Class and inequality in the united states

Highlighting the need to find solutions for current problems in American society moving forward, Berch Berberoglu provides a captivating read for anyone interested in understanding how working people today can have a lasting impact on a better and more equitable society in the future.

Class clowns

Class Clowns dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail. Jonathan A. Knee takes readers inside four spectacular financial failures, showing that although deep belief in the powers of the market drove these initiatives, it was investors' failure to ...

Class dismissed

A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelWhen the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, elite colleges scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recrui...

Class history and class practices in the periphery of capitalism

This volume advances our understanding of class histories and practices in societies outside the core capitalist countries, and it deepens our knowledge of resistances in this periphery through site-specific class analyses. It also features an an out-of-the-archive translation of Karl Katusky's t...

Class meets land

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in the transition to twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Challenging our understanding of land financialization as a recent phenomenon propelled by high fi...

Class of ’31

Class of ’31 is a beautifully written memoir from a German Jew determined to learn the fate of his former classmates during the Third Reich. Jessel returned to Germany in 1945 as an American soldier hoping to understand how his friends survived World War II.

Class struggle and resistance in africa

This collection of essays and interviews studies class struggle and social empowerment on the African continent.

Class struggle and the color line

A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.

Class struggle unionism

An essential primer for rebuilding a militant labor movement centered on solidarity with all workers.

Class war, usa

An engaging collection of little known stories of working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

Class warfare

Class work

Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West. But what about young people who are not on the path to academic success? What happens to youth who fail the state's high...

Class, culture, and the agrarian myth

Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth.

Class, party, revolution

An expertly selected collection of articles on class, party, and revolution from one of the world’s most important socialist journals

Class, race, and gender

Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today’s social justice movements. Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent ...

Classes, power and conflict

In recent years a remarkable range of new work has been produced dealing with class inequalities, the division of labor, and the state. In these writings scholars previously working in isolation from one another in sociology, economics, political science, and history have found common ground. Muc...

Classic chic

Music and fashion: the deep connection between these two expressive worlds is firmly entrenched. Yet little attention has been paid to the association of sound and style in the early twentieth century—a period of remarkable and often parallel developments in both high fashion and the arts, includ...

Classic egyptian movies

A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular and immensely influential not only in Egypt but across the Arab world. Concentrating on productions written and produced entirely in Egypt, Sameh Fath...

Classic writings on poetry

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet""[The poet] is a seer.... he is individual... he is complete in himself.... the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the...

Classical arabic stories

Short fiction was an immensely innovative art in the medieval Arab world, providing the perfect vehicle for transmitting dazzling images of life and experiences as early as pre-Islamic times. These works also speak to the urbanization of the Arab domain after Islam, mirroring the bustling life of...

Classical bearings

In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from th...

Classical chinese

Classical Chinese is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings, it sets a new standard for the field. Originally publis...

Classical chinese (supplement 3)

Supplementary readings to Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader—a must for every student of ChineseThis book presents selected historical texts and annotations to instruct, inform, and inspire students of Chinese. Taken from the works known as the Four Histories, these texts offer insights into the p...

Classical chinese (supplement 4)

Classical Chinese: Selections from Philosophical Texts continues the rigorous standard set forth in the main, three-volume Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader. Organized into four sections, this supplementary volume sets forth the key concepts and writings of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi...

Classical comics study guide: frankenstein

Who was Mary Shelley? What is the gothic novel? What makes the Frankenstein monster evil? These are a few of the questions that students get to explore in this teaching guide based on the famous novel first published in 1818. Using a comics approach, the book includes such topics as Shelley's lan...

Classical comics study guide: jane eyre

First published in 1847, Jane Eyre is considered one of the great romances of all time. Now students can appreciate the story in a new way while honing their analytical skills. This teaching guide contains a variety of activities and exercises based on illustrated scenes from the novel. Students ...

Classical comics teaching resource pack: a christmas carol

A classroom-ready teaching resource for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with activities and exercises designed to support literature, literacy, and cross-curricular learning. Designed for the classroom, this resource book contains activities and exercises to help teachers bring Charles Dicke...

Classical comics teaching resource pack: the tempest

A classroom-ready teaching resource for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with activities and exercises designed to support language, history, drama, and art. The Tempest, with its vibrant characters — including the sorcerer Prospero, the magical sprite Ariel, and the twisted Caliban — along with its co...

Classical electromagnetism in a nutshell

A comprehensive, modern introduction to electromagnetismThis graduate-level physics textbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the basic principles and phenomena of classical electromagnetism. While many electromagnetism texts use the subject to teach mathematical methods of physics, here the...

Classical geopolitics

Geopolitics is the study of how the projection of power (ideological, cultural, economic, or military) is effected and affected by the geographic and political landscape in which it operates. Despite the real world relevance of geopolitics, a common understanding of what classical geopolitics is ...

Classical japanese prose

This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the preeminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 22 works representing all the major indigenous litera...

Classical japanese reader and essential dictionary

In 2005, the celebrated scholar of Japanese literature Haruo Shirane published Classical Japanese: A Grammar. Now, with Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary, he completes his two-volume textbook for learning classical, or literary, Japanese—the primary written language in Japan from...

Classical mathematical logic

In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization n...

Classical monologues for women

Huge demand from actors for fresh audition pieces

Classical music and postmodern knowledge

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoter...

Classical probability in the enlightenment, new edition

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought to answer this question, laboring over a th...

Classical telugu poetry

The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twe...

Classical women poets

Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the 'earthly Muses' whose poetic skills rivalled those of their heavenly namesakes. Today only ...