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  • Self in the World

    Connecting Life's Extremes

    by Keith Hart ...
    Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in history.We each embark on two life journeys – one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer ... Read more

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  • What Money Wants

    An Economy of Desire

    One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Max Weber, What Money Wants argues that money is first and ... Read more

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  • Economic Anthropology

    This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world ... Read more

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  • What Money Wants

    An Economy of Desire

    One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Max Weber, What Money Wants argues that money is first and ... Read more

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  • Religion in Sociological Perspective

    Religion in Sociological Perspective, Eighth Edition introduces the systems of meaning, structure, and belonging that make up the complex social phenomena we know as religion. The author team uses an active learning approach to illustrate the central theories and methods of research in the sociology of religion and show students how to apply these analytical tools to new groups they encounter. ... Read more

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  • Sanctuary

    The year is 2525. Interplanetary territory fighting has created 'Sanctuary Cities' on non-neutral planets. Those safe zones are now under attack.Ten new voices contributed to this anthology to show you what their sanctuary would look like. Which will be your favorite? ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis

    Perspectives from the Global South

    Edited by Keith Hart, John Sharp ...
    Series Book 1 - The Human Economy
    The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally ... Read more

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  • Money in a Human Economy

    Edited by Keith Hart’s ...
    Series Book 5 - The Human Economy
    A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • It's Dangerous to Believe

    Religious Freedom and Its Enemies

    Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists.In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents ... Read more

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    by Edward Ashton ...
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    Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal ... Read more

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  • The Haves and the Have-Nots

    A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

    Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why -- beyond the idle curiosity -- do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD