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  • Educational laws of Virginia

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Educational Legal Framework of Virginia

    by Margaret Crittenden Douglass, Levi Calloway ...
    In "Educational Laws of Virginia," Margaret Crittenden Douglass offers a comprehensive examination of the legislative framework governing education in Virginia, intricately detailing the historical evolution and the socio-political context surrounding these laws. Douglass employs a meticulous analytical style, characterized by clarity and lucidity, to unpack complex legal jargon and elucidate the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Moral Political Economy

    Present, Past, and Future

    by Federica Carugati, Margaret Levi ...
    Series series Elements in Political Economy
    Economies - and the government institutions that support them - reflect a moral and political choice, a choice we can make and remake. Since the dawn of industrialization and democratization in the late eighteenth century, there has been a succession of political economic frameworks, reflecting changes in technology, knowledge, trade, global connections, political power, and the expansion of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Labor Standards in International Supply Chains

    Aligning Rights and Incentives

    by Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi, Jennifer Noveck ...
    The authors examine developments in labor standards in global supply chains over the past thirty years, analyzing factors that create challenges and opportunities for improving working conditions. They illustrate the complex dynamics within and among key groups, including brands, suppliers, governments, workers and consumers.Using extended examples from China, Honduras, Bangladesh and the United ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Analytic Narratives

    by Robert H. Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Barry R. Weingast ...
    Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • In the Interest of Others

    Organizations and Social Activism

    by John S. Ahlquist, Margaret Levi ...
    A groundbreaking study of labor unions that advances a new theory of organizational leadership and governanceIn the Interest of Others develops a new theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly. John Ahlquist and Margaret Levi document eighty years of such activism by the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Antidemocracy in America

    Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

    by Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen, Alina Das, Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Richard Sennett, Pedro Noguera, Fred Turner, Craig Calhoun, Margaret Levi, Shamus Khan, Gretchen Blake, Patrick Sharkey, Linda Gordon, Richard Shrum, Philip Gorski, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Ashley Farmer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven Lukes, Michelle Jackson, David B. Grusky, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont, Jack Halberstam, Jefferson Cowie, William Julius Wilson, Harel Shapira ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

    $21.79 USD

  • Intersectionality

    by Patricia Hill Collins, Sirma Bilge ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability, and ethnicity shape one another?In this fully revised and expanded second edition of their popular text, Patricia Hill Collins ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • My Bondage and My Freedom

    by Frederick Douglass, John David Smith ...
    “My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of an individual and a nation a few years before the Civil War.” As his narrative unfolds, Frederick Douglass—abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. It is also the only of Douglass' autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Portable Frederick Douglass

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leaderThis compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as urgently as ever. Edited by renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Pulitzer Prize–nominated ... Read more

    $7.99 USD