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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingby Malcolm GladwellISBN 0316010669 (0-316-01066-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking'Book summary:Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like. --Barbara Mackoff [via]
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Capitalby Karl MarxISBN 0140445692 (0-14-044569-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capital'Book summary:Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of "Das Kapital" strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two previous volumes in order to prove conclusively that capitalism is inherently unworkable as a permanent system for society. Here, Marx asserts controversially that - regardless of the efforts of individual capitalists, public authorities or even generous philanthropists - any market economy is inevitably doomed to endure a series of worsening, explosive crises leading finally to complete collapse. But he also offers an inspirational and compelling prediction: that the end of capitalism will culminate, ultimately, in the birth of a far greater form of society. [via]
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The Care of the Self : The History of Sexualityby Michel Foucault, Robert HurleyISBN 0394548140 (0-394-54814-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Lifeby Percival GoodmanISBN 0231072996 (0-231-07299-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Anotherby Philip BallISBN 0374530416 (0-374-53041-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another'Book summary:Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society.[via]
Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs.
Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.More editions of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another:
Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieuby David SwartzISBN 0226785955 (0-226-78595-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Culture and Practical Reasonby Marshall SahlinsISBN 0226733610 (0-226-73361-0)
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Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and Institute of Social Researchby Martin JayISBN 0316458309 (0-316-45830-9)
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcriptsby James C. ScottISBN 0300056699 (0-300-05669-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Forms of Freedom: Lithuanian Culture and Europe after 1990by Almantas SamalaviciusISBN 9955964863 (9955-9648-6-3)
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Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and Rationalities of Governmentby Andrew Barry, Nikolas Rose, Thomas OsborneISBN 0226038262 (0-226-03826-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Foucault Readerby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394713400 (0-394-71340-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foucault Reader'Book summary:Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it. [via]More editions of The Foucault Reader:
The Foucault Readerby Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394529049 (0-394-52904-9)
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Four Sociological Traditionsby Randall CollinsISBN 0195082087 (0-19-508208-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Four Sociological Traditions: Selected Readingsby Randall CollinsISBN 019508702X (0-19-508702-X)
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G.H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-Examination of His Thoughtby Hans Joas, Raymond MeyerISBN 0262600293 (0-262-60029-3)
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Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms: Selected Writingsby Georg SimmelISBN 0226757765 (0-226-75776-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatistby Gary A. CookISBN 0252062728 (0-252-06272-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Gift : Imagination and the Erotic Life of Propertyby Lewis HydeISBN 0394715195 (0-394-71519-5)
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The Greening of America: How the Youth Revolution Is Trying to Make America Livableby Charles A. ReichISBN 0394427300 (0-394-42730-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Grundrisseby Karl MarxISBN 0060128283 (0-06-012828-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economyby Karl Marx, Martin NicolausISBN 0140445757 (0-14-044575-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft)by Karl MarxISBN 0140216677 (0-14-021667-7)
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialecticsby Gyorgy LukacsISBN 0262620200 (0-262-62020-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics'Book summary:This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukács evaluated the influence of this book as follows:"For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time since Marx as the central question of a revolutionary critique of capitalism, and whose historical as well as methodological origins are deeply rooted in Hegelian dialectic. It goes without saying that the problem was omnipresent. A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophical discussion by Heidegger in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains to this day largely as a result of the position occupied by Sartre and his followers. The philologic question raised by L. Goldmann, who considered Heidegger's work partly as a polemic reply to my (admittedly unnamed) work, need not be discussed here. It suffices today to say that the problem was in the air, particularly if we analyze its background in detail in order to clarify its effect, the mixture of Marxist and Existentialist thought processes, which prevailed especially in France immediately after the Second World War. In this connection priorities, influences, and so on are not particularly significant. What is important is that the alienation of man was recognized and appreciated as the central problem of the time in which we live, by bourgeois as well as proletarian, by politically rightist and leftist thinkers. Thus, History and Class Consciousness exerted a profound effect in the circles of the youthful intelligentsia."George Lichtheim, also in 1968, writes that "...The originality of the early Lukács lay in the assertion that the totality of history could be apprehended by adopting a particular 'class standpoint': that of the proletariat. Class consciousness ;not indeed the empirical consciousness of the actual proletariat, which was hopelessly entangled with the surface aspects of objective reality, but an ideal-typical consciousness proper to a class which radically negates the existing order of reality: that was the formula which had made it possible for the Lukács of 1923 to unify theory and practice."
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ..: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Centuryby Blandine Kriegel, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394493109 (0-394-49310-9)
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Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theoryby Irving M. ZeitlinISBN 0130165565 (0-13-016556-5)
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Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledgeby Karl Mannheim, Louis Wirth, Edward ShilsISBN 0156439557 (0-15-643955-7)
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Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theoryby Robin BlackburnISBN 0006328911 (0-00-632891-1)
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Karl Marx Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophyby Karl MarxISBN 0070406723 (0-07-040672-3)
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Living Theory: The Application of Classical Social Theory to Contemporary Lifeby Charles E. HurstISBN 020545223X (0-205-45223-X)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Characterby David RiesmanISBN 0300001932 (0-300-00193-2)
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Characterby Nathan Glazer, David Riesman, Reuel Denney, Todd GitlinISBN 0300088655 (0-300-08865-5)
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The Making of the English Working Classby E.P. ThompsonISBN 0394703227 (0-394-70322-7)
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"Mr. Thompson's deeply human imagination and controlled passion help us to recapture the agonies, heroisms and illusions of the working class as it made itself. No one interested in the history of the English people should fail to read his book."--London Times Literary Supplement [via]More editions of The Making of the English Working Class:
Marx's Grundrisseby Karl Marx, David McLellanISBN 0333118464 (0-333-11846-4)
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The Marxistsby C. Wright MillsISBN 0140206272 (0-14-020627-2)
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Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Buildingby Max WeberISBN 0226877248 (0-226-87724-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building'Book summary:This selection from Max Weber's writings presents his variegated work from one central focus, the relationship between charisma on the one hand, and the process of institution building in the major fields of the social order such as politics, law, economy, and culture and religion on the other. That the concept of charisma is crucially important for understanding the processes of institution building is implicit in Weber's own writings, and the explication of this relationship is perhaps the most important challenge which Weber's work poses for modern sociology.[via]
Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building is a volume in "The Heritage of Sociology," a series edited by Morris Janowitz. Other volumes deal with the writings of George Herbert Mead, William F. Ogburn, Louis Wirth, W. I. Thomas, Robert E. Park, and the Scottish MoralistsAdam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and others.More editions of Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building:
New Science: Principles of the New Science Concerning the Common Nature of Nationsby Giambattista Vico, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140435697 (0-14-043569-7)
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On Individuality and Social Forms: Selected Writingsby Georg SimmelISBN 0226757757 (0-226-75775-7)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Origin of the Family, Private Property and the Stateby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0140444653 (0-14-044465-3)
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Origins of Totalitarianismby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156701537 (0-15-670153-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Totalitarianism'Book summary:Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our timeNazi Germany and Stalinist Russiawhich she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination. [via]
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The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Lessby Barry SchwartzISBN 0060005696 (0-06-000569-6)
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Whether were buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions--both big and small--have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented.
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We assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression.
In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice--the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice--from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs--has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse.
By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counterintuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on the important ones and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.More editions of The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less:
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lecturesby Jurgen Habermas, Frederick LawrenceISBN 0262581027 (0-262-58102-7)
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Philosophy and Social Hopeby Richard RortyISBN 0140262881 (0-14-026288-1)
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Philosophy of the Presentby George Herbert MeadISBN 0226516709 (0-226-51670-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Portable Karl Marxby Eugene KamenkaISBN 014015096X (0-14-015096-X)
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The Power Eliteby Charles Wright MillsISBN 0195133544 (0-19-513354-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power Elite'Book summary:First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today.
What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills' book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation. [via]-
The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, George Anthony Bull, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140447520 (0-14-044752-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets of force," he differed from the ruling elite in recognizing the complexity and fluidity of political life. [via]
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The Princeby Carnes Lord, Niccolo Machiavelli, Hadley Arkes, Angelo M. Codevilla, William Barclay AllenISBN 0300064039 (0-300-06403-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:A classic of the western tradition, Machiavelli's "The Prince" has influenced political and philosophical thought since its publication four centuries ago. Political power, Machiavelli taught, has no limits. It leaves no room for the sacred, and it subordinates right and wrong to success. In this new edition of Machiavelli's book, Angelo Codevilla provides a translation faithful to the original and sensitive to the author's use of verbal imprecision, including puns, double meanings, and the subjunctive mood. The volume includes an introduction by Codevilla that places Machiavelli in the context of his own times, demonstrates his relevance to the history of political thought, and inquiries into the place of Machiavelli's ideas in modern debates. This edition also contains three essays that explore some of the most important ways "The Prince" clashes with the other main branch of western civilization - the Socratic and Judeo-Christian traditions: "Machiavelli's realism" by Carnes Lord, "Machiavelli and modernity" by W.B. Allen, and "Machiavelli and America" by Hadley Arkes. [via]
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The Prince: With Related Documentsby William J. ConnellISBN 0312149786 (0-312-14978-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince: With Related Documents'Book summary:Widely read for its insights into history and politics, The Prince is one of the most provocative works of the Italian Renaissance. Based on Niccolò Machiavelli's observations of the effectiveness of both ancient and contemporary statesmen, the rules for governing set forth in his manual were considered radical and harsh by his contemporaries and shocking to many since then. This major new edition combines an accurate and accessible new translation with important related documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. In his lucid introductory essay, William J. Connell offers fresh insights into Machiavelli's life, the meaning of his work, the context in which it was written, and its influence over time. Document headnotes, maps, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and index provide further pedagogical support. [via]
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Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernismby James FarganisISBN 0072825774 (0-07-282577-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism'Book summary:This highly regarded anthology of primary readings in sociological theory covers the major theorists and schools from classic to contemporary, modernist, and postmodernist, in a chronological organization. Its comprehensive coverage and excellent introductions make this book appealing as a main text for professors who want to encourage students to read and interpret original sources, or as a supplement for those who use a traditional main text. [via]
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The Savage Mindby Claude Leevi StraussISBN 0226474844 (0-226-47484-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Savage Mind'Book summary:"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No précis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review[via]
"No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page."Edmund Leach, Man
"Lévi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human history can never be the same, nor indeed can one's view of contemporary society. And his latest book, The Savage Mind, is his most comprehensive and certainly his most profound. Everyone interested in the history of ideas must read it; everyone interested in human institutions should read it."J. H. Plumb, Saturday Review
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The Second Sexby Simone de Beauvoir, H. M. ParshleyISBN 0394444159 (0-394-44415-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Sex'Book summary:In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. "One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should ...," she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women's place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. This is a powerful piece of writing in a time before "feminism" was even a phrase, much less a movement. [via]
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The Social Systemby Talcott ParsonsISBN 0029241901 (0-02-924190-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social System'Book summary:In the history of sociological theory, Talcott Parsons holds a very special place. His The Structure of Social Action (1937), was a pioneer work that has influenced many social scientists. The present work, The Social System, presents a major scientific and intellectual advance towards the theory of action first outlined in his earlier work. [via]
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76by Michel Foucault, Francois Ewald, Arnold I. Davidson, Alessandro Fontana, David MaceyISBN 0312422660 (0-312-42266-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76'Book summary:An examination of relations between war and politics[via]
From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year. These lectures do not reduplicate his published books, although they do have themes in common. The lectures show Foucault ranging freely and conversationally over the implications of his research.
In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war. War was now seen as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines a genealogy of power/knowledge that was to become a primary concern in his final years.More editions of Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-76:
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Monica M. Elbert, Donald B. GibsonISBN 014018998X (0-14-018998-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Souls of Black Folkby Henry Louis Gates, W. E. B. Du Bois, Terri Hume OliverISBN 039397393X (0-393-97393-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States.This collection of essays on African American history, culture, and society probes fundamental issues of race and justice and documents Du Bois's conviction that the "soul" of the black community must be preserved and revered. The text reprinted here is that of the first book edition (1903). "Contexts" presents a fascinating collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Also included are eighteen photographs that accompanied Du Bois's 1901 article "The Negro As He Really Is." "Criticism" offers thirteen contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois and Souls, rounding out the picture of this enduring work. [via]
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Structure of Social Actionby Talcott ParsonsISBN 0029242509 (0-02-924250-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War IIby Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN 0231062117 (0-231-06211-7)
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Elogio De La Lentitudby Carl HonoreISBN 9871068743 (987-1068-74-3)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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La rebelion del atlas/ The Rebellion of the Atlasby Ayn RandISBN 9872095116 (987-20951-1-6)
Softcover, Grito Sagrado Editorial
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