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What to read after Pessimism by Joe Bailey: 24 titles sharing themes of Sociology and Social Science, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Themes: Sociology • Social Science

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Policing Gun Violence Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem

Anthony Allan Braga

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

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Labor and Class Identities in Hong Kong Class Processes in a Neoliberal Global City

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

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Geographies of Women’s Health Place, Diversity and Difference

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

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We’ve Got Issues How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity

Phillip C. McGraw

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

The Enemy Within A Tale of Muslim Britain — Sayeeda Warsi

The Enemy Within A Tale of Muslim Britain

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Contentious Politics in North America National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration — J. Ayres

Contentious Politics in North America National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

The Social Costs of Underemployment Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment — David Dooley

The Social Costs of Underemployment Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh — R. Eyerman

The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Until I Kill You The Shocking True Story of the Woman Who Survived Living with Serial Axe Murderer John Sweeney — Delia Balmer

Until I Kill You The Shocking True Story of the Woman Who Survived Living with Serial Axe Murderer John Sweeney

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development — Ian Scoones

Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Workable Sisterhood The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS — Michele Tracy Berger

Workable Sisterhood The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

Michele Tracy Berger

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

The Road to Wigan Pier — George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent Reorienting Anthropology for the Future — Irfan Ahmad

Anthropology and Ethnography Are Not Equivalent Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Compassionate Love in Intimate Relationships The Integration Process of Sexual Mass Trauma, Racism, and Resilience — Josiane M. Apollon

Compassionate Love in Intimate Relationships The Integration Process of Sexual Mass Trauma, Racism, and Resilience

Josiane M. Apollon

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion Gordion Special Studies 8 — John M. Marston

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion Gordion Special Studies 8

John M. Marston

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Farm Fresh Broadband The Politics of Rural Connectivity — Christopher Ali

Farm Fresh Broadband The Politics of Rural Connectivity

Christopher Ali

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Handbook of Refugee Experience Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery — Jeffrey A. Kottler

Handbook of Refugee Experience Trauma, Resilience, and Recovery

Jeffrey A. Kottler

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

The Illusions of Egalitarianism — John Kekes

The Illusions of Egalitarianism

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Making the Familiar Strange Sociology Contra Reification — Ryan Gunderson

Making the Familiar Strange Sociology Contra Reification

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Kinship, Networks, and Exchange — Thomas Schweizer

Kinship, Networks, and Exchange

Thomas Schweizer

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Mama Still Got It — Louise Boyce

Mama Still Got It

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

What Editors Do The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing — Peter Ginna

What Editors Do The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

Digital Audiobooks New Media, Users, and Experiences — Iben Have

Digital Audiobooks New Media, Users, and Experiences

Themes: Sociology • Social Science

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Sociology, Social Science — the same threads that run through Pessimism by Joe Bailey. Among the authors featured: Mia Hood, Anthony Allan Braga, C. Lee, Isabel Dyck, and others.

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