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Alienation and Freedom; The Factory Worker and His Industry.by Robert BlaunerISBN 0226058115 (0-226-05811-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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AmongUS: Essays On Identity , Belonging, And Intercultural Competenceby Myron W. Lustig, Jolene KoesterISBN 0205453538 (0-205-45353-8)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Arenas of Language Useby Herbert H. ClarkISBN 0226107825 (0-226-10782-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishingby Walter W. Powell, Lewis A. Coser, Charles KadushinISBN 0226115933 (0-226-11593-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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The Centenarians of the Andesby David Michael DaviesISBN 0214200175 (0-214-20017-5)
Hardcover, Barrie and Jenkins
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Centuryby John BoswellISBN 0226067114 (0-226-06711-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay membersamong them priests, bishops, and even saintswhen it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
"What makes this work so exciting is not simply its contentfascinating though that isbut its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions."Jean Strouse, NewsweekMore editions of Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century:
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Classic, Romantic and Modernby J. BarzunISBN 0226038521 (0-226-03852-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Contemporary Social Problemsby Vincent N. ParrilloISBN 0205420761 (0-205-42076-1)
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A Critical Dictionary of Sociologyby Raymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud, Peter HamiltonISBN 0226067289 (0-226-06728-9)
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Crossing the Postmodern Divideby Albert BorgmannISBN 0226066274 (0-226-06627-4)
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"[This] thoughtful book is the first remotely realistic map out of the post modern labyrinth."Joseph Coates, The Chicago Tribune
"Rather astoundingly large-minded vision of the nature of humanity, civilization and science."Kirkus ReviewsMore editions of Crossing the Postmodern Divide:
Cultural Misunderstandings: The French-american Experienceby Raymonde Carroll, Carol VolkISBN 0226094987 (0-226-09498-7)
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Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritageby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038599 (0-226-03859-9)
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Department and Discipline: Chicago Sociology at One Hundredby Andrew AbbottISBN 0226000990 (0-226-00099-0)
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Development Through the Lifespanby Laura E. BerkISBN 0205491251 (0-205-49125-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Development Through the Lifespan'Book summary:A best-selling text unparalleled in its approach to teaching human development, berk's development through the lifespan is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional cross-cultural focus, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship while also offering students research-based, practical applications that they can relate to their personal and professional lives. Laura berk, renowned professor and researcher, has revised the text with new pedagogy, a heightened emphasis on the interplay between biology and environment, and an enhanced focus on many social policy issues, while emphasizing the lifespan perspective throughout. The latest theories and findings in the field are made accessible to students in a manageable and relevant way. Berk's signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text's "characters" who share their developmental milestones at different stages of life.students are provided with an especially clear and coherent understanding of the sequence and underlying processes of human development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains--physical, cognitive, emotional, social--throughout the text narrative and in special features. Berk also helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest. Her voice comes through when speaking directly about issues students will face in their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, social workers, and researchers. As members of a global and diverse human community, students are called to intelligently approach the responsibility of understanding and responding to the needs and concerns of both young and old. While carefully considering the complexities of human development, berk presents classic and emerging theories in an especially clear, engaging writing style, with a multitude of research-based, real-world, and cross-cultural examples. [via]
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Deviance and Moral Boundaries: Witchcraft, the Occult, Science Fiction, Deviant Sciences and Scientistsby Nachman Ben-YehudaISBN 0226043363 (0-226-04336-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Economic Approach to Human Behaviorby Gary S. BeckerISBN 0226041123 (0-226-04112-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Elementary Statistics in Social Researchby Levin, James Alan FoxISBN 0205459587 (0-205-45958-7)
Hardcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Elementary Statistics in Social Research: The Essentialsby Jack Levin, James Alan FoxISBN 020548493X (0-205-48493-X)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900by Richard AltickISBN 0226015408 (0-226-01540-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Family Life and School Achievement: Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Failby Reginald ClarkISBN 0226107701 (0-226-10770-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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To support his contentions, Clark offers ten intimate portraits of Black families in Chicago. Visiting the homes of poor one- and two-parent families of high and low achievers, Clark made detailed observations on the quality of home life, noting how family habits and interactions affect school success and what characteristics of family life provide children with "school survival skills," a complex of behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge that are the essential elements in academic success.
Clark's conclusions lead to exciting implications for educational policy. If school achievement is not dependent on family structure or income, parents can learn to inculcate school survival skills in their children. Clark offers specific suggestions and strategies for use by teachers, parents, school administrators, and social service policy makers, but his work will also find an audience in urban anthropology, family studies, and Black studies.More editions of Family Life and School Achievement: Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail:
For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivalsby Wayne BoothISBN 0226065863 (0-226-06586-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994by Elizabeth A. ArmstrongISBN 0226026949 (0-226-02694-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failureby Charles BoskISBN 0226066789 (0-226-06678-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism and Rationalities of Governmentby Andrew Barry, Nikolas Rose, Thomas OsborneISBN 0226038262 (0-226-03826-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Foucault And The Iranian Revolution: Gender And The Seductions Of Islamismby Janet Afary, Kevin B. AndersonISBN 0226007863 (0-226-00786-3)
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality With Two Lectures by and an Interview With Michel Foucaultby Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, Peter Miller, Michel FoucaultISBN 0226080455 (0-226-08045-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality With Two Lectures by and an Interview With Michel Foucault'Book summary:Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/Knowledge. In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or activity of government both in its present form and within a historical perspective as well as the different ways governmentality has been made thinkable and practicable.[via]
Foucault's thoughts on political discourse and governmentality are supplemented by the essays of internationally renowned scholars. United by the common influence of Foucault's approach, they explore the many modern manifestations of government: the reason of state, police, liberalism, security, social economy, insurance, solidarity, welfare, risk management, and more. The central theme is that the object and the activity of government are not instinctive and natural things, but things that have been invented and learned.
The Foucault Effect analyzes the thought behind practices of government and argues that criticism represents a true force for change in attitudes and actions, and that extending the limits of some practices allows the invention of others. This unique and extraordinarily useful collection of articles and primary materials will open the way for a whole new set of discussions of the work of Michel Foucault as well as the status of liberalism, social policy, and insurance.More editions of The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality With Two Lectures by and an Interview With Michel Foucault:
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Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profitby Robert BogdanISBN 0226063127 (0-226-06312-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Galapagosby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224028472 (0-224-02847-2)
Hardcover, Cape
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Global Sexby AltmanISBN 0226016056 (0-226-01605-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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God Is an Englishmanby Donald HorneISBN 0207953635 (0-207-95363-5)
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Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Wavesby Harry CollinsISBN 0226113787 (0-226-11378-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Gravitational wave detection involves recording the collisions, explosions, and trembling of stars and black holes by evaluating the smallest changes ever measured. Because gravitational waves are so faint, their detection will come not in an exuberant moment of discovery but through a chain of inference; for forty years, scientists have debated whether there is anything to detect and whether it has yet been detected. Sociologist Harry Collins has been tracking the progress of this research since 1972, interviewing key scientists and delineating the social process of the science of gravitational waves.
Engagingly written and authoritatively comprehensive, Gravity's Shadow explores the people, institutions, and government organizations involved in the detection of gravitational waves. This sociological history will prove essential not only to sociologists and historians of science but to scientists themselves.More editions of Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves:
Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in Americaby Wendy CadgeISBN 0226089002 (0-226-08900-2)
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Heaven's Kitchen: Living Religion at God's Love We Deliverby Courtney BenderISBN 0226042820 (0-226-04282-0)
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The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanitiesby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 022406309X (0-224-06309-X)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Heretics and Renegades, and Other Essaysby Isaac DeutscherISBN 0224616315 (0-224-61631-5)
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Heroesby John PilgerISBN 0224023012 (0-224-02301-2)
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How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italiansby Rudolph M. BellISBN 0226042006 (0-226-04200-6)
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, With Special Reference to Educationby Gary S. BeckerISBN 0226041204 (0-226-04120-4)
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This expanded edition includes four new chapters, covering recent ideas about human capital, fertility and economic growth, the division of labor, economic considerations within the family, and inequality in earnings.
"Critics have charged that Mr. Becker's style of thinking reduces humans to economic entities. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Becker gives people credit for having the power to reason and seek out their own best destiny."Wall Street JournalMore editions of Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, With Special Reference to Education:
The Human Sciences & Philosophyby Lucien GoldmannISBN 0224615483 (0-224-61548-3)
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Centuryby Jonathan GloverISBN 0224052403 (0-224-05240-3)
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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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Intimate Behaviourby Desmond MorrisISBN 0224006282 (0-224-00628-2)
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Keep the River on Your Rightby Tobias SchneebaumISBN 0224618903 (0-224-61890-3)
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Frances Gies, Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0213763796 (0-213-76379-6)
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Making Patriotsby Walter BernsISBN 0226044386 (0-226-04438-6)
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Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class, and Statesby Theda Skocpol, Burawoy, Michael and Skocpol, ThedaISBN 0226080404 (0-226-08040-4)
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Medieval Misogyny And the Invention of Western Romantic Loveby R. Howard BlochISBN 0226059731 (0-226-05973-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Misogyny And the Invention of Western Romantic Love'Book summary:Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation fromor antidote toten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.[via]
Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era.
This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.More editions of Medieval Misogyny And the Invention of Western Romantic Love:
Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of a Medieval Englandby Michael CamilleISBN 0226092402 (0-226-09240-2)
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The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to Americaby Martin AmisISBN 0224023853 (0-224-02385-3)
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On the Edge: Living With Global Capitalismby Anthony Giddens, Will HuttonISBN 0224059378 (0-224-05937-8)
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Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identityby Wayne BrekhusISBN 0226072924 (0-226-07292-4)
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The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925by Elisabeth S. ClemensISBN 0226109933 (0-226-10993-3)
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A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciencesby Richard Harvey BrownISBN 0226076199 (0-226-07619-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences'Book summary:For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a "cognitive aesthetic," Brown shows how both science and artas well as the human studies that stand between themdepend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form.[via]
By recognizing this "aesthetic" common ground between science and art, Brown demonstrates that a fusion can be achieved within the human sciences of these two principal ideals of knowledgethe scientific or positivist one and the artistic or intuitive one. A path, then, is opened for creating a knowledge of ourselves and society which is at once objective and subjective, at once valid scientifically and significantly humane.More editions of A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences:
Power and the Profession of Obstetricsby William Ray ArneyISBN 0226027295 (0-226-02729-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Primer in Theory Constructionby Paul D. ReynoldsISBN 0205501281 (0-205-50128-1)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The Question of Class Struggle: Social Foundations of Popular Radicalism During the Industrial Revolutionby Craig CalhounISBN 0226090914 (0-226-09091-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalismby Michael Burawoy, Janos LukacsISBN 0226080420 (0-226-08042-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humorby G. LegmanISBN 0224616625 (0-224-61662-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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Salt: A World Historyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0224060848 (0-224-06084-8)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Science of Science and Reflexivityby Pierre Bourdieu, Richard NiceISBN 0226067386 (0-226-06738-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Script of Life in Modern Society: Entry into Adulthood in a Changing Worldby Marlis BuchmannISBN 0226078353 (0-226-07835-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. LawrenceISBN 022400896X (0-224-00896-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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Sex Matters: The Sexuality And Society Readerby Wendy Simonds, Denise Donnelly, Mindy Stombler, Elisabeth O. Burgess, Dawn M. BaunauchISBN 0205485448 (0-205-48544-8)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Sexual Nature, Sexual Cultureby Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. PinkertonISBN 0226001822 (0-226-00182-2)
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Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imaginationby Rachel AdamsISBN 0226005399 (0-226-00539-9)
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Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, And Consequencesby Charles E. HurstISBN 0205484360 (0-205-48436-0)
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The Sociology of Talcott Parsonsby Francois BourricaudISBN 0226067564 (0-226-06756-4)
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Sprawl: A Compact Historyby Robert BruegmannISBN 0226076911 (0-226-07691-1)
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Ssps for Windows Step-by-step: A Simple Guide And Reference, 14.0 Updateby Darren George, Paul MalleryISBN 0205480713 (0-205-48071-3)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United Statesby Vincent N. ParrilloISBN 0205457630 (0-205-45763-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms Around the Worldby R. Scott Appleby, Emmanuel Sivan, Gabriel Abraham AlmondISBN 0226014983 (0-226-01498-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Structural Contexts of Opportunitiesby Peter M. BlauISBN 0226057291 (0-226-05729-1)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriageby Ferdinand MountISBN 0224019996 (0-224-01999-6)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Talcott Parsons: The Early Essaysby Charles CamicISBN 0226092372 (0-226-09237-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Thinking in Jewishby Jonathan BoyarinISBN 0226069273 (0-226-06927-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industryby Jane Lou CollinsISBN 0226113728 (0-226-11372-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Time Matters : On Theory and Methodby Andrew AbbottISBN 0226001032 (0-226-00103-2)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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Time Matters focuses particularly on questions of time, events, and causality. Abbott grounds each essay in straightforward examinations of actual social scientific analyses. Throughout, he demonstrates the crucial assumptions we make about causes and events, about actors and interaction and about time and meaning every time we employ methods of social analysis, whether in academic disciplines, market research, public opinion polling, or even evaluation research. Turning current assumptions on their heads, Abbott not only outlines the theoretical orthodoxies of empirical social science, he sketches new alternatives, laying down foundations for a new body of social theory.More editions of Time Matters : On Theory and Method:
The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985by Diana CraneISBN 0226117901 (0-226-11790-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)by Kurt VonnegutISBN 022401076X (0-224-01076-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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When Men Meet: Homosexualiity and Modernityby Henning Bech, Teresa Mesquit, Tim DaviesISBN 0226040224 (0-226-04022-4)
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World of the Witchesby Julio Caro BarojaISBN 0226037630 (0-226-03763-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fiftiesby Wini BreinesISBN 0226072614 (0-226-07261-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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