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Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essaysby Adam Smith, Stephen Copley, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0719039436 (0-7190-3943-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: New Interdisciplinary Essays'Book summary:First published in 1776, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is much more than just a handbook on the principles of free-market economics; it is a founding text for the organisation of Western society in its broadest sense. In order to understand the impact of Smith's text across the academic disciplines, this volume brings together leading scholars from fields of economics, politics, history, sociology and literature. Each essay offers a different reading of Wealth of Nations and its legacy. Contributors consider the historical context in which Wealth of Nations was written, its reception and its profound impact on contemporary concepts of market liberalism, on education, on gender relations and on environmental debates. The volume also offers deconstructive analyses of the text and a feminist critique of Smith's construction of the economy. This volume will be the ideal companion to Smith's work for all students of literature, politics and economic history. [via]
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Babbittby Sinclair LewisISBN 0783883730 (0-7838-8373-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babbitt'Book summary:General FictionLarge Print EditionBabbitt is a total conformist, loyal to whoever serves his need of the moment an opportunist in his business and personal life. Outwardly he conforms. Inwardly, his soul is empty. Filled with rationalizations and sentimentality, he doesnt see his own corruption. With his portrait of George F. Babbitt, the conniving, rich real estate man from Zenith, Sinclair Lewis created one of the ugliest, yet most convincing figures in American literature. [via]
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Birth Order Bookby Kevin LemanISBN 0800785967 (0-8007-8596-7)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birth Order Book'Book summary:Good condition with slight cover wear. FREE delivery confirmation. [via]
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The Birth Order Book: Why You Are The Way You Areby Kevin LemanISBN 080075977X (0-8007-5977-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Celebration of Awarenessby Ivan IllichISBN 0714508373 (0-7145-0837-3)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Celebration of Awareness'Book summary:As a formidable critic of some of society's most cherished institutions, such as compulsory education and organised religion, Ivan Illich has attracted world attention. His commitment to a radical humanism against conventional institutions and esatablished ideas of social virtue make for compelling, and convincing, reading. This book brings together for the first time many of his lectures and articles bearing out Illich's invigorating challanges to the status quo. [via]
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Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolutionby Ivan Illich, Erich FrommISBN 0714508381 (0-7145-0838-1)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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The Children of the Dreamby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0743217950 (0-7432-1795-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usualby David Weinberger, Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc SearlsISBN 0738204315 (0-7382-0431-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual'Book summary:How would you classify a book that begins with the salutation, "People of Earth..."? While the captains of industry might dismiss it as mere science fiction, The Cluetrain Manifesto is definitely of this day and age. Aiming squarely at the solar plexus of corporate America, authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger show how the Internet is turning business upside down. They proclaim that, thanks to conversations taking place on Web sites and message boards, and in e-mail and chat rooms, employees and customers alike have found voices that undermine the traditional command-and-control hierarchy that organizes most corporate marketing groups. "Markets are conversations," the authors write, and those conversations are "getting smarter faster than most companies." In their view, the lowly customer service rep wields far more power and influence in today's marketplace than the well-oiled front office PR machine.
The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (www.cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses that pronounced what they felt was the new reality of the networked marketplace. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors"; thesis no. 20: "Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them"; thesis no. 62: "Markets do not want to talk to flacks and hucksters. They want to participate in the conversations going on behind the corporate firewall"; thesis no. 74: "We are immune to advertising. Just forget it." The book enlarges on these themes through seven essays filled with dozens of stories and observations about how business gets done in America and how the Internet will change it all. While Cluetrain will strike many as loud and over the top, the message itself remains quite relevant and unique. This book is for anyone interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially important for those businesses struggling to navigate the topography of the wired marketplace. All aboard! --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in Americaby Bradford W. WrightISBN 0801874505 (0-8018-7450-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America'Book summary:As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the childhoods of most Americans alive today. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.
From Batman's Depression-era battles against corrupt local politicians and Captain America's one-man war against Nazi Germany to Iron Man's Cold War exploits in Vietnam and Spider-Man's confrontations with student protestors and drug use in the early 1970s, comic books have continually reflected the national mood, as Wright's imaginative reading of thousands of titles from the 1930s to the 1980s makes clear. In every genresuperhero, war, romance, crime, and horror comic booksWright finds that writers and illustrators used the medium to address a variety of serious issues, including racism, economic injustice, fascism, the threat of nuclear war, drug abuse, and teenage alienation. At the same time, xenophobic wartime series proved that comic books could be as reactionary as any medium.
Wright's lively study also focuses on the role comic books played in transforming children and adolescents into consumers; the industry's ingenious efforts to market their products to legions of young but savvy fans; the efforts of parents, politicians, religious organizations, civic groups, and child psychologists like Dr. Fredric Wertham (whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent, a salacious exposé of the medium's violence and sexual content, led to U.S. Senate hearings) to link juvenile delinquency to comic books and impose censorship on the industry; and the changing economics of comic book publishing over the course of the century. For the paperback edition, Wright has written a new postscript that details industry developments in the late 1990s and the response of comic artists to the tragedy of 9/11. Comic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.
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The Consumer Society: Myths and Structuresby Jean BaudrillardISBN 0761956921 (0-7619-5692-1)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Corner: A Year in the Life of an Innercity Neighborhoodby Edward Burns, David SimonISBN 0767900316 (0-7679-0031-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood'Book summary:This startling look at desperate, drug-addled inner-city lives ranks as one of the grittiest--and best--examinations of underclass America available. Like Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here and Leon Dash's Rosa Lee, The Corner shines light on a horrific subculture of addiction, crime, dependency, and violence. Authors David Simon (who wrote Homicide, the book that inspired the TV series of the same name) and Edward Burns (a former cop) are muckraking reporters who operate in the finest tradition of American journalism. They spent an entire year on the corner of Fayette and Monroe in West Baltimore, getting to know its open-air drug market and its people. Although the authors present strong evidence that the so-called war on drugs cannot be won, The Corner has no political agenda. It is simply a powerful testament to the bleak situation confronting many urban neighborhoods. At once deeply unsettling and extremely rewarding, this humane book deserves a wide audience. [via]
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Powerby Joel BakanISBN 0743247469 (0-7432-4746-9)
Softcover, Free Pr
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In this revolutionary assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business corporation, Bakan backs his premise with the following observations:
- The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others.
- The corporation's unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal.
- Governments have freed the corporation, despite its flawed character, from legal constraints through deregulation and granted it ever greater authority over society through privatization.
But Bakan believes change is possible and he outlines a far-reaching program of achievable reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.
Featuring in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and cultural critic Noam Chomsky, The Corporation is an extraordinary work that will educate and enlighten students, CEOs, whistle-blowers, power brokers, pawns, pundits, and politicians alike. [via]
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Mustby Kalle LasnISBN 0688178057 (0-688-17805-7)
Softcover, Quill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must'Book summary:America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run; and the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas. With a courageous and compelling voice, Lasn deconstructs the advertising culture and our fixation on icons and brand names. And he shows how to organize resistance against the power trust that manages the brands by "uncooling" consumer items, by "dermarketing" fashions and celebrities, and by breaking the "media trance" of our TV-addicted age.
A powerful manifesto by a leading media activist, Culture Jam lays the foundations for the most significant social movement of the early twenty-first century -- a movement that can change the world and the way we think and live.
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Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Societyby Ronald InglehartISBN 0691022968 (0-691-02296-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society'Book summary:Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Ronald Inglehart's earlier book, The Silent Revolution (Princeton, 1977), broke new ground by discovering a major intergenerational shift in the values of the populations of advanced industrial societies. This new volume demonstrates that this value shift is part of a much broader process of cultural change that is gradually transforming political, economic, and social life in these societies.
Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching political implications, and they seem to be transforming the economic growth rates of societies and the kind of economic development that is pursued.
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Cultures and Societies in a Changing Worldby Wendy GriswoldISBN 0761930485 (0-7619-3048-5)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultures and Societies in a Changing World'Book summary:[via]In the Second Edition of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, author Wendy Griswold offers a unique sociological perspective on the role culture plays in shaping our social world. By exposing readers to the effects of cultural misunderstandings, cultural conflicts, and cultural ignorance, this book enables students to develop a true appreciation of culture and society in a world that is changing at an accelerating pace.
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Development and Social Change: A Global Perspectiveby Philip McMichaelISBN 0761988106 (0-7619-8810-6)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective'Book summary:The Second Edition of this popular textbook has been conceptually reworked to take account of the instabilities underlying the project of global development. While the conceptual framework of viewing development as shifting from a national, to a global, project remains, new issues such as the active engagement in the development project by Third World elites and peoples are considered.
The first four chapters cover the rise and fall of the "development project" around the world. The next three cover the period of globalization, from the mid 1980s onwards. The final two chapters rethink globalization and development for the 21st century. Throughout, extensive use is made of case studies.
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Disabling Professionsby Ivan IllichISBN 0714525103 (0-7145-2510-3)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disabling Professions'Book summary:Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays challenges the power and the mystique of the modern professions.[via]More editions of Disabling Professions:
Drink: A Social History of Americaby Andrew BarrISBN 075675321X (0-7567-5321-X)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drink: A Social History of America'Book summary:"It is not generally appreciated how extreme American attitudes about alcohol appear from the other side of the Atlantic."
With an opening line such as that, it's not surprising that Drink: A Social History of America engages in its share of Yankee-bashing. British journalist Andrew Barr's look at American culture through a glass (somewhat blearily) is an attempt "to understand the history of the United States through its attitudes to liquor and its changing tastes in drink." In reality, however, Barr lurches and staggers from topic to topic--from prohibition to martinis to ice to air conditioning to bland American beer in one 10-page sample--in this swirling cocktail party of a book. That's not to say that Barr's book isn't enjoyable--in fact, it's often delightful. Barr serves up amusing stories (such as that of poor King Charles II of Navarre, immolated in an alcohol-soaked sheet), interesting factoids (the first grapevines in California were planted at the San Juan Capistrano mission in 1779), and strong opinions. Some of his opinions are funny, some are bound to raise hackles (that alcoholism is not a disease, but a "failure of personality," for example), while others are somewhat sensible but destined to be unpopular. Barr feels that Americans have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, so we should teach young people (and those who drink to excess) to drink sensibly, worry less about pregnant women having the occasional drink and more about prenatal care, and switch the focus from stricter drunk-driving laws to laws aimed at reducing dangers such as cell-phone use and road rage. Just when things get too serious, however, Barr is off again in another direction with another witty snippet. Unfortunately, like many partygoers, Barr tends to repeat himself--frequent footnotes direct the reader to "See Chapter 4," "See Chapter 4 again," or even "See Chapter 4 once more." Perfect for browsing or ingesting in small doses, too much Drink in one sitting may leave readers with a headache. --C.B. Delaney [via]
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Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Futureby Mark HertsgaardISBN 0767900596 (0-7679-0059-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Energy and Equityby Ivan IllichISBN 0714510580 (0-7145-1058-0)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Energy and Equity'Book summary:A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The 'energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the same sense. In this essay, Illich examines the question of whether or not humans need any more energy than is their natural birthright. Along the way he gives a startling analysis of the marginal disutility of tools. After a certain point, that is, more energy gives negative returns. For example, moving around causes loss of time proportional to the amount of energy which is poured into the transport system, so that the speed of the fastest traveller correlates inversely to the equality as well as freedom of the median traveller. [via]
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Eroticismby Georges BatailleISBN 0714528722 (0-7145-2872-2)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestylesby William W. Zellner, Richard T. SchaeferISBN 0716770342 (0-7167-7034-2)
Softcover, Worth Pub
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The Fountain of Ageby Betty FriedanISBN 0743299876 (0-7432-9987-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fountain of Age'Book summary:Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging.
Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed, then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood."
The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms.
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Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Developmentby Ankie HoogveltISBN 0801866928 (0-8018-6692-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Ageby Quentin J. Schultze, Jean Bethke ElshtainISBN 0801027810 (0-8010-2781-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Handbook Of Economic Sociologyby Neil J. Smelser, Richard SwedbergISBN 0691121265 (0-691-12126-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handbook Of Economic Sociology'Book summary:"The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition" is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the most comprehensive treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology, soon established itself as the definitive presentation of the field, and has been widely read, reviewed, and adopted. Since then, the field of economic sociology has continued to grow by leaps and bounds and to move into new theoretical and empirical territory. The second edition, while being as all-embracing in its coverage as the first edition, represents a wholesale revamping. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg have kept the main overall framework intact, but nearly two-thirds of the chapters are new or have new authors. As in the first edition, they bring together leading sociologists as well as representatives of other social sciences. But the thirty chapters of this volume incorporate many substantial thematic changes and new lines of research - for example, more focus on international and global concerns, chapters on institutional analysis, the transition from socialist economies, organization and networks, and the economic sociology of the ancient world. "The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition" is the definitive resource on what continues to be one of the leading edges of sociology and one of its most important interdisciplinary adventures. It is a must read for all faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates doing work in the field. Almost two-thirds of the chapters are new or have new authors. The authors include leading sociologists as well as representatives of other social sciences. [via]
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Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolutionby Paula KamenISBN 0767910001 (0-7679-1000-1)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Educationby Annette LareauISBN 0742501450 (0-7425-0145-0)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Housewifeby Ann OakleyISBN 0713909323 (0-7139-0932-3)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soonby David ElkindISBN 0738204412 (0-7382-0441-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon'Book summary:With the first two editions of this landmark work, Dr. David Elkind eloquently called our attention to the dangers of exposing our children to overwhelming pressures, pressures that can lead to a wide range of childhood and teenage crises. Internationally recognized as the voice of reason and compassion, Dr. Elkind showed that in blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by expecting-or imposing-too much too soon, we force our kids to grow up far too fast.In the two decades since this groundbreaking book first appeared, we have compounded the problem, inadvertently stepping up the assault on childhood in the media, in schools, and at home. Taking a detailed, up-to-the-minute look at the world of today's children and teens in terms of the Internet, classroom culture, school violence, movies, television, and a growing societal incivility, Dr. Elkind shows a whole new generation of parents where hurrying occurs and why and what we can do about it.[via]More editions of The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon:
Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Actionby Harrison C. WhiteISBN 069100398X (0-691-00398-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0785777636 (0-7857-7763-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writingsby Jean Baudrillard, Mark PosterISBN 0745624529 (0-7456-2452-9)
Softcover, Polity
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Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movementby Mitchell L. StevensISBN 0691114684 (0-691-11468-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Knowledge and Social Imageryby David BloorISBN 0710083777 (0-7100-8377-7)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Factsby Steve Woolgar, Bruno LatourISBN 069102832X (0-691-02832-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Liquid Love : On the Frailty of Human Bondsby Zygmunt BaumanISBN 0745624898 (0-7456-2489-8)
Softcover, Polity Press
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Mayhew's London Underworldby Peter QuennellISBN 0712695702 (0-7126-9570-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Media, Society: Industries, Images, and Audiencesby William Hoynes, David CroteauISBN 0761987738 (0-7619-8773-8)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviorby Judith MartinISBN 0689112475 (0-689-11247-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Womenby Meredith W. Michaels, Susan DouglasISBN 0743260465 (0-7432-6046-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mommy Myth: The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Women'Book summary:Does Martha Stewart make you feel like you never do enough for your kids? Do "celebrity mom" profiles leave you feeling lumpen and inadequate? That's because they're supposed to, say Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels, authors of The Mommy Myth and self-professed "mothers with an attitude." Both scathing and self-deprecating, their pop-culture critique takes on "the new momism," the media's obsession with motherhood and the impossible standards which that obsession promotes. Today's ideal mom makes June Cleaver seem like a layabout: she may work outside the home, but never too much, always looks at the world through her children's eyes, makes sure to buy only educational, age-appropriate toys, and includes a loving note with each hand-prepared lunch. Meanwhile, the news media hype stories about child abduction, politicians excoriate so-called "welfare queens," and parenting experts advocate wearing your child in a sling until he moves out on his own. Romanticized, commercialized, sensationalized, and demonized by turns, today's mothers are damned if they work and damned if they don't; whats more, the idea that the government might do something to help their plight has come to seem almost quaint. As a history of motherhood in the media from 1970 to the present, The Mommy Myth makes a fun and thought-provoking read. Yet close readings of episodes of thirtysomething don't create quite the call to arms the authors seem to have in mind; no woman likes to think of herself as a media dupe, particularly the kind of woman who will be reading this book. Straightforward policy critiques like their chilling chapter on childcare fare much better, illuminating a culture that seems to have forgotten public institutions' power to correct social ills. --Mary Park [via]
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Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategiesby BaumanISBN 0745609406 (0-7456-0940-6)
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Naked Pictures of Famous Peopleby Jon StewartISBN 0688171621 (0-688-17162-1)
Softcover, Rob Weisbach Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Pictures of Famous People'Book summary:Sometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine is the last thing you need taking up valuable bookshelf space. Jon Stewart's book will come as an extremely pleasant surprise. He eschews the standard standup patter and instead gives us 18 short comic essays in a variety of styles that recall the prose work of Woody Allen, only with a few more references to genitals. Stewart proves himself a remarkably nimble humorist with a sharp eye for parody, whether he's writing "A Very Hanson Christmas" or "Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview."
HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.
KING: And this ... new Hitler?
HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.
Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience. --Simon Leake [via]
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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisisby Jimmy CarterISBN 0743285018 (0-7432-8501-8)
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Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogsby Caroline KnappISBN 078621726X (0-7862-1726-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs'Book summary:At the age of 36, Caroline Knapp, author of the acclaimed bestseller Drinking:A Love Story, found herself confronted with a monumental task: redefining her world. She had faced the loss of both her parents, given up a twenty-year relationship with alcohol, and, as she writes, "I was wandering around in a haze of uncertainty, blinking up at the biggest questions: Who am I without parents and without alcohol? How to form attachments, and where to find comfort, in the face of such daunting vulnerability?" An answer materialized in the most unlikely form: that of a dog. Eighteen months to the day after she quit drinking, Knapp stumbled upon an eight-week-old puppy at a local animal shelter, took her home, and named her Lucille. Now two years old, Lucille has become a central force in Knapp's life: "In her," she writes, "I have found solace, joy, a bridge to the world."
Caroline Knapp has been celebrated as much for her fresh insight into emotional and psychological issues as she has been for her gifts as a writer. In Pack of Two, she brings the same perception and talent to bear on the rich, complicated terrain of human-animal relationships. In addition to mining her own experience with Lucille, Knapp speaks to a wide variety of dog people--from animal behaviorists and psychologists to other owners whose dogs have deeply affected their lives--about this emotionally complex, sometimes daunting, often profoundly healing alliance. Throughout, she explores the shift in canine roles from working partners to intimate companions and looks, too, at how this new kinship, this wordless bond, becomes a template for what we most desire ourselves.
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Photography: A Middle-Brow Artby Pierre BourdieuISBN 0745617158 (0-7456-1715-8)
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The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociologyby Lisa J. McIntyreISBN 0767406850 (0-7674-0685-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Primitive Rebels; Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuriesby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0719004934 (0-7190-0493-4)
Hardcover, Manchester University Press
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The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, And Social Changeby David E. StannardISBN 0756780845 (0-7567-8084-5)
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Qualitative Researchingby Jennifer MasonISBN 0761974288 (0-7619-7428-8)
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The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War IIby Robert WuthnowISBN 0691020574 (0-691-02057-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eyeby Janet M. RuaneISBN 0761988246 (0-7619-8824-6)
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Second Treatise of Governmentby John LockeISBN 0760760950 (0-7607-6095-0)
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The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, And the Division of Knowledgeby Michael McKeonISBN 080188540X (0-8018-8540-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, And the Division of Knowledge'Book summary:Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity.
This narrative draws upon the entire spectrum of English people's experience. At the most "public" extreme are political developments like the formation of civil society over against the state, the rise of contractual thinking, and the devolution of absolutism from monarch to individual subject. The middle range of experience takes in the influence of Protestant and scientific thought, the printed publication of the private, the conceptualization of virtual publicssociety, public opinion, the marketand the capitalization of production, the decline of the domestic economy, and the increase in the sexual division of labor. The most "private" pole of experience involves the privatization of marriage, the family, and the household, and the complex entanglement of femininity, interiority, subjectivity, and sexuality.
McKeon accounts for how the relationship between public and private experience first became intelligible as a variable interaction of distinct modes of beingnot a static dichotomy, but a tool to think with. Richly illustrated with nearly 100 images, including paintings, engravings, woodcuts, and a representative selection of architectural floor plans for domestic interiors, this volume reads graphic forms to emphasize how susceptible the public-private relation was to concrete and spatial representation. McKeon is similarly attentive to how literary forms evoked a tangible sense of public-private relationsamong them figurative imagery, allegorical narration, parody, the author-character-reader dialectic, aesthetic distance, and free indirect discourse. He also finds a structural analogue for the emergence of the modern public-private relation in the conjunction of what contemporaries called the "secret history" and the domestic novel.
A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of literary interpretation and historical analysis can inform and enrich one another.
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Selections from the Prison Notebooksby A. GramsciISBN 071780397X (0-7178-0397-X)
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsciby Antonio Gramsci, Quintin Hoare, Geoffrey Nowell-SmithISBN 0717802701 (0-7178-0270-1)
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A Short History Of Progressby Ronald WrightISBN 0786715472 (0-7867-1547-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of Progress'Book summary:No hope, just an awareness of what's being done now and what's been done in the past, is what Ronald Wright will permit in A Short History of Progress, his grim, ammoniacal Massey Lectures, the 43rd in the series. In five lucid, meticulously documented essays, Wright traces the rise and plummet of four regional civilizations--those of Sumer, Rome, Easter Island, and the Maya--and judges that most, perhaps all, of humanity is making and will continue to make mistakes equally disastrous as theirs. He gives general reasons first for not reckoning we'll pull back from the brink. Important among them is an anthropological observation. As individuals, we live long lives. We evolve more slowly than we should, given our lack of vision and our aggressive, selfish nature. We seem to lack the collective wisdom and the insight into cause and effect to realize the limits to what Wright calls the "experiment" of civilization. What Wright calls natural "subsidies" underwrite civilizations' successes. The squandering of those gifts presages inevitable failure, but with careful, canny stewardship, a civilization can manage to muddle through eons. Wright cites Egypt's submission to the limits set by the Nile's annual floods and China's windblown "lump-sum deposit" of topsoil, used for hillside paddies instead of being put to the plough. Wright observes with unrelenting eloquence that our planetary civilization lives precariously, far beyond its means. "Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes," he acknowledges, neither claiming nor wanting to be a prophet. We certainly have the tools for change and remediation; we also know what our ancestors did wrong and what happened to them. We're faced, our author observes, with two choices: either do nothing--what he calls "one of the biggest mistakes"--or try to effect "the transition from short-term to long-term thinking." His evidence suggests we're taking the first alternative, which will include a swift, final ride into the dark future on the runaway train of progress. Wright's account tempts one to bet on the rats and roaches. --Ted Whittaker [via]
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Sociology of the Global Systemby Leslie SklairISBN 0801852110 (0-8018-5211-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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He challenged this practice by establishing the conceptual viability of the global system and by presenting sociological propositions about how it works, and why it works in the ways that it does.
In this second edition, Sklair updates his important research with substantial new material relating to international corporations, global environmentalism, the socialist Third World, effects of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, changes in China, and the impact of the Green movement globally.
He establishes further evidence that the global system--one based on transnational practices--operates in three spheres: economic, political, and cultural-ideological. In a world largely structured by global capitalism in its various forms, Sklair maintains, each of these practices is typically, if not exclusively, characterized by a key institution: the transnational corporation, the transnational capitalist class, and consumerism.
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Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dreamby Jay StevensISBN 0802135870 (0-8021-3587-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Structural Anthropologyby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0713910216 (0-7139-1021-6)
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Lifeby Steven StrogatzISBN 0786887214 (0-7868-8721-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Orderby Steven StrogatzISBN 0786868449 (0-7868-6844-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order'Book summary:t the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of fireflies may seem to have nothing to do with our heart cells, there is in fact a deep connection. Synchrony is a science in its infancy, and Strogatz is a pioneer in this new frontier in which mathematicians and physicists attempt to pinpoint just how spontaneous order emerges from chaos. From underground caves in Texas where a French scientist spent six months alone tracking his sleep-wake cycle, to the home of a Dutch physicist who in 1665 discovered two of his pendulum clocks swinging in perfect time, this fascinating book spans disciplines, continents, and centuries. Engagingly written for readers of books such as Chaos and The Elegant Universe, Sync is a tour-de-force of nonfiction writing. [via]
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalismby Gosta Esping-AndersenISBN 0691028575 (0-691-02857-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism'Book summary:Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in Western societies. Gøsta Esping-Andersen, one of the foremost contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced Western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries. He argues that current economic processes, such as those moving toward a postindustrial order, are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to all those working on issues of economic development and postindustrialism. Its audience will include students of sociology, economics, and politics.
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The Transformation Of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faithby Alan WolfeISBN 0743228391 (0-7432-2839-1)
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The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societiesby Anthony GiddensISBN 0745612393 (0-7456-1239-3)
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Violence and the Sacredby Rene GirardISBN 0801822181 (0-8018-2218-1)
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A Walk in the Woodsby Bill BrysonISBN 0767902521 (0-7679-0252-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods'Book summary:Your initial reaction to Bill Bryson's reading of A Walk in the Woods may well be "Egads! What a bore!" But by sentence three or four, his clearly articulated, slightly adenoidal, British/American-accented speech pattern begins to grow on you and becomes quite engaging. You immediately get a hint of the humor that lies ahead, such as one of the innumerable reasons he longed to walk as many of the 2,100 miles of the Appalachian Trail as he could. "It would get me fit after years of waddlesome sloth" is delivered with glorious deadpan flair. By the time our storyteller recounts his trip to the Dartmouth Co-op, suffering serious sticker shock over equipment prices, you'll be hooked.
When Bryson speaks for the many Americans he encounters along the way--in various shops, restaurants, airports, and along the trail--he launches into his American accent, which is whiny and full of hard r's. And his southern intonations are a hoot. He's even got a special voice used exclusively when speaking for his somewhat surprising trail partner, Katz. In the 25 years since their school days together, Katz has put on quite a bit of weight. In fact, "he brought to mind Orson Welles after a very bad night. He was limping a little and breathing harder than one ought to after a walk of 20 yards." Katz often speaks in monosyllables, and Bryson brings his limited vocabulary humorously to life. One of Katz's more memorable utterings is "flung," as in flung most of his provisions over the cliff because they were too heavy to carry any farther.
The author has thoroughly researched the history and the making of the Appalachian Trail. Bryson describes the destruction of many parts of the forest and warns of the continuing perils (both natural and man-made) the Trail faces. He speaks of the natural beauty and splendor as he and Katz pass through, and he recalls clearly the serious dangers the two face during their time together on the trail. So, A Walk in the Woods is not simply an out-of-shape, middle-aged man's desire to prove that he can still accomplish a major physical task; it's also a plea for the conservation of America's last wilderness. Bryson's telling is a knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud funny trek through the woods, with a touch of science and history thrown in for good measure. (Running time: 360 minutes, four cassettes) --Colleen Preston [via]
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A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill BrysonISBN 0767902513 (0-7679-0251-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'Book summary:Bill Bryson has made a living out of traveling and then writing about it. In The Lost Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When this American transplant to Britain decided to return home, he made a farewell walking tour of the British countryside and produced Notes from a Small Island. Once back on American soil and safely settled in New Hampshire, Bryson once again hears the siren call of the open road--only this time it's a trail. The Appalachian Trail, to be exact. In A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson tackles what is, for him, an entirely new subject: the American wilderness. Accompanied only by his old college buddy Stephen Katz, Bryson starts out one March morning in north Georgia, intending to walk the entire 2,100 miles to trail's end atop Maine's Mount Katahdin.
If nothing else, A Walk in the Woods is proof positive that the journey is the destination. As Bryson and Katz haul their out-of-shape, middle-aged butts over hill and dale, the reader is treated to both a very funny personal memoir and a delightful chronicle of the trail, the people who created it, and the places it passes through. Whether you plan to make a trip like this one yourself one day or only care to read about it, A Walk in the Woods is a great way to spend an afternoon. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Wasted Lives : Modernity and Its Outcastsby Zygmunt BaumanISBN 0745631657 (0-7456-3165-7)
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As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were treated by modernizing societies as lands that were able to absorb the excess of population in the 'developed countries'. Global solutions were sought, and temporarily found, to locally produced overpopulation problems. But as modernization has reached the furthest lands of the planet, 'redundant population' is produced everywhere and all localities have to bear the consequences of modernity's global triumph. They are now confronted with the need to seek - in vain, it seems - local solutions to globally produced problems. The global spread of the modernity has given rise to growing quantities of human beings who are deprived of adequate means of survival, but the planet is fast running out of places to put them. Hence the new anxieties about 'immigrants' and 'asylum seekers' and the growing role played by diffuse 'security fears' on the contemporary political agenda.
With characteristic brilliance, this new book by Zygmunt Bauman unravels the impact of this transformation on our contemporary culture and politics and shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life, from the strategies of global domination to the most intimate aspects of human relationships. [via]More editions of Wasted Lives : Modernity and Its Outcasts:
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, C. J. BullockISBN 0760757615 (0-7607-5761-5)
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Why?by Charles TillyISBN 069112521X (0-691-12521-X)
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Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geishaby Lesley DownerISBN 0767904907 (0-7679-0490-7)
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Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, by geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini's Madama Butterfly to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. The reality of the geisha's existence, though, whether today or in history, has rarely been addressed.
Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but, literally, "arts people." Their accomplishments include singing, dancing, playing a musical instruments; but above all, they are masters of the art of conversation, soothing the worries and stroking the egos of the wealthy businessmen who can afford their attentions. It is this which imbues the geisha with such powerand which makes absolute secrecy such a crucial aspect of their work.
As denizens of a world defined by silence and mystery, geisha are notoriously difficult to meet and even to find. Lesley Downer, an award- winning writer, Japanese scholar, and consummate storyteller, gained more access into this world than almost any other Westerner ever has and spent several months living among them. In Women of the Pleasure Quarters, she weaves together intimate portraits of modern geisha with the romantic legends and colorful historical tales of geisha of the past.
From Sadda Yakko, who dined with American presidents and had her portrait painted by Picasso, to Koito, a modern-day geisha who maintains her own website, geisha throughout history step out of the pages of Women of the Pleasure Quarters to become living, breathing creatures. Looking into such traditions as mizuage, the ritual deflowering which was once a rite of passage for all geisha, and providing colorful depictions of the geisha's dress, training, and homes, Downer, with grace, elegance, and respect, transforms their reality in a captivating narrative that both informs and entertains.
At once a symbol of a bygone age and an institution more quintessentially Japanese than any other, geisha are a society at a crossroads, struggling to reinvent their place in the new millennium while honoring the traditions of the past. Both instructive and evocative, Women of the Pleasure Quarters is an enthralling portrait of a world unlike any other. [via]More editions of Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha:
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