Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
By: Forrest Stuart
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and th…
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1. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
4.07
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside capture… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
2. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
By: Kimberly Kay Hoang
4.36
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- ethnography
"But while women were able to capitalize on Vietnam's rapid development, it is important to situate their mobility as constrained within structures of patriarchy."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"In fact, this is not a book about sex or sexual relations; rather, men's and women's participation in HCMC's sex industry involves much more than the purchase of sex."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"The multiple niche markets in Vietnam's global sex industry offer insight into some of the larger macroeconomic shifts that reframe our understanding of the coproduction of gender and global capital."-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
"Within their distinct niche markets, sex workers employ competing technologies of embodiment that in turn reveal how desire reflects and constructs different national formations in the global imagina…"-Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
3. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
By: Laura Hamilton , Elizabeth A. Armstrong
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years l… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
4. El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
By: Ioan Grillo
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; poli… read more
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5. Jävla karlar
By: Andrev Walden
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more
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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar
6. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
7. Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
By: Forrest Stuart
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and th… read more
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- music
- race
- school
- ethnography
- hip hop
- academic
- nonfiction
- sociology
8. Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
By: Rich Paul
4.11
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make—from the founder and CE… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
9. Gruppen
By: Sigge Eklund
3.29
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Hanna kommer till Madrid för att arbeta på Pradomuseet och allt i staden är inbjudande och förföris… read more
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10. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- nonfiction
11. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
12. Jente, 1983
By: Linn Ullmann
3.70
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
«Gjennom å skrive det som skjedde, gjennom å fortelle historien så sannferdig som jeg kan, forsøker… read more
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13. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
By: Reuben Jonathan Miller
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
14. Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail
By: Michael L. Walker
4.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
15. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
By: Rosa Brooks
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the blue wall of silence in this radical insid… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
"For better or for worse, police officers spend most of their time serving as medics, mediators, and monitors."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"Violence is a puzzle. We all say we oppose violence and want to reduce it, but no human society gets by without it."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"What if instead of telling officers they have a right to go home safe, police training focused on reminding officers that members of the public have a right to go home safe? What if we reminded offic…"-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"For the most part, America’s criminal justice system isn’t deliberately cruel. It’s just indifferent to the ways in which it breaks human beings. Few police officers want to contribute to mass incarc…"-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
16. Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood
By: Iddo Tavory
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
On a typical weekday, men of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community wake up early, beginning their … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- ethnography
17. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
By: Menno Schilthuizen
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen, a book that will make you see yourself and the worl… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice
By: Carla Shedd
4.17
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Chicago has long struggled with racial residential segregation, high rates of poverty, and deepenin… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
19. Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court
By: Matthew Clair
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court--and denies justice to… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
- ethnography
20. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
By: Sarah Brayne
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time… read more
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- nonfiction
- academic
- sociology
- school
21. Making Urban Nature
By: Piet Vollaard
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The city is a rich habitat of great biodiversity. Many animal and plant species are now more common… read more
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