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1	Framework for Understanding Poverty more books like this by Ruby K Payne, PhD add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.41!
2	Vampire Academy more books like this by Richelle Mead add to wishlist St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St Vladimir's - the very ... see all copies from £4.17! new only from £4.17!
3	Frostbite more books like this by Richelle Mead add to wishlist Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose...It's winter break at St Vladimir's, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy's crawling with Guardians - including Rose's hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand ... see all copies from £4.20! new only from £4.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Kite Runner more books like this by Khaled Hosseini add to wishlist This epic novel is set in Afghanistan, beginning in the days of the monarchy and reaching to the early 21st century. Amir is the son of a wealthy man; his best friend is Hassan, the son of his father's servant. Growing up in Kabul, the two share an idyllic childhood until a traumatic event--and Amir's act of cowardly betrayal--changes the nature ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Shadow Kiss more books like this by Richelle Mead add to wishlist Rose Hathaway knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend Lissa - the last Dragomir princess - must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken...But since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn't been feeling right. Something dark has begun to grow in her ... see all copies from £5.11! new only from £5.11!
6	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor more books like this by Paul Farmer, Professor Amartya K Sen (Foreword by) add to wishlist Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link ... see all copies from £9.48! new only from £9.61!
7	Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology more books like this by Margaret L Andersen add to wishlist "Race, Class, and Gender" includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.38! \| first editions
8	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders more books like this by Daniyal Mueenuddin add to wishlist In the spirit of James Joyce's "Dubliners," Mueenuddin's collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Lahore, Pakistan. see all copies from £9.77! new only from £9.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Privilege, Power, and Difference more books like this by Allan G Johnson add to wishlist This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. ... see all copies from £5.81! new only from £15.78!
10	Luxe more books like this by Anna Godbersen add to wishlist Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattans social scene, but are soon caught up in a whirlwind of scandal when a family secret threatens their position. This delicious novel is the first of an exciting new trilogy about five compelling teens in 1899 Manhattan, where appearance matters over everything. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.64! \| first editions
11	God of Small Things more books like this by Arundhati Roy add to wishlist A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Class Matters more books like this by The New York Times, Bill Keller (Introduction by) add to wishlist A team of "New York Times" reporters spent more than a year exploring the ways in which class--defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation--influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity. see all copies from £5.76! new only from £6.20! \| first editions
13 view cover	A Prisoner of Birth more books like this by Jeffrey Archer add to wishlist Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss' daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Clique more books like this by Lisi Harrison add to wishlist The first installment of Harrison's juicy series, this book introduces a group of girls who are navigating the social minefields of eighth grade at New York's Westchester County's most exclusive private school. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
15 view cover	Society of the Spectacle more books like this by Guy Debord add to wishlist Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle". From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth ... see all copies from £3.45! new only from £3.45! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice more books like this by Jeffrey Reiman add to wishlist This best-selling text examines the premise that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish, from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing. Also, this text discusses how this bias is accompanied with a general refusal to remedy the causes of crime--poverty, ... see all copies from £3.40! new only from £9.29!
17 view cover	Class: A Guide Through the American Status System more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom. see all copies from £5.03! new only from £9.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	After the Night more books like this by Linda Howard add to wishlist Faith Devlin is a poor, outcast child in Prescott, Louisiana, who has always adored the rich, charming Gray Rouillard from afar. However, Gray plans to use his power to ruin Faith, despite his desire for her. And after he calls her "white trash" she also wants to hate him, despite her feelings. see all copies from £4.99! new only from £7.28! \| first editions
19 view cover	Again the Magic more books like this by Lisa Kleypas add to wishlist Romance and passion are stronger than ever before in the latest historical romance by the phenomenal "New York Times" bestselling author, who pens a sensuous tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the English "ton." Original. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
20 view cover	Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War more books like this by Joe Bageant add to wishlist Web columnist Bageant takes readers on a raucous tour through the taverns, churches, and double-wide trailers of the invisible working class--the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory--offering a vivid and sobering snapshot of a nation on the brink of catastrophe. see all copies from £8.39! new only from £9.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	North & South more books like this by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell add to wishlist Margaret Hale moves with her upper-class family to a provincial industrial town in northern England. There she becomes involved in the lives of local factory workers and union members, at one point even participating in a strike. A stormy and difficult romantic relationship with a factory owner, John Thornton, ends happily after Thornton changes ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Space Between Us more books like this by Thrity Umrigar add to wishlist Devastating in its power, here is a searing novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India, as witnessed through the lives of an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and her stoic, illiterate domestic worker. see all copies from £3.92! new only from £4.05! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader more books like this by Dr. Gail Dines (Editor), Jean McMahon Humez (Editor) add to wishlist Gender, Race and Class in Media examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities. Through analyses of popular mass media entertainment genres, such as talk shows, soap operas, television sitcoms, advertising and pornography, students are invited to engage in critical mass media scholarship. A ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £41.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	Where We Stand: Class Matters more books like this by Bell Hooks add to wishlist The renowned writer on feminism and race draws on theory and experience once again--to tackle the ever present, yet strangely elusive, issue of class in American life. see all copies from £8.10! new only from £9.64!
25 view cover	Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts more books like this by Bernard Shaw add to wishlist 'Not bloody likely' Ever since Pygmalion opened in London in April 1914 it has proved a very controversial play, from the (then) shocking language, to arguments about its correct ending. Critical interpretations have been similarly disputatious, encompassing views of the transformation of the impoverished Eliza Doolittle by phonetics expert Henry ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.07! \| first editions

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