Race and Culture: A World View, Paperback - Thomas Sowell

Reducere. Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, o...

Reducere. Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue a...

On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-...

Reducere. These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and ...

DescriptionIn this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in ...

Reducere. This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups--the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Af...

With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The V...

Reducere. In the critical essays collected in "Black Looks, " bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, bl...

Conscious Action Theory provides a logical unification between the spirit and the material, by identifying reality as an event that processes perso...

In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not re...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray CashmanGrowing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrat...

From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that tra...

Reducere. An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge ...

A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our ag...

Reducere. Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British p...

Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for address...

Reducere. Say's Law--the idea that supply creates its own demand--has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries. Thomas Sowell traces its ev...

DescriptionAn enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ va...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas SowellThomas Sowell's classic analysis of the opposing visions behind today's ethical and ideological disputesContro...

One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, shar...

Reducere. The Constitution FOR the United States was converted into a Trust. A Trust is: "A legal obligation with respect to property given by one person (th...

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

In this fifth edition of Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics, bringing the world into cle...

One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems--the perceived need for a world view...

Reducere. The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins wi...

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, worki...

Reducere. In this ethnographic examination of Mexican-American and white girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory ...

This book enables practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds ...

Reducere. Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on C...

Reducere. Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of cont...

Reducere. DescriptionMore's "Utopia" was written in Latin, and is in two parts, of which the second, describing the place ( Greek text]-or Nusquama, as he ca...

Reducere. The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view.

DescriptionFirst published in 1985, Thomas Sowell's book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx's own writings and to Marxist th...

Reducere. A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage and multiculturalism.About the AuthorThomas Sowell is...

A leading conservative intellectual defends charter schools against the teachers' unions, politicians and liberal educators who threaten to dismant...

In Ethnicity and Nationalism, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and s...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Best of Thomas Sowell is for fans and foes of Dr. Sowell's remarkable intellectual career; as well as those who have yet to experien...