Best Society Books
Best Free Society Books of 2024
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Contesting Race and Citizenship Book Reviews
Camilla HawthorneContesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on firstgeneration imm...
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Refugees on the Move Book Reviews
Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu TonakRefugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countri...
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Beyond Stereotypes Book Reviews
Ari F. SclarIn the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of th...
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Emilia Clarke the Angel Herself Book Reviews
Asa Karl Flanigan, PhDDear reader: This is the first of a series of letters concerning various positive items, thoughts, ideas, persons, topices, and places. I plan on updating it occassionally. Reader ...
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Create for Wildlife Book Reviews
Tom Konsek, Lyndsey Stuttard, Simon Pile, Mathew Pullen, Ben Hayden, Paul Tullock, Chris Galley, Marc Faulder, Laura Hilltout, James Toyer & Erika MoserDedicated to the life of Steve Irwin, this book has been created by a dedicated team of Apple Distinguished Educators to bring you a series of creative challenges, activities and i...
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Imperial Gateway Book Reviews
Seiji ShiraneIn Imperial Gateway , Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the e...
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The Sanctuary City Book Reviews
Domenic VitielloIn The Sanctuary City , Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from depor...
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes Book Reviews
Dwight F. ReynoldsAn astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a ...
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Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America Book Reviews
Saba SoomekhSephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience ...
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American Politics and the Jewish Community Book Reviews
Dan Schnur & Bruce ZuckermanAt its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that America's Jews h...
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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonEconomic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twentyfirst century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, ...
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Prescription for the People Book Reviews
Fran QuigleyIn Prescription for the People , Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing ...
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Penguin Perspectives - What COVID-19 Revealed About Us, and Where We Might Go Next Book Reviews
Various AuthorsThis collection features responses from some of the biggest names in fiction Malorie Blackman, Lee Child, Nick Hornby, Philip Pullman and Deborah Levy, amongst others documenting...
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Die Nespresso-Jahre Book Reviews
Katharina HöftmannSie sind um die 30, gut ausgebildet, total vernetzt, voller Ideen und Ideale, stehen sozusagen mitten im Leben. Doch plötzlich klopfen leise Zweifel an: Heiraten? Sich niederlassen...
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Tastes of Faith Book Reviews
Leah Hochman"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," wrote the 18th Century French politician and musician Jean BrillatSavarin, giving expression to long held assump...
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Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews
Ellen LewinWithin a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In ...
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Jews in the Gym Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonFor some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem farfetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating ...
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The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel Book Reviews
Steven F. WindmuellerThe Trump presidency has resulted in a fundamentally disruptive moment in this nation’s political culture. Not only were there different policy options and directions, but the cult...
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Jews and Humor Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonJews and humor is for most people a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of or perhaps because of a history of crises and living on the edge Jews have often created or reso...
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Mishpachah Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonDictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relativessometimes also close frien...
Best Paid Society Books of 2024
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Contesting Race and Citizenship Book Reviews
Camilla HawthorneContesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on firstgeneration imm...
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Refugees on the Move Book Reviews
Erol Balkan & Zümray Kutlu TonakRefugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countri...
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Beyond Stereotypes Book Reviews
Ari F. SclarIn the decades after the Civil War, sports slowly gained a prominent position within American culture. This development provided Jews with opportunities to participate in one of th...
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Emilia Clarke the Angel Herself Book Reviews
Asa Karl Flanigan, PhDDear reader: This is the first of a series of letters concerning various positive items, thoughts, ideas, persons, topices, and places. I plan on updating it occassionally. Reader ...
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Create for Wildlife Book Reviews
Tom Konsek, Lyndsey Stuttard, Simon Pile, Mathew Pullen, Ben Hayden, Paul Tullock, Chris Galley, Marc Faulder, Laura Hilltout, James Toyer & Erika MoserDedicated to the life of Steve Irwin, this book has been created by a dedicated team of Apple Distinguished Educators to bring you a series of creative challenges, activities and i...
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Imperial Gateway Book Reviews
Seiji ShiraneIn Imperial Gateway , Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the e...
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The Sanctuary City Book Reviews
Domenic VitielloIn The Sanctuary City , Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from depor...
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes Book Reviews
Dwight F. ReynoldsAn astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a ...
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Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America Book Reviews
Saba SoomekhSephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience ...
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American Politics and the Jewish Community Book Reviews
Dan Schnur & Bruce ZuckermanAt its broadest level, politics is the practice of making a community a better, safer, and more tolerant place to live. So it should be of no surprise that America's Jews h...
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Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonEconomic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twentyfirst century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, ...
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Prescription for the People Book Reviews
Fran QuigleyIn Prescription for the People , Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing ...
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Penguin Perspectives - What COVID-19 Revealed About Us, and Where We Might Go Next Book Reviews
Various AuthorsThis collection features responses from some of the biggest names in fiction Malorie Blackman, Lee Child, Nick Hornby, Philip Pullman and Deborah Levy, amongst others documenting...
-
Die Nespresso-Jahre Book Reviews
Katharina HöftmannSie sind um die 30, gut ausgebildet, total vernetzt, voller Ideen und Ideale, stehen sozusagen mitten im Leben. Doch plötzlich klopfen leise Zweifel an: Heiraten? Sich niederlassen...
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Tastes of Faith Book Reviews
Leah Hochman"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," wrote the 18th Century French politician and musician Jean BrillatSavarin, giving expression to long held assump...
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Lesbian Mothers Book Reviews
Ellen LewinWithin a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In ...
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Jews in the Gym Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonFor some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem farfetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating ...
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The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel Book Reviews
Steven F. WindmuellerThe Trump presidency has resulted in a fundamentally disruptive moment in this nation’s political culture. Not only were there different policy options and directions, but the cult...
-
Jews and Humor Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonJews and humor is for most people a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of or perhaps because of a history of crises and living on the edge Jews have often created or reso...
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Mishpachah Book Reviews
Leonard J. GreenspoonDictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relativessometimes also close frien...
