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The Anatomy of Dependenceby Takeo Doi, John BesterISBN 0870114948 (0-87011-494-8)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Dependence'Book summary:This work offers insights, not only into the character of Japan but into the nuances of dependancy relationships. It is an analysis of amae, the indulging, passive love which supports an individual within a group, and a key concept in Japanese psychology. [via]
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Anatomy of Human Destructivenessby Erich FrommISBN 080501604X (0-8050-1604-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Human Destructiveness'Book summary:[via]In this provocative book, the distinguished author writes to break the deadlock in the struggle between the instinctivism of Konrad Lorenz and behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner.More editions of Anatomy of Human Destructiveness:
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Apocalypse Cultureby Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915059 (0-922915-05-9)
Softcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse Culture'Book summary:For years I've been a little leery of this book. First published in 1987, this anthology of doomster essays has become a fixture on the bookshelves of every Tom, Pierced Dick, and Harry. After finally reading it, I have to admit that my prejudice against those who think that being cool means reading lots of ReSearch magazines kept me away from what is actually a fascinating volume, wherein the most absurd, inexcusable positions are defended with calm intelligence and witty rationality. With essays ranging from the sexual liberation of necrophiliacs to strong cases against art and agriculture, editor Adam Parfrey's collection is one that Tristan Tzara would enjoy, if he were to rise from his mouldy grave in search of good bathroom reading. [via]
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Big Structures, Large Processes, Hugh Comparisonsby Charles TillyISBN 0871548801 (0-87154-880-1)
Softcover, Russell Sage Foundation
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Biology As Ideologyby R. C. LewontinISBN 0887845185 (0-88784-518-5)
Softcover, House of Anansi Pr
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of Warby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0805057870 (0-8050-5787-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War'Book summary:In this ambitious work, Barbara Ehrenreich offers a daring explanation for humans' propensity to wage war. Rather than approach the subject from a physiological perspective, pinpointing instinct or innate aggressiveness as the violent culprit, she reaches back to primitive man's fear of predators and the anxieties associated with life in the food chain. To deal with the reality of living as prey, she argues that blood rites were created to dramatize and validate the life-and-death struggle. Jumping ahead to the modern age, Ehrenreich brands nationalism a more sophisticated form of blood ritual, a phenomenon that conjures similar fears of predation, whether in the form of lost territory or the more extreme ethnic cleansing. Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War may not offer a cure for human aggression, but the author does present a convincing argument for the difficulties associated with achieving peace. [via]
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Christ and Cultureby H. Richard NiebuhrISBN 0844626589 (0-8446-2658-9)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Cliffsnotes Lord of the Fliesby D. M. CalandraISBN 0822007541 (0-8220-0754-1)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Great for writing a report for this particular book, and enhancing your understanding of the particulars of the book. It also describe the characters of the story and what they may represent whether within the story or within someone's life. [via]
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The Denial of Deathby Ernest BeckerISBN 0844669326 (0-8446-6932-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Denial of Death'Book summary:Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing. [via]
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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experienceby Erving Goffman, Bennett BergerISBN 093035091X (0-930350-91-X)
Softcover, Northeastern University Press
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Games People Playby Eric BerneISBN 0890094942 (0-89009-494-2)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Games People Play'Book summary:Over forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne's classic is as astonishing and revealing as it was on the day it was first published.We play games all the time-sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like "Martini" (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like "If It Weren't For You" and "Uproar," to flirtation favorites like "The Stocking Game" and "Let's You and Him Fight," Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.Explosive when it first appeared, Games People Play is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It's as powerful and eye-opening as ever.[via]More editions of Games People Play:
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General Economic Historyby Max WeberISBN 0878556907 (0-87855-690-7)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General Economic History'Book summary:In General Economic History Max Weber focuses on the industrial enterprise for the provision of everyday wants, oriented toward profitability by means of rational capital accounting, as the institutional foundation of modern Western capitalism. This type of enterprise integrates into one institutional complex a constellation of six factors, including: formally free labor; free market trade; appropriation of the physical means of production; rational commercial practices; rational production of technology; and calculable law adjudicated and administered by the state. General Economic History traces the historical development of each of these factors from their informal rational points of origin through the feudal era to their emergence as formal rational elements in the modern capitalist industrial enterprise. The chapters on the history of modern citizenship and the modern rational state are of special significance as otherwise unavailable resources for an integrated view of Weber's work.
The new introduction by Ira J. Cohen is an original scholarly work of interest to all who study Max Weber's conception of modern Western capitalism.Theessay situates the institutional and cultural aspects of Weber's view of modern capitalism in the context of his overall vision of the emergence of formal rationality in the Western world. Both aspects of modern capitalism are shown to be defined by economic formal rationality, a type of orientation which is distinct from the legal formal rationality characteristic of Weber's conception of modern bureaucracy.
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Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imaginationby Avery F. GordonISBN 081662089X (0-8166-2089-X)
Softcover, University of Minnesota Press
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Guided Meditation: Creative Visualization for Generating Energy and Managing Stressby Gary Michael Smith, Robert Edward FussellISBN 0965838048 (0-9658380-4-8)
Hardcover, Chatgris Press
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0808598295 (0-8085-9829-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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The Hidden Dimensionby Edward Twitchell HallISBN 0844665525 (0-8446-6552-5)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Dimension'Book summary:An examination of various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal. [via]
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The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchyby Shere HiteISBN 0802134513 (0-8021-3451-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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In the Absence of the Sacredby Jerry ManderISBN 0871565099 (0-87156-509-9)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Absence of the Sacred'Book summary:In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, author and social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerousto personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process. With In the Absence of the Sacred, he goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole.[via]
In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western worlds loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorderand worse lies ahead. Yet models for restoring our relationship with the Earth exist in the cultures of native peoples, whose values and skills have enabled them to survive centuries of invasion and exploitation.
Far from creating paradise on Earth, technology has instead produced an unsustainable contest for resources. Mander surveys the major technologies shaping the new world order computers, telecommunications, space exploration, genetic engineering, robotics, and the corporation itselfand warns that they are merging into a global mega-technology, with dire environmental and political results.More editions of In the Absence of the Sacred:
Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research/Book and Diskby Russell K. SchuttISBN 0803990103 (0-8039-9010-3)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Worksby Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsISBN 0853151814 (0-85315-181-4)
Hardcover, Lawrence and Wishart
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Leisure: The Basis of Cultureby Alexander Dru, Josef Pieper, T. S. EliotISBN 0865972109 (0-86597-210-9)
Hardcover, Liberty Fund
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leisure: The Basis of Culture'Book summary:Modern Political Philosophy [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0881030317 (0-88103-031-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Lord of the Flies , William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition. --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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MacHiavelli's the Prince: Text and Commentaryby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0812005244 (0-8120-0524-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Magic Science and Religion and Other Essaysby Bronislaw MalinowskiISBN 0881336572 (0-88133-657-2)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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The New Science of Giambattista Vicoby Giovanni Battista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold FischISBN 0801492653 (0-8014-9265-3)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Science of Giambattista Vico'Book summary:A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx. [via]
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Niccolo Machiavelli's the Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812035364 (0-8120-3536-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0879753366 (0-87975-336-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:This volume includes the complete essay in five chapters: Introductory; Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion; Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-being; Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual; and Applications. With a fine introduction by editor Alburey Castell, this edition also includes line numbers for easy reference, a list of principal dates in the life of John Stuart Mill, and a bibliography. [via]
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On The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 087220068X (0-87220-068-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On The Social Contract'Book summary:"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Rousseau's influential 1762 work, in which he argues that all government is fundamentally flawed and that modern society is based on a system of inequality. The philosopher posits that a good government can justify its need for individual compromises and that promoting social settings in which people transcend their immediate appetites and desires leads to the development of self-governing, self-disciplined beings. A milestone of political science, these essays are essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and other social sciences. G. D. H. Cole translation. [via]
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The Ordeal of Changeby Eric HofferISBN 0899667481 (0-89966-748-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ordeal of Change'Book summary:Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Nowhere is this more evident than in Hoffer's seminal work, The Ordeal of Change, essays on the duality and essentiality of change in man throughout history. [via]
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Origin of the Family, Private Property and the Stateby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0873482611 (0-87348-261-1)
Softcover, Pathfinder Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State'Book summary:How the emergence of class-divided society gave rise to repressive state bodies and family structures that protect the property of the ruling layers and enable them to pass along wealth and privilege. Engels discusses the consequences for working people of these class institutions -- from their original forms to their modern versions.
Introduction by Evelyn Reed, notes, name index, subject index. Now with enlarged type.
Also available in: French; Spanish, Indonesian [via]
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The Outsiderby Colin WilsonISBN 0874772060 (0-87477-206-0)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outsider'Book summary:The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. "An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament."Philip Toynbee.[via]More editions of The Outsider:
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Pascalian Meditationsby Pierre Bourdieu, Richard NiceISBN 0804733325 (0-8047-3332-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pascalian Meditations'Book summary:A synthesis of forty years' work by France's leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brilliant example of Bourdieu's unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philosophical thought.[via]
Pascalian Meditations makes explicit the presuppositions of a state of "scholasticism," a certain leisure liberated from the urgencies of the world. Philosophers, unwilling to engage these presuppositions in their practice, have brought them into the order of discourse, not so much to analyze them as to legitimate them. This situation is the primary systematic, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic error that Bourdieu subjects to methodological critique.
This critique of scholarly reason is carried out in the name of Pascal because he, too, pointed out the features of human existence that the scholastic outlook ignores: he was concerned with symbolic power; he refused the temptation of foundationalist thinking; he attended (without populist naïveté) to "ordinary people"; and he was determined to seek the raison d'être of seemingly illogical behavior rather than condemning or mocking it.
Through this critique, Bourdieu charts a negative philosophy that calls into question some of our most fundamental presuppositions, such as a "subject" who is free and self-aware. This philosophy, with its intellectual debt to such other "heretical" philosophers as Wittgenstein, Austin, Dewey, and Peirce, renews traditional questioning of the concepts of violence, power, time, history, the universal, and the purpose and direction of existence.More editions of Pascalian Meditations:
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Studyby W. E. B. Du Bois, Elijah Anderson, Isabel EatonISBN 0812215737 (0-8122-1573-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Futureby Peter M. Senge, Society for Organizational LearningISBN 0974239011 (0-9742390-1-1)
Hardcover, SOL
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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subcultureby Lauraine LeblancISBN 0813526515 (0-8135-2651-5)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0804900566 (0-8049-0056-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an altogether remarkable Introduction by David Wootton, make this edition an ideal encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory. [via]
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Prince Maachiavelliby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0882950533 (0-88295-053-3)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince Maachiavelli'Book summary:What makes this well-annotated translation stand out from others is an insightful introduction by editor Thomas G. Bergin--especially helpful for achieving a better understanding of the times and the political scene in which Machiavelli worked, lived, and wrote. Also included are a list of important dates in Machiavelli's life, an index of proper names in the text and notes, and a selected bibliography. [via]
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Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescenceby Rosalind WisemanISBN 1400047927 (1-4000-4792-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence'Book summary:The Basis for the Movie Mean Girls
PARENTS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN GIRL WORLD
Do you feel as though your adolescent daughter exists in a different world, speaking a different language and living by different laws? She does.
This groundbreaking book takes you inside the secret world of girls friendships, translating and decoding them, so parents can better understand and help their daughters navigate through these crucial years. Rosalind Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they feel about school, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves. In this candid and insightful book, Wiseman discusses:
" Queen Bees, Wannabes, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and others: how to tell what role your daughter plays and help her be herself
" Girls power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating arrangements and illicit parties, and how to handle them
" Good popularity and bad popularity: how cliques bear on every situation
" Hip Parents, Best-Friend Parents, Pushover Parents, and others: examine your own parenting style, Check Your Baggage, and identify how your own background and biases affect how you relate to your daughter
" Related movies, books, websites, and organizations: a carefully annotated resources section provides opportunities to follow up on your own and with your daughter
Enlivened with the voices of dozens of girls and parents and a welcome sense of humor, Queen Bees and Wannabes is compelling reading for parents and daughters alike. A conversation piece and a reference guide, it offers the tools you need to help your daughter feel empowered and make smarter choices. [via]More editions of Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence:
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 081297106X (0-8129-7106-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhoodby William PollackISBN 0805061835 (0-8050-6183-5)
Softcover, Owl Books
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism; A Historical Study ...by Richard Henry TawneyISBN 0844614467 (0-8446-1446-7)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Risk Society: Towards a New Modernityby Ulrich Beck, Mark RitterISBN 0803983468 (0-8039-8346-8)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legendby Jeffrey S. VictorISBN 081269192X (0-8126-9192-X)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Selected Writingsby Karl Marx, Lawrence H. SimonISBN 0872202186 (0-87220-218-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings'Book summary:Featuring the most important and enduring works from Marx's enormous corpus, this thoughtful new collection spans Marx's development from the Hegelian idealism of his youth to the mature socialism of his later works. Organized both topically and in rough chronological order, the selections include writings from Marx's early more purely philosophical works, the central writings on historical materialism, excerpts from Capitaland writings of a more political nature from his later period. [via]
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.D.H. ColeISBN 0879754443 (0-87975-444-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Social Contract'Book summary:With the publication of The Social Contract in 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau took his place among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Like his contractarian predecessors (Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), Rousseau sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good but corrupted by the conflicting inteerests within society. Here self-interest degenerated into a state of war from which humanity could only be extricated by the imposition of a contract. As a party to the compact, each individual would find his true interest served within the political expression of the community of man, or the "general will."What is the content of human nature and how does it compel mankind to come together to create a civil society? What form does this society take? What benefits does it offer its citizens, and what must each individual sacrifice to reap its rewards? How does sovereign power manifest itself, and what consequences follow for those who choose not to abide by the "general will"? Does Rousseau's political theory set forth a blueprint for democracyone that results in equality, universal suffrage, and popular sovereigntyor is it a recipe for central state totalitarianism? These are just a few of the complex questions that will confront readers of The Social Contract.Whatever their intent or iltimate result, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's views on the state and man's relationship to it have culminated in one of the most powerful and compelling pieces of political philosophy ever written. [via]
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The Society of Individualsby Norbert Elias, Michael Schroter, Edmund JephcottISBN 0826413722 (0-8264-1372-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Society of Individuals'Book summary:Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The Civilizing Process, or was written along with it. Part 2 was written between 1940 and 1960. Part 3 is from 1987. The entire book is a study of the unique relationship between the individual and society--Elias's best-known theme and the basis for the discipline of sociology.[via]More editions of The Society of Individuals:
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Sociology of Economic Lifeby Mark Granovetter, Richard SwedbergISBN 0813397642 (0-8133-9764-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociology of Economic Life'Book summary:In recent years, sociologists have taken up a fruitful examination of institutions such as capital, labor, and product markets; industrial organization; and stock exchanges. Compared to earlier traditions of economic sociology, recent work shows more interest in phenomena usually studied exclusively by economists. At the same time, recent work challenges the adequacy of the neoclassical model.In The Sociology of Economic Life, editors Granovetter and Swedberg incorporate classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology and related disciplines to provide students with a broad understanding of the many dimensions of economic life. A thorough and accessible introduction by the editors traces the history of thought in the field and assesses recent advances and future trends. The third edition is substantially revised and updated with eight new chapters, including original contributions from some of the fields leading scholars that explain cutting-edge research and condense the essential scholarship in the field.[via]More editions of Sociology of Economic Life:
Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magicby Daniel Lawrence O'KeefeISBN 0826400590 (0-8264-0059-0)
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The Subjection of Womenby John Stuart MillISBN 087220054X (0-87220-054-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Subjection of Women'Book summary:Since Old Testament days discrimination against minorities and other groups has been the rule in history rather than the exception. Chief among these repressive attitudes has been the inferior social and political status of women. Mill offers compelling arguments against the disenfranchisement of women, the infringement of their property rights, and the second-class status they experienced within marriage. One of England's most influential social philosophers, Mill sets the keen sights of his critical, analytic eye on the socio-political justifications for gender supremacy in nineteenth-century Britain and, in doing so, he strikes a powerful blow for women's rights, the reverberations of which are still being felt today. A remarkable work, "The Subjection of Women" uses reason and common-sense to take sexual discrimination to task. [via]
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearingby Alexander S. NeillISBN 0805512993 (0-8055-1299-3)
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Theory of Business Enterpriseby T. VeblenISBN 0878556990 (0-87855-699-0)
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The Theory of Communicative Action: Lifeworld and System A Critique of Functionalist Reasonby Jurgen Habermas, Thomas McCarthyISBN 080701401X (0-8070-1401-X)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Societyby Jurgen HabermasISBN 0807015075 (0-8070-1507-5)
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A Theory of Religionby Rodney Stark, William Sims BainbridgeISBN 0813523303 (0-8135-2330-3)
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faithby Jon KrakauerISBN 1400032806 (1-4000-3280-6)
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Utopiaby Thomas More, H. V. S. OgdenISBN 0882950622 (0-88295-062-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:Wootton's new translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmus's 'The Sileni Of Alcibades', a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential in the sixteenth century. This attractive combination suits the edition especially well for use in Renaissance and reformation courses. Wootton's introduction simultaneously provides a remarkably useful guide to anyone's first reading of More's mysterious work and advance an original argument on the origins and purpose of Utopia which no one interested in sixteenth-century social theory will want to miss. [via]
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Utopiaby John SheehanISBN 0874624487 (0-87462-448-7)
Softcover, Marquette Univ Pr
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Utopia: With Erasmus's the Sileni of Alcibiadesby Thomas More, David WoottonISBN 087220376X (0-87220-376-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia: With Erasmus's the Sileni of Alcibiades'Book summary:Wootton's new translation brings out the liveliness of More's work and offers an accurate and reliable version of a masterpiece of social theory. His edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of a translation of Erasmus's "The Sileni of Alcibiades", a work very close in sentiment to Utopia, and one immensely influential in the sixteenth century. This attractive combination suits the edition especially well for use in Renaissance and Reformation courses as well as for Western Civilization survey courses. Wootton's Introduction simultaneously provides a remarkably useful guide to anyone's first reading of More's mysterious work and advances an original argument on the origins and purposes of Utopia which no one interested in sixteenth-century social theory will want to miss. [via]
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Vindication of the Rights of Womenby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0879755253 (0-87975-525-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vindication of the Rights of Women'Book summary:The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history?
Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong female voices spoke in favor of the social, political, educational, and economic rights of women. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in the late eighteenth century, is truly a classic in this venerable tradition. Railing against the stubborn social forces that confined women to an inferior station in the community, Mary Wollstonecraft declares war on the prevailing attitudes and customs that prevent women from realizing their individual potential. [via]More editions of Vindication of the Rights of Women:
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaningby Chris HedgesISBN 1400034639 (1-4000-3463-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'Book summary:As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.
Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary. [via]More editions of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning:
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What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of Americaby Thomas FrankISBN 080507774X (0-8050-7774-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of America'Book summary:The largely blue collar citizens of Kansas can be counted upon to be a "red" state in any election, voting solidly Republican and possessing a deep animosity toward the left. This, according to author Thomas Frank, is a pretty self-defeating phenomenon, given that the policies of the Republican Party benefit the wealthy and powerful at the great expense of the average worker. According to Frank, the conservative establishment has tricked Kansans, playing up the emotional touchstones of conservatism and perpetuating a sense of a vast liberal empire out to crush traditional values while barely ever discussing the Republicans' actual economic policies and what they mean to the working class. Thus the pro-life Kansas factory worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh will repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to benefit him economically. To much of America, Kansas is an abstract, "where Dorothy wants to return. Where Superman grew up." But Frank, a native Kansan, separates reality from myth in What's the Matter with Kansas and tells the state's socio-political history from its early days as a hotbed of leftist activism to a state so entrenched in conservatism that the only political division remaining is between the moderate and more-extreme right wings of the same party. Frank, the founding editor of The Baffler and a contributor to Harper's and The Nation, knows the state and its people. He even includes his own history as a young conservative idealist turned disenchanted college Republican, and his first-hand experience, combined with a sharp wit and thorough reasoning, makes his book more credible than the elites of either the left and right who claim to understand Kansas. --John Moe [via]
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William Golding's Lord of the Fliesby William Golding, W. Meitcke, W. MeitcheISBN 0812034260 (0-8120-3426-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Golding's Lord of the Flies'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Within the Context of No Contextby George W. S. TrowISBN 0871136740 (0-87113-674-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Within the Context of No Context'Book summary:Long-time New Yorker writer George W. S. Trow first published the long title essay of this book in 1981, and it now appears with a companion piece, "Collapsing Dominant." Taken together, the two essays are a trenchant and often scathing examination of American culture. As Trow surveys the landscape, he observes that television has created a land of "no context," which it then gleefully chronicles. The many examples he cites of things he has witnessed in the mass media are alarming not for what he has seen--for we have all seen this stuff--but for the intense, and at times lacerating, insight with which he views the passing parade of frivolity. Within the Context of No Context is a slim book that does much to explain modern American society, and the thoughts in its pages will resonate for a long time. [via]
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0808589768 (0-8085-8976-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:'A brilliant memoir ...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire; its crises are the crises of a heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it ...Maxine Hong Kingston writes with bitter and relentless love. Her voice, now, is as clear as the voice of Ts'ai Yen, who sang her sad, angry songs of China to the barbarians. It is as fierce as a warrior's voice, and as eloquent as any artist's' Jane Kramer, New York Times Book Review 'This is a delightful book ...tells more than I ever imagined about the strangeness of being Chinese and a woman; it also gives a superb account of what it's like simply to be alive' Victoria Radin, New Society 'A strange, enchanting book ...As a manual of self-discovery through the channels and terrors of one's own rejected communal memory, it is unbeatable' Clancy Sigal, Guardian 'As a dream -- of the "female avenger" -- it is dizzying, elemental, a poem turned into a sword ...reimagining the past with such dark beauty, such precision and anger that you feel you have saddled the Tao dragon and see all through the fiery eye of God' John Leonard, New York Times 'A book of fierce clarity and originality' Newsweek [via]
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The Woman Warrior China Menby Maxine Kingston, Mary GordonISBN 1400043840 (1-4000-4384-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior China Men'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Herefor the first time in one volumeare two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her familys past and her cultures stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is Kingstons disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have emigrated, a place inhabited by white ghosts, and the China of her mothers talk stories, a place haunted by the ghosts of the past. Her mother, who had been a doctor in China but in the United States is reduced to running a laundry, tells her daughter traditional tales of strong, wily women warriorstalesthat clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of Chinese women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mothers stories with stories of her own, engaging her familys past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.
China Men, a National Book Award winner for fiction, is Kingstons unforgettable imaginative journey into the hearts and minds of generations of Chinese men in America, from those who worked on the transcontinental railroad in the 1840s to those who fought in Vietnam. Mixing vivid fables and legends, personal stories from her own family, and details of the historical hardships faced by Chinese immigrants in different times and places, Kingston illuminates their long, arduous search for the Gold Mountain. [via]More editions of The Woman Warrior China Men:
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