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The Age of Uncertaintyby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0563128879 (0-563-12887-9)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation : Deutsch
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American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the United Statesby Michael Adams, David Jamieson, Amy LangstaffISBN 0670063703 (0-670-06370-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophreniaby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0670129410 (0-670-12941-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Art of Warby John Minford, SunziISBN 0670031569 (0-670-03156-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of War'Book summary:For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture-a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals as much about human psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy. The influence of Sun-tzu's text has grown tremendously in the West in recent years, with military leaders, politicians, and corporate executives alike finding valuable insight in these ancient words. In his crisp, accessible new translation, scholar John Minford brings this seminal work to life for modern readers.
Minford opens with a lively, learned introduction in which he explores the life and times of Sun-tzu, looks at The Art of War in the context of the turbulent Warring States period, and discusses how best to read and understand the work today. There follows Minford's translation of the core text itself in two different formats-first, the unadorned thirteen chapters of the original work and then the same text reprinted with extensive running commentary by classical Chinese scholars as well as Minford himself. The result is an opportunity for Western readers to experience Sun-tzu's work in all its intensity as it applies to many aspects of our lives. [via]More editions of The Art of War:
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociolgical Languageby Allan G. JohnsonISBN 0631216812 (0-631-21681-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociolgical Language'Book summary:This new edition of Allan G. Johnson's one-volume sociology dictionary includes 75 new entries, as well as an expanded biographical section, extensive revisions and updates, and a more thorough cross-referencing. Written by a sociologist who is also an accomplished writer and teacher, it is aimed primarily at students, but will also be of use to professionals looking for an introduction to core concepts outside their area of expertise. Its combination of clear prose, engaging examples, a single author's voice, and its minimal assumptions about the average reader's prior knowledge of sociology and its related fields, makes this a unique and valuable reference work. [via]
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thoughtby William Outhwaite, Tom BottomoreISBN 0631195750 (0-631-19575-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theoryby Anthony ElliottISBN 0631206507 (0-631-20650-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princetonby Jerome KarabelISBN 061877355X (0-618-77355-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The competition for a spot in the Ivy Leaguewidely considered the ticket to successis fierce and getting fiercer. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. How did the policies of our elite schools evolve? Whom have they let in and why? And what do those policies say about America?
A grand narrative brimming with insights, The Chosen provides a lens through which to examine some of the main events and movements of America in the twentieth centuryfrom immigration restriction and the Great Depression to the dropping of the atomic bomb and the launching of Sputnik, from the Cold War to the triumph of the market ethos.
Many of Karabels findings are astonishing: the admission of blacks into the Ivy League wasnt an idealistic response to the civil rights movement but a fearful reaction to inner-city riots; Yale and Princeton decided to accept women only after realizing that they were losing men to colleges (such as Harvard and Stanford) that had begun accepting the second sex ; Harvard had a systematic quota on intellectuals until quite recently; and discrimination against Asian Americans in the 1980s mirrored the treatment of Jews earlier in the century.
Drawing on decades of meticulous research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of merit in college admissions, showing how it shapedand was shaped bythe country at large. Full of colorful characters, from FDR and Woodrow Wilson to Kingman Brewster and Archibald Cox, The Chosen charts the century-long battle over opportunityand offers a new and deeply original perspective on American history.
Jerome Karabel is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow of the Longview Institute. An award-winning author, he has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
In vivid and electrifying prose, Karabel exposes the intimate and occasionally scandalous social and political relationships that marked college admissions at the Big Three throughout the twentieth century. The Chosen is a refreshingly candid account of the admissions madness at elite colleges, where merit often functioned simply as a handmaiden to power. -- Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor at Harvard Law School and coauthor of The Miners Canary
Millions of Americans think of the Ivy League as a training ground for the best and brightest. But for most of the twentieth century Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were more interested in sustaining the aristocracy than in shaping the nations intellectual elite. Jerome Karabels marvelous study traces the titanic struggles that defined--and redefined--the Ivy ideal. An utterly absorbing account of politics and privilege on Americas most revered campuses. -- Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice
This is a remarkable book. Until you read it, you can have no real idea how crudely these elite universities discriminated in admissions -- against women, Jews, blacks, and others. It is a staggering hidden history. --Anthony Lewis, former New York Times columnist and author of Gideons Trumpet
A magisterial and even-handed account of a vexed and important issue. -- Justin Kaplan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman
As someone who was chosen for Princeton a long time ago (but surely couldnt get in now), I was fascinated by Jerome Karabels full and rich account of how my alma mater, and Harvard and Yale, picked us so often for all the wrong reasons. I learned much more about my species from reading The Chosen than everr I did when I was there myself, in flower. -- Frank Deford, NPR commentator and author of The Old Ball Game
"The Chosen is a tour de force of investigative sociology. Burrowing into the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton archives, Karabel has found out where a lot of minds as well as bodies were buried, then exhumed them and dragged them into the light. Anyone who wishes to understand the shifting grounds of the American establishment should read The Chosen, get shocked by the raw bigotries of the past, and accept Karabels challenge to rethink the meritocratic ideal. -- Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology, Columbia University, and author of The Sixties
This dispassionate book deals with the reluctant, often painful, always controversial, processes by which the Big Three -- Harvard, Yale, Princeton -- have democratized themselves. The Chosen is a fascinating study in American cultural history." -- Arthur Schlesingerr, Jr., historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author ooooof A Thousand DaysMore editions of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton:
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Classic Readings in Sociologyby Eve HowardISBN 053458778X (0-534-58778-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Classical Sociological Theoryby James Moody, Craig J. Calhoun, Joseph Gerteis, Steven Pfaff, Indermohan Virk, Kathryn ScmidtISBN 0631213481 (0-631-21348-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Color of Waterby James McBrideISBN 0613065425 (0-613-06542-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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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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Cultural Sociologyby Lyn SpillmanISBN 0631216529 (0-631-21652-9)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Cultural Sociologyby Lynette SpillmanISBN 0631216537 (0-631-21653-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural Sociology'Book summary:Cultural Sociology collects 31 seminal essays by renowned social thinkers that introduce cultural sociology to an emerging generation of students and scholars. [via]
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The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Selfby Alice MillerISBN 0571131638 (0-571-13163-8)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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Dreams of Millennium: Report from a Culture on the Brinkby Mark KingwellISBN 057119902X (0-571-19902-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalismby Carlo TrigiliaISBN 0631225366 (0-631-22536-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Ecotopiaby Ernest CallenbachISBN 0553348477 (0-553-34847-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecotopia'Book summary:A novel both timely and prophetic, ernest callenbach's ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the los angeles times as the "newest name after wells, verne, huxley, and orwell," callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . And our future.ecotopia was founded when northern california, oregon, and washington seceded from the union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned american visitor: new york times-post reporter will weston.skeptical yet curious about this green new world, weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he's alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing ecotopia's earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient "mini-cities" to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, weston meets a sexually forthright ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds [via]
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Emile Durkheimby Anthony GiddensISBN 0670292834 (0-670-29283-4)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0670304328 (0-670-30432-8)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Families and Society With Infotrac: Classic and Contemporary Readingsby ColtraneISBN 0534591302 (0-534-59130-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolutionby Terence McKennaISBN 0553371304 (0-553-37130-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution'Book summary:For the first time in trade paperback, the critically acclaimed counterculture manifesto by the wildly popular McKenna. "Deserves to be a modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens."--The Washington Post. Photos and illustrations. [via]
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From Cliche to Archetypeby McLuhan, Wilfred WatsonISBN 0670330930 (0-670-33093-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymousby Nan RobertsonISBN 0595154581 (0-595-15458-1)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous'Book summary:A.A. is the most successful self-help movement in history, yet it is also the most misunderstood. This book will reach out to a much wider audience with its magnificent story of human courage and the indomitable human soul.A brave and wonderful book that could save the life of somebody you love-Russell Baker. [via]
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God Is Dead: Secularization in the Westby Steve BruceISBN 0631232753 (0-631-23275-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Golden Notebookby Doris May LessingISBN 0553262106 (0-553-26210-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0670347914 (0-670-34791-4)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Guided Activities for the Practice of Social Researchby Earl R. Babbie, Theodore C. WagenaarISBN 0534620310 (0-534-62031-0)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Ageby Sven BirkertsISBN 057119849X (0-571-19849-X)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Gypsiesby Angus M. FraserISBN 0631196056 (0-631-19605-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gypsies'Book summary:Since their appearance in the Balkans over nine centuries ago, the Gypsies have doggedly refused to fall in with conventional settled life. When, in the fifteenth century, they knocked at the gates of western Europe in the guise of pilgrims, they aroused intense curiosity as well as suspicion, and theories proliferated about their provenance. They remain a people whose culture and customs are beset with misunderstanding. This book describes their history. The story opens with an investigation into Gypsy origins, using the evidence of language and culture to identify their Indian ancestry. The author then traces the Gypsy migration through the Middle East, Europe and the world. They became renowned for their metal-working, music, fortune-telling, healing and horse-dealing. But right from the start they outraged latent prejudices in the settled populations they moved among. Governments sought to bring them to heel and they were harassed, outlawed, hunted down and banished. In what is now Rumania they were enslaved from the fourteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century; in 1725 the Prussians made the Gypsies into legal vermin and decreed that they could be hanged without trial; in Spain, in 1749 all Gypsies were rounded up, to be set to forced labour; in Switzerland, from 1926 to 1973, a respectable children's charity practised institutionalized abduction. Persecution reached its apogee when the Nazis embarked on outright genocide: in this forgotten holocaust perhaps half a million Gypsies lost their lives. The ethnic tensions in today's Europe mean that the pattern of antagonism continues. And yet this is in many ways a story of achievement. For the Gypsies managed, with no literate tradition, no state and no national identity, to preserve a distinctive heritage over centuries of vicissitude. How and why they did so are the twin themes of this book. [via]
Herzogby Saul BellowISBN 0670002003 (0-670-00200-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Herzog Text and Criticismby Saul BellowISBN 0670018104 (0-670-01810-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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I Have a Dreamby Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott KingISBN 059020517X (0-590-20517-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Idea of Cultureby Terry EagletonISBN 0631219668 (0-631-21966-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Into the Wildby Jon KrakauerISBN 0613033574 (0-613-03357-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Wild'Book summary:What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends and relatives as smart, literate, compassionate, and funny, did McCandless simply read too much Thoreau and Jack London and lose sight of the dangers of heading into the wilderness alone? Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life. [via]
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Inventing the Victoriansby Matthew SweetISBN 0571206581 (0-571-20658-1)
Hardcover, Faber
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Issues Facing Australian Families: Human Services Respondby Wendy Weeks, Marjorie QuinnISBN 0582811732 (0-582-81173-2)
Hardcover, Longman
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Jealousyby Nancy FridayISBN 0553261657 (0-553-26165-7)
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Kama Sutra: The Rules of Love and Erotic Practiceby Vatsyayana, Manuela Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela Dunn MascettiISBN 060960726X (0-609-60726-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kama Sutra: The Rules of Love and Erotic Practice'Book summary:Including never-before-published art drawn from the classical Indian text on the rules of love and erotic practice, this Kama Sutra box contains an exotic talisman in the form of a statuette of two lovers from the tantric Khajuraho temple in India, a talisman that will enhance lovers' passion and effectiveness simply through touch and the observance of the rituals and sutras found in the beautifully illustrated book. Filled with teachings on the art of making love, the text spans the spectrum of erotic practice, from the foundation of love to the best matches between partners, techniques of kissing, different sexual positions, reversal of roles, and how to approach the eternal dilemma of infidelity. Illustrated with exquisite miniatures of Indian art, this box is a wonderful gift for lovers that reflects the ancient and elegant tradition of passionate sexuality. [via]
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Medieval Prostitutionby Jacques Rossiaud, Lydia G. CochraneISBN 0631199926 (0-631-19992-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Prostitution'Book summary:In 15th-century France, public prostitution was condoned by all sectors of society. Clerics and municipal officials not only tolerated prostitution, but were often its principal beneficiaries, owning and frequenting brothels quite openly. The explanation of this remarkable state of affairs is one topic covered in this book, which reconstructs a part of medieval society that has previously received relatively little attention. Drawing upon research in medieval archives, the author shows that most 15th-century Frenchwomen could expect a life of constant subjugation to male desire. Rape was common and considered a minor crime. He then considers whether public prostitution might paradoxically have been seen by the secular and religious authorities as a means of social control, and of preserving marital stability: the virtue of wives and daughters was best protected by the existence of public brothels, where sexual urges could be satisfied without adultery and rape. The book describes the social background of the prostitutes, brothel-keepers, pimps and their clientele, showing that for many of those involved in it prostitution was an acceptable occupation. [via]
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Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Devianceby Erich Goode, Nachman Ben-YehudaISBN 063118905X (0-631-18905-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Native Sonby Wright, Paul GreenISBN 0573612919 (0-573-61291-9)
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Adapted from the classic novel by Richard WrightDrama
Characters: 15 male, 14 female (w/doubling)
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The story of Bigger Thomas, a black youth seeking his identity in the white world. This adpatation was originally produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
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A Natural History of the Sensesby Diane AckermanISBN 0606296352 (0-606-29635-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Orchid Thiefby Susan OrleanISBN 0613280091 (0-613-28009-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orchid Thief'Book summary:Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animals) to unmapped territories in search of new varieties of Cattleya and Paphiopedilum. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. Yet, as journalist Susan Orlean found out, there still exists a vein of orchid madness strong enough to inspire larceny among collectors.
The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.
Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of The Orchid Thief:
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The Production of Spaceby H. LefebvreISBN 0631181776 (0-631-18177-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Production of Space'Book summary:Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields.
The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy.
This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures. [via]More editions of The Production of Space:
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Prozac Nationby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 0613069315 (0-613-06931-5)
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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Agesby Norman CohnISBN 0586080023 (0-586-08002-3)
Hardcover, Paladin
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Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdownby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0609605410 (0-609-60541-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown'Book summary:In this slender volume, Stephen Jay Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical combination of erudition, warmth, and whimsy: As a calendrical event, what is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted over time? How did the projection of Christ's 1,000-year reign become a secular measure? And when exactly will the millennium begin--January 1, 2000, or January 2, 2001?
"Our urge to know is so great, but our common errors cut so deep. You just gotta love us," he states disarmingly in the preface. "And you gotta view misguided millennial passion as a primary example of our uniqueness and our absurdity--in other words, of our humanity." Gould's own curiosity about time and calendars was triggered by a 1950 issue of Life magazine, which cut the century in half with its evaluation of what had happened and its prediction of things to come, propelling his third-grade mind to the year 2000. In Questioning the Millennium, Gould promises to make no predictions (other than "an orgy of millennial books"); court no millennial epiphanies; and put forth no theories on the collective angst that typically accompanies a century's end. Instead, he answers the millennial questions which, for him, represent the intersection of undeniable reality (i.e., natural fact) and human interpretation. Gould's questions and learned answers, weaving many historical and scientific facts, are a loving inquiry into the human need for order in a vast and teeming universe. [via]
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchersby Tom WolfeISBN 0553380621 (0-553-38062-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Readings in Social Research Methodsby Diane Kholos WysockiISBN 0534579159 (0-534-57915-9)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchersby Colin RobsonISBN 0631213058 (0-631-21305-8)
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Real World Research : A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitionersby Colin RobsonISBN 063121304X (0-631-21304-X)
Hardcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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Religion in Sociological Perspectiveby Keith A. RobertsISBN 0534579515 (0-534-57951-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion in Sociological Perspective'Book summary:This text is a highly sociological view of religion and as such stresses theoretical perspectives about religion. The text also focuses on the methodology that sociologists have used to study religion. Keith Roberts states that his own preferred approach is open systems theory, which he says focuses equally on structure and dynamics. Other texts may lean toward the religious studies end of the market, but Roberts is a true sociology text. [via]
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Changeby Stephen CoveyISBN 0613191455 (0-613-19145-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change'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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Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhoodby Koren ZailickasISBN 0670033766 (0-670-03376-6)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood'Book summary:From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at nineteen, total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at twenty-two, when she realized she had to stop, and all the depression, rage, troubled friendships, and sputtering romantic connections in between. Zailckas's unflinching candor and exquisite analytical eye gets to the meaning beneath the seeming banality of girls' getting drunk. She persuades us that her story is the story of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics-yet-but who use booze as a short cut to courage, a stand-in for good judgment, and a bludgeon for shyness, each of them failing to see how their emotional distress, unarticulated hostility, and depression are entangled with their socially condoned binging. Like the contemporary masterpieces The Liars' Club, Autobiography of a Face, and Jarhead, Smashed is destined to become a classic. A crucial book for any woman who has succumbed to oblivion through booze, or for anyone ready to face the more subtle repercussions of their own chronic over-drinking or of someone they love, Smashed is an eye-opening, wise, and utterly gripping achievement. [via]
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Snobbery: The American Versionby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0618340734 (0-618-34073-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Social Problems of the Modern World: A Readerby Frances MoulderISBN 0534566820 (0-534-56682-0)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Problems of the Modern World: A Reader'Book summary:SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN WORLD: A READER provides Sociology instructors with a variety of readings in all of the areas covered in a typical Social Problems course. The reader uses a global perspective, in order to help students understand that the social problems faced by people in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly shaped by our common fate in this interconnected world. At the same time, at least half of the articles in each chapter focus on the U.S., in order to engage students with issues that are immediate and relevant to their own personal lives and the communities in which they live. [via]
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Social Psychologyby S. BrehmISBN 0618487565 (0-618-48756-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Social Psychology'Book summary:Distinguished by its current-events emphasis, strong diversity coverage, and engaging connections drawn between social psychology and students' everyday lives, Social Psychology, Eighth Edition, remains one of the most scholarly and well-written texts in its field. Integrating classic and contemporary research, the text also includes comprehensive coverage of social cognition and evolutionary psychology, and features authoritative material on social psychology and the law. For this edition, Saul Kassin and Steven Fein welcome Hazel Rose Markus to the author team. In addition, coverage of culture and diversity are integrated into every chapter by Hazel Rose Markus, a leader and respected researcher in the study of cultural psychology. [via]
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Social Psychologyby Saul M. Kassin, Steven Fein, Sharon S. BrehmISBN 0618626506 (0-618-62650-6)
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The Social Teaching of the Christian Churchesby Ernst Troeltsch, Olive WyonISBN 0664253202 (0-664-25320-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Sociology of Death: Theory, Culture, Practiceby David ClarkISBN 0631190570 (0-631-19057-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Sociology of Deviant Behavior With Infotracby Robert F. Meier, Marshall Barron ClinardISBN 0534619479 (0-534-61947-9)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Sociology: The Essentials With Infotracby Margaret L. Andersen, Howard F. TaylorISBN 0534588247 (0-534-58824-7)
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Sociology With Infotracby Jon M. ShepardISBN 053457906X (0-534-57906-X)
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The Sorcerer's Companionby Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth KronzekISBN 0613505735 (0-613-50573-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sorcerer's Companion'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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Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspectiveby Joel M. CharonISBN 0534570518 (0-534-57051-8)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Theories of Human Communication With Infotracby Stephen W. Littlejohn, Karen A. FossISBN 0534638732 (0-534-63873-2)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Lifeby Susan ForwardISBN 0553381407 (0-553-38140-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life'Book summary:All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those whose deficiencies cripple their children emotionally. Her brisk, unreserved guide to overcoming the stultifying agony of parental manipulation--from power trips to guilt trips and all other killers of self worth--will help deal with the pain of childhood and move beyond the frustrating relationship patterns learned at home. [via]
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Typeeby Herman Melville, Geoffrey SanbornISBN 0618300074 (0-618-30007-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Typee'Book summary:This is the first edition of Typee to place its most riveting features the highly charged and complicated accounts of sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and taboo in a broad historical context. Twelve rich selections from the writings of Melville's predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melville's treatment of these topics is unconventional and why it matters. The volume also includes a complete list of the excisions and revisions insisted on by Melville's American publisher, further proof of how much his text was pushing the boundaries of acceptable literature of the day. [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred KazinISBN 0553212184 (0-553-21218-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Understanding Social Problems With Infotracby David Knox, Caroline Schacht, Linda A. MooneyISBN 0534587526 (0-534-58752-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Understanding Society With Infotrac: An Introductory Readerby Margaret L. Andersen, Howard Francis Taylor, Kim A. LogioISBN 0534588158 (0-534-58815-8)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Society With Infotrac: An Introductory Reader'Book summary:UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY presents a balance of classic and contemporary readings that you'll both understand and find intriguing. Like the Andersen/Taylor introductory sociology textbooks, this reader has a strong focus on diversity. Five themes run throughout book: classical sociological theory, contemporary research, diversity, globalization, and the application of the sociological perspective. [via]
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0553115200 (0-553-11520-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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What The Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industryby John MarkoffISBN 0670033820 (0-670-03382-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Valuesby Robert M. PirsigISBN 0553277472 (0-553-27747-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values'Book summary:In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Zen Art of Motorcycleby Robert PirsigISBN 055325748X (0-553-25748-X)
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Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. As in Zen, the trick is to become one with the activity, to engage in it fully, to see and appreciate all details--be it hiking in the woods, penning an essay, or tightening the chain on a motorcycle.
In his autobiographical first novel, Pirsig wrestles both with the ghost of his past and with the most important philosophical questions of the 20th century--why has technology alienated us from our world? what are the limits of rational analysis? if we can't define the good, how can we live it? Unfortunately, while exploring the defects of our philosophical heritage from Socrates and the Sophists to Hume and Kant, Pirsig inexplicably stops at the middle of the 19th century. With the exception of Poincaré, he ignores the more recent philosophers who have tackled his most urgent questions, thinkers such as Peirce, Nietzsche (to whom Phaedrus bears a passing resemblance), Heidegger, Whitehead, Dewey, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn. In the end, the narrator's claims to originality turn out to be overstated, his reasoning questionable, and his understanding of the history of Western thought sketchy. His solution to a synthesis of the rational and creative by elevating Quality to a metaphysical level simply repeats the mistakes of the premodern philosophers. But in contrast to most other philosophers, Pirsig writes a compelling story. And he is a true innovator in his attempt to popularize a reconciliation of Eastern mindfulness and nonrationalism with Western subject/object dualism. The magic of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance turns out to lie not in the answers it gives, but in the questions it raises and the way it raises them. Like a cross between The Razor's Edge and Sophie's World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance takes us into "the high country of the mind" and opens our eyes to vistas of possibility. --Brian Bruya [via]
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