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Difference Incorporated eBook Series

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  • The Value of Homelessness

    Managing Surplus Life in the United States

    by Craig Willse ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness, however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately won’t?be done about it.Through a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present ... Read more

    S$ 21.90 SGD

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  • Sociology

    QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

    by BarCharts Publishing, Inc. ...
    The essentials of the systematic and scientific study of human social behavior, groups and society. Extremely easy to access, study by, and reference for students in college courses or students of the world around them. ... Read more

    S$ 8.71 SGD

  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Read more

    S$ 22.88 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    S$ 51.76 SGD

  • Seeking Spatial Justice

    by Edward W. Soja ...
    Series Book 16 - Globalization and Community
    In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • Liberating Economics

    Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

    by Drucilla Barker, Susan F. Feiner ...
    Series series Advances In Heterodox Economics
    Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and ... Read more

    S$ 29.86 SGD

  • Analyzing Public Policy

    by Peter John ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:institutionsgroups and networkssociety and the economyindividual interestsideas.The book explains each one, offers constructive criticisms and ... Read more

    S$ 102.19 SGD

  • Globetrotting or Global Citizenship?

    Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning

    Edited by Rebecca Tiessen, Robert Huish ...
    Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel ... Read more

    S$ 44.24 SGD

  • The Forest and the Trees

    Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

    by Allan Johnson ...
    New Third Edition!If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.This Third Edition features:• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, ... Read more

    S$ 28.87 SGD

  • Missing Class

    Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

    by Betsy Leondar-Wright ...
    Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members ... Read more

    S$ 31.05 SGD

  • Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World Politics

    Edited by Andrew Moravcsik, Helen V. Milner ...
    Since they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has more and more given way to a recognition of the importance of nonstate actors, nonmilitary forms of ... Read more

    S$ 57.76 SGD

  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

    S$ 98.09 SGD