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The American Radicalby Paul Buhle, Mari Jo Buhle, Harvey J. KakyeISBN 0415908043 (0-415-90804-3)
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Ancient Egypt: Anatomy Of A Civilisationby Barry J. KempISBN 0415063469 (0-415-06346-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization'Book summary:Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, this book includes two chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. It is suitable for the students of Ancient Egypt. [via]
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And Ladies of the Clubby Helen Hoover SantmyerISBN 0425174409 (0-425-17440-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: '...And Ladies of the Club'Book summary:Glowing with romance, alive with passion, here is the phenomenal novel that topped bestseller lists from coast to coast... a magnificent saga of love and life, war and peace, set in America's warmest and richest decades...filled with people you will never forget and stories you will always remember. If you read only one novel this year, let it be ."...AND LADIES OF THE CLUB." [via]
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuartsby Vaughan HartISBN 0415090318 (0-415-09031-8)
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The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959by Bertrand Russell, Lester E. Denonn, John G. SlaterISBN 041508301X (0-415-08301-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell: 1903-1959'Book summary:This comprehensive anthology of Bertrand Russell's writings brings together his definitive essays from the period 1903 to 1959. It covers the most fertile and the most lasting work on every significant area he published in. [via]
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racismby Patricia Hill CollinsISBN 041595150X (0-415-95150-X)
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A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Joe StatonISBN 0425123340 (0-425-12334-0)
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Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise, and Sustainable Developmentby Alan IrwinISBN 0415115485 (0-415-11548-5)
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The City Readerby Richard T. Legates, Frederic StoutISBN 0415271738 (0-415-27173-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City Reader'Book summary:This second edition of "The City Reader" brings together writing on the city. Each piece is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the authors' writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of: urban history and practice; competing ideological perspectives on the city; and the major current debates concerning race and gender, global restructuring, sustainable urban development, and the impact of technology and postmodernism. [via]
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The Conquest of Happinessby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415378478 (0-415-37847-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquest of Happiness'Book summary:The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russells recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of The Happy Man, this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.
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Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possessionby I. M. LewisISBN 0415301246 (0-415-30124-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession'Book summary:States of spirit possession, in which believer's feel themselves to be 'possessed' by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religions. From Dionysiac cults to Haitia voodoo, Christian and Sufi mysticism to shamanic ritual, the rapture and frenzy of ecstatic experience forms an iconic expression of faith in all its devastating power and unpredictability. Ecstatic Religion has, since its first appearance in 1971, became the classic investigative study of these phenomena. Exploring the social and political significance of spiritual ecstasy and possession, it concerns the distinct types of functions of mystical experience - in particular, the differences between powerful male-dominated possession cults which reinforce established morality and power, and marginal, renegade ecstatics expressing forms of protest on behalf of the oppressed, especially women. I. M. Lewis's wide-ranging comparative study looks at the psychological, medical, aesthetic, religious and cultural aspects of possession, and covers themes including soul-loss, ecstatic trance, divination, erotic passion and exorcism. Probing the mysteries of spirit possession through the critical lens of anthropological and sociological theory, this fully revised and expanded Third Edition is of crucial importance for students of psychology, sociology, religious mysticism and shamanism. [via]
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Ethics And the Limits of Philosophyby Bernard WilliamsISBN 0415399858 (0-415-39985-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ethics And the Limits of Philosophy'Book summary:By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy.
Presenting a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, Williams reorients ethical theory towards truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life. He explores and reflects upon the most difficult problems in contemporary philosophy and identifies new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge.
This edition also includes a new commentary on the text by A.W.Moore and a foreword by Jonathan Lear.
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Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850by Leonore Davidoff, Catherine HallISBN 0415290643 (0-415-29064-3)
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The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalitiesby Philip ThodyISBN 0415187540 (0-415-18754-0)
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From Max Weber: Essays in Sociologyby Max Weber, C. Wright Mills, H. H. Gerth, Bryan S. TurnerISBN 0415060567 (0-415-06056-7)
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The Gift; The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic SOcietiesby Marcel MaussISBN 0415267498 (0-415-26749-8)
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A Globalizing World?: Culture, Economics, Politicsby David HeldISBN 0415329744 (0-415-32974-4)
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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Ageby Michael H. ShumanISBN 0415927684 (0-415-92768-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age'Book summary:National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses. [via]
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Greek Stateby Victor EhrenbergISBN 0416128203 (0-416-12820-3)
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Human Optionsby Norman CousinsISBN 0425092100 (0-425-09210-0)
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Human Society in Ethics And Politicsby Bertran RussellISBN 0415083001 (0-415-08300-1)
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 0425040534 (0-425-04053-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Idoruby William GibsonISBN 0425158640 (0-425-15864-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idoru'Book summary:Colin Laney is a data analyst with a talent for seeing patterns, or nodes, as he calls them, in the flow of information that is cyberspace. Chia McKenzie is a young member of the fan club for the Japanese pop supergroup Lo/Rez. When a rumour involving the lead singer of Lo/Rez and an idoru, a Japanese virtual-reality singing idol, brings both Laney and Chia to Tokyo, the resulting web of events involves Russian criminals, Japanese schoolgirls, and illegal nanotechnology. And it's all set in a Tokyo that is literally growing and changing around the characters, rising from the rubble of a major earthquake.
Idoru is not William Gibson's best novel, but it is a good example of his primary strength: creating worlds that don't so much show the future as expose the world we already live in, a world of computers, information, mega-corporations, pop art, tabloids, and rock & roll. Idoru works not only on its own terms but also as a set-up for Gibson's next novel, All Tomorrow's Parties. Gibson broadens his perspective by including a wider range of characters than in his earlier novels, but mainly Idoru moves Gibson's work forward by pushing further into his familiar territory. It is the work not of a writer who is discovering new topics, but of one who is re-examining his old ones, bringing greater depth and maturity to his art in the process. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 042510043X (0-425-10043-X)
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Jack the Ripper: The Complete Casebookby Donald RumbelowISBN 042511869X (0-425-11869-X)
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Journalism After September 11by Barbie Zelizer, Stuart AllanISBN 0415288002 (0-415-28800-2)
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Knowledge and the Social Sciences: Theory, Method and Practiceby Open University, David GoldblattISBN 0415222869 (0-415-22286-9)
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Knowledge And The Social Sciences: Theory, Method, Practiceby David Goldblatt, Open UniversityISBN 0415222850 (0-415-22285-0)
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Language, Society and Power: An Introductionby Linda Thomas, Shan WareingISBN 0415187451 (0-415-18745-1)
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Richard AldingtonISBN 041509447X (0-415-09447-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
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The Location of Cultureby Homi K. BhabhaISBN 0415336392 (0-415-33639-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Location of Culture'Book summary:Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era.
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The Making of Victorian Englandby G. Kitson ClarkISBN 0415065917 (0-415-06591-7)
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Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life: Thoughts of Minds and Moleculesby Harold J. MorowitzISBN 0425095665 (0-425-09566-5)
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Bill SienkiewiczISBN 0425120236 (0-425-12023-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format. [via]
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The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sexby Warren FarrellISBN 0425181448 (0-425-18144-8)
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The Myths We Live byby Mary MidgleyISBN 0415340772 (0-415-34077-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Myths We Live by'Book summary:The Myths We Live By, by moral philosopher Mary Midgley, is a collection of articles dealing with the importance of symbolism in all our thought and the subsequent need to take our imaginative life seriously. Myths are not lies, she claims, they are not diverting stories, nor do they contrast with something apparently more solid such as "objective scientific truth". Myths and symbols are more like the things we think with. They suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.
Those familiar with Midgely's excellent Science and Poetry will recognise a continuing interest in how some of our most powerful myths (the myth of the social contract, of social atomism, of progress) are understood via the metaphorical light of recent technologies-the telescope, the microscope, the computer-in ways that are no longer useful to our present needs. The familiar contrastive ways of thinking (hard/soft, higher/lower, mind/body, inside/outside, heaven/earth, appearance/reality, objective/subjective, science/poetry) useful as they have been, can also be the prison-houses of thought, keeping us bound to one of the most powerful and misleading myths of all--the myth of science as omnicompetent method.
When thinking about Mary Midgley it pays to compare her with Richard Dawkins. Dawkins approaches his subject with something like cosmic awe. He is the poet-priest of science who writes with an irresistibly powerful appreciation of the wonder and poetic beauty of nature. But Midgeley takes issue with just the sort of scientist-as-priest he might be: the sort of person who thinks that "science is the only way to know the real world", that evidence-based beliefs are the only ones worth having, that religious beliefs are cowardly and irrational and that science is the "hard" king of the disciplines.
Midgley, by contrast, maps culture in an entirely different way. She shows us that there are different ways of looking at the world, different sources of knowledge that all have their place depending on what it is we want to know. Midgley shows us a way to end the contest of the faculties without giving the victory to one discipline or another and this makes her one of the most important thinker-about-thinking philosophers in the country. In Midgley's map of the intellectual landscape there are no priests and the world looks a more interesting place because of it. Try comparing Dawkins' discussion of science and romantic poetry (Unweaving the Rainbow) with any of Midgley's recent offerings. --Larry Brown [via]
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On the Town in New York: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolutionby Michael Batterberry, Ariane BatterberryISBN 0415920205 (0-415-92020-5)
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On Warby Carl Von Clausewitz, F. N. Maude, Colonel J. J. GrahamISBN 0415350387 (0-415-35038-7)
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On What Groundsby Cleo CoyleISBN 042519213X (0-425-19213-X)
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The Open Society and Its Enemiesby Karl R. Popper, E. H. Gombrich, Vaclav HavelISBN 0415282365 (0-415-28236-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'Book summary:Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. It remains highly readable, erudite and lucid and as essential reading today as on publication in 1945. It is available here in a special centenary single-volume edition. [via]
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Open Society and Its Enemies: Hegel And Marxby Karl PopperISBN 0415290635 (0-415-29063-5)
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The Origins of Modern English Societyby Harold PerkinISBN 0415059224 (0-415-05922-4)
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Politics and Society in the Developing Worldby Mehran KamravaISBN 0415212340 (0-415-21234-0)
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The Poverty of Historicismby Karl Raimund PopperISBN 0415278465 (0-415-27846-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poverty of Historicism'Book summary:On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'
A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker. [via]More editions of The Poverty of Historicism:
Power: A New Social Anaysisby Allyson Pollock, Samuel Brittan, Kirk WillisISBN 0415325072 (0-415-32507-2)
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Power: A New Social Analysisby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415094569 (0-415-09456-9)
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Power and the Professions in Britain, 1700-1850by P. J. CorfieldISBN 0415097568 (0-415-09756-8)
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The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh's Workforceby A. R. DavidISBN 0415152925 (0-415-15292-5)
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Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship, and the Stateby David TrendISBN 0415912474 (0-415-91247-4)
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The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature, and Place in the Hypermodern Worldby Charlene SpretnakISBN 0415922984 (0-415-92298-4)
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Rethinking the Regionby John Allen, Allan Cochrane, Doreen B. Massey, Phil Sarre, Nick Henry, Julie Charlesworth, Gill CourtISBN 0415168228 (0-415-16822-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rethinking the Region'Book summary:Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market growth and reconstructed this are as a `neo-liberal' region.
The authors argue that a more balanced form of growth is possible - within and between regions as well as between social groups. This book shows that to grasp the complexities of growth we must rethink `the region' in time as well as in space. [via]More editions of Rethinking the Region:
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The Road to Serfdomby F. A. HayekISBN 0415253896 (0-415-25389-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Serfdom'Book summary:The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of. Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. He reveals to the world that little can result from such ideas except oppression and tyranny. Today, more than fifty years on, Hayek's warnings are just as valid as when The Road to Serfdom was first published. [via]
Robert's Rules of Orderby Henry M. RobertISBN 0425116905 (0-425-11690-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert's Rules of Order'Book summary:A simplified, updated version of the classic manual of parliamentary procedure. Rewritten in contemporary language for the modern reader, this clear, concise, easy-to-use edition of the popular reference is an essential tool for organizations of all sizes--from businesses to community groups. [via]
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The Sane Societyby Erich FrommISBN 041517791X (0-415-17791-X)
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Sceptical Essaysby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415325080 (0-415-32508-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sceptical Essays'Book summary:'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.'
With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and subversive' - a belief that reason should determine human actions. Today, besieged as we are by the numbing onslaught of twenty-first-century capitalism, Russell's defence of scepticism and independence of mind is as timely as ever. In clear, engaging prose, he guides us through the key philosophical issues that affect our daily lives - freedom, happiness, emotions, ethics and beliefs - and offers no-nonsense advice.
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Sex and Repression in Savage Societyby Bronislaw MalinowskiISBN 0415255546 (0-415-25554-6)
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Sex, Dissidence and Damnation : Minority Groups in the Middle Agesby Jeffrey RichardsISBN 041507147X (0-415-07147-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Social Class in Modern Britainby Gordon Marshall, David Rose, Howard Newby, Carolyn VoglerISBN 0415098769 (0-415-09876-9)
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Social Identityby Richard JenkinsISBN 0415340977 (0-415-34097-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Identity'Book summary:Without social identity there is no human world. Without frameworks of similarity and difference, people would be unable to relate to each other in a consistent and meaningful fashion. In the second edition of this highly successful text, Richard Jenkins develops his argument that identity is both individual and collective, and should therefore be considered within one analytic framework. Using the work of major social theorists, such as Mead Goffman and Barthes, to explore the experience of identity in everyday life, Jenkins considers a range of different issues, including:
- embodiment
- categorization and boundaries
- the institutionalizing of identities
- identity and modernity.
Written in an open and student-friendly style throughout, this multidisciplinary text has been thoroughly revised and updated, and is essential reading for all students interested in the concept of identity in the contemporary world.
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Subculture, the Meaning of Styleby Dick HebdigeISBN 0415291372 (0-415-29137-2)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subculture : The Meaning of Style'Book summary:"Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige ... is concerned with the UK's post-war, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks." - Rolling Stone "With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book" - Time Out "This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era" - The New York Times [via]
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Things You Need to Be Told: A Handbook for Polite Behavior in a Tacky Rude Worldby Lesley Carlin, Honore McDonough ErvinISBN 042518370X (0-425-18370-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Timequakeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0425164349 (0-425-16434-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timequake'Book summary:Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.
Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society. [via]
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Understanding Media; The Extension of Manby M. McLuhanISBN 0415253977 (0-415-25397-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media; The Extension of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequalityby Richard WilkinsonISBN 0415092353 (0-415-09235-3)
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The Uses Of Sport: A Critical Studyby David Inglis, John Hughson, Marcus FreeISBN 0415260485 (0-415-26048-5)
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Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxietyby Marjorie B. GarberISBN 0415919517 (0-415-91951-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety'Book summary:Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it. Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes. [via]
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World We Have Lostby Peter LaslettISBN 0415315271 (0-415-31527-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World We Have Lost'Book summary:The World We Have Lost is a seminal work in the study of family and class, kinship and community in England after the Middle Ages and before the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. The book explores the size and structure of families in pre-industrial England, the number and position of servants, the elite minority of gentry, rates of migration, the ability to read and write, the size and constituency of villages, cities and classes, conditions of work and social mobility. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Rick GearyISBN 042512259X (0-425-12259-X)
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