The Affluent Society, Paperback

John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller "The Affluent Society" is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished ...

Includes most organized discussion of mass media culture, the meaning of leisure, and anomie in affluent society.

Reducere. DescriptionExpect The Unexpected is a memoir of a suburban high school teacher over a span of 45 years. It is designed to entertain, inform, and en...

Reducere. Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award,...

Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilensCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democ...

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology ...

Reducere. W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thoroug...

Reducere. THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of o...

Reducere. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America's most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America's "private wea...

Reducere. Old money and new...Arlo Kensington comes from an uptight, affluent family that's been well known in the country of North Indigo for years. After a...

Reducere. The fourth book of poetry by this New York City poet, Walter Holland's Reconstruction is a work of poetic reconciliation with his boyhood in Lynchb...

Reducere. This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the fa...

In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brillia...

Deftly combining the sacred and the profane--the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade--Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, ...

Reducere. South Korea's extraordinary economic and technological transformation after the Korean War (1950-1953) is often referred to by observers and histor...

Reducere. Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave ...

Reducere. Throughout the ages, intelligent, affluent, ambitious, and just plain hot-to-trot humans have sought out aphrodisiacs -- everything from rhino horn...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amanda E. LewisAuthor: John B. DiamondOn the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an en...

DescriptionIn Minnesota in 1911, Nilda Carlson is torn between society life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on...

Reducere. For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At...

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

Description"Insightful and well-written . . . Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most m...

Reducere. One of the greatest novels ever written, "Anna Karenina" follows the self-destructive path of a beautiful, popular, and sensual Russian aristocrat....

Reducere. Remember, there were no maps, no travelogues, or any data whatsoever on this land that God and man had forgotten.Born into an extraordinary family ...

Reducere. Thirteen-year-old Larry Ratner wouldn't mind starting an after-school club - only this one wouldn't be for science or Frisbee golf or speaking Mand...

Independent Publisher Book AwardsKatherine wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't found the letter... Katherine Arthur's dying mother arrives on h...

Reducere. Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed ra...

This astonishing debut inhabits the mind of a young married woman driven to extremes by disgust and dread in the aftermath of a rape. Marie and Lau...

DescriptionHow does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in w...

Reducere. An unputdownable story about a woman in search of the truth, the man she falls in love with, and the devastation of the Second World War. 1934, Geo...

Reducere. Anna David was, in every way, groomed for success. She grew up in an affluent community and came from a family that prioritized SAT scores, Harvard...