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Acts of Resistance : Against the Tyranny of the Marketby Pierre Bourdieu, Richard NiceISBN 1565845234 (1-56584-523-4)
Softcover, New Press, The
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The Age of Missing Informationby Bill McKibbenISBN 081297607X (0-8129-7607-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Missing Information'Book summary:Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhans theory that the medium is the message.
The New York Times
Imagine watching an entire days worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and fluff pieces, game shows and talk shows, ads and infomercials, televangelist pleas and Brady Bunch episodes, McKibben processed twenty-four hours of programming on all ninety-three Fairfax, Virginia, cable stations. Then, as a counterpoint, he spent a day atop a quiet and remote mountain in the Adirondacks, exploring the unmediated man and making small yet vital discoveries about himself and the world around him. As relevant now as it was when originally written in 1992and with new material from the author on the impact of the Internet agethis witty and astute book is certain to change the way you look at television and perceive media as a whole.
By turns humorous, wise, and troubling . . . a penetrating critique of technological society. Cleveland Plain Dealer
Masterful . . . a unique, bizarre portrait of our life and times.
Los Angeles Times
Do yourself a favor: Put down the remote and pick up this book.
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Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Societyby Peter McWilliamsISBN 192976717X (1-929767-17-X)
Softcover, Mary Book / Prelude Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society'Book summary:A refresher course on rights and personal freedom. What is your position on prostitution, pornography, gambling and other victimless crimes? This book will make readers consider their rights and the rights of others in a more humanistic and caring way. [via]
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Americaby Jean Baudrillard, Chris TurnerISBN 0860919781 (0-86091-978-1)
Softcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America'Book summary:France's leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways of the New World. Baudrillard assembles images of light, distance, endless horizontal circulation, political indifference and, above all, simulation. [via]
America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroinesby Gail CollinsISBN 0060185104 (0-06-018510-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980sby Marilyn FergusonISBN 0874774586 (0-87477-458-6)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Alex Haley, Malcolm XISBN 0808501488 (0-8085-0148-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'Book summary:Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatheringsby Erving GoffmanISBN 0029119405 (0-02-911940-5)
Softcover, Free Pr
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Beyond Freedom & Dignityby Burrhus Frederic SkinnerISBN 0872206270 (0-87220-627-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Freedom & Dignity'Book summary:In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society.
Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved only by dealing much more effectively with human behavior, Skinner argues that our traditional concepts of freedom and dignity must be sharply revised. They have played an important historical role in our struggle against many kinds of tyranny, he acknowledges, but they are now responsible for the futile defense of a presumed free and autonomous individual; they are perpetuating our use of punishment and blocking the development of more effective cultural practices. Basing his arguments on the massive results of the experimental analysis of behavior he pioneered, Skinner rejects traditional explanations of behavior in terms of states of mind, feelings, and other mental attributes in favor of explanations to be sought in the interaction between genetic endowment and personal history. He argues that instead of promoting freedom and dignity as personal attributes, we should direct our attention to the physical and social environments in which people live. It is the environment rather than humankind itself that must be changed if the traditional goals of the struggle for freedom and dignity are to be reached.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity urges us to reexamine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically behaviorist approach to human problems-one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals, but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements. [via]
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The Cityby Max Weber, Don Martindale, Gertrud NeuwirthISBN 0029342104 (0-02-934210-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Class Mattersby New York Times, Bill KellerISBN 0805080554 (0-8050-8055-4)
Softcover, Times Books
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilizationby Margaret MeadISBN 084462571X (0-8446-2571-X)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization'Book summary:Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.
Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.
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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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Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of Americaby Robert HughesISBN 1860466370 (1-86046-637-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America'Book summary:This New York Times bestseller ignited national debate when it was released in hardcover. Now in paperback, Culture of Complaint is a brilliant, passionate examination of multiculturalism in America today, and what Robert Hughes sees as its devastating effects on the nation. "Exhilarating".-- Newsweek [via]
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Culture of Fear Revisited: Risk-taking and the Morality of Low Expectationby Frank FurediISBN 0826493955 (0-8264-9395-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Culture Of Fear: Risk-Taking And The Morality Of Low Expectationby Frank FurediISBN 0826459307 (0-8264-5930-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviorby Helmut SchoeckISBN 0865970645 (0-86597-064-5)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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Firing Back : Against the Tyranny of the Marketby Pierre BourdieuISBN 1565847385 (1-56584-738-5)
Softcover, New Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Firing Back : Against the Tyranny of the Market'Book summary:Globalization's threat to artists and intellectuals, and how they can rebut it. Pierre Bourdieu, described by The Nation as "worthy of the militant mantle of Sartre and Foucault," here continues the themes advanced so successfully in his previous book Acts of Resistance. Firing Back is an eloquent dissection of globalization's intellectual and cultural role throughout the world, and a discussion of the ways in which effective opposition to it can be mounted. Bourdieu examines Europe's potential as a counterweight to America's globalizing policy and discusses how intellectuals and those working in the cultural sphere can create meaningful alternatives. He also raises challenging questions about the depoliticization of the academic world, arguing that scholars can no longer maintain that their research is objective or value-free.
In a preface written for this edition, Bourdieu directly addresses American readers about the role they can play in the burgeoning anti-globalization movement. [via]
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The Flight Of The Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talentby Richard FloridaISBN 0060756918 (0-06-075691-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent'Book summary:Research-driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high-value jobs from the USA.
Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida identified these variously skilled individuals as the source of economic revitalisation in US cities. In that book, he shows that investment in technology and a civic culture of tolerance (most often marked by the presence of a large gay community) are the key ingredients to attracting and maintaining a local creative class.
In The Flight of the Creative Class, Florida expands his research to cover the global competition to attract the Creative Class. The USA once led the world in terms of creative capital. Since 2002, factors like the Bush administration's emphasis on smokestack industries, heightened security concerns after 9/11 and the growing cultural divide between conservatives and liberals have put the US at a large disadvantage. With numerous small countries, such as Ireland, New Zealand and Finland, now tapping into the enormous economic value of this class - and doing all in their power to attract these workers and build a robust economy driven by creative capital - how much further behind will USA fall? [via]
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockersby Stanley CohenISBN 0855203447 (0-85520-344-7)
Softcover, M. Robertson
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativityby Lawrence LessigISBN 1594200068 (1-59420-006-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity'Book summary:From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" ("The New Yorker"), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.
All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?
Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. [via]More editions of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity:
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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbageby Heather RogersISBN 1595581200 (1-59558-120-0)
Softcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage'Book summary:From waste basket to landfill, a vertiginous descent into the mysteriously hellish world of trash.
" The average American discards almost seven pounds of trash per day.
" With only 5 percent of the global population, the U.S. consumes 30 percent of the planet's resources and churns out 30 percent of its wastes.
" Garbage production in the United States has doubled in the last thirty years.
" About 80 percent of U.S. products are used once, then thrown away.
" 95 percent of all plastic, two-thirds of all glass containers, and 50 percent of all aluminum beverage cans are never recycled; instead they just get burned or buried.
Every day a phantasmagoric rush of spent, used, and broken riches flows through our homes, offices, and cars. The United States is the planet's number-one producer of trash; each American discards over 2,600 pounds annually. But where does all that garbage go?
In Gone Tomorrow, journalist Heather Rogers guides us through the grisly, oddly fascinating world of trash. Excavating the history of rubbish handling from the 1800san era of garbage-grazing urban hogs and dump-dwelling rag pickersto the present, with its brutally violent mob-controlled cartels and high-tech rural "mega-fills" operated by billion-dollar garbage corporations, Rogers investigates the roots of America's waste-addicted culture. Gone Tomorrow also explores the politics of recycling, a popular but limited solution that, as Rogers points out, should only be seen as a first step toward much greater reform.
Part exposé, part social commentary, this work traces the connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our disposable lifestyle. [via]More editions of Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage:
The Hipster Handbookby Robert Lanham, Bret Nicely, Jeff BechtelISBN 1400032016 (1-4000-3201-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The Worldby Francis WheenISBN 158648348X (1-58648-348-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World'Book summary:In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.[via]
What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World:
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Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Senseby Francis WheenISBN 1586482475 (1-58648-247-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense'Book summary:In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.[via]
What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense:
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An Intimate History of Humanityby Theodore ZeldinISBN 0060926910 (0-06-092691-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Intimate History of Humanity'Book summary:An unusual and thought-provoking history of humankind traces the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through the ages and among diverse cultures, discussing such varied topics as the art of conversation, inter-gender friendships, lifestyles, and cookery. [via]
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 1417934417 (1-4179-3441-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.Upton Sinclairs muckraking masterpiece The Jungle centers on Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in Chicagos infamous Packingtown. Instead of finding the American Dream, Rudkus and his family inhabit a brutal, soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians.
While Sinclairs main target was the industrys appalling labor conditions, the reading public was most outraged by the disgusting filth and contamination in American food that his novel exposed. As a result, President Theodore Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which quickly led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws. For a work of fiction to have such an impact outside its literary context is extremely rare. (At the time of The Jungles publication in 1906, the only novel to have led to social change on a similar scale in America was Uncle Toms Cabin.)
Today, The Jungle remains a relevant portrait of capitalism at its worst and an impassioned account of the human spirit facing nearly insurmountable challenges.
Maura Spiegel teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College. She is the coauthor of The Grim Reader and The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History. She coedits Literature and Medicine, a journal.
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Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Imports - The Jungle: ISBN 0812976231 (0-8129-7623-1)
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The Jungleby Emily Russell, Peter KuperISBN 1561634115 (1-56163-411-5)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:Peter Kupers Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair`s whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works. [via]
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The Jungleby Janice Greene, Upton Beall Sinclair, Shelley MatheisISBN 0835910482 (0-8359-1048-2)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle'Book summary:With its high-interest adaptations of classic literature and plays, this series inspires reading success and further exploration for all students. These classics are skillfully adapted into concise, softcover books of 80-136 pages. Each retains the integrity and tone of the original book.
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The Jungleby Peter Kuper, Emily RussellISBN 1561634042 (1-56163-404-2)
Hardcover, Nbm Pub Co
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The Jungleby Upton SinclairISBN 1404311572 (1-4043-1157-2)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Societyby Raymond WilliamsISBN 0856642894 (0-85664-289-4)
Hardcover, Fontana
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La Rebelion De Las Masas / The Revolt of the Massesby Jose Ortega Y GassetISBN 8430939695 (84-309-3969-5)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Rebelion De Las Masas / The Revolt of the Masses'Book summary:La rebelion de las masas es el libro mas difundido, comentado y controvertido de Jose Ortega y Gasset. Junto con El Quijote y la poesia de Garcia Lorca es la obra de mas fortuna internacional de las letras espanolas. Es, en sintesis, un analisis historico de la relacion entre masas y minorias, un diagnostico de la vida publica, una serie de profecias cumplidas, la exploracion de una dimension nueva de la edad moderna, asi como una condena del nacionalismo y una llamada a la union europea. Esta edicion sigue la de Paulino Garagorri revista de Occidente en Alianza Editorial a la que se ha agregado una introduccion, notas y un Apendice (IV) que complementa los tres de Garagorri. [via]
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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Centuryby Harry BravermanISBN 0853453705 (0-85345-370-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology.
This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in historical and theoretical context, as well as two rare articles by Braverman, "The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century" (1975) and "Two Comments" (1976), that add much to our understanding of the book.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should and could be taught to American students.
This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author. [via]
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Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing Worldby Margaret MeadISBN 0837197813 (0-8371-9781-3)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World'Book summary:Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes analyzes the dynamics of primitive cultures to explore the evolving meaning of "male" and "female" in modern American society. On its publication in 1949, the New York Times declared, "Dr. Mead's book has come to grips with the cold war between the sexes and has shown the basis of a lasting sexual peace." This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Male & Female remains an extraordinary document of great relevance, while Mead's research methods and fieldwork offer a blueprint for scholars in future generations.
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 080901369X (0-8090-1369-X)
Softcover, Hill and Wang
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said[via] 
The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Fieldby Mauro F. GuillenISBN 0871543435 (0-87154-343-5)
Hardcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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The New Economic Sociology: Developments In An Emerging Fieldby Randall Collins, Paula England, Mauro F. GuillenISBN 0871543656 (0-87154-365-6)
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Old Friends: Library Editionby Tracy KidderISBN 1568950438 (1-56895-043-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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On Bullshitby Harry G. FrankfurtISBN 8449318831 (84-493-1883-1)
Hardcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Bullshit'Book summary:Una de las características más sobresalientes de nuestra cultura es la gran abundancia de fantochadas. Todos lo sabemos y todos contribuimos a ello. Pero el fenómeno aún no ha despertado demasiadas preocupaciones. No tenemos ninguna comprensión clara de cuál es la sustancia de la que están hechas las fantochadas, de por qué abundan tanto o qué papel desempeñan. Y carecemos de una verdadera conciencia sobre lo que significan para nosotros. Es decir, como dice Harry Frankfurt: «No tenemos ninguna teoría». Frankfurt, uno de los filósofos morales más influyentes del mundo, procura construir aquí esa teoría. Con su combinación característica de pasión filosófica, penetración psicológica y maliciosa ironía, explora los modos en que la fantochada puede distinguirse de la tergiversación deliberada. Y concluye que puede tomar muchas formas inocentes, pero en realidad es mucho más perniciosa para la verdad que las propias mentiras. [via]
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Organizations Evolvingby Howard Aldrich, Martin RuefISBN 1412910471 (1-4129-1047-1)
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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Massesby Theodore DalrympleISBN 156663721X (1-56663-721-X)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellionsby Gloria SteinemISBN 0805042024 (0-8050-4202-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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A People's History of the United Statesby Howard ZinnISBN 0060907924 (0-06-090792-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States'Book summary:For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
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)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present'Book summary:Its a wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants
[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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The Peter Principleby Peter, Laurence & Hull, RaymondISBN 1568491611 (1-56849-161-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Peter Principleby Raymond Hull, Peter, Laurence & Hull, RaymondISBN 0848821564 (0-8488-2156-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peter Principle'Book summary:This book caused a storm when first published in 1969, battering up the bestseller list to #1, charming readers from Topeka to Timbuktu, and finally, brilliantly, blessedly giving the world an answer to a question that nags us all: Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The book and the phrase it defined are now considered comedic-yet-classic cornerstones of organizational thought, and in honor of the book's fortieth anniversary, Robert I. Sutton has written a foreword introducing the book to a new generation of readers.
The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Laurence Peter coined, explains that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Everyonefrom the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation's presidentwill inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence, if it hasn't happened already. Dr. Peter's glorious revelation explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to dowhy schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias.
With the wit of James Thurber or Mark Twain, the psychological and anthropological acuity of Sigmund Freud or Margaret Mead, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton or Copernicus, Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull's brilliant book explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.
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The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociologyby Lisa J. McIntyreISBN 1559349549 (1-55934-954-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Relations in Publicby E. GoffmanISBN 0060902760 (0-06-090276-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraftby Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul BoyerISBN 1567312268 (1-56731-226-8)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 085634012X (0-85634-012-X)
Hardcover, Blond and Briggs
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 0881791695 (0-88179-169-5)
Softcover, Hartley & Marks Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered'Book summary:Small is Beautiful is the perfect antidote to the economics of globalization. As relevant today as when it was first published, this is a landmark set of essays on humanistic economics. This 25th anniversary edition brings Schumacher's ideas into focus for the end-of-the-century by adding commentaries by contemporary thinkers who have been influenced by Schumacher. They analyze the impact of his philosophy on current political and economic thought. Small is Beautiful is the classic of common-sense economics upon which many recent trends in our society are founded. This is economics from the heart rather than from just the bottom line. [via]
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Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspectiveby David B. GruskyISBN 0813366542 (0-8133-6654-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective'Book summary:The field of stratification is being transformed and reshaped by advances in theory and quantitative modeling as well as by new approaches to the analysis of economic, racial, and gender inequality. Although these developments are revolutionary in their implications, until now there has been no comprehensive effort to bring together the classic and contemporary articles that define the contours of the field. In this revised and updated edition of Social Stratification, the history of stratification research unfolds in systematic fashion, with the introductory articles in each section providing examples of the major research traditions in the field and the concluding essays (commissioned from leading scholars) providing broader programmatic statements that identify current controversies and unresolved issues. The resulting collection of articles both celebrates the diversity of theoretical approaches and reveals the cumulative nature of ongoing research. This comprehensive reader is designed as a primary text for introductory courses on social stratification and as a supplementary text for advanced courses on social classes, occupations, labor markets, or social mobility. The following types of questions and debates are addressed in the six sections of the reader:Forms and Sources of Stratification: What are the major forms of inequality in human history? Can the ubiquity of inequality be attributed to individual differences in talent or ability? Is some form of inequality an inevitable feature of human life? The Structure of Contemporary Stratification: What are the principal "fault lines" or social cleavages that define the contemporary class structure? Have these cleavages strengthened or weakened with the transition to modernity and postmodernity? Generating Stratification: How frequently do individuals move into new classes, occupations, or income groups? Is there a permanent "underclass?" To what extent are occupational outcomes determined by such forces as intelligence, effort, schooling, aspirations, social contacts, and individual luck? The Consequences of Stratification: How are the life-styles, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals shaped by their class locations? Are there identifiable "class cultures" in past and present societies? Ascriptive Processes: What types of social processes and state policies serve to maintain or alter racial, ethnic, and sex discrimination in labor markets? Have these forms of discrimination weakened or strengthened with the transition to modernity and postmodernity? The Future of Stratification: Will stratification systems take on completely new and distinctive forms in the future? How unequal will these systems be? Is the concept of social class still useful in describing postmodern forms of stratification? Are stratification systems gradually shedding their distinctive features and converging towards some common (i.e., "postmodern") regime? The volume offers essential reading for undergraduates who need an introduction to the field, for graduate students who wish to broaden their understanding of stratification research, and for advanced scholars who seek a basic reference guide. Although most of the selections are middle-range theoretical pieces suitable for introductory courses, the anthology also includes advanced contributions on the cutting edge of research. The editor outlines a modified study plan for undergraduate students requiring a basic introduction to the field.[via]More editions of Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective:
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Sparknotes the Jungleby Upton SinclairISBN 1586634100 (1-58663-410-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generationby Karl Taro GreenfieldISBN 0060926651 (0-06-092665-1)
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Technics and Civilizationby Lewis MumfordISBN 0844661155 (0-8446-6115-5)
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Times Square Red, Times Square Blueby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0814719201 (0-8147-1920-1)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Times Square Red, Times Square Blue'Book summary:An award-winning science fiction writer, esteemed professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and celebrated essayist and memoirist, Samuel Delany is one of America's keenest observers. He was also a longtime habitué of many of the sex theaters in New York City's Times Square, spending, by his own estimate, "thousands and thousands of hours" at the Capri, Variety Photoplays, the Eros, and the Venus. In the 1990s all of these theaters were shut down through new restrictive zoning laws, part of a combined effort by the Walt Disney Corporation and the administration of Mayor Rudy Giuliani to gentrify the area, replacing these seedily memorable institutions with antiseptic, innocuous architectural and cultural creations in the name of health safety. But as Delany reveals in his new book, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, the decision to clean up Times Square had little to do with public health, and everything to do with corporate greed.
In the two essays that comprise this eloquent, provocative book, Delany grieves for the loss of this strip of sexual release. Though he is careful not to romanticize or sentimentalize the peep shows and porn theaters, he does illuminate the way in which these venues crossed class, racial, and sexual orientation lines, providing a delightfully subversive utopia--and a microcosm of New York life. In the first essay, "Times Square Blue," Delany details his shared erotic and conversational encounters with working-class and homeless men in the theaters (which primarily showed straight porn films) and the genuine friendships that resulted; these immensely personal reminiscences also provide a social history of late-20th-century Times Square. Drawing on historical and theoretical resources in the second essay, "Three, Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red," Delany next builds a thoughtful and passionate argument against the gentrification of the area and the classist, characterless direction in which he sees New York heading. Read together, the essays of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue are both heartfelt homage to a beloved city and lament for a quirky vitality increasingly phased out by encroaching capitalism. --Kera Bolonik [via]
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperityby Francis FukuyamaISBN 0029109760 (0-02-910976-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'Book summary:In "The End of History, " Francis Fukuyama showed that the human historical process had culminated in a universal capitalist and democratic order. The end of the Cold War thus marked the end of ideological politics and the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st century capitalism. Yet despite the historic convergence of economic and political institutions throughout the world, we still see a great deal of social and cultural turbulence, not only in the West but in the emerging liberal states of Asia and Latin America. Now that Marxist economics and social engineering both have been discredited, Fukuyama asks, what principles should guide us in making our own society more productive and secure?
In "Trust, " a sweeping assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History, " Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the hidden principles that make a good and prosperous society, and his findings strongly challenge the orthodoxies of both left and right. Conservative economists believe that only free markets can liberate individual initiative and thereby foster greater prosperity, an assumption that dovetails with the popular myth that America was built by rugged individualists making unfettered "rational" choices. If Marxist economics undervalued the role of individual choice in a market economy, neoclassical goes too far in the other direction, promoting a radical individualism that neglects the moral basis of community and ignores the many "irrational" factors that influence economic behavior.
In fact, economic life is pervaded by culture and depends, Fukuyama maintains, on moral bonds of "social trust."This is the unspoken, unwritten bond between fellow citizens that facilitates transactions, empowers individual creativity, and justifies collective action. In the global struggle for economic predominance that is now upon us -- a struggle in which cultural differences will become the chief determinant of national success -- the social capital represented by trust will be as important as physical capital.
But trust varies greatly from one society to another, and a map of how social capital is distributed around the world yields many surprises. For instance, contrary to the assumptions of the "competitiveness" school, the United States has historically been quite similar to Japan in levels of social trust; and both differ greatly from low-trust Chinese Confucian societies on the one hand, or Latin Catholic societies like France and Italy on the other. Fukuyama argues that only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the kind of flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed for successful competition in the emerging global economy.
The greatness of this country, he maintains, was built not on its imagined ethos of individualism but on the cohesiveness of its civil associations and the strength of its communities. But Fukuyama warns that our drift into a more and more extreme rights-centered individualism -- a radical departure from our past communitarian tradition -- holds more peril for the future of America than any competition from abroad. [via]More editions of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity:
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Contre-Feux 2: Pour Un Mouvement Social Europeenby Pierre BourdieuISBN 291210713X (2-912107-13-X)
Hardcover, Raisons d'agir
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Histoire De La Sexualiteby Michel FoucaultISBN 2070273822 (2-07-027382-2)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Nous N'avons Jamais ete Modernes: Essai D'anthropologie Symetriqueby Bruno LatourISBN 2707120839 (2-7071-2083-9)
Hardcover, Editions La Decouverte
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La Maquina De Los Memesby Susan BlackmoreISBN 8449309670 (84-493-0967-0)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Maquina De Los Memes'Book summary:Los humanos somos muy extraños. De la misma forma en que lo hicieron los animales, nuestros cuerpos han evolucionado por selección natural y, no obstante, son tremendamente distintos de los cuerpos de los otros seres. Utilizamos el lenguaje para comunicarnos, declaramos la guerra, creemos en la religión, enterramos a nuestros muertos y nos avergüenza la sexualidad. Consumimos televisión, conducimos automóviles y comemos helados. ¿Por qué somos tan sumamente distintos? De entre todos los animales, los humanos somos los únicos seres capaces de imitar a nuestros semejantes y, por lo tanto, de copiar ideas, costumbres, habilidades, conducta, inventos, canciones e historias: memes, en suma. El término «meme» fue acuñado en 1976 por Richard Dawkins, en las últimas páginas de su obra El gen egoísta. Los memes, como los genes, son replicantes empeñados en introducirse en tantos cerebros como puedan y en iniciar una competición que da forma a nuestras mentes y a nuestra cultura, del mismo modo en que la selección natural ha diseñado nuestros cuerpos. Los memes nos hacen: todos los seres humanos somos máquinas de fabricar memes. Este fascinante y extraordinario libro concluye con una de las cuestiones más trascendentales con las que debe enfrentarse el ser humano: la naturaleza del ser, el meollo de la conciencia que siente emociones, que tiene recuerdos y creencias y que toma decisiones. Y así, el fascinante discurso de Susan Blackmore sostiene que ese meollo de la conciencia, el yo interior, no es más que una entelequia, una ilusión creada por los memes en su esfuerzo por autorreplicarse. [via]
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La Rebelion De Las Masas / The Revolt of the Massesby Jose Ortega Y GassetISBN 8420641014 (84-206-4101-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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