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And the Band Played onby Randy ShiltsISBN 0312241356 (0-312-24135-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Band Played on'Book summary:In the first major book on AIDS, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts examines the making of an epidemic. Shilts researched and reported the book exhaustively, chronicling almost day-by-day the first five years of AIDS. His work is critical of the medical and scientific communities' initial response and particularly harsh on the Reagan Administration, who he claims cut funding, ignored calls for action and deliberately misled Congress. Shilts doesn't stop there, wondering why more people in the gay community, the mass media and the country at large didn't stand up in anger more quickly. The AIDS pandemic is one of the most striking developments of the late 20th century and this is the definitive story of its beginnings. [via]
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Blacktop Cowboys: Riders on the Run for Rodeo Goldby Ty PhillipsISBN 0312330367 (0-312-33036-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Book of Thinkby Marilyn BurnsISBN 0316117439 (0-316-11743-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Think'Book summary:Compilation of puzzles, exercises and brain teasers requiring the use of problem-solving skills. [via]
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The Celtsby Gerhard HermISBN 0312313438 (0-312-31343-8)
Softcover, Strategic Planning Management
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The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darknessby Gerhard HermISBN 0312127057 (0-312-12705-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness'Book summary:Description: 312 p. , [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Translation of Die Kelten. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [297]-298. Subjects: Celts [via]
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Cold Zero: Inside the Fbi's Hostage Rescue Teamby Christopher WhitcombISBN 0316601039 (0-316-60103-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Zero: Inside the Fbi's Hostage Rescue Team'Book summary:Whitcomb is the first HRT member ever to write about his experience. With breathtaking immediacy, he describes the brutal training, the weapons and tactics, and the unbreakable camaraderie of the HRT. In short order, after joining HRT in 1991, Whitcomb was sent on missions to Ruby Ridge and Waco, and his frank assessment of those missions is must reading for anyone interested in modern law enforcement. [via]
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Coming of Age : The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived Itby Studs TerkelISBN 031214573X (0-312-14573-X)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Comparative Politics Today: A World Viewby Russell J. Dalton, Kaare Strom, G. Bingham Powell, AlmondISBN 0321106768 (0-321-10676-8)
Hardcover, Pearson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comparative Politics Today: A World View'Book summary:Comparative Politics Today is the text that defined the discipline of comparative politics and continues to set the standard for the course with and the most current country study chapters available. The chapters on England, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, India, and the United States have all been thoroughly updated. As in the previous edition, theoretical chapters (Chapters 1-7) at the beginning of the book explore the "purpose of government" and provide students with a framework for understanding comparative politics. The theoretical section is followed by 12 individual country studies. All country studies are written by pre-eminent specialists on that particular country, ensuring that students have the most reliable information and insights into the political systems of those nations. [via]
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Comparative Politics Today: A World Viewby Gabriel Abraham AlmondISBN 0321089820 (0-321-08982-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comparative Politics Today: A World View'Book summary:The Seventh Edition Update of this market-leading text offers the most current and respected introduction to comparative politics available, with several updated country studies and a robust new Web site. Comparative Politics Today is the text that defined the discipline of comparative politics and continues to set the standard for the course with a brand new Web site and the most current country study chapters available. The chapters on England, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Japan, and the United States have all been thoroughly updated. A new, highly interactive Comparative Politics Web site (www.ablongman.com/comparativepolitics) is sure to engage today's students and help them learn. The site's features include: country profiles, interactive maps, practice tests, news links, web links, and more. As in the previous edition, theoretical chapters (Chapters 1 - 7) at the beginning of the book explore the "purpose of government" and provide students with a framework for understanding comparative politics. The theoretical section is followed by 12 individual country studies. All country studies are written by pre-eminent specialists on that particular country, ensuring that students have the most reliable information and insights into the political systems of those nations. [via]
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Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropologyby David W. McCurdy, James P. SpradleyISBN 0316807745 (0-316-80774-5)
Softcover, Little, Brown
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Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropologyby James P. Spradley, David W. McCurdyISBN 0321047060 (0-321-04706-0)
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Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology Profby SpradleyISBN 032140193X (0-321-40193-X)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Contemporary Japanby Duncan McCargoISBN 0333961927 (0-333-96192-7)
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Contemporary Linguistics: An Introductionby William O'Grady, Mark Aronoff, John ArchibaldISBN 0312419368 (0-312-41936-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Contemporary Linguistics: An Introductionby Mark Aronoff, William O'Grady, Michael DobrovolskyISBN 0312137494 (0-312-13749-4)
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Crashing the Party : How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for Presidentby Ralph NaderISBN 0312284330 (0-312-28433-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrenderby Ralph NaderISBN 0312302584 (0-312-30258-4)
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Criminologyby Larry J. SiegelISBN 0314935118 (0-314-93511-8)
Hardcover, West Pub Co
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The Day the Universe Changedby James BurkeISBN 0316117048 (0-316-11704-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day the Universe Changed'Book summary:[via]When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo introduced his telescope. And with that single innovation, architecture, music, literature, science, politics--all of it changed, mirroring the new view of truth. This program is James Burke's examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him.Few people are able to look at human history and see it not as a jumble of half-remembered names and dates, but as an intricate mosaic of neatly interlocking pieces. Fewer still can describe the patterns and explain the parts of the puzzle so that it not only makes sense, but so that it also fascinates and intrigues, excites and entertains. James Burke tells history like it's the plot of the most interesting mystery ever written.More editions of The Day the Universe Changed:
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Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and Institute of Social Researchby Martin JayISBN 0316458309 (0-316-45830-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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- The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950: ISBN 0316460494 (0-316-46049-4)
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The Elements of Social Scientific Thinkingby Kenneth R. HooverISBN 0312241895 (0-312-24189-5)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Enterprise of Law: Questions in Legal Experience and Philosophyby Malcolm ClarkISBN 0314935312 (0-314-93531-2)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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The Faceby Dan McNeillISBN 0316588032 (0-316-58803-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Face: A Natural Historyby Daniel McNeillISBN 0316588121 (0-316-58812-1)
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Scienceby Jean Bricmont, Alan D. SokalISBN 0312204078 (0-312-20407-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science'Book summary:In 1996, an article entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in the cultural studies journal Social Text. Packed with recherché quotations from "postmodern" literary theorists and sociologists of science, and bristling with imposing theorems of mathematical physics, the article addressed the cultural and political implications of the theory of quantum gravity. Later, to the embarrassment of the editors, the author revealed that the essay was a hoax, interweaving absurd pronouncements from eminent intellectuals about mathematics and physics with laudatory--but fatuous--prose.
In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism. When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that these virtuosi are babbling.
Their discussion of epistemic relativism--roughly, the idea that scientific and mathematical theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions--is less convincing, however, in part because epistemic relativism is not as intrinsically silly as, say, Regis Debray's maunderings about Gödel, and in part because the authors' own grasp of the philosophy of science frequently verges on the naive. Nevertheless, Sokal and Bricmont are to be commended for their spirited resistance to postmodernity's failure to appreciate science for what it is. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debateby Naomi Klein, Debra Ann LevyISBN 0312307993 (0-312-30799-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Named one of Ms Magazines Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world, in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a birds-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the anti-globalization movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; free trade; or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.More editions of Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate:
Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contextsby Jane H. Bayes, Nayereh Esfahlani TohidiISBN 0312228120 (0-312-22812-0)
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Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilizationby Christopher ManesISBN 0316545325 (0-316-54532-5)
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Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851-1988by John E. Findling, Kimberly D. PelleISBN 0313260230 (0-313-26023-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Homosexualization of Americaby Dennis AltmanISBN 0312388888 (0-312-38888-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. Riis, David LeviatinISBN 0312117000 (0-312-11700-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors: And, AIDS And Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0312420137 (0-312-42013-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Juvenile Delinquencyby Larry J. Siegel, Joseph J. SennaISBN 0314631801 (0-314-63180-1)
Hardcover, Cengage Learning
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Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Lawby Larry J. Siegel, Joseph J. SennaISBN 0314092447 (0-314-09244-7)
Hardcover, West Group
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Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution An Unfettered Historyby David AllynISBN 0316039306 (0-316-03930-6)
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The Meaning of Wifeby Anne KingstonISBN 0312425007 (0-312-42500-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Naked Warriors: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Frogmenby Don Moore, Francis Douglas FaneISBN 0312959850 (0-312-95985-0)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveby Frederick Douglass, David W. BlightISBN 0312257376 (0-312-25737-6)
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Never Cry Wolfby Farley MowatISBN 0316881791 (0-316-88179-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Never Cry Wolf'Book summary:More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man) and for a friendly Inuit tribe known as the Ihalmiut ("People of the Deer")-is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves. [via]
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The Night Is Large: Collected Essays 1938-1995by Martin GardnerISBN 0312169493 (0-312-16949-3)
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No Logo: No Space No Choice No Jobsby Naomi KleinISBN 0312421435 (0-312-42143-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Logo: No Space No Choice No Jobs'Book summary:With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing-and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century. First published before the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, this is an infuriating, inspiring, and altogether pioneering work of cultural criticism that investigates money, marketing, and the anti-corporate movement. As global corporations compete for the hearts and wallets of consumers who not only buy their products but willingly advertise them from head to toe-witness today's schoolbooks, superstores, sporting arenas, and brand-name synergy-a new generation has begun to battle consumerism with its own best weapons. In this provocative, well-written study, a front-line report on that battle, we learn how the Nike swoosh has changed from an athletic status-symbol to a metaphor for sweatshop labor, how teenaged McDonald's workers are risking their jobs to join the Teamsters, and how "culture jammers" utilize spray paint, computer-hacking acumen, and anti-propagandist wordplay to undercut the slogans and meanings of billboard ads (as in "Joe Chemo" for "Joe Camel"). No Logo will challenge and enlighten students of sociology, economics, popular culture, international affairs, and marketing. "This book is not another account of the power of the select group of corporate Goliaths that have gathered to form our de facto global government. Rather, it is an attempt to analyze and document the forces opposing corporate rule, and to lay out the particular set of cultural and economic conditions that made the emergence of that opposition inevitable."-Naomi Klein, from her Introduction [via]
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bulliesby Naomi KleinISBN 0312271921 (0-312-27192-1)
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In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well. (The controversy over advertiser-sponsored Channel One may be old hat, but many readers will be surprised to learn about ads in school lavatories and exclusive concessions in school cafeterias.) The global companies claim to support diversity, but their version of "corporate multiculturalism" is merely intended to create more buying options for consumers. When Klein talks about how easy it is for retailers like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster to "censor" the contents of videotapes and albums, she also considers the role corporate conglomeration plays in the process. How much would one expect Paramount Pictures, for example, to protest against Blockbuster's policies, given that they're both divisions of Viacom?
Klein also looks at the workers who keep these companies running, most of whom never share in any of the great rewards. The president of Borders, when asked whether the bookstore chain could pay its clerks a "living wage," wrote that "while the concept is romantically appealing, it ignores the practicalities and realities of our business environment." Those clerks should probably just be grateful they're not stuck in an Asian sweatshop, making pennies an hour to produce Nike sneakers or other must-have fashion items. Klein also discusses at some length the tactic of hiring "permatemps" who can do most of the work and receive few, if any, benefits like health care, paid vacations, or stock options. While many workers are glad to be part of the "Free Agent Nation," observers note that, particularly in the high-tech industry, such policies make it increasingly difficult to organize workers and advocate for change.
But resistance is growing, and the backlash against the brands has set in. Street-level education programs have taught kids in the inner cities, for example, not only about Nike's abusive labor practices but about the astronomical markup in their prices. Boycotts have commenced: as one urban teen put it, "Nike, we made you. We can break you." But there's more to the revolution, as Klein optimistically recounts: "Ethical shareholders, culture jammers, street reclaimers, McUnion organizers, human-rights hacktivists, school-logo fighters and Internet corporate watchdogs are at the early stages of demanding a citizen-centered alternative to the international rule of the brands ... as global, and as capable of coordinated action, as the multinational corporations it seeks to subvert." No Logo is a comprehensive account of what the global economy has wrought and the actions taking place to thwart it. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semioticsby Marcel DanesiISBN 0312214502 (0-312-21450-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Societyby Dave Grossman, G. KloskeISBN 0316330116 (0-316-33011-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistoryby Brian M. FaganISBN 0316273198 (0-316-27319-8)
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Philistines at the Hedgerowby Steven GainesISBN 0316309419 (0-316-30941-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philistines at the Hedgerow'Book summary:The Hamptons, that famous string of beachside hamlets in New York State, are not just a quiet vacation spot for New England blue bloods like the duPonts and Vanderbilts. According to Steven Gaines, the author of a spate of "untold" and "true" biographies of such glitterati as Calvin Klein, they're also--surprise!--a sandbox of scandal.
And who exactly has been stirring things up? Gaines centers the book on an eccentric cast of characters in Hamptons history: semicloseted gay men of fabulous wealth and Ralph Lauren taste, half-cracked Mayflower descendants going to seed, and those "Philistines," the nouveau riche, blemishing the scenery with their terrible taste. "The establishment can hold off the newcomers for only so long," explains the author. "There are always more of Them than Us."
Heavily researched, the book is painstakingly detailed and unapologetically voyeuristic, full of "nine-ounce chilled Baccarat crystal stem glasses," "Chippendale sofas upholstered in Scalamandré silks," "Gucci loafers," and "fourteen-karat-gold wallpaper." It's a Champagne truffle: sinful, enticing, and pure froth at its center. --Maria Dolan [via]
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Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptonsby Steven S. GainesISBN 0316309079 (0-316-30907-9)
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Political Science: A Comparative Introductionby Martin Harrop, Rod HagueISBN 0312397461 (0-312-39746-1)
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Power: A Radical Viewby Stephen LukesISBN 0333420926 (0-333-42092-6)
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Psychologyby Wade, Carol TavrisISBN 0321049314 (0-321-04931-4)
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Studyby Paula S. RothenbergISBN 0312153511 (0-312-15351-1)
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Reflections On Research: The Realities Of Doing Research In The Social Sciencesby NINA HALLOWELL, Susan Gregory, Julia LawtonISBN 033521309X (0-335-21309-X)
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Renaissance Italyby Robert HoleISBN 0340701366 (0-340-70136-6)
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Research Methods in the Social Sciencesby David Nachmias, Chava Frankfort-NachmiasISBN 0312101597 (0-312-10159-7)
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The Scarby China MievilleISBN 0333781759 (0-333-78175-9)
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Second Language Learning Theoriesby Rosamond Mitchell, Florence MylesISBN 034066312X (0-340-66312-X)
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Individual chapters focus on major current schools in SLL theory, offering both summaries and outlines of different theoretical perspectives with an element of evaluation to the area explored. Starting off with an overview of the key concepts and issues in SLL, as well as a history of research in the area, the book covers Universal Grammar and the cognitive approaches, the input and interaction hypotheses, and functionalist, sociocultural, and sociolinguistic perspectives, and ends by looking towards the future of second language learning research. [via]More editions of Second Language Learning Theories:
Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniperby Don Davis, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. DavisISBN 0312336861 (0-312-33686-1)
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Shooter: The Autobiography Of The Top-Ranked Marine Sniperby Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. DavisISBN 0312336853 (0-312-33685-3)
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Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide Americaby Larry ElderISBN 0312320175 (0-312-32017-5)
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Sociological Research Methods: An Introductionby Martin BulmerISBN 0333212738 (0-333-21273-8)
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The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Menby David NimmonsISBN 031232040X (0-312-32040-X)
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Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Timeby Paul Rogat LoebISBN 0312204353 (0-312-20435-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time'Book summary:These are indeed cynical times. But to hide behind the smugness of cynicism is a kind of self-imposed death sentence, explains writer and social commentator Paul Loeb. In fact, now is the ideal time for gathering all our strengths and wisdom as spiritual beings and applying ourselves to shaping a better world, he claims.
Are we talking social activism here? Well, yes. But before you cringe from images of shrill, humorless, burned out activists, keep in mind that Loeb is talking about a new kind of activism--an exciting, spiritual model for creating social change. We don't have to be pious or martyred saints (as he explains throughout one chapter), starving ourselves in the name of a cause or staging protests in freezing rain. We can be "good enough" activists, assuming the task of helping 10 people in need rather than taking on the globe. We can remember the power of storytelling when convincing an audience, rather than angrily spewing scary facts. We can replenish ourselves so that we do not burn out. We can emphasize themes such as community and forgiveness rather than separatism and blame.
This is a deeply spiritual book, but make no mistake: Loeb's writing, research, and integrity are as solid as they come. Soul of a Citizen may well become The Handbook for activism at the turn of the century. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Ten Things You Can't Say in Americaby Larry ElderISBN 0312284659 (0-312-28465-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ten Things You Can't Say in America'Book summary:From Rush Limbaugh to Howard Stern, America tunes in to its radio hosts both on the air and between covers, accepting them as truth-tellers without agendas, the perfect gadflies for the age of too much information. In an era where everyone seems bought and paid for, they cut through it all to tell it like it is. For Fall 2000--just in time to enter the fray for the presidential election season-St. Martin's is happy to present the most unfettered voice of all, Larry Elder. Larry Elder has been igniting passions and conversations for five years at the top of the competitive drive-time radio heap, KABC in Los Angeles-the "Sage from South Central" punctures pretensions, refuses to accept the accepted wisdom, and puts everyone on notice that the status quo needs to be shaken up. From his outrage over the entrenched "victicrat" society and how it keeps believers spinning their wheels, to his trenchant observations on work, leadership, race, special interests, politics and more, Larry is a clarion voice that cuts through what the usual suspects say and hear."Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care crisis, unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions." -- Larry ElderThe Ten Things You Can't Say In America:Blacks are More Racist than WhitesWhite Condescension is as Real as Black RacismThe Media Bias: It's Real, It's Widespread, It's DestructiveThe Glass Ceiling: Full of HolesAmerica's Greatest Problem: IllegitimacyThe Big Lie: Our Health Care CrisisThe Welfare State: Helping Us to DeathRepublican v. [via]
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Training Systems Management: Wed 469 - Training Systems Management, Southern Illinois Universityby SiuISBN 032427632X (0-324-27632-X)
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Trial of Socratesby I.F. StoneISBN 0316817589 (0-316-81758-9)
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea And the Kim Dynastyby Bradley K. MartinISBN 0312323220 (0-312-32322-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea And the Kim Dynasty'Book summary:Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society, that to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from birth to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of megalomaniacs.[via]
To North Koreans, the Kims are more than just leaders. Kim Il-Sung is the country's leading novelist, philosopher, historian, educator, designer, literary critic, architect, general, farmer, and ping-pong trainer. Radios are made so they can only be tuned to the official state frequency. "Newspapers" are filled with endless columns of Kim speeches and propaganda. And instead of Christmas, North Koreans celebrate Kim's birthday--and he presents each child a present, just like Santa.
The regime that the Kim Dynasty has built remains technically at war with the United States nearly a half century after the armistice that halted actual fighting in the Korean War. This fascinating and complete history takes full advantage of a great deal of source material that has only recently become available (some from archives in Moscow and Beijing), and brings the reader up to the tensions of the current day. For as this book will explain, North Korea appears more and more to be the greatest threat among the Axis of Evil countries--with some defector testimony warning that Kim Jong-Il has enough chemical weapons to wipe out the entire population of South Korea.More editions of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea And the Kim Dynasty:
Uneven Redevelopment: Cities and Regions in Transitionby Doreen Massey, John AllenISBN 0340493933 (0-340-49393-3)
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Up from Slaveryby Booker T. Washington, W. Fitzhugh BrundageISBN 0312394489 (0-312-39448-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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The Uprootedby Oscar HandlinISBN 0316343137 (0-316-34313-7)
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Us And Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mindby David BerrebyISBN 0316090301 (0-316-09030-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Us And Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind'Book summary:This groundbreaking and eloquently written book explains how and why people are wedded to the notion that they belong to differing human kindstribe-type categories like races, ethnic groups, nations, religions, castes, street gangs, sports fandom, and high school cliques. Why do we see these divisions? Why do we care about them so much? Why do we kill and die for them? This is the stuff of news headlines. How has a nation gone from peaceful coexistence to genocide? How does social status affect your health? Why are teenagers willing to kill themselves in hazing rituals in order to belong to a fraternity or social group? How do terrorists learn not to care about the lives of those they attack? US AND THEM gets at the heart of these profound questions by looking at their common root in human nature. Politics, culture, and economics play their parts, but its the human mind that makes them possible, and thats the focus of US AND THEM. Were not born with a map of human kinds; each person makes his own and learns to fight for it. This is a crucial subject that touches all of our lives in ways both large and small, obvious and subtle. Human-kind thinkingwhether beneficial or destructiveis part of human nature, as David Berrebys brilliant book reveals. [via]
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War, Peace, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Europeby Clive Emsley, Arthur Marwick, Wendy SimpsonISBN 033509290X (0-335-09290-X)
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Work, Employment, and Unemployment: Perspectives on Work and Societyby Kenneth ThompsonISBN 0335105947 (0-335-10594-7)
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Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Orderby Ken Booth, Tim DunneISBN 0333998057 (0-333-99805-7)
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Contributers: Ken Booth & Tim Dunne " Francis Fukuyama " Lawrence Freedman " Steve Smith " Desmond Ball " Thomas J. Bierstekker " Barry Buzan " Immanuel Wallerstein " James Der Derian " Michael Byers " Noam Chomsky " Robert O. Keohane " Michael Cox " Abdullahi A. An-Na'im " Avi Shlaim " William Maley " Amitav Acharya " C. Raja Mohan " Paul Rogers " Colin Gray " Fred Halliday " Benjamin Barber " Jean Bethke Elshtain " Bhikhu Parekh " Sissela Bok " Chris Brown " Andrew Linklater " Saskia Sassen " Richard Falk " Patricia Williams " Kenneth N. WaltzMore editions of Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order:
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