The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)

"A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival-an "optimization trap"...

Mayor of the Tenderloin - del Seymour's Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco

The unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocat...

Marriage Material - How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships

"In the US, marriage rates are at an all-time low. But as rates are declining, a considerable portion of the US population only very rece...

These Strange New Minds - How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and ...

Brown Tom's Schooldays

Enos Montour's Brown Tom's Schooldays tells the story of a young boy's life at residential school. Drawn from Montour's first-hand experi...

How to Live Well with Dementia - Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Carer Partners

How to Live Well with Dementia: Expert Help for People Living with Dementia and their Family, Friends, and Carer Partners provides an arr...

Respectable Muslims - Morals and Manners of Minority Citizens in France

Obitchuary - The Big Hot Book of Death

Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of death and how we’re...

The Quiet Damage - Qanon and the Destruction of the American Family

The riveting story of QAnon’s devastating impact on the American family, grappling with the seductive allure of disinformation, the traum...