The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Baradaran Mehrsa)(Paperback)

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Baradaran Mehrsa)(Paperback)

'Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work.' --Ta-Nehisi Coates 'A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.'--The Atlantic 'Extraordinary...Baradaran focuses on a part

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Chatelain Marcia)(Paperback)

Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain's Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America's largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald's drive-in in San

The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500 (Mueller Reinhold C.)(Paperback)

Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance (Kaufer Katrin)(Paperback)

How to use finance as a tool to build a more equitable and sustainable society. Money defines our present and will shape our future. Every investment decision we make adds a chapter to the story of what our world will look like. Although the idea of mission-based finance has been around for

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Housel Morgan)(Paperback)

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to

You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth (Sincero Jen)(Paperback)

'A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams.' --New York Magazine From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass(R), a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you've only ever dreamed of You Are a Badass at Making Money will

The Illuminati: The Secret Society That Hijacked the World (Marrs Jim)(Paperback)

Chilling initiations. Big banks and money manipulations. Possible links to the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Adamses, and Bushes. Reviewing the evidence, documents, and connections, The Illuminati: The Secret Society That Hijacked the World by award-winning journalist and author Jim Marrs shines a

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Jacobson Matthew Frye)(Paperback)

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective

Futures of Black Radicalism (Johnson Gaye Theresa)(Paperback)

With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalismBlack rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here,

On the Origin of Money (Menger Carl)(Paperback)

On the Origins of Money is a discussion of the history of money and currency, from its crudest form as cowrie shells, animal pelts, and salt in early societies to the coin and paper money we use today. Rather than focusing on the type or shape of the money, author and economist Carl Menger looks at

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Strings Sabrina)(Paperback)

The Black Jacobins Reader (Forsdick Charles)(Paperback)

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and

Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival (Bhattacharyya Gargi)(Paperback)

A reappraisal of the history of capitalism that places techniques of racial division and expropriation at the centre of our

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Hill Collins Patricia)(Paperback)

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist

The House of Mirth (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and

Many Rivers to Cross - DCI Banks 26 (Robinson Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The twenty-sixth instalment of the internationally bestselling DCI Banks series gives Banks and Annie a homegrown case, while her past reaches out to put Zelda in

Money and Possessions (Brueggemann Walter)(Paperback)

The Bible is rich with complex and diverse material on the topic of money and possessions. Indeed, a close look at many scriptural texts reveals that economics is a core preoccupation of the biblical tradition. In this new work, highly regarded preacher and scholar Walter Brueggemann explores the

The End of Money: The Story of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution (New Scientist)(Paperback)

Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Smith Adam)(Paperback / softback)

The Color of Kink: Black Women, Bdsm, and Pornography (Cruz Ariane)(Paperback)

Black: The History of a Color (Pastoureau Michel)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture--from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (Banks Russell)(Paperback)

With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's

Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (McNally David)(Paperback)

Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human

Civilization: The West and the Rest (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback)

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower 'A dazzling history of Western ideas.' --The Economist 'Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.' --Wall Street Journal ' W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour