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About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Madeby Ben YagodaISBN 0306810239 (0-306-81023-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Against the American Grainby Dwight MacDonaldISBN 0306802058 (0-306-80205-8)
Softcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nationsby Charles Perrow, Mauro F. GuillenISBN 0300048807 (0-300-04880-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthoodby Andrew CalcuttISBN 0304339555 (0-304-33955-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrested Development: Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood'Book summary:In the 1990s, both politics and pop culture have been dominated by the twin motifs of the victim and the child. This book traces the history of these motifs all the way back to their origins in the counterculture of the '50s and '60s, and concludes that the counterculture, far from being liberatory, has provided a ready-made verbal and visual language for today's victim culture and the authoritarian politics arising from it. The erosion of adulthood is discussed as a pop cultural phenomenon that requires demystification and as a social problem which must be overcome.
Former record producer Andrew Calcutt is currently a commissioning editor at web content providers Cyberia Online, and a contributing editor at LM magazine. As 'The Smoker', he plays in a satirical R&B band and hosts evenings of entertainment and debate in cafes and bars around London. [via]
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Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Ageby Pierre Levy, Robert BononnoISBN 0306457881 (0-306-45788-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age'Book summary:Pierre Levy takes a fresh look at the whole idea of what is virtual. He's responding to the widespread belief, and sometimes even panic, that a digital society with emphasis on virtual interactions is necessarily depersonalizing. He takes particular exception to the notion that "virtual" and "real" are opposites. Instead, Levy argues that virtuality is one of four modes of existence, the rest of which he describes as reality, possibility, and actuality. Each is defined in terms of its relationship with its environment.
In following Levy's world view, you may find that he interprets some or all of those terms in ways you're not used to, but the result is an interesting new approach to what it means to be part of an increasingly digital world. He examines the virtualization of several elements our society: the corporal body, text, the economy, language, technology, contracts, intelligence, subjects, and objects. What he finds is not a destruction of the personal so much as a transformation. Virtualization adds to, but does not replace, the real, the possible, and the actual. By understanding what virtualization means and involves, Levy believes that society will gain a greater variety of options for interaction in all areas. Becoming Virtual is a serious philosophical work, dense with ideas. It demands a lot from the reader, but rewards with an intriguing new perspective on inevitable social change. --Elizabeth Lewis [via]
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Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorceby ELIZABETH MARQUARDTISBN 0307237117 (0-307-23711-7)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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The Black Panthers Speakby Philip S. Foner, Clayborne CarsonISBN 0306812010 (0-306-81201-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835by Nancy F. CottISBN 0300072988 (0-300-07298-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohosby Nelson GeorgeISBN 0306810271 (0-306-81027-1)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Cabaretby Lisa AppignanesiISBN 0300105800 (0-300-10580-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cabaret'Book summary:[via]This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theater directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaretthe smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris that served as a meeting place for the avant-garde and a laboratory of subversion against the establishment. She then follows the journey of the cabaret across Europe and to the United States, tracing each development in cabaret history to the present day.
This much revised and updated edition of Appignanesis classic work is enriched with materials that have become more accessible in the post-Soviet era. It also features a variety of new illustrations from both East and West. The book provides a lively look at all aspects of cabaret, where art and entertainment join to mock and provoke, and where radical artistic, literary, and political ideas have found expression for more than 120 years.More editions of Cabaret:
Children's Peer Relations And Social Competence: A Century Of Progressby Gary W. LaddISBN 0300106432 (0-300-10643-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Chivalryby Maurice KeenISBN 0300107676 (0-300-10767-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faithby Norman CohnISBN 0300065515 (0-300-06551-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhoodby Sharon HaysISBN 0300076525 (0-300-07652-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold, Samuel LipmanISBN 0300058675 (0-300-05867-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Culture of New Capitalismby Richard SennettISBN 030010782X (0-300-10782-X)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of New Capitalism'Book summary:The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday lifehow the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls the specter of uselessness haunts professionals as well as manual workers; how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving.In recent years, reformers of both private and public institutions have preached that flexible, global corporations provide a model of freedom for individuals, unlike the experience of fixed and static bureaucracies Max Weber once called an iron cage. Sennett argues that, in banishing old ills, the new-economy model has created new social and emotional traumas. Only a certain kind of human being can prosper in unstable, fragmentary institutions: the culture of the new capitalism demands an ideal self oriented to the short term, focused on potential ability rather than accomplishment, willing to discount or abandon past experience. In a concluding section, Sennett examines a more durable form of self hood, and what practical initiatives could counter the pernicious effects of reform.[via]More editions of The Culture of New Capitalism:
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry Thompson Rowell, E. O. LorimerISBN 0300101864 (0-300-10186-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Daring to Dissent: Lesbian Culture from Margin to Mainstreamby Liz GibbsISBN 0304327948 (0-304-32794-8)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Delinquency, Development, And Social Policyby David BrandtISBN 030010894X (0-300-10894-X)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywoodby Julie SalamonISBN 0306811235 (0-306-81123-5)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Digging to America: Library Editionby Anne TylerISBN 0307263940 (0-307-26394-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughtsby Dwight MacDonaldISBN 030680252X (0-306-80252-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Topby G. William Domhoff, Richard L. ZweigenhaftISBN 0300080891 (0-300-08089-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Doing School": How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Studentsby Denise Clark PopeISBN 0300090137 (0-300-09013-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Dressed To Rule: Royal and Court Costume From Louis XIV to Elizabeth IIby Philip ManselISBN 0300106971 (0-300-10697-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Economic Origins of Antisemitism: Poland and Its Jews in the Early Modern Periodby Hillel LevineISBN 0300052480 (0-300-05248-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern Americaby Robert Alan GoldbergISBN 0300090005 (0-300-09000-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Family Life in Early Modern Times 1500-1789: The History of the European Familyby Marzio Barbagli, David I. KertzerISBN 0300089716 (0-300-08971-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theoryby Nancy J. ChodorowISBN 0300051166 (0-300-05116-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Finding Philosophy in Social Scienceby Mario BungeISBN 0300066066 (0-300-06606-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Centuryby Harvey CoxISBN 0306810492 (0-306-81049-2)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Four Theories of Rape in American Society: A State-Level Analysisby Larry Baron, Murray A. StrausISBN 0300057822 (0-300-05782-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Gay Skins: Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriationby Murray HealeyISBN 0304333247 (0-304-33324-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian Englandby Amanda VickeryISBN 0300102224 (0-300-10222-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England'Book summary:Winner of the Longman History Today Prize in 1998, Amanda Vickery's The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England is an outstanding study of a crucial period in modern women's history. Roy Porter described this book as "the most important thing in English feminist history in the last ten years." Readers familiar with the feminist analysis of women's lives in the late 18th to mid-19th century will find some of the commonplaces of that viewpoint called into question: the rise of "separate spheres" of male and female experience, for example, or the social construction of motherhood in the 18th century. At once scholarly and readable, The Gentleman's Daughter takes its readers on a vivid and well-illustrated tour of "genteel" Georgian society, bringing that world to life through what Vickery identifies as the "terms set out in their own letters by genteel women." Those terms structure the seven sections of the book: "Gentility", "Love and Duty', "Fortitude and Resignation" (which includes a notable discussion of the experience of pregnancy), "Prudent Economy", "Elegance", "Civility and Vulgarity", and "Propriety". "Our battles were not necessarily theirs," Vickery reminds us, striking her convincing balance between a feminist interest in the restriction and rebellion of women's lives and their own ways of finding meaning and pleasure in the gender distinctions of Georgian culture. --Vicky Lebeau, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Handbook of Resilience in Childrenby Sam Goldstein, Robert B. BrooksISBN 0306485710 (0-306-48571-0)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophersby Carl BeckerISBN 0300101503 (0-300-10150-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Cultureby Deena WeinsteinISBN 0306809702 (0-306-80970-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A History of Celibacyby Elizabeth AbbotISBN 0306810417 (0-306-81041-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Celibacy'Book summary:Celibacy is a worldwide practice that is often adopted, rarely discussed. Now, in Elizabeth Abbott's fascinating and wide-ranging history, it is examined in all its various forms: shaping religious lives, conditioning athletes and shamans, surfacing in classical poetry and camp literature, resonating in the voices of castrati, and permeating ancient mythology. Found in every society of the past, practiced by both the anonymous and the legendary (St. Catherine, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth I, Gandhi), celibacy has as many stories as adherents, and Abbott weaves them into a provocative, seamless tapestry that brings history alive.[via]More editions of A History of Celibacy:
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Centuryby Jonathan GloverISBN 0300087152 (0-300-08715-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:In Humanity, English ethicist Jonathan Glover begins with the now commonplace observation that the last 100 years were perhaps the most brutal in all history. But the problem wasn't that human nature suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse: "It is a myth that barbarism is unique to the twentieth century: the whole of human history includes wars, massacres, and every kind of torture and cruelty," he writes. Technology has made a huge difference, but psychology has remained the same--and this is what Glover seeks to examine, through discussions of Nietzsche, the My Lai atrocity in Vietnam, Hiroshima, tribal genocide in Rwanda, Stalinism, Nazism, and so on.
There is much history here, but Humanity is fundamentally a book of philosophy. In his first chapter, for instance, Glover announces his goal "to replace the thin, mechanical psychology of the Enlightenment with something more complex, something closer to reality." But he also seeks "to defend the Enlightenment hope of a world that is more peaceful and more humane, the hope that by understanding more about ourselves we can do something to create a world with less misery." The result is an odd combination of darkness and light--darkness because the subject matter of the 20th century's moral failings is so bleak, light because of Glover's earnest optimism, which insists that "keeping the past alive may help to prevent atrocities." He cites Stalin's bracing comment, made while signing death warrants: "Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years' time? No one." At one level, Humanity is a book of remembrance. But it's more than that: it's also an attempt to understand what it is in the human mind that makes moral disaster always loom--and a prayer that this aspect of our psychology might be better controlled. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classesby Jonathan RoseISBN 0300098081 (0-300-09808-1)
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The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Orderby Michael HowardISBN 0300088663 (0-300-08866-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order'Book summary:"War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention," claimed Sir Henry Maine in the middle of the 19th century. In his short, polemic book The Invention of Peace: Reflections on War and International Order, Michael Howard develops Maine's argument, and while not completely endorsing it, he convincingly argues that peace "is certainly a far more complex affair than war."
At just over a hundred pages, The Invention of Peace is more of an essay than a book, and its massive historical sweep will undoubtedly irritate some readers. Beginning in A.D. 800, when war "was recognized as an intrinsic part of the social order," it extends to 2000, when "militant nationalist movements or conspiratorial ones" suggest that in the near future "armed conflict becomes highly probable." However, Howard's credentials for writing this type of macro reflection on war and international relations are impeccable. Having fought in Italy during the Second World War, he has held several chairs of History and War Studies, and remains the president of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His many books include War in European History and a translation of von Clausewitz's classic On War.
With such qualifications, it is hardly surprising that Howard remains tied to the beliefs of the European Enlightenment, while also acknowledging that "the peace invented by the thinkers of the Enlightenment, an international order in which war plays no part, had been a common enough aspiration for visionaries throughout history, but it has been regarded by political leaders as a practicable or indeed desirable goal only during the past two hundred years." As Howard thoughtfully picks his way through the complex negotiations throughout European history that led to the brief eruption of peace into an otherwise uninterrupted state of war, he hopes that "Kant was right, and that, whatever else may happen, 'a seed of enlightenment' will always survive." Let's hope that he's right. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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A Left-hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery And Meaning of All Things Southpawby David WolmanISBN 0306814986 (0-306-81498-6)
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Wolman travels the world for answers, from a mildly gruesome visit to Broca's bottled brains in a Paris museum to the latest Berkeley research labs. Throughout the journey, the science is as accessible as any animal documentary and as well-documented as any rigorous reader will demand. Included in the mix are a trip to a graphologist's convention and a visit with a gentleman whose handedness is the result of surgically combining his left hand with his right arm. Wolman's Fulbright fellowship-winning reporting is always clear and entertaininghe has a fine knack for presenting complex theories in direct, dryly amusing language. He frequently inserts himself into the research, in one case borrowing his nephew for a visit with a pediatric neuropsychologist.
With the most recent research offering the theory that strength of hand preference is more important than the actual hand preferred, the final conclusion could be an eye opener to those who prefer the old ideas that lefties are more creative, athletic, artistic and generally more wonderful. As Wolman says in conclusion, you can still says lefties are special, because they are. Jill Lightner [via]
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The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequalityby Sandra Lipsitz BemISBN 0300061633 (0-300-06163-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality'Book summary:In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, which she calls the lenses of gender, shape not only perceptions of social reality but also the more material things - like unequal pay and inadequate daycare - that constitute social reality itself. Her penetrating and articulate examination of these hidden cultural lenses enables us to look at them rather than through them and to better understand recent debates on gender and sexuality. According to Bem, the first lens, androcentrism (male-centredness), defines males and male experience as a standard or norm and females and female experience as a deviation from that norm. The second lens, gender polarization, superimposes male-female differences on virtually every aspect of human experience, from modes of dress and social roles to ways of expressing emotion and sexual desire. The third lens, biological essentialism, rationalizes and legitimizes the other two lenses by treating them as the inevitable consequences of the intrinsic biological natures of women and men. After illustrating the pervasiveness of these three lenses in both historical and contemporary discourses of Western culture, Bem presents her own theory of how the individual either acquires cultural gender lenses and constructs a conventional gender identity or resists cultural lenses and constructs that we must reframe the debate on sexual inequality so that it focuses not only on the differences between men and women but on how male-centred discourses and institutions transform male-female difference into female disadvantage. [via]
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Men Behind Bars: Sexual Exploitation in Prisonby Wayne S WoodenISBN 0306802309 (0-306-80230-9)
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Men Who Rape : The Psychology of the Offenderby A. N. GrothISBN 0306402688 (0-306-40268-8)
Hardcover, Plenum Publishing Company Limited
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Mortuary Monument and Burial Grounds of the Historic Periodby Harold MytumISBN 030648076X (0-306-48076-X)
Softcover, Springer London, Limited
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The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectivesby Kai Erikson, Steven Peter VallasISBN 0300056621 (0-300-05662-1)
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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern Americaby Nathan MillerISBN 0306813793 (0-306-81379-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Origins of Christian Morality: The First Two Centuriesby Wayne A. MeeksISBN 0300065132 (0-300-06513-2)
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Population and Historyby E.A. WrigleyISBN 0303175796 (0-303-17579-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Cultureby Nancy J. ChodorowISBN 0300089090 (0-300-08909-0)
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Public Lives: Women, Family, and Society in Victorian Britainby Eleanor Gordon, Gwyneth NairISBN 0300102208 (0-300-10220-8)
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Racial and Cultural Minorities: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discriminationby George Eaton Simpson, J.M. YingerISBN 0306417774 (0-306-41777-4)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, Frank M. Turner, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Alan Wolfe, Jack N. Rakove, Darrin M. McMahonISBN 0300099797 (0-300-09979-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy. [via]
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The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracyby David BrockISBN 0307236897 (0-307-23689-7)
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School Choice: The Struggle for the Soul of American Educationby Peter W. CooksonISBN 0300057911 (0-300-05791-1)
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Science in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibilityby Steve Miller, Jane GregoryISBN 0306458608 (0-306-45860-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Science in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility'Book summary:We leave our cars to mechanics--why shouldn't we leave science to scientists? Science critic Jane Gregory and chemist Steve Miller tear down our preconceptions about popular science education and erect a scaffolding on which to build new communication systems with Science in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility. This deeply thoughtful book explores the lengthy history of scientific mass communication and the various rationales for encouraging greater public understanding of research processes and results. From Copernicus to Carl Sagan, great thinkers have tried to explain not just the facts and theories produced by science, but the very work itself. Their reasons are enlightening and more often than not surprisingly self-serving, but Gregory and Miller are careful to maintain a tone of fairness throughout. What can we learn about the various forces of academia, government, business, and the media that have profoundly different interests in scientific communication, and how can we use this awareness to best help all the people and systems involved? Science in Public seeks to calmly observe and judge these forces, occasionally using case studies, like the mad cow madness that struck Europe in the waning days of the 20th century, to illustrate points. Any reader interested in science or education will find it a challenging and provocative work. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Science in the Service of Children, 1893-1935by Alice Boardman Smuts, Robert W. SmutsISBN 0300108974 (0-300-10897-4)
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The Sea Around Usby Rachel L. CarsonISBN 0307167453 (0-307-16745-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Sesame and Liliesby Jan Marsh, John Ruskin, Seth Koven, Deborah Epstein Nord, Elizabeth HelsingerISBN 0300092598 (0-300-09259-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sesame and Lilies'Book summary:John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early 20th century. This volume reunites the two halves of the work: "Of Kings' Treasuries", in which Ruskin critiques Victorian manhood, and "Of Queens' Gardens", in which he counsels women to take their places as the moral guides of men and urges the parents of girls to educate them to this end. Feminist critics of the 1960s and 1970s regarded "Of Queens' Gardens" as an exemplary expression of repressive Victorian ideas about femininity, and they paired it with John Stuart Mill's more progressive "Subjection of Women". This volume, by including the often ignored "Of Kings' Treasuries", offers readers full access to Ruskin's complex and sometimes contradictory views on men and women. The accompanying essays place "Sesame and Lilies" within historical debates on men, women, culture and the family. Elizabeth Helsinger examines the text as a meditation on the pleasures of reading; Seth Koven gives a wide-ranging account of how Victorians read "Sesame and Lilies"; and Jan Marsh situates the work within controversies over educational reform. [via]
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Sesame and Liliesby John Ruskin, Deborah Epstein NordISBN 0300092601 (0-300-09260-1)
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politicsby Bruce J. SchulmanISBN 030681126X (0-306-81126-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics'Book summary:Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the postwar twentieth-century decades, despite its reputation as an eminently forgettable period, Schulman reconstructs public events and private lives, high culture and low, analyzing not only presidential politics and national policy but also the broader social and cultural experiences that transformed American life. Here are the names, faces, and movements that gave birth to the world we now live in-from Nixon and Carter to The Godfather and the Ramones; from Billie Jean King and Phyllis Schlafly to NOW and the ERA; from the Energy Crisis to Roe v. Wade. The Seventies is an astutely provocative reexamination of a misunderstood era. [via]
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Sexual Chemistry: A History Of The Contraceptive Pillby Lara MarksISBN 0300089430 (0-300-08943-0)
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The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic Americaby Norma ThompsonISBN 0300088175 (0-300-08817-5)
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A Social Ontologyby David WeissmanISBN 0300079036 (0-300-07903-6)
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Sociology, Theology and the Curriculumby Leslie J. FrancisISBN 0304704857 (0-304-70485-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Stones Of Veniceby John Ruskin, J. G. LinksISBN 030681286X (0-306-81286-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stones Of Venice'Book summary:It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else. This was Ruskins war cry as he entered the now almost forgotten Battle of the Styles on the side against the school which has conducted mens inventive and constructional faculties from the Grand Canal to Gower Street. But first the reader must know the difference between right and wrong; he must find out for himself the best way of doing everything. I shall give him stones, and bricks and straw, chisels and trowels and the ground, and then ask him to build, only helping him if I find him puzzled. Unhappily, both these exciting objectives were attained only after the expenditure of nearly half-a-million words; glorious words, but too many. For fifty years, The Stones of Venice was read by all who went there and thousands who could not; the sightseers whom the city captivates today seldom have its greatest guidebook with them.It is the aim of this new edition to put a fascinating book within reach of travelersactive or armchairwith limited resources of time. Much that was superfluous has been omitted; what remains is the essence of a now very readable and portable book. It is a book for the lover of architecture, the lover of Venice, the lover of lost causes, and, perhaps above all, for the lover of fine writing.[via] -
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asiaby Ahmed RashidISBN 0300089023 (0-300-08902-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia'Book summary:This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region--he has personally met and interviewed many of the Taliban's shadowy leaders. Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the aftermath of that black day. It includes details on how and why the Taliban came to power, the government's oppression of ordinary citizens (especially women), the heroin trade, oil intrigue, and--in a vitally relevant chapter--bin Laden's sinister rise to power. These pages contain stories of mass slaughter, beheadings, and the Taliban's crushing war against freedom: under Mullah Omar, it has banned everything from kite flying to singing and dancing at weddings. Rashid is for the most part an objective reporter, though his rage sometimes (and understandably) comes to the surface: "The Taliban were right, their interpretation of Islam was right, and everything else was wrong and an expression of human weakness and a lack of piety," he notes with sarcasm. He has produced a compelling portrait of modern evil. --John Miller [via]
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Theology and Sociology: A Readerby Robin GillISBN 0304338397 (0-304-33839-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Differenceby Deborah L. RhodeISBN 0300052251 (0-300-05225-1)
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An Unconventional Familyby Sandra L. BemISBN 0300090927 (0-300-09092-7)
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Waldenby Henry D. Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer, Denis DonoghueISBN 0300110081 (0-300-11008-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:This handsome, affordable paperback edition of Walden is the most authoritative version of Henry David Thoreaus classic American literarymasterpiece to date. Jeffrey Cramers newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreaus draft manuscripts, his own markings on page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. An elegantly produced paperback, it has been priced especially with the student market in mind. An introduction by Denis Donoghue places Thoreaus life and achievement in context. Also included here are notes on the text, an afterword by the editor, and a helpful selected bibliography.[via]More editions of Walden:
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, J.S. CramerISBN 0300104669 (0-300-10466-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:This is the authoritative edition of an American literaru classic: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden and here provides illuminating notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of the great nineteenth-century writer and thinker's life.Cramer's newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts, his own markings on the page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. In the editor's notes to the volume, Cramer quotes from sources Thoreau actually read, showing how he used, interpreted, and altered these sources. Cramer also glosses Walden with references to Thoreau's essays, journals, and correspondence. With the wealth of material in this edition, readers will find an unprecedented opportunity to immerse themselves in the unique and fascinating world of Thoreau.Anyone who has read and loved Walden will want to own and treasure this gift edition. Those wishing to read Walden for the first time will not find a better guide than Jeffrey S. Cramer. [via]
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Warrior Loversby Donald Symons, Catherine SalmonISBN 0300093543 (0-300-09354-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warrior Lovers'Book summary:The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography underscore how different female and male erotic fantasies are. These differences reflect human evolutionary history and the disparate selection pressures women and men experienced, say the authors of this thought-provoking book. Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons review the fundamental importance of evolutionary history to human psychology, discuss how male and female sexual psychologies differ, and then demonstrate how sex differences in erotica illustrate this. The authors focus particular attention on slash fiction, an erotic subgenre written by and for women and found on-line and in fan magazines. Slash-so-called for the punctuation mark indicating a romantic pair-depicts sexual relationships between heterosexual male television and film characters such as Starsky and Hutch (S/H) and Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock (K/S). Salmon and Symons argue that-despite some differences-slash fiction has much in common with romance novels. The authors examine the essential ingredients of female sexual fantasy and how slash fiction provides them. Their conclusions are both fascinating and original. [via]
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Why Literature Matters in the 21st Centuryby Mark W. RocheISBN 0300104499 (0-300-10449-9)
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Wilderness and the American Mindby Roderick NashISBN 0300091222 (0-300-09122-2)
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William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon Englandby David C. DouglasISBN 0300078846 (0-300-07884-6)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debateby Leila AhmedISBN 0300055838 (0-300-05583-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate'Book summary:This book presents an historical overview of women and gender in Islam. It is written from a feminist perspective, using the analytic tools of contemporary gender studies. The results of its investigations cast new light on the issues covered. [via]
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