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  • Hermes on Two Wheels

    The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers

    by Kevin Wehr ...
    Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year participant observation study. Beginning with the experiences of messengers themselves and moving to describe the structural settings of those experiences, the research shows how messengers work within a political-economic system that devalues semi-skilled labor and strips people ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

    by Kevin Wehr ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation and mystification to examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex and fast ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • America's Fight Over Water

    The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems

    by Kevin Wehr ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex

    Crime and Incarceration in the 21st Century

    by Kevin Wehr, Elyshia Aseltine ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a case study, and propose alternatives and alterations to the prison system. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The End of Policing

    by Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Our History Is the Future

    Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

    by Nick Estes ...
    **Winner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN AwardA work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proclaiming “Water is Life”**In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Policing the Black Man

    Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

    Edited by Angela J. Davis ...
    A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.“Somewhere among the anger, mourning and malice that Policing the Black Man documents lies the pursuit of justice. This powerful book demands our ... Read more

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  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Anton Treuer ...
    "I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they supported but also challenged me with questions like, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    by Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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  • First Nations? Second Thoughts, Second Edition

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    Flanagan shows that this orthodoxy enriches a small elite of activists, politicians, administrators, and well-connected entrepreneurs, while bringing further misery to the very people it is supposed to help. Controversial and thought-provoking, First Nations? Second Thoughts dissects the prevailing ideology that determines public policy towards Canada's aboriginal peoples. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

    Young Readers Edition

    by Anton Treuer ...
    **Now in paperback!An essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike.**Ranging from “Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?” to “Why is it called a ‘traditional Indian fry bread taco’?“ to “What’s it like for natives who don’t look native?” to “Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?”, and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD