Author: Chesterton, G. K. Publisher: Waking Lion Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The brilliant G. K. Chesterton examines a variety of human "types," including the Fool, the Miser, the Mystagogue, the Separatist, the Aristocrat, and 33 more. A fascinating study of human nature from...
Author: El Ghonemy, Mohamad Riad Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East uses extensive emperical evidence to help us understand the causes and consequences of co-existing affluence and poverty.
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Few themes have been as central to sociology as 'class' and yet class remains a perpetually contested idea. Sociologists disagree not only on how best to define the concept of class but on its general...
Author: Marcy, Sam Publisher: World View Forum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Its theories eerily prescient of modern-day times, this treatise-first published more than 20 years ago-examines the devastating impact of the scientific and technological revolution on wages and empl...
Author: Olden, Mark Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year-old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Not...
Author: Kimmel, Michael S. / Ferber, Abby L. Publisher: Westview Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Innovative and thought-provoking, this timely anthology expands the concept of privilege in America beyond the traditional limiters of being white and male. In addition to readings from well-known aut...
Author: Benbow, Linda B. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sorting Letters, Sorting Lives offers an examination of a workplace that for many years has employed an extraordinarily diverse workforce: the United States Postal Service. In the post-civil rights er...
Author: Cassidy, Rebecca Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provi...
Author: Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: To the Working People and The Candle are two pieces by Leo Tolstoy. To the Working People (1902) is a letter written by the author during the last days of his life. It addresses the Russian peasants a...
Author: Weis, Lois Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, "Working Class Without Work. "In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how the...
Author: Kuna-Jacob, Thomas J Publisher: Peace Works Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) have had a strategic, historic and popularly-...