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The Age of Uncertaintyby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395249007 (0-395-24900-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Age of Uncertainty: Points of Departureby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395259479 (0-395-25947-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Lawby Peter MalanczukISBN 041511120X (0-415-11120-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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American Indian Myths and Legendsby Richard Erdoes, Alfonso OrtizISBN 0394740181 (0-394-74018-1)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Indian Myths and Legends'Book summary:Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups to offer a rich and lively panarama of the Native American mythic heritage. 100 drawings. [via]
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Capitalby Karl Marx, Ben FowkesISBN 039472657X (0-394-72657-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital. [via]
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Care of the Self the History of Sexuality'Book summary:The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. [via]
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The City Readerby Richard T. Legates, Frederic StoutISBN 0415271738 (0-415-27173-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City Reader'Book summary:The third edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best of publications on the city. It has been extensively updated to reflect the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. Classic writings from such authors as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Le Corbusier, meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Saskia Sassen and Manuel Castells. [via]
City Worldsby John Allen, Steve Pile, Dorian MasseyISBN 0415200709 (0-415-20070-9)
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Classby Stephen EdgellISBN 0415060613 (0-415-06061-3)
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Collected Works of Karl Mannheimby Karl MannheimISBN 0415060540 (0-415-06054-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Karl Mannheim'Book summary:Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences.
This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works. [via]More editions of Collected Works of Karl Mannheim:
Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences: An Introductionby David ByrneISBN 0415162963 (0-415-16296-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Consumption, Identity, and Style : Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasureby Alan TomlinsonISBN 0415011515 (0-415-01151-5)
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Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the Worldby Edward W. SaidISBN 0394748085 (0-394-74808-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement The First 600 Daysby Edward FullbrookISBN 0415308984 (0-415-30898-4)
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It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past two years there has grown an important new movement that has decided to tackle those who think they run economics head-on. This is the Post-autistic Economics Network.
The PAE Network started in France and has spread first to Cambridge and then other parts of the world. The name derives from the fact that mainstream economics has been accused of institutional autism, ie. qualitative impairment of social interaction, failure to develop peer relationships and lack of emotional and social reciprocity. In short, economics has lost touch with reality and has become way too abstract.
This book charts the impact the PAE Network has had so far and constitutes a manifesto for a different kind of economics - it features key contributions from all the major voices in heterodox economics including Tony Lawson, Deirdre McCloskey, Geoff Hodgson, Sheila Dow and Warren Samuels. [via]More editions of The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement The First 600 Days:
The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinkingby Theodore RoszakISBN 0394751752 (0-394-75175-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Tasteby Pierre Bourdieu, Richard NiceISBN 0415045460 (0-415-04546-0)
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Doing Good: The Limits of Benevolenceby Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, Steven Marcus, David RothmanISBN 039473372X (0-394-73372-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Elites and Societyby Tom Bottomore, T. B. BottomoreISBN 0415082714 (0-415-08271-4)
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Endangered Daughters: Discrimination and Development in Asiaby Elisabeth CrollISBN 0415247659 (0-415-24765-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Essentials of Psychologyby Douglas A. Bernstein, Peggy W. NashISBN 0395870712 (0-395-87071-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animalsby Charles DarwinISBN 0404084109 (0-404-08410-9)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Families and How to Survive Themby Robin Skynner, John CleeseISBN 0413526402 (0-413-52640-2)
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Feminists Theorize the Politicalby Judith Butler, Joan W. ScottISBN 0415902746 (0-415-90274-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feminists Theorize the Political'Book summary:The use of theory' in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralist theory within feminism. Against the view that poststructuralism necessarily weakens feminism, Feminists Theorize the Political affirms the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. The essays in Feminists Theorize the Political speak to the questions that emerge from the convergence of feminism and poststructuralism: What happens to feminist critique when traditional grounds and foundations - experience, history, universal norms - are called into question? Can feminist theory problematize the notion of the subject without losing its political effectivity? Which version of the subject is to be questioned, and how does that questioning open up possibilities for reformulating agency, power, and sites of political resistance? What are the consequences of a specifically feminist reformulation of difference? What are the uses and limits of a poststructuralist critique of binary logic for the theorization of racial and class differences, the position of the subaltern? [via]
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Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversyby Edward SteinISBN 0415904854 (0-415-90485-4)
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Freud for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar ZarateISBN 0394738004 (0-394-73800-4)
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From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progressby Mary D. Sheridan, Marion Frost, Ajay SharmaISBN 0415164583 (0-415-16458-3)
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American Warby Evan WrightISBN 0399151931 (0-399-15193-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War'Book summary:In the tradition of black hawk down and jarhead comes a searing portrait of young men fighting a modern-day war. A powerhouse work of nonfiction, generation kill expands on evan wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in rolling stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of first recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg on iraq. This elite unit, nicknamed "first suicide battalion," searched out enemy fighters by racing ahead of american battle forces and literally driving into suspected ambush points. Evan wright lived on the front lines with this platoon from the opening hours of combat, to the fall of baghdad, through the start of the guerrilla war. He was welcomed into their ranks, and from this bird's-eye perspective he tells the unsettling story of young men trained by their country to be ruthless killers. He chronicles the triumphs and horrors-physical, moral, emotional, and spiritual-that these marines endured while achieving victory in a war many questioned before it began. Wright's book is a timely account of war; even more important, it is a timeless description of the human drama taking place on today's battlefields. Written with brutal honesty, raw intensity, and startling intimacy, generation kill is destined to become a classic and take its place in the canon of the most captivating and authentic works of war literature [via]
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societiesby Marcel MaussISBN 0415267498 (0-415-26749-8)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift; The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic SOcieties'Book summary:In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, Mauss called into question many of our social conventions and economic systems. In a world rife with runaway consumption, The Gift continues to excite and challenge. [via]
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History and Philosophy of Social Scienceby Scott GordonISBN 0415096707 (0-415-09670-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Humane Warfareby Christopher CokerISBN 0415255767 (0-415-25576-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revoltby Barrington MooreISBN 039473727X (0-394-73727-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Introduction to Mass Communicationsby Edwin Emery, Phillip H. Ault, Warren Kendall AgeeISBN 0396067530 (0-396-06753-0)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Ishi: Last of His Tribeby Theodora Kroeber, Ruth RobbinsISBN 0395276446 (0-395-27644-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focusby John Gray, G.W. SmithISBN 0415010012 (0-415-01001-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.S. Mill on Liberty in Focus'Book summary:This volume brings together J.S. Mills On Liberty and a selection of important essays by such eminent scholars as Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees, C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim. As well as providing authoritative commentary upon On Liberty, the essays reflect a broader debate about the philosophical foundations of Mill's liberalism, particularly the question of the connection betweenMill's professed utilitarianism and his commitment to individual liberty. Introduced and edited by John Gray and G.W. Smith, the book will be of interest to students of Mill, to ethical and political philosophers and to anyone interested in the contemporary status of liberalism. [via]
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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussureby Talbot J. Taylor, Roy HarrisISBN 041515362X (0-415-15362-X)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby James Agee, Webster's II DictionariesISBN 039529696X (0-395-29696-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: 3 Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0395957710 (0-395-95771-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Lifeby Sissela BokISBN 0394728041 (0-394-72804-1)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life'Book summary:A thoughtful addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government. [via]
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Madness and Civilizationby M. FOUCAULTISBN 0415253853 (0-415-25385-3)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madness and Civilization'Book summary:In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself. [via]
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Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution An Unfettered Historyby David AllynISBN 0415929423 (0-415-92942-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplinesby James F. Hollifield, Caroline BrettellISBN 0415926114 (0-415-92611-4)
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A Modern Introduction to International Lawby Michael Barton AkehurstISBN 0415090814 (0-415-09081-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Monkey Wrench Gangby Edward AbbeyISBN 0397010842 (0-397-01084-2)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'Book summary:Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief. The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation ("Hell of a place to lose a cow," Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. "Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"). Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Moral Life of Childrenby Robert ColesISBN 0395431530 (0-395-43153-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Objects of Desire: Design and Society from Wedgwood to IBMby Adrian FortyISBN 0394751515 (0-394-75151-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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On Aggressionby Konrad LorenzISBN 0415283205 (0-415-28320-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Aggression'Book summary:Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression is one of his finest works, as well as the most controversial. Through an insightful and characteristically entertaining survey of animal behaviour, the Nobel Prize winner tracks the evolution of aggression throughout the animal world. He also raises some startling questions when he applies his observations of animal psychology to humankind. His conclusions caused an unprecedented controversy, culminating in a statement adopted by UNESCO in 1989 which appeared to condemn his work. Whether or not Lorenz actually claimed aggression is hard-wired into the human psyche, and that war is an inevitable result, is something readers can decide upon for themselves. However you react, there can be no doubting that in today's violent world this powerful work remains of paramount importance. [via]
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On Death And Dyingby Eli Kubler-rossISBN 0415040159 (0-415-04015-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Death And Dying'Book summary:Although most areas of human experience are nowadays discussed freely and openly, the subject of death is still surrounded by conventional attitudes and reticence that offer only fragile comfort because they evade the real issues. The dying may thus be denied the opportunity of sharing their feelings and discussing their needs with family, friends, or hospital staff. Although receiving devoted medical care, a dying patient is often socially isolated and avoided, since professional staff and students can find contact painful and embarrasing.
Aware of the strains imposed on all sides by this situation, Dr Kubler-Ross established a seminar at the University of Chicago to consider the implications of terminal illness for patients and for those involved in their care. Patients invited to talk about their experience often found great relief in expressing their fear and anger and were able to move towards a state of acceptance and peace. The seminar, initially composed of students of medicine, sociology, psychology, and theology, but later joined by hospital staff and relatives of patients, enabled many members to come to terms with their own feelings and to respond constructi to what the patients had to teach them.
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415267374 (0-415-26737-4)
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Lifeby Charles DarwinISBN 0404084044 (0-404-08404-4)
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The Origins of Love and Hateby Ian D. SuttieISBN 0415210429 (0-415-21042-9)
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Perspectives In Sociologyby W.W. Sharrock, D.W. Francis, E. C. CuffISBN 0415301114 (0-415-30111-4)
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Political Research: An Introductionby Lisa HarrisonISBN 0415226562 (0-415-22656-2)
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Politics and Society in the Developing Worldby Mehran KamravaISBN 0415212340 (0-415-21234-0)
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Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984by Lawrence D. Kritzman, Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0415901499 (0-415-90149-9)
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The Poverty of Historicismby Karl Raimund PopperISBN 0415278465 (0-415-27846-5)
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A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker. [via]More editions of The Poverty of Historicism:
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poorby Paul Wright, Tara HerivelISBN 0415935385 (0-415-93538-5)
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Psychology: Fields of Applicationby Douglas A. Bernstein, Astrid M. StecISBN 039586979X (0-395-86979-X)
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Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990sby Michael Omi, Howard WinantISBN 0415908647 (0-415-90864-7)
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Rethinking the Regionby John Allen, Allan Cochrane, Doreen B. Massey, Phil Sarre, Nick Henry, Julie Charlesworth, Gill CourtISBN 0415168228 (0-415-16822-8)
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The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as in space. [via]More editions of Rethinking the Region:
Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Livesby Anthony GiddensISBN 0415944872 (0-415-94487-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives'Book summary:As director of the London School of Economics, Anthony Giddens is one of the world's foremost academics. He has served as an advisor to both President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair, and is closely tied to the center-left idea of "third-way" politics. In this brief book on globalization (drawn from a series of lectures delivered in 1999), Giddens writes, "We are living through a major period of historical transition." Globalization is reordering societies all over the planet, and although the results are sometimes unpredictable, they are heading in a generally positive direction. But not everybody agrees, as the author freely admits:
The battleground of the twenty-first century will pit fundamentalism against cosmopolitan tolerance. In a globalising world, where information and images are routinely transmitted across the globe, we are all regularly in contact with others who think differently, and live differently, from ourselves. Cosmopolitans welcome and embrace this cultural complexity. Fundamentalists find it disturbing and dangerous. Whether in the areas of religion, ethnic identity, or nationalism, they take refuge in a renewed and purified tradition--and, quite often, violence.
Giddens is not coy about where he stands: "We can legitimately hope that a cosmopolitan outlook will win out." In what is sure to be a controversial chapter, he examines sex and family life through the prism of this fundamentalist-cosmopolitan divide. He is severely critical of what he calls the "traditional family," which he considers an aspect of fundamentalism the world over and an enemy of sexual equality: "I remember what my great aunt once said to me. She must have had one of the longest marriages of anyone, having been with her husband for over 60 years. She once confided that she had been deeply unhappy with him the whole of that time. In her day there was no escape." Runaway World is certain to provoke a lively debate--Giddens would surely have it no other way. --John J. Miller [via]More editions of Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeoby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0395219701 (0-395-21970-1)
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Snobbery: The American Versionby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0395944171 (0-395-94417-1)
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Social Class in Modern Britainby Gordon Marshall, David Rose, Howard Newby, Carolyn VoglerISBN 0415098769 (0-415-09876-9)
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Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the Worldby Walter Russell MeadISBN 0415935369 (0-415-93536-9)
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America's response to the September 11 attacks spotlighted many of the country's longstanding goals on the world stage: to protect liberty at home, to secure America's economic interests, to spread democracy in totalitarian regimes and to vanquish the enemy utterly.
One of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, Walter Russell Mead, argues that these diverse, conflicting impulses have in fact been the key to the U.S.'s success in the world. In a sweeping new synthesis, Mead uncovers four distinct historical patterns in foreign policy, each exemplified by a towering figure from our past.
Wilsonians are moral missionaries, making the world safe for democracy by creating international watchdogs like the U.N. Hamiltonians likewise support international engagement, but their goal is to open foreign markets and expand the economy. Populist Jacksonians support a strong military, one that should be used rarely, but then with overwhelming force to bring the enemy to its knees. Jeffersonians, concerned primarily with liberty at home, are suspicious of both big military and large-scale international projects.
A striking new vision of America's place in the world, Special Providence transcends stale debates about realists vs. idealists and hawks vs. doves to provide a revolutionary, nuanced, historically-grounded view of American foreign policy. [via]More editions of Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World:
Spiritual Life of Childrenby Robert ColesISBN 0395599237 (0-395-59923-7)
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Starke's International Lawby I.A. Shearer, J. G. StarkeISBN 0406016232 (0-406-01623-2)
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Stranger in a Strange Landby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 039910772X (0-399-10772-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger in a Strange Land'Book summary:Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.
The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the 60's to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."). That aside, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the master's best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it? --Brooks Peck [via]
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Stranger in a Strange Land/30th Anniversary, Uncut Versionby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399135863 (0-399-13586-3)
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The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the 60's to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."). That aside, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the master's best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it? --Brooks Peck [via]
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Theories of the Information Societyby Frank WebsterISBN 0415105749 (0-415-10574-9)
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Understanding the Enneagram: The Practical Guide to Personality Typesby Don Richard RisoISBN 0395521483 (0-395-52148-3)
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Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorderby Steve Pile, Chris Brook, Gerry MooneyISBN 0415200741 (0-415-20074-1)
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Unsettling Cities: Movement/Settlementby John Allen, Doreen B. Massey, Michael PrykeISBN 0415200725 (0-415-20072-5)
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Urban and Regional Planningby Peter HallISBN 0415217776 (0-415-21777-6)
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
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Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
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Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie AngierISBN 0395691303 (0-395-69130-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Woman: An Intimate Geography'Book summary:Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, as far as the health care profession is concerned the standard operating design of the human body is male. So when a book comes along as beautifully written and endlessly informative as Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography, it's a cause for major celebration. Written with whimsy and eloquence, her investigation into female physiology draws its inspiration not only from scientific and medical sources but also from mythology, history, art, and literature, layering biological factoids with her own personal encounters and arcane anecdotes from the history of science. Who knew, for example, that the clitoris--with 8,000 nerve fibers--packs double the pleasure of the penis; that the gene controlling cellular sensitivity to male androgens, ironically enough, resides on the X-chromosome; or that stress hormones like cortisol and corticosterone are the true precursors of friendship?
The mysteries of evolution are not a new subject for Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biology writer for the New York Times whose previous books include The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions. The strengths of Woman begin with Angier's witty and evocative prose style, but its real contribution is the way it expands the definition of female "geography" beyond womb, breasts, and estrogen, down as far as the bimolecular substructure of DNA and up as high as the transcendent infrastructure of the human brain. --Patrizia DiLucchio [via]
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Woman's Experience of Sexby Sheila KitzingerISBN 0399128565 (0-399-12856-5)
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Words And Things: An Examination Of, And An Attack On, Linguistic Philosophyby Ernest Gellner, Bertrand Russell, Ian JarvieISBN 0415345480 (0-415-34548-0)
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The first determined attempt to state the premises and operational rules of the movement, Words and Things remains philosophy's most devastating attack on a conventional wisdom to this day.
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