Customer Review: Charles Rutheiser has added an impressive new addition to the literature of urban anthropology. In this, his latest offering, he chronicles Atlanta's urban redevelopment for the 1996 Summer Olympics. Like a hacksaw, Rutheiser sheers away at the Olympic hype, leaving only the truth of a "imagineered"... more info
Customer Review: Kim Moody's "Workers in a Lean World" is a scholarly but highly readable critique of the contemporary labor movement and its struggle with capital. The author discusses numerous instances from around the world where employees have resisted management to support his contention that today's workers... more info
Customer Review: This book is mandatory reading for ages 13 and up in the Black community. Ms. Wallace puts into words what our culture has experienced in thought, action, and deed since our ancestors came over on the slave ships. The language is raw and very explicit, but so is our torrid relationship with... more info
Customer Review: I read this book six years ago so I don't remember the details, but I couldn't believe it hadn't been reviewed yet. This is one of the best of a rare genre: historical / intellectual reportage. Part journalist, part professor, part papparazi, Wiener takes his formidable intellect out of the confines... more info
Customer Review: This is an excellent, provocative book. Unfortunately, it's out of print as of the date of this review, so if you find a used copy, definitely snatch it up if you can!
Customer Review: Straight out of grad school, literary scholar Michael Berube became a public intellectual in record time, using the techniques of deconstruction and textual analysis to write devastating and accessible attacks on the academy-bashers of the Right. What's amazing about his writing, particularly in the... more info
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