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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century Englandby Edward P. ThompsonISBN 0394730852 (0-394-73085-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Alone of All Her Sex: Myth and Cult of Virgin Maryby Marina WarnerISBN 0394711556 (0-394-71155-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Centuryby Frances FitzGeraldISBN 039474439X (0-394-74439-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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America in Our Time : From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Whyby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0394725174 (0-394-72517-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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An American Dilemmaby Gunner MyrdalISBN 0394730429 (0-394-73042-9)
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The American Economy Poster and Fact Bookby Stephen J. Rose, Dennis LivingstonISBN 0394743903 (0-394-74390-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United Statesby H. L. MenckenISBN 0394733150 (0-394-73315-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The American Profile Poster: Who Owns What, Who Makes How Much, Who Works Where, and Who Works with Whomby Stephen J. RoseISBN 039474389X (0-394-74389-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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American Violence; A Documentary History,by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394716868 (0-394-71686-8)
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The Americans: The Democratic Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394710118 (0-394-71011-8)
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The Americans, the Colonial Experienceby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0394705130 (0-394-70513-0)
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The Colonial Experience is must reading for anybody interested in the development of the American character. --John J. Miller [via]
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Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-Cityby Tamara K. HarevenISBN 0394738551 (0-394-73855-1)
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394711068 (0-394-71106-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, & the Stateby Eli SaganISBN 0394746708 (0-394-74670-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slaveryby Leon F. LitwackISBN 0394743989 (0-394-74398-9)
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Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."
Contents
1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
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Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perryby Robert Sam AnsonISBN 0394757076 (0-394-75707-6)
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Black Women in White America: A Documentary Historyby Gerda LernerISBN 0394718801 (0-394-71880-1)
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The Body in Questionby Jonathan MillerISBN 0394747461 (0-394-74746-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Born in Tibetby Chogyam TrungpaISBN 0394742192 (0-394-74219-2)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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By Little and by Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Dayby Dorothy Day, Robert EllsbergISBN 0394714326 (0-394-71432-6)
Softcover, Knopf
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Capitalism for Beginners: A Pantheon Documentary Comic Bookby Robert Lekachman, Borin Van LoonISBN 0394738632 (0-394-73863-2)
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The Case of the Midwife Toadby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0394718232 (0-394-71823-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case of the Midwife Toad'Book summary:During his 30-plus years of writing, Arthur Koestler has covered a wide range of modern problems from brainwashing in totalitarian societies to the conflict between science & religion &, most recently (in The Act of Creation & The Ghost in the Machine), humanity's potential capability for evolutionary development thru both natural & artificial means. It isn't surprising then that Koestler should hark back to the opprobrious case of Dr Paul Kammerer, an Austrian biologist whose controversial experiments on the evolutionary process (using among other amphibians the midwife toad, so named for its mating habits) were denounced as fraudulent in 1926 by an American herpetologist, G.K. Noble, in the pages of Nature-- whereupon Kammerer blew his brains out, seemingly confirming the old saw "confession is suicide & suicide is confession." But Koestler's investigation, begun as a study of a scientist who betrayed his commitment to truth, indicates that Kammerer, far from being a laboratory quisling, was probably innocent; a victim of an unknown colleague's machinations to discredit his work & therefore in the larger sense a casualty of the still unresolved war between the nco-Darwinist evolutionists who support the random mutation theory & the heretical Lamarckians who maintain (as did Kammerer's experiments) that acquired characteristics can be transmitted from one generation to another. "I did not start with the intention to rehabilitate Paul Kammerer," says Koestler, "but I ended up with an attempt to do so." In the course of that effort he uses his skill as both inventive fantast & experienced researcher to give the midwife toad case a sense of drama & veracity. Those who found The Double Helix satisfying will enjoy this one too, no matter if they agree with Koestler's conclusions. [via]
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The Code of the Woostersby P.G. WodehouseISBN 0394720288 (0-394-72028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Coyotesby Ted ConoverISBN 0394755189 (0-394-75518-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Criminal Violence, Criminal Justiceby Charles E. SilbermanISBN 0394741471 (0-394-74147-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education.by Charles E. SilbermanISBN 0394713532 (0-394-71353-2)
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A Cultural History of Tibetby Rick FieldsISBN 0394748832 (0-394-74883-2)
Softcover, Shambhala
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The Death of White Sociologyby Joyce A. LadnerISBN 0394718682 (0-394-71868-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of White Sociology'Book summary:Edited by Howard University professor Joyce Ladner, The Death of White Sociology offers brilliant descriptions of black identity with excellent essays from writers like Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, who take aim at the "social science fiction" of Euro-American sociological analysis, as well as political scientist Ron Walters's "Toward a Definition of Black Social Science" and E. Franklin Frazier's unsentimental critique, "The Failure of the Negro Intellectual." In a new foreword, Ladner notes that when the anthology was originally published in 1973, it "provoked healthy debates over a range of issues: Does Black sociology exist? If so, what are its theoretical assumptions, and what is the range of subject matter it covers?" The writers gathered within these pages provide diverse answers to those questions, examining--and refuting--Eurocentric distortions of what and who black people are. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Empire's Old Clothes : What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Mindsby Ariel Dorfman, Clark HansenISBN 0394714865 (0-394-71486-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Engels, Manchester, and the Working Classby Steven MarcusISBN 0394714067 (0-394-71406-7)
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The Enigma of Arrivalby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0394757602 (0-394-75760-2)
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Facing the Music: Pantheon Guide to Popular Cultureby Simon FrithISBN 039475185X (0-394-75185-X)
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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Vby William HintonISBN 0394704657 (0-394-70465-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese V'Book summary:More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.
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Feminist: The Essential Historical Writingsby Miriam SchneirISBN 0394717384 (0-394-71738-4)
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For Reasons of Stateby Noam Chomsky, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 039471895X (0-394-71895-X)
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The Frenchby Theodore ZeldinISBN 0394724216 (0-394-72421-6)
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The Gift Relationship: From Human Blood to Social Policyby Richard M. TitmussISBN 0394718100 (0-394-71810-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Gluttons and Libertines; Human Problems of Being Naturalby Marston BatesISBN 0394712676 (0-394-71267-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
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Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing. [via]
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A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-Rearingby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394757769 (0-394-75776-9)
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The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!by Otto L. BettmannISBN 0394709411 (0-394-70941-1)
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Growing Up Southern: Southern Exposure Looks at Childhood, Then and Nowby Chris MayfieldISBN 0394748093 (0-394-74809-3)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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The Haight-Ashbury : A Historyby Charles PerryISBN 0394741447 (0-394-74144-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphroditeby Herculine BarbinISBN 0394738624 (0-394-73862-4)
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Human Sexual Relations: Towards a Redefinition of Sexual Politicsby Mike BrakeISBN 0394711092 (0-394-71109-2)
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Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russianby James H. BillingtonISBN 0394708466 (0-394-70846-6)
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Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0394728440 (0-394-72844-0)
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prisonby Jack Henry AbbottISBN 0394708229 (0-394-70822-9)
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Kiss of the Spider Womanby Manuel PuigISBN 0394744756 (0-394-74475-6)
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Lenin for Beginnersby Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, Michael AppignanesiISBN 0394737156 (0-394-73715-6)
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Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Lifeby Sissela BokISBN 0394728041 (0-394-72804-1)
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Marriage and Morals among the Victorians and Other Essaysby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 0394752902 (0-394-75290-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Mein Kampfby Adolf HitlerISBN 0395083621 (0-395-08362-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mein Kampf'Book summary:The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood, the "betrayal" of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. It also includes Hitler's racist agenda and his glorification of the "Aryan" race. The few outside the Nazi party who read it dismissed it as nonsense, not believing that anyone could--or would--carry out its radical, terrorist programs. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book. By the time Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933, the book stood atop the German bestseller lists. Had the book been taken seriously when it was first published, perhaps the 20th century would have been very different.
Beyond the anger, hatred, bigotry, and self-aggrandizing, Mein Kampf is saddled with tortured prose, meandering narrative, and tangled metaphors (one person was described as "a thorn in the eyes of venal officials"). That said, it is an incredibly important book. It is foolish to think that the Holocaust could not happen again, especially if World War II and its horrors are forgotten. As an Amazon.com reader has pointed out, "If you want to learn about why the Holocaust happened, you can't avoid reading the words of the man who was most responsible for it happening." Mein Kampf, therefore, must be read as a reminder that evil can all too easily grow. --Sunny Delaney [via]
Men's Livesby Peter MatthiessenISBN 039475560X (0-394-75560-X)
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Mencken Chrestomathyby H. L. MenckenISBN 0394752090 (0-394-75209-0)
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, Gordon S. HaightISBN 0395051053 (0-395-05105-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, . Her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 187172 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 183032. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. [via]
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Modern Soviet Societyby Basile KerblayISBN 0394711114 (0-394-71111-4)
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The Money Gameby Adam SmithISBN 0394721039 (0-394-72103-9)
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Never Done : A History of American Houseworkby Susan StrasserISBN 0394708415 (0-394-70841-5)
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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapyby Carl Ransom RogersISBN 0395081343 (0-395-08134-3)
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Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Ageby Emma RothschildISBN 0394712048 (0-394-71204-8)
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The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern Americaby Daniel J. KevlesISBN 0394726693 (0-394-72669-3)
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Political Economy of Slavery : Studies in Economy and Society of the Slave Southby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394704002 (0-394-70400-2)
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The premodern quality of the Southern world was imparted to it by its dominant slaveholding class. Slavery has existed in many places, side by side with other labor systems, without producing anything like the civilization of the South. Slavery gave the South a special way of life because it provided the basis for a regional social order in which the slave labor system could dominate all others. Southern slavery was not mere slavery to recall Louis Hartzs luckless term but the foundation on which rose a powerful and remarkable social class: a class constituting only a tiny portion of the white population and yet so powerful and remarkable as to try, with more success than our neo-abolitionists care to see, to build a new, or rather to rebuild an old, civilization.
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The Political Illusionby Jacques EllulISBN 0394718127 (0-394-71812-7)
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The Politics of Turmoil: Essays on Poverty, Race, and the Urban Crisisby Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394713834 (0-394-71383-4)
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Populuxeby Thomas HineISBN 0394740149 (0-394-74014-9)
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The Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling Class Domination in Americaby G. William DomhoffISBN 0394726499 (0-394-72649-9)
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Psychoanalysis and Feminismby Juliet MitchellISBN 0394714423 (0-394-71442-3)
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Psychological Survival: The Experience of Long-Term Imprisonmentby Laurie Taylor, Stanley CohenISBN 0394719727 (0-394-71972-7)
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The Quest for Mind:Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movement: Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movementby Howard GardnerISBN 0394719387 (0-394-71938-7)
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Report from a Chinese Village.by Jan MyrdalISBN 0394717937 (0-394-71793-7)
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Deathby Albert CamusISBN 0394719662 (0-394-71966-2)
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore EvansISBN 0395044022 (0-395-04402-2)
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Russian Journalby Andrea LeeISBN 0394711270 (0-394-71127-0)
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Search for a Methodby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394704649 (0-394-70464-9)
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Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelationby Sissela BokISBN 039472142X (0-394-72142-X)
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Sex, Drink and Fast Carsby Stephen BayleyISBN 0394750462 (0-394-75046-2)
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Shenfanby William HintonISBN 0394723783 (0-394-72378-3)
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Shinohata : A Portrait of a Japanese Villageby Ronald P. DoreISBN 0394738438 (0-394-73843-8)
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0395051347 (0-395-05134-7)
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Sisterhood Is Powerful : An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movementby Robin MorganISBN 0394705394 (0-394-70539-4)
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The Sociology of Houseworkby Ann OakleyISBN 0394730887 (0-394-73088-7)
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Sound Effects : Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock 'n' Rollby Simon FrithISBN 0394748115 (0-394-74811-5)
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Subject Womenby Ann OakleyISBN 0394749049 (0-394-74904-9)
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Surviving and Other Essaysby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394742648 (0-394-74264-8)
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticismby Fritjof CapraISBN 0394716124 (0-394-71612-4)
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Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got Thereby Noam ChomskyISBN 0394749448 (0-394-74944-8)
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Under the Sign of Saturnby Susan SontagISBN 0394747429 (0-394-74742-9)
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Up from Edenby Ken WilberISBN 0394714245 (0-394-71424-5)
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0395051134 (0-395-05113-4)
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War Without Mercyby John DowerISBN 0394751728 (0-394-75172-8)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David L. LewisISBN 0394710657 (0-394-71065-7)
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Winter's Tales : Stories and Observations for the Unusualby Jonathan WintersISBN 0394759788 (0-394-75978-8)
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The Wisdom of Insecurityby Alan Wilson WattsISBN 0394704681 (0-394-70468-1)
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The Wordsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394747097 (0-394-74709-7)
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Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America : Essays in America's Working Class and Social Historyby Herbert G. GutmanISBN 0394722515 (0-394-72251-5)
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The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationshipby Linda Schierse LeonardISBN 0394721837 (0-394-72183-7)
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