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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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How Emotions Are Made

By Lisa Feldman Barrett ,

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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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Algorithms of Oppression

By Safiya Umoja Noble ,

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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits

By The W E B Du Bois Center at the Universi ,

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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases

By Cynthia Enloe ,

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Queenship in Medieval Europe
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Queenship in Medieval Europe

By Theresa Earenfight ,

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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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Elderhood

By Louise Aronson ,

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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction
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Genocide

By Adam Jones ,

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The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
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The Optimist's Telescope

By Bina Venkataraman ,

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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
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Kill 'Em and Leave

By James McBride ,

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Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
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Weeds

By Richard Mabey ,

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Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps: A Landmark Reassessment of Booth's Social Survey
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Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps

By Mary S. Morgan ,

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The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts
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The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts

By Raúl Sánchez García ,

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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
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Black Detroit

By Herb Boyd ,

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Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present
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Fashion Victims

By Alison Matthews David ,

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Climate Change as Social Drama: Global Warming in the Public Sphere
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Climate Change as Social Drama

By Philip Smith , Nicolas Howe ,

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Home: How Habitat Made Us Human
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Home

By John S. Allen ,

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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
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The Human Swarm

By Mark W. Moffett ,

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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
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Nothing Ever Dies

By Viet Thanh Nguyen ,

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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
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Natural Causes

By Barbara Ehrenreich ,

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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
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Calling the Shots

By Jennifer A. Reich ,

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His Quiet Agent
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His Quiet Agent

By Ada Maria Soto ,

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Living in the End Times
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Living in the End Times

By Slavoj Zizek ,

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Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
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Savage Appetites

By Rachel Monroe ,

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Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance
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Empty Labor

By Roland Paulsen ,

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Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America
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Labor's Love Lost

By Andrew J. Cherlin ,

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Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization
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Border Politics

By Nancy A. Naples (editor) , Jennifer Bickham Mendez (editor) ,

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The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
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The Beauty Bias

By Deborah L. Rhode ,

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Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
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Expulsions

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Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life
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Queens of Academe

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Understanding Public Relations: Theory, Culture and Society
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Understanding Public Relations

By Lee Edwards ,

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The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
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The Second Shift

By Arlie Russell Hochschild , Anne Machung ,

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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

By Surekha Davies ,

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Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
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Life Reimagined

By Barbara Bradley Hagerty ,

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Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City
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Rio de Janeiro

By Luiz Eduardo Soares ,

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The Twisting Lane: Some Sex Offenders
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The Twisting Lane

By Tony Parker ,

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The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations
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The Routledge Guidebook to Smith's Wealth of Nations

By Maria Pia Paganelli ,

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The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
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The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

By Colin Campbell ,

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Understanding the Culture of Markets
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Understanding the Culture of Markets

By Virgil Storr ,

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Economic Analysis of Social Issues
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Economic Analysis of Social Issues

By Alan Grant ,

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International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy
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International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy

By Sarah Harper , Kate Hamblin ,

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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States
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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States

By Andrew Monson (editor) , Walter Scheidel (editor) ,

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The Behavioral Investor
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The Behavioral Investor

By Daniel Crosby ,

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
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The Sources of Social Power

By Michael Mann ,

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Economic Fables
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Economic Fables

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The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies
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The Social Meaning of Money

By Viviana A. Zelizer ,

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Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun
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Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi

By A. Wilson ,

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Sociological Theory
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Sociological Theory

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It's Not You, It's the Dishes: How to Minimize Conflict and Maximize Happiness in Your Relationship
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It's Not You, It's the Dishes

By Paula Szuchman , Jenny Anderson ,

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Social Theory and Social Structure
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Social Theory and Social Structure

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal

By Howard Tumber (editor) , Silvio Waisbord (editor) ,

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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
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Narrative Economics

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Pareto on Policy
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Pareto on Policy

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Pareto's General Sociology
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Pareto's General Sociology

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Christianity and Sociological Theory: Reclaiming the Promise
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Christianity and Sociological Theory

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Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature: From Romanticism to Rationality
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Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature

By Finn Bowring ,

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Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy
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Grassroots for Hire

By Edward T. Walker ,

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Black Hour
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Black Hour

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Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
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Economic Lives

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The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
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The Myth of Choice

By Kent Greenfield ,

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Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora
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Essential Essays, Volume 2

By Stuart Hall , David Morley (editor) ,

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Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
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Leading from the Emerging Future

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Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism
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Single Women in Popular Culture

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Complaints And Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
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Complaints And Disorders

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Damned Lies and Statistics
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Damned Lies and Statistics

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Black Awakening in Capitalist America
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Black Awakening in Capitalist America

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