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The Abolition of Manby C. S. LewisISBN 0060652942 (0-06-065294-2)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Act of Creationby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0090980409 (0-09-098040-9)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil PostmanISBN 0140094385 (0-14-009438-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Between Past and Futureby Hannah ArendtISBN 0140046623 (0-14-004662-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Centuryby Bruce J. CaldwellISBN 0043303420 (0-04-330342-0)
Softcover, G. Allen & Unwin
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Brave New World Revisitedby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060898526 (0-06-089852-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World Revisited'Book summary:When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.
Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.
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Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralismby Paul Veyne, Brian PearceISBN 0140124853 (0-14-012485-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracyby Joseph A. SchumpeterISBN 0061330086 (0-06-133008-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy'Book summary:2011 Reprint of 1947 Second Edition. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 - 1950) was an Austrian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics. Schumpeter's most popular book in English is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. This book opens with a treatment of Karl Marx. While he is sympathetic to Marx's theory that capitalism will collapse and will be replaced by socialism, Schumpeter concludes that this will not come about in the way Marx predicted. To describe it he borrowed the phrase "creative destruction", and made it famous by using it to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are endogenously destroyed and replaced by new ways. [via]
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracyby Joseph Alois SchumpeterISBN 0060904569 (0-06-090456-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Cityby Max Weber, Don Martindale, Gertrud NeuwirthISBN 0029342104 (0-02-934210-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Class Structure of the Advanced Societiesby Anthony GiddensISBN 0091168813 (0-09-116881-3)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Classical Social Theory: Investigation and Applicationby Tim DelaneyISBN 0131109006 (0-13-110900-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classicsby C. S. LewisISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics'Book summary:For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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Complex Organizations: A Critical Essayby Charles PerrowISBN 0075547996 (0-07-554799-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Concept of Ideologyby Jorge A. LarrainISBN 0091389518 (0-09-138951-8)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essaysby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0140058052 (0-14-005805-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays'Book summary:This collection of eight essays spans the range of Isaiah Berlin's interests, including his role in the disputes of language philosophers in the 1930s, his interest in political philosophy, and his later attention to the history of ideas. In Berlin's preface, he records his decision to abandon philosophy for history in the 1940s, but by his own definition of philosophy, given in the first essay ("The Purpose of Philosophy"), he continued to be a philosopher par excellence, radically questioning the models, or categories, by which human beings understand their world. Berlin sees this as the perennial task of the philosopher (which he recognizes as "agonizing and thankless") and one he takes up in this collection with analyses in chapters such as "Verification" and "Equality."
It is doubtful now whether Berlin's view of philosophy would be taken as an exhaustive account of the enterprise, especially with the flourishing in the last 25 years of applied ethics and political philosophy. And it seems reasonable to suppose that philosophy will continue to involve speculative work about the proper ends of human life, as well as logical analysis. Berlin's paradoxical contribution, evident in this collection, was that in committing himself to a life of radical questioning of concepts and categories, he in fact proposed a purpose for life, namely the creation of a society that would not be duped by incoherent and idealistic models of the world. Radical philosophical questioning, that drive for clarity in language and for models of the world that are capable of empirical testing, is not in such circumstances the Sisyphean endeavor it might otherwise appear. --Jeff Petts, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Conflict and the Web of Group-Affiliationsby Georg Simmel, Reinhard Bendix, Kurt H. WolffISBN 0029288401 (0-02-928840-1)
Softcover, Free Pr
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Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Scienceby Randall CollinsISBN 0121813509 (0-12-181350-9)
Hardcover, Academic Pr
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The Construction of Social Reality.by John R. SearleISBN 0029280451 (0-02-928045-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basicsby George RitzerISBN 0072997591 (0-07-299759-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand De SaussureISBN 0070165246 (0-07-016524-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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The Discovery of Societyby Randall Collins, Michael MakowskyISBN 0072507365 (0-07-250736-5)
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Energy and Equityby Ivan IllichISBN 0060803274 (0-06-080327-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writerby Thomas Merton, Jonathan MontaldoISBN 0060654775 (0-06-065477-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Classby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0060973331 (0-06-097333-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine GreerISBN 0070243751 (0-07-024375-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Female Eunuch'Book summary:Available alongside five other Modern Classics first published by Flamingo in the 1970s, this is a re-issue of Germaine's Greer's feminist classic. Translated into many languages, "The Female Eunuch" is a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. [via]
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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experienceby Erving GoffmanISBN 0060903724 (0-06-090372-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061245135 (0-06-124513-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything'Book summary:Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from innercity Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. DubnerISBN 006089637X (0-06-089637-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Freakonomics Intl Pb: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 0061131326 (0-06-113132-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Germany and the Germans: An Anatomy of Society Todayby John ArdaghISBN 0060158395 (0-06-015839-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Heart of Manby Erich FrommISBN 0060907959 (0-06-090795-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In Praise Of Slowness: Challenging The Cult Of Speedby Carl HonoreISBN 0060750510 (0-06-075051-0)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speedby Carl HonoréISBN 006054578X (0-06-054578-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed'Book summary:We live in the age of speed. The world around us moves faster than ever before. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, every day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has taken complete hold and pushed us to breaking point. Consider these facts: Americans spend 40% less time with their children than they did in the 1960s; American on average spends 72 minutes of every day behind the wheel of a car; a typical business executive now loses 68 hours a year to being put on hold; and American adults currently devote on average a meager half hour per week to making love.
Living on the edge of exhaustion, we are constantly reminded by our bodies and minds that the pace of life is spinning out of control. In Praise of Slowness traces the history of our increasingly breathless relationship with time, and tackles the consequences and conundrum of living in this accelerated culture of our own creation. Why are we always in such a rush? What is the cure for time-sickness? Is it possible, or even desirable, to slow down? Realizing the price we pay for unrelenting speed, people all over the world are reclaiming their time and slowing down the pace - and living happier, more productive and healthier lives as a result. A slow revolution is taking place.
But here you will find no Luddite calls to overthrow technology and seek a pre-industrial utopia. This is a modern revolution, championed by cell phone using, emailing lovers of sanity. The slow philosophy can be summed up in a single wordbalance. People are discovering energy and efficiency where you may have least expected in slowing down.
In this engaging and entertaining exploration, award-winning journalist and rehabilitated speedaholic Carl Honoré details our perennial love affair with efficiency and speed in a perfect blend of anecdotal reportage, history and intellectual inquiry. In Praise of Slowness is the first comprehensive look at the worldwide slow movements making their way into the mainstream, in offices, factories, neighborhoods, kitchens, hospitals, concert halls, bedrooms, gyms and schools. Defining a movement whose time has finally come, this spirited manifesto will make you completely rethink your relationship with time. [via]
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The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journeyby Salman RushdieISBN 0140109269 (0-14-010926-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Journals of Thomas Merton, 1967-1968: The Other Side of the Mountainby Thomas Merton, Patrick HartISBN 0060654864 (0-06-065486-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Karl Marx Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0070406715 (0-07-040671-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Kimono: Fashioning Cultureby Liza Crihfield DalbyISBN 0099428997 (0-09-942899-7)
Hardcover, Vintage
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Law in Modern Society: Toward a Criticism of Social Theoryby Roberto Mangabeira UngerISBN 0029328802 (0-02-932880-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Leon Trotskyby Irving HoweISBN 0140050027 (0-14-005002-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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Marriage and the Family in the Middle Agesby Frances & Joseph GiesISBN 0060157917 (0-06-015791-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Marriage and the Family in the Middle Agesby Joseph Gies, Frances & Joseph GiesISBN 0060914688 (0-06-091468-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages'Book summary:A compelling, lucid, and highly readable chronicle of medieval life written by the authors of the bestselling Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City Historians have only recently awakened to the importance of the family, the basic social unit throughout human history. This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era. It describes how the Roman and barbarian cultural streams merged under the influence of the Christian church to forge new concepts, customs, laws, and practices. Century by century it follows the development -- sometimes gradual, at other times revolutionary -- of significant elements in the history of the family:
- The basic functions of the family as production unit, as well as its religious, social, judicial, and educational roles.
- The shift of marriage from private arrangement between families to public ceremony between individuals, and the adjustments in dowry, bride-price, and counter-dowry.
- The development of consanguinity rules and incest taboos in church law and lay custom.
- The peasant family in its varying condition of being free or unfree, poor, middling, or rich.
- The aristocratic estate, the problem of the younger son, and the disinheritance of daughters.
- The Black Death and its long-term effects on the family.
- Sex attitudes and customs: the effects of variations in age of men and women at marriage.
- The changing physical environment of noble, peasant, and urban families.
- Arrangements by families for old age and retirement.
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Max Weber and Karl Marxby Karl LowithISBN 0043011438 (0-04-301143-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politicsby David BeethamISBN 0043290183 (0-04-329018-3)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Not for Sale: Young People in Societyby Benny HenrikssonISBN 0080284841 (0-08-028484-1)
Softcover, Elsevier Science Ltd
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The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journeyby Thomas Merton, Patrick HartISBN 0060654872 (0-06-065487-2)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey'Book summary:The Other Side of the Mountain is the seventh and final volume of Thomas Merton's journals, covering the last two years of his life. In this book, Merton finally makes peace with his ambivalent relationship to the Church: his civil rights and anti-nuclear work, his interest in Eastern spirituality, and his love for Catholic orthodoxy coalesce into a mature voice that avoids the frosty pieties to which he was often partial in his younger years. This volume takes its title from an entry made during his final travels in India and the Far East. In this entry, he relates a dream about gazing at the mountain Kanchenjunga:
I heard a voice saying--or got the clear idea of: "There is another side to the mountain." ... There is another side of Kanchenjunga and of every mountain--the side that has never been photographed and turned into postcards. That is the only side worth seeing.
The next month, Merton died from accidental electrocution in a hotel room in Bangkok. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]More editions of The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey:
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0030632366 (0-03-063236-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing overby Starhawk, M. MacHa Nightmare, Reclaiming Collective (San Francisco, Calif.)ISBN 0062515160 (0-06-251516-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing over'Book summary:The Pagan Book of Living and Dying is the pagan omnibus on death, much more than just a history of various cultural rituals and beliefs regarding death. This collection of essays, prayers, and songs is a living document that draws on the resources of today's entire pagan community and fills the void left by ancient sacramental rites lost over the centuries. Designed in such a way as to benefit both the leaders of the pagan community as well as the individual reader, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying encourages preparation under the obvious, but often neglected, understanding that death is seldom expected nor convenient but happens to everyone.
The Pagan Book of Living and Dying discusses all aspects of death, from pagan thealogy (from thea meaning goddess, rather than theo meaning god) to the dying process itself, and it even covers sensitive subjects like helping children cope with death. Congenial essays such as Sharon Jackson's "Crash Course in Being Present with the Dying" and insightful perspectives like Diana Paxson's "Preliminary Thoughts Toward Midwifing Your Own Passage" offer a written spiritual resource for assisting and comforting the dying, and advice on facing one's own passage. The Pagan Book of Living and Dying is simultaneously a practical guide, a comforting liturgy, and a new heritage that shows how to appreciate life through a closer relationship with death. --Brian Patterson [via]
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A People's History of the United Statesby Howard ZinnISBN 0060907924 (0-06-090792-4)
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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- its women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Here we learn that many of our country's greatest battles -- labor laws, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against steel-willed resistance. This edition of A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of some of the most important events in this country in the past one hundred years.Featuring a preface and afterword read by the author himself, this audio continues Howard Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. [via]More editions of A People's History of the United States:
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Presentby Howard ZinnISBN 0060838655 (0-06-083865-5)
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[It] should be required reading. Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review
Library Journal calls Howard Zinns iconic A People's History of the United States a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those&whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinns award-winning classic continues to revolutionize the way American history is taught and remembered. Frequent appearances in popular media such as The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Good Will Hunting, and the History Channel documentary The People Speak testify to Zinns ability to bridge the generation gap with enduring insights into the birth, development, and destiny of the nation. [via]
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Phenomenon of Manby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 006090495X (0-06-090495-X)
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Plato's Vision: The Classical Origins of Social and Political Thoughtby Irving ZeitlinISBN 0136816282 (0-13-681628-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Radical Sociology: An Introductionby David HorowitzISBN 0063838656 (0-06-383865-6)
Hardcover, Canfield Press
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Natureby Matt RidleyISBN 0060556579 (0-06-055657-9)
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schoolsby Jonathan KozolISBN 0060974990 (0-06-097499-0)
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Science of Discworldby Terry PratchettISBN 0091874777 (0-09-187477-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Science of Discworld IIby Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack S. CohenISBN 0091882737 (0-09-188273-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Science of Discworld II'Book summary:Like its predecessor, The Science of Discworld II contains a short Discworld fantasy by Terry Pratchett whose chapters alternate with popular science commentary from Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
In the Discworld strand, the bickering Unseen University wizards revisit their accidental creation Roundworld--that astonishing place where there's no magic. Our world, in fact. But it's being influenced by elves (bad news in the Pratchett cosmos), who bring superstition and irrational terrors to evolving humanity. They feed on fear.
This is the cue for Stewart and Cohen to develop their ideas of stories as a shaping power in the evolution of human intelligence. Whether they're called spells, memes, creeds, theorems, artworks or lies, satisfying stories are Roundworld's equivalent of Discworld magic. It's just that it all happens in our heads: "headology" as top witch Granny Weatherwax puts it.
Struggling to make Roundworld history come out right despite elvish interference, the wizards entangle themselves in complications of time travel and must eventually beg advice from Granny. To encourage a rational attitude to facts, it seems, Roundworld needs transcendent fictions--represented, in narrative shorthand, by the works of one William Shakespeare. The trick is to make sure he gets born...
The racy exposition of the non-fiction chapters covers plenty of ground, including astrology, cargo cults, phase spaces, information theory, and the evolution of species, art, science and religion, all reflecting the human tendency not to let facts spoil a good story. Meanwhile the Discworld chapters--though sometimes disappointingly short--are fast and funny, climaxing with much unscripted action at the first night of a famous play. The Science of Discworld II is ultimately entertaining and genuinely thought-provoking, as expected from this team. Laugh and learn! --David Langford [via]
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A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Lifeby Lawrence Cunningham, Thomas MertonISBN 0060654791 (0-06-065479-1)
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Matteredby Ernst Friedrich SchumacherISBN 0060916303 (0-06-091630-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered'Book summary:Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom. Newsweek
One the 100 most influential books published since World War II
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Hailed as an eco-bible by Time magazine, E.F. Schumachers riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against bigger is better industrialism, Schumachers Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachss The End of Poverty, Paul Hawkens Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yuniss Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibbens Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
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The Sociology of Georg Simmelby Georg Simmel, Kurt H. WolffISBN 0029289203 (0-02-928920-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Structure of Social Actionby Talcott ParsonISBN 0029242401 (0-02-924240-1)
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The Technological Societyby Jacques EllulISBN 0075441586 (0-07-544158-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0140024336 (0-14-002433-6)
Hardcover, Penguin
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Martin Luther King, James Melvin WashingtonISBN 0060646918 (0-06-064691-8)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr.by Martin Luther King, J.M. WashingtonISBN 0062509314 (0-06-250931-4)
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Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Yearsby Thomas Merton, Victor A. KramerISBN 0060654813 (0-06-065481-3)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years'Book summary:The fourth volume of Thomas Merton's complete journals, one of his final literary legacies, springs from three hundred handwritten pages that capture - in candid, lively, deeply revealing passages -- the growing unrest of the 1960s, which Merton witnessed within himself as plainly as in the changing culture around him.
In these decisive years, 1960-1963, Merton, now in his late forties and frequently working in a new hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani, finds himself struggling between his longing for a private, spiritual life and the irresistible pull of social concerns. Precisely when he longs for more solitude, and convinces himself he could not cut back on his writing, Merton begins asking complex questions about the contemporary culture ("the 'world' with its funny pants, of which I do not know the name, its sandals and sunglasses"), war, and the churches role in society.
Thus despite his resistance, he is drawn into the world where his celebrity and growing concerns for social issues fuel his writings on civil rights, nonviolence, and pacifism and lead him into conflict with those who urge him to leave the moral issues to bishops and theologians.
This pivotal volume in the Merton journals reveals a man at the height of a brilliant writing career, marking the fourteenth anniversary of his priesthood but yearning still for the key to true happiness and grace. Here, in his most private diaries, Merton is as intellectually curious, critical, and insightful as in his best-known public writings while he documents his movement from the cloister toward the world, from Novice Master to hermit, from ironic critic to joyous witness to the mystery of God's plan.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, writer and peace activist. His spiritual classics include New Seeds of Contemplation, The Sign of Jonas, Mystics and Zen Masters and The Seven Story Mountain
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0070454361 (0-07-045436-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'Book summary:Though he was once proclaimed "the oracle of the electronic age," perhaps the world was not quite ready for Marshall McLuhan when he came to prominence in the 1960s. With the advent of digital technology, the Internet, and the global economy, however, there can be little doubt that he is relevant now. Understanding Media is one of McLuhan's most popular books, offering some of his more pungent and provocative insights on our need to adapt from a relatively slow, fragmented mechanical age to a high-speed, highly integrated electronic one. McLuhan's formidable intelligence and imagination make it both enlightening and fun to read. Northrop Frye, McLuhan's colleague at the University of Toronto, once identified "the use of paradox and the pretence of naïveté" as the two primary tactics of teaching. From his own bag of tricks McLuhan adds obscurity ("Our world has become compressional by dramatic reversal"); hyperbole ("We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time"); tautology ("TV is environmental and imperceptible, like all environments"); and the occasional dash of absurdist whimsy ("As extension of man the chair is a specialist ablation of the posterior, a sort of ablative absolute of backside, whereas the couch extends the integral being"). McLuhan also has a flare for the catchy phrase, and in Understanding Media the reader will find his famous dictum "the medium is the message" as well as the distinction between "hot" and "cool" media discussed at length.
After setting forth a few general principles, Understanding Media conjures a fly's-eye view of late-20th-century culture, with short sections on writing, speech, comics, telephones, television, money, movies, weapons, and much more. And while the discussion is rippling with uncanny, sometimes visionary, insight, its author remains an earnest humanist at heart. "The aspiration of our time for wholeness, empathy and depth of awareness," McLuhan says, "is a natural adjunct of electronic technology.& There is a deep faith to be found in this new attitude." --Russell Prather [via]
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Unveiling India: A Woman's Journeyby Anees JungISBN 0140103449 (0-14-010344-9)
Softcover, South Asia Books
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Up from Communism: Conservative Odysseys in American Intellectual Historyby Diggins, John, P.ISBN 0060110422 (0-06-011042-2)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, William L. HowarthISBN 0075542676 (0-07-554267-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Changeby Lester C. ThurowISBN 0140058079 (0-14-005807-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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