Tag Archives: Sociology
From Manhattan to Mumbai: Wrestling with the Issues of Our Time
by Katherine Boo, author of the forthcoming Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity (Random House, February 2012). Request an advanced reader’s copy, details below.* As jobs and capital whip around the planet, college students will graduate … Continue reading
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A Debt Crisis…5,000 Years in the Making
by David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House, 2011) Debt is all around us. Modern economies run on consumer debt; modern nation-states, on deficit financing; international relations turn on debt. What’s more, for the last three … Continue reading
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The Complex Reality of Juveniles in Adult Prisons
by David Chura, author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup(Beacon Press, 2011), Winner of the 2010 PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency Reynaldo is surprised … Continue reading
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Author Response: “The Occult and the Making of American Religion”
by Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation (Bantam hardcover 2009, Bantam trade paperback October 2010). Discussions about the occult tend to stir passions, which is natural … Continue reading
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“Legacy of Bias”
In “Legacy of Bias”, published today on Inside Higher Ed, writer Scott Jaschik discusses a new book released from the Century Foundation and published by the Brookings Institution Press entitled Affirmative Action for the Rich. The book concludes that legacy admissions have … Continue reading
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Third World America
by Arianna Huffington, author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream (Broadway, 2011) As a young girl growing up in Greece, I remember walking to school in the city of … Continue reading
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The Occult and the Making of American Religion
by Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation (Bantam hardcover 2009, Bantam trade paperback October 2010). In 1970, philosopher Jacob Needleman opened a new discussion about religion … Continue reading
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Ecoliteracy 2.0
by Daniel Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence: The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy (Broadway Business, 2010), a book selected by Virginia Tech for its 2009 and 2010 Common Book Project. Near the start of the 20th century William James wrote … Continue reading
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Can We Really Flip the Switch?
Brothers Chip Heath, professor of Organizational Behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and Dan Heath, a consultant to the Aspen Institute, have followed up their bestselling and course-adopted book Made to Stick with a groundbreaking book that addresses … Continue reading
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Obama, Madoff and American Self-Esteem
by Dick Meyer, author of Why We Hate Us: American Discontent and the New Millennium (Three Rivers Press, 2009). Since publishing Why We Hate Us: American Discontent and the New Millennium, the single question I have been asked the most … Continue reading
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