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Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politicsby Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn SikkinkISBN 0801484561 (0-8014-8456-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics'Book summary:In Activists beyond Borders, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances include anti-slavery and woman suffrage campaigns. In the past two decades, transnational activism has had a significant impact in human rights, especially in Latin America, and advocacy networks have strongly influenced environmental politics as well. The authors also examine the emergence of an international campaign around violence against women.
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The American Way of Birthby Jessica MitfordISBN 0788163450 (0-7881-6345-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Way of Birth'Book summary:The author of The American Way of Death provides a history of American childbirth from the nineteenth century to the present, exploring conventional and alternative methods, public health-care programs, high-tech births, and more. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Securityby William L. Simon, Kevin D. MitnickISBN 076454280X (0-7645-4280-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security'Book summary:The Art of Deception is about gaining someone's trust by lying to them and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism "social engineering" and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines many example scenarios.
After Mitnick's first dozen examples anyone responsible for organisational security is going to lose the will to live. It's been said before but people and security are antithetical. Organisations exist to provide a good or service and want helpful friendly employees to promote the good or service. People are social animals who want to be liked. Controlling the human aspects of security means denying someone something. This circle can't be squared.
Considering Mitnick's reputation as a hacker guru the least and last point of attack for hackers using social engineering are computers. Most of the scenarios in The Art of Deception work just as well against computer-free organisations and were probably known to the Pheonicians. Technology simply makes it all easier. Phones are faster than letters after all and large organisations mean dealing with lots of strangers.
Much of Mitnick's security advice sounds practical until you think about implementation, when you realise more effective security means reducing organisational efficiency: an impossible trade in competitive business. And anyway, who wants to work in an organisation where the rule is "Trust no one"? Mitnick shows how easily security is breached by trust, but without trust people can't live and work together. In the real world effective organisations have to acknowledge total security is a chimera--and carry more insurance. --Steve Patient [via]
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The Art Of Warby Sun TzuISBN 0762415983 (0-7624-1598-3)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Of War'Book summary:The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare interpretation. This condensed version of his influential classic imparts the knowledge and skills to overcome every adversary in war, at the office, or in everyday life.[via]More editions of The Art Of War:
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The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Lifeby Stefan Rudnicki, Sun-TzuISBN 0787105619 (0-7871-0561-9)
Hardcover, Newstar Pr
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Behind The Eight Ball: Sex For Crack Cocaine Exchange And Poor Black Womenby Tanya Telfair SharpeISBN 0789024578 (0-7890-2457-8)
Softcover, Haworth Pr Inc
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Healthby Laurie GarrettISBN 0786884401 (0-7868-8440-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health'Book summary:What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed The Coming Plague, which looked at the reemergence of infectious diseases, Laurie Garrett decided to turn her highly honed reportorial skills to what she saw as the only solution--not medical technology, but public health. However, what she found in her travels was the collapse of public-health systems around the world, no comfort to a species purportedly sitting on a powder keg of disease. In Betrayal of Trust, Garrett exposes the shocking weaknesses in our medical system and the ramifications of a world suddenly much smaller, yet still far apart when it comes to wealth and attention to health.
With globalization, humans are more vulnerable to outbreaks from any part of the world; increasingly, the health of each nation depends on the health of all. Yet public health has been pushed down the list of priorities. In India, an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria, ridiculous in an age when the plague can easily be treated with antibiotics--that is, if you have a public-health system in place. India, busy putting its newfound wealth elsewhere, didn't. In Zaire, the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and would have kept up its rampage if the organization Doctors Without Borders hadn't stepped in, not with high-tech equipment or drugs, but with soap, protective gear, and clean water. Most of the world still doesn't have access to these basic public-health necessities. The 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialized world. But during a cholera epidemic, officials refused to use the simple cure public-health workers have long relied on--oral rehydration therapy. Many of the problems in these nations can also be found in one degree or another in the U.S., where medical cures using expensive technology and drugs have been emphasized to the detriment of protecting human health. The result? More than 100,000 Americans die each year from infections caught in hospitals, and America has a disease safety net full of holes.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for Newsday and others), Garrett has deftly turned what could have been a very dry subject into dramatic reportage, beginning with the eerie silence on the streets of Surat, India, where half the city's population (including doctors) fled the plague, while a thick white layer of DDT powdered the ground. Fascinating, frightening, and well-documented, Betrayal of Trust should be read not only by medical professionals and policymakers but the general public, and should galvanize a change in thinking and priorities. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Book of Teaby Okakura KakuzoISBN 0766140415 (0-7661-4041-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Tea'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]More editions of Book of Tea:
Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in Americaby Laura KipnisISBN 0802115845 (0-8021-1584-5)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Millerby Carlo Ginzburg, John Tedeschi, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843871 (0-8018-4387-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Cities in a World Economyby Saskia SassenISBN 0761986669 (0-7619-8666-9)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Collective Actionby Russell HardinISBN 0801828198 (0-8018-2819-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Color of Waterby James McBrideISBN 0783818041 (0-7838-1804-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Color of Water'Book summary:Order this book ... and please don't be put off by its pallid subtitle, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, which doesn't begin to do justice to the utterly unique and moving story contained within. The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. The book is a success story, a testament to one woman's true heart, solid values, and indomitable will. Ruth Jordan battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered. In telling her story--along with her son's--The Color of Water addresses racial identity with compassion, insight, and realism. It is, in a word, inspiring, and you will finish it with unalloyed admiration for a flawed but remarkable individual. And, perhaps, a little more faith in us all. [via]
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Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evilby Andrew DelbancoISBN 0788169548 (0-7881-6954-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Decadence and Objectivityby Lawrence HaworthISBN 0802053874 (0-8020-5387-4)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Proceduresby Johnny Blair, Ronald CzajaISBN 0761927468 (0-7619-2746-8)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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The Dispossessedby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0785764038 (0-7857-6403-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dispossessed'Book summary:The ideas of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist world of Anarres are being stifled by jealous colleagues. So he goes to the hell-planet Urras, seeking a different kind of freedom - and finds himself embroiled in deadly intrigue and bloody revoulution. [via]
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Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkmanby Stuart Hall, Hugh MacKay, Keith Negus, Linda Janes, Paul Du GayISBN 0761954023 (0-7619-5402-3)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Drugs, Society, and Human Behaviorby Oakley Stern RayISBN 0801640938 (0-8016-4093-8)
Hardcover, Mosby
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Eats, Shoots, and Leavesby Lynne TrussISBN 0786268379 (0-7862-6837-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots, and Leaves'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List" (BBC News). With over a half million copies in print in England, Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers unite!"
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Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumptionby George RitzerISBN 076198819X (0-7619-8819-X)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Centuryby Mark DeryISBN 080213520X (0-8021-3520-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century'Book summary:A high-speed tour through the high-tech underground and its denizens. Dery introduces us to those who embrace computer technology, figuratively and literally -- cyberpunks, cyberhippies, cybersexers, and would-be cyborgs who believe the body is mere meat, and await the day when man-machine union is much more than mere science fiction. Dery draws heavily on academic theorists such as Bataille, Foucault, Baudrillard and McLuhan, yet his writing style makes for a highly accessible book. [via]
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The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspectiveby Seymour Martin LipsetISBN 0765805227 (0-7658-0522-7)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mateby Gary ChapmanISBN 078627459X (0-7862-7459-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Five Love Languages: How To Express Heartfelt Commitment To Your Mate'Book summary:Unhappiness in marriage often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages, believes Dr. Gary Chapman. While working as a marriage counselor for more than 30 years, he identified five love languages: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, and Physical Touch. In a friendly, often humorous style, he unpacks each one. Some husbands or wives may crave focused attention; another needs regular praise. Gifts are highly important to one spouse, while another sees fixing a leaky faucet, ironing a shirt, or cooking a meal as filling their "love tank." Some partners might find physical touch makes them feel valued: holding hands, giving back rubs, and sexual contact. Chapman illustrates each love language with real-life examples from his counseling practice.
How do you discover your spouses and your own love language? Chapmans short questionnaires are one of several ways to find out. Throughout the book, he also includes application questions that can be answered more extensively in the beautifully detailed companion leather journal (an exclusive Amazon.com set). Each section of the journal corresponds with a chapter from the book, offering opportunities for deeper reflection on your marriage.
Although some readers may find choosing to love a spouse that they no longer even like hoping the feelings of affection will follow later a difficult concept to swallow, Chapman promises that the results will be worth the effort. "Love is a choice," says Chapman. "And either partner can start the process today." --Cindy Crosby. This text refers to the Amazon.com Exclusive Journal & Paperback Book Set. [via]
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The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Processby Michael CrottyISBN 0761961062 (0-7619-6106-2)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0791093050 (0-7910-9305-0)
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0802060412 (0-8020-6041-2)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man'Book summary:Movable type, as much if not more than any meaningful arrangement of that type, transformed Renaissance consciousness--just as electronic circuitry is transforming us now. That is the basic premise of Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy. New technologies create new human environments, and "technological environments are not merely passive containers & but are active processes that reshape people and other technologies alike." McLuhan's second book, The Gutenberg Galaxy was published in 1962, won the Canadian Governor General's Medal that same year, and pushed McLuhan toward international prominence. Like most of McLuhans's other work--Understanding Media or The Global Village, for example--The Gutenberg Galaxy is a rich, dense text that draws freely, almost frantically, from works of philosophy, economics, political theory, history, and especially literature. There are liberal doses of Shakespeare--text and commentary--sprinkled throughout, as well as trenchant appropriations from Rabelais, Cervantes, Leibnitz, Blake, Joyce, and many others. Attempting to match his medium to his metaphors, McLuhan structures his book using what he calls "a mosaic or field approach" and ends up producing more than 100 short sections separated by pithy glosses in large bold type, such as "Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy," or " Nobody ever made a grammatical error in a non-literate society." Today's reader might find the "mosaic of perpetually interacting forms" into which the author organizes his data and quotations distinctly Web-like. Indeed, one could say of McLuhan and his complex rhetorical circuitry what McLuhan himself says about Shakespeare: "His insights appear so richly in his lines that it is very difficult to select among them." --Russell Prather [via]
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harold BloomISBN 0791036723 (0-7910-3672-3)
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The Human Faceby Brian Bates, John Cleese, Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0789478366 (0-7894-7836-6)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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Introducing Social Networksby Michel Forse, Alain DegenneISBN 0761956042 (0-7619-5604-2)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Social Networks'Book summary:This first-rate introduction to the study of social networks combines a hands-on manual with an up-to-date review of the latest research and techniques.
The authors provide a thorough grounding in the application of the methods of social network analysis. They offer an understanding of the theory of social structures in which social network analysis is grounded, a summary of the concepts needed for dealing with more advanced techniques, and guides for using the primary computer software packages for social network analysis. [via]
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Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studiesby Sheila RuthISBN 0767416449 (0-7674-1644-9)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrathby Harold BloomISBN 0791082393 (0-7910-8239-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:Harold Bloom writes, "The Grapes of Wrath is a flawed but permanent American book." John Steinbeck's novel, still popular a half-century after its original publication, is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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Kamasutraby Wendy Doniger, Sudhir KakarISBN 0762416084 (0-7624-1608-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American Historyby Sheila M. RothmanISBN 0801851866 (0-8018-5186-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0802142494 (0-8021-4249-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Mapping the Social Landscape: Readings in Sociologyby Susan J. FergusonISBN 0767406168 (0-7674-0616-8)
Softcover, Mayfield Pub Co
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Marriage and the Family: Diversity and Strengthsby John D. Defrain, David H. L. OlsonISBN 0767412095 (0-7674-1209-5)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Men in Groupsby Lionel TigerISBN 0765805987 (0-7658-0598-7)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Men in Groups'Book summary:When Men in Groups was first published in l969, the New York Times daily critic titled his review "The Disturbing Rediscovery of the Obvious." What was so obvious was male bonding, a phrase that entered the language. The links between males in groups Tiger describes extend through many other primate species, through our evolution as hunters/gatherers, and cross-culturally. Male bonding characterizes human groups as varied as the Vatican Council, the New York Yankees, the Elks and Masons the secret societies of Sierra Leone and Kenya.áThe power of Tiger's book is its identification of the powerful links between men and the impact of females and families on essentially male groups. While the worldáhas changed much, the argument of the book and its new introduction by the author suggest that a species-specific pattern ofámale bonding continues to be part of the human default system. Perhaps one day concrete evidence of its location will emerge from the startling work on the human genome, just as the elaborate and consequential sex differences to which Men in Groups drew such pioneering attention have already become part of the common wisdom. Meanwhile, Men in Groups remains a measured andáresponsibleábut intrepid inspection of a major aspect of human social organization and personal behavior. The book was controversial when it first appeared, and often foolishly and unduly scorned. But itáhas remained a fundamental contribution to the emerging synthesis between the social and natural sciences. "The most creative contribution to the social sciences since David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd."--Robert Ardrey, Life Magazine "[Tiger's] enquiry into male bonding is an important step towards the possibility of discovering a genuine human dimorphismà"--James Hamilton-Paterson, New Statesman "The implications of Men in Groups are manifold. We should all be grateful to Dr. Tiger for drawing our attention to a neglected aspect of human behavior."--Anthony Storr, Times (London) Lionel Tiger is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Decline of Males, Optimism, The Pursuit of Pleasure, and, with Robin Fox, The Imperial Animal, available from Transaction.
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Mealby Margaret VisserISBN 0802136516 (0-8021-3651-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Visser is the author of three other books: The Rituals of Dinner, The Way We Are and the recent study of an Italian church, The Geography of Love. In all her work she manages to make the sometimes bizarre history utterly fascinating. Aztec cannibals, for instance, were fond of eating something called man-stew mixed with maize. Grisly details aside, this fine book will leave you thoroughly sated and ready for an after-dinner cognac. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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Multiple Intelligences: Teaching Kids The Way They Learn, Grade 1ISBN 0768201233 (0-7682-0123-3)
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Myth and Meaning: Five Talks for Radioby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0802023207 (0-8020-2320-7)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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The Necessary Beggarby Susan PalwickISBN 0765349515 (0-7653-4951-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Necessary Beggar'Book summary:[via]Susan Palwick, author of the remarkable Flying in Place, now returns with a compelling new novel of a family cast out of an idyllic realm, learning to live in our own troubled world. With its richly imagined portrayal of a lost culture, complete with poetry and fables, traditions and customs, and its searing yet sympathetic view of own society as seen through new eyes, The Necessary Beggar is an compelling examination of humanity and the redemptive power of love, in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
Lémabantunk, the Glorious City, is a place of peace and plenty, of festivals and flowers, bejeweled streets and glittering waterfalls. But it is also a land of severe justice. Darroti, a young merchant, has been accused of an unforgiveable crime - the brutal murder a highborn woman. Now, in keeping with the customs of their world, his entire family must share in his punishment - exile to the unknown world that lies beyond a mysterious gate.
Passing through that gate, and grieving for the life they leave behind, Darroti and his family find themselves in a harsh and hostile land - America just a few years hence, a country under attack in a world torn by hatred and warfare. Unable to explain their origin, they are rapidly remanded to an internment camp in the Nevada desert, along with thousands of other refugees. There they endeavor to make sense of this ill-fated land where strange gods are worshipped, and living things like flowers and insects are not respected.
After Darroti, unable to bear his disgrace, takes his life, the rest of the family escapes to the outside world. There, each tries to cope in their own way. Timbor, the head of the clan, troubled by the restless spirit of his departed son who comes to him in dreams, does his best to preserve the old ways, and avoid conflict with the outsiders. His eldest son Masofo, who calls himself Max, is lured by the worldly temptations of this new world, while his second son, Erolorit, strives to make a decent life for his family.
But it is Timor's granddaughter, Zamatryna, who is the quickest to adjust to this strange new world. It is she who is the first to learn its language, to adopt its customs, to accept this place as her new home. And, as the strain of adapting themselves to this new life begins to tear the family apart, it is Zama, sustained by the extraordinary love of an ordinary young man, who finds a way to heal their grief and give them new hope. -
The Opium of the Intellectualsby Raymond Aron, Daniel J. Mahoney, Brian C. Anderson, Harvey C. MansfieldISBN 0765807009 (0-7658-0700-9)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Opium of the Intellectuals'Book summary:Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection. Aron shows how noble ideas can slide into the tyranny of "secular religion" and emphasizes how political thought has the profound responsibility of telling the truth about social and political reality-in all its mundane imperfections and tragic complexities.
Aron explodes the three "myths" of radical thought: the Left, the Revolution, and the Proletariat. Each of these ideas, Aron shows, are ideological, mystifying rather than illuminating. He also provides a fascinating sociology of intellectual life and a powerful critique of historical determinism in the classically restrained prose for which he is justly famous.
For this new edition, prepared by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson as part of Transaction's ongoing "Aron Project," political scientist Harvey Mansfield provides a luminous introduction that underscores the permanent relevance of Aron's work. The new edition also includes as an appendix "Fanaticism, Prudence, and Faith," a remarkable essay that Aron wrote to defend Opium from its critics and to explain further his view of the proper role of political thinking. The book will be of interest to all students of political theory, history, and sociology.
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Oryx and Crakeby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0771008686 (0-7710-0868-6)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oryx and Crake'Book summary:In a science fiction novel that is more Swift than Heinlein, more cautionary tale than "fictional science" (no flying cars here), Margaret Atwood depicts a near-future world that turns from the merely horrible to the horrific, from a fool's paradise to a bio-wasteland. Snowman (a man once known as Jimmy) sleeps in a tree and just might be the only human left on our devastated planet. He is not entirely alone, however, as he considers himself the shepherd of a group of experimental, human-like creatures called the Children of Crake. As he scavenges and tends to his insect bites, Snowman recalls in flashbacks how the world fell apart.
While the story begins with a rather ponderous set-up of what has become a clichéd landscape of the human endgame, littered with smashed computers and abandoned buildings, it takes on life when Snowman recalls his boyhood meeting with his best friend Crake: "Crake had a thing about him even then. . . . He generated awe . . . in his dark laconic clothing." A dangerous genius, Crake is the book's most intriguing character. Crake and Jimmy live with all the other smart, rich people in the Compounds, gated company towns owned by biotech corporations. (Ordinary folks are kept outside the gates in the chaotic "pleeblands.") Meanwhile, beautiful Oryx, raised as a child prostitute in Southeast Asia, finds her way to the West and meets Crake and Jimmy, setting up an inevitable love triangle. Eventually Crake's experiments in bioengineering cause humanity's shockingly quick demise (with uncanny echoes of SARS, ebola, and mad cow disease), leaving Snowman to try to pick up the pieces. There are a few speed bumps along the way, including some clunky dialogue and heavy-handed symbols such as Snowman's broken watch, but once the bleak narrative gets moving, as Snowman sets out in search of the laboratory that seeded the world's destruction, it clips along at a good pace, with a healthy dose of wry humour. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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The Policing of Familiesby Robert Hurley, Jacques DonzelotISBN 0801856493 (0-8018-5649-3)
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brinkby Mark DeryISBN 0802136702 (0-8021-3670-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink of the Millenniumby Mark DeryISBN 080211640X (0-8021-1640-X)
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Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Changeby Joseph F. HealeyISBN 0761985603 (0-7619-8560-3)
Hardcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change'Book summary:Written in a clear, consistent style, the Third Edition of the best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class by Joseph Healey eloquently describes and, at times, simply serves as a conduit for, a broad spectrum of experiences related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Featuring in-depth analyses of diversity within groups, as well as the multiple interactions between them, Joseph Healey addresses the experiences of women, and many other minority groups, throughout the text. "Narrative Portraits" are integrated into each chapter and provide students with first person accounts and observations from a wide variety of people. At the end of each chapter, "Current Debates" present important issues through the ideas and writings of prominent scholars. In addition, Photo Essays are included at the end of many chapters, visually reinforcing key concepts in a dramatic and memorable fashion.
Recommended for courses on race and ethnic relations; minorities; race, ethnicity, and gender; and race, class, and gender.
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Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Ageby Esther DysonISBN 0767900111 (0-7679-0011-1)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Age'Book summary:In her first book, respected digerati opinion-maker Esther Dyson looks at computing and the Internet and how they will profoundly change our business and social lives in a fully wired world. The wisdom of Dyson's view is that, while the digital age will be vastly different from the one we know, it will be governed by the same forces that have always shaped social organizations. She has given lots of thought to how those forces will interact with specific new technologies and does a convincing job of predicting the shape of things to come in considerable detail.
Dyson is the founder of the influential PC Forum conference and her company Edventure Holdings publishes the respected Release 1.0 newsletter, from which her book adapts its title. She is also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lobbyist organization that seeks to present a pro-Internet voice in Washington. [via]
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Richard Wright's Native Sonby Harold BloomISBN 0791041395 (0-7910-4139-5)
Softcover, Facts on File
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The Riddle of Amish Cultureby Donald B. KraybillISBN 080186772X (0-8018-6772-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of Amish Culture'Book summary:" Why will the Amish ride in cars but refuse to drive them? " How can their old-fashioned farms turn a profit while many modern farms go broke? " Do they ever change their customs? Who decides, and how? " If they'll use pay phones, why not have a phone in the house? " Why will they use electronic calculators but not computers?
The Amish are one of America's most intriguing and puzzling communities. To the outsider, their habits and customs abound with contradictions. But the most intriguing puzzle of all is the secret of their survival in the twentieth century. How have these "plain folk" not only kept the modern world at bay but actually grown from a meager band of 5,000 in 1900 to over 100,000 today?
Donald Kraybill has lived and worked among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home of America's oldest Amish community. Talking with the Amish on their farms, in their shops, and around their kitchen tables, he has learned how they have "struck a bargain" with modern times--a bargain that explains why many of the rules that seem quaint or silly actually have been essential to keeping Amish culture alive.
In The Riddle of Amish Culture Kraybill finds the Amish men and women eager to answer our questions. But they also have questions for us. Why, they ask, do we shut our aging parents out of our houses--and put them in institutions we call "homes?" Why do we move away from the towns and families we love in pursuit of jobs we hate? And why do we need weapons so powerful they could one day destroy us all--Amish and "English" alike?
The Riddle of Amish Culture draws us into conversation across a cultural fence with a people as remote as the seventeenth century and as close to home as that blacktop road off the next Interstate exit. And what we learn about our Amish neighbors tells us much about ourselves.
"Some have wall-to-wall carpeting, insulated wooly stuff all around the top, a big dashboard, glove compartment, speedometer, clock, stereo radio, buttons galore, and lights and reflectors all over the place... If they have the money, that's what they do, and that's pride."--an Amish leader, on the "hot- rod" carriages of some Amish teenagers
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structureby Victor Witter TurnerISBN 0801491630 (0-8014-9163-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Mannersby Margaret VisserISBN 0802111165 (0-8021-1116-5)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia WoolfISBN 0783885555 (0-7838-8555-5)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Same-Sex Partnerships?: A Christian Perspectiveby John StottISBN 0800756746 (0-8007-5674-6)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethicby Stephen R. CoveyISBN 0783881150 (0-7838-8115-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic'Book summary:Amazon.co.uk Review According to Steven R. Covey, to live with security and wisdom, and to have the power to take advantages of the opportunities that change creates, we need fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity. Quite a tall order when you consider that most of us live our lives in a permanent state of flux, questioning our ideals and values and fighting a daily battle with the lack of self-confidence that stops us from taking risks of any kind. But, in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey manages to make it sound as if changing the way we look at ourselves and the world around us so that we can become more successful both personally and professionally an absolute doddle. He defines the "habits" as "the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire" and states that the "Seven Habits" of the title are not mutually exclusive, but rather when developed together help to form a well-rounded, sensitive, confident and effective human being. As with many self-help books, much of what you read here is based on basic common sense and can at times be irritatingly obvious. However, what Covey manages to do so successfully is to break down the barriers which prevent all of us from taking a long hard look at ourselves, and then gradually introduces new rules which allow us to move first from dependence to independence and then towards the ultimate goal of interdependence. But of course, the only real way to test the value of The Habits--be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think "win/win", seek first to understand and then to be understood, synergise, sharpen the saw-- is to work on them. This book is as good as any place to start on the road to self-awareness and self-improvement in the workplace and in the home without becoming too irritatingly smug and self-satisfied. --Susan Harrison [via]
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacificby J. Maarten TroostISBN 0767915305 (0-7679-1530-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific'Book summary:At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost-who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs-decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish-all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is "La Macarena." He and his stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life).With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost has delivered one of the most original, rip-roaringly funny travelogues in years-one that will leave you thankful for staples of American civilization such as coffee, regular showers, and tabloid news, and that will provide the ultimate vicarious adventure. [via]
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So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Eventsby Rene Jules DubosISBN 0765804298 (0-7658-0429-8)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Social Network Analysis: A Handbookby John ScottISBN 0761963391 (0-7619-6339-1)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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The book outlines both the theoretical basis of network analysis and the key techniques for using it as a research tool. Building upon definitions of points, lines and paths, John Scott demonstrates their use in clarifying such measures as density, fragmentation and centralization. He identifies the various cliques, components and circles into which networks are formed, and outlines [via]
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Sociological Theoryby Bert N. Adams, R. A. SydieISBN 0761985573 (0-7619-8557-3)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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The Sociology of Childhoodby William A. CorsaroISBN 0761987517 (0-7619-8751-7)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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Sociology of Familiesby David M. Newman, Elizabeth GrauerholzISBN 0761987495 (0-7619-8749-5)
Hardcover, Pine Forge Pr
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The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readingsby Michael J. HandelISBN 0761987665 (0-7619-8766-5)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings'Book summary:For the first time, a single volume offers a comprehensive selection of primary readings and companion overview essays on the sociology of organizations. These readings and essays provide incisive and guided coverage of the subjects normally included in a one-semester sociology of organizations course.
The Sociology of Organizations covers the full range of theoretical perspectives and substantive topics through readings that are either classics in the field or widely discussed and debated "new classics."
Scholars and students in the fields of sociology, management, organizational behavior, and organizational psychology and those within political science and economics who are interested in how organizations function will find this work a welcome, invaluable resource. [via]More editions of The Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings:
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The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potterby Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth KronzekISBN 0767919440 (0-7679-1944-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sorcerer's Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter'Book summary:Harry Potter aficionados: remember when Buckbeak, Hagrid's pet Hippogriff, was put on trial by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures? This crazy idea was not invented by Harry Potter's creator, J.K. Rowling. In fact, from medieval times all the way up to the 19th century, animals and even insects were often charged with crimes, arrested, imprisoned, tried, convicted, and sometimes executed. Harry Potter's fantastic world of magic has its roots in true history, mythology, and folklore; father-daughter team Allan Zola Kronzek and Elizabeth Kronzek have now made this wealth of astonishing information available to Muggles in their Sorcerer's Companion. From astrology to Grindylow to reading tea leaves to witch persecution, this fascinating volume gets to the bottom of every magical mystery connected with Hogwarts. Readers learn the unusual method by which premodern Europeans protected themselves from the cry of the uprooted Mandrake, involving a loyal dog and a rope. (Professor Sprout's solution was to have her herbology students wear earmuffs). Hermione probably knew, when she was hexed by Draco Malfoy so that her teeth suddenly grew past her chin, that hexes originated in Europe. But did she know the connection between hexes and the folk magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch? For fans of the tremendously popular Harry Potter series, or anyone who is intrigued by magical lore, the Sorcerer's Companion will quickly become a true friend. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Sperm Wars: The Science of Sexby Robin BakerISBN 0788160044 (0-7881-6004-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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State/Culture: State/Formation After the Cultural Turnby George SteinmetzISBN 0801485339 (0-8014-8533-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Taking It Big: Developing Sociological Consciousness in Postmodern Timesby Steven P. DandaneauISBN 0761987037 (0-7619-8703-7)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilizationby Iain GatelyISBN 0802139604 (0-8021-3960-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization'Book summary:Iain Gately's Tobacco is a sweeping cultural history of the world's most prevalent addiction, and it's probably the best book ever written on its subject. Gately begins in pre-Columbian America, where the natives made tobacco "their most popular gift to the rest of humanity," and continues through all the cantankerous smoking litigation of the 1990s. The story touches on just about every subject imaginable: tobacco in literature, the movies, and society. It would be wrong to call Gately an advocate of smoking, but he clearly takes pleasure, for example, in noting that Hitler's Nazis launched one of history's most vigorous anti-smoking initiatives. The book is full of delicious trivia: Many of Shakespeare's contemporaries smoked, but there's no evidence that the Bard himself did, and none of his plays make any mention of smoking; he "kept his writing a smoke-free zone." Nevertheless, reports Gately with a smirk, there is "archaeological evidence proving that smoking was going on around the Shakespeare household in Stratford-upon-Avon during his life." Smoking aficionados won't want to miss Tobacco, and it's a much healthier gift for them than a box of cigars. --John Miller [via]
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Toward a General Theory of Actionby Talcott Parsons, Edward A. Shils, Neil J. SmelserISBN 0765807181 (0-7658-0718-1)
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lessonby Mitch Albom, Albom, Mitch (AFT)ISBN 076790592X (0-7679-0592-X)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old teacher, friend, and "coach" at a time when Albom, a successful sportswriter, was struggling to define dissatisfactions with his own life and career. Morrie, on the other hand, after a rich life filled with friends, family, teaching, and music, was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, a crippling illness that diminished his activities daily. Albom was one of hundreds of former students and acquaintances who traveled great distances to visit Morrie in the final months of his life.
The 14 Tuesday visits that followed their reunion took Albom--and will take listeners with him--on a journey of reawakening to life's best rewards. The story is told in a journalistic style that never crosses into pathos. That a professional writer can write well is not surprising, but Albom also reads well, with clear enunciation and a talent for mimicry. Another reader might have interpreted the professor's aphorisms as droll humor or wrung a wrong note at an inappropriate moment, making the story a maudlin tearjerker; instead it is read for what it is, a tribute to a remarkable teacher. (Running time: four hours, three cassettes) --Brenda Pittsley [via]
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The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Studyby Judith S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee, Julia M. LewisISBN 0786886161 (0-7868-8616-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Realityby Not AvailableISBN 0802118259 (0-8021-1825-9)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Deadby William S. BurroughsISBN 0802133312 (0-8021-3331-2)
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Witchcraft in France and Switzerland: The Borderlands during the Reformationby E. William MonterISBN 0801409632 (0-8014-0963-2)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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A Woman's Worthby Marianne WilliamsonISBN 0792718437 (0-7927-1843-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Women and Men at Workby Barbara Reskin, Irene PadavicISBN 076198710X (0-7619-8710-X)
Softcover, Pine Forge Pr
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Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secretsby B. WalkerISBN 0785807209 (0-7858-0720-9)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets'Book summary:Barbara Walker's The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (HarperCollins, 1983) is an extremely valuable reference, based on the author's wide reading in folklore and mythology. It documents, entry by entry, the fate and historic distortion of matriarchal religion by triumphant patriarchy in the last few thousand years and makes sense of many of the seemingly senseless customs and rationalizations of creeds and beliefs of our major religions and our folkloric traditions. The Los Angeles Times called it a feminist-scholar's gold mine and a browser's delight. The San Francisco Chronicle called the book a mountain of scholarship, a vast mass of supremely documented material. The praise seems to be well-deserved. This book will encourage you to do independent research into history, anthropology, the pagan religions and other disciplines and the political struggle between the patriarchal religions and the pagan religions. [via]
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium An Englishman's Worldby Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, Danny DanzingerISBN 0783887906 (0-7838-8790-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Although daily dangers were many, housing uncomfortable, and the dominant smells unpleasant indeed, life in England at the turn of the previous millennium was not at all bad, write journalists Lacey and Danziger. "If you were to meet an Englishman in the year 1000," they continue, "the first thing that would strike you would be how tall he was--very much the size of anyone alive today." The Anglo-Saxons were not only tall, but also generally well fed and healthy, more so than many Britons only a few generations ago. Writing in a breezy, often humorous style, Lacey and Danziger draw on the medieval Julius Work Calendar, a document detailing everyday life around A.D. 1000, to reconstruct the spirit and reality of the era. Light though their touch is, they've done their homework, and they take the reader on a well-documented and enjoyable month-by-month tour through a single year, touching on such matters as religious belief, superstition, medicine, cuisine, agriculture, and politics, as well as contemporary ideas of the self and society. Readers should find the authors' discussions of famine and plague a refreshing break from present-day millennial worries, and a very stimulating introduction to medieval English history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Los cinco lenguajes del amor/Five Love Languages: Como expresar devocion sincera a su conyugeby Gary ChapmanISBN 0789911639 (0-7899-1163-9)
Softcover, Editorial Unilit
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