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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940by Claude S. FischerISBN 0520086473 (0-520-08647-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the Systemby Siva VaidhyanathanISBN 0465089852 (0-465-08985-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System'Book summary:From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debate over information technology in our lives has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want cyberspace to resemble the real world? Siva Vaidhyanathan enters this debate with a seminal insight: While we've been busy debating how to make cyberspace imitate the world, the world has been busy imitating cyberspace. More and more of our social, political, and religious activities are modeling themselves after the World Wide Web.Vaidhyanathan tells us the key information structure of our time, and the key import from cyberspace into the world, is the "peer-to-peer network." Peer-to-peer networks have always existed--but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century, affecting everything from society to terrorism, from religion to the latest social fads. The Anarchist in the Library is a radically original look at how this battle defines one of the major fault lines of twenty-first-century civilization.[via]More editions of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System:
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Securityby William L. Simon, Kevin D. MitnickISBN 0471237124 (0-471-23712-4)
Hardcover, 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 Tzu, Lionel GilesISBN 0486425576 (0-486-42557-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art Of War'Book summary:Widely regarded as "The Oldest Military Treatise in the World," this landmark work covers principles of strategy, tactics, maneuvering, communication, and supplies; the use of terrain, fire, and the seasons of the year; the classification and utilization of spies; the treatment of soldiers, including captives, all have a modern ring to them.[via]More editions of The Art Of War:
Asphalt Nation : How the Automobile Took over America and How We Can Take It Backby Jane H. KayISBN 0517587025 (0-517-58702-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Backby Jane Holtz KayISBN 0520216202 (0-520-21620-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Back'Book summary:Commuters, here's some food for thought: collectively, Americans spend more than 8 billion hours each year stuck in traffic. This is just one of the horrifying statistics mentioned in Jane Holtz Kay's Asphalt Nation, an eye-opening look at the relationship between Americans and their cars. Kay asserts that the automobile is destroying our communities, our environment, and our economic competitiveness, and her supporting arguments are pretty persuasive. In addition to the billions of hours wasted in gridlock, Kay notes that our daily drives are becoming longer and more frequent, and that increased mileage has nullified any advances in emission controls. Asphalt Nation is comprised of three parts: the first, "Car Glut: A Nation in Lifelock," examines the impact of the automobile culture on life in the United States today. "Car Tracks: The Machine That Made the Land" traces the history of cars from Henry Ford to the present, while "Car Free: From Dead End to Exit" imagines a happier future without automobile dependency.
What makes Asphalt Nation far more interesting than the typical anti-auto diatribe is Kay's discussion of the cultural mores that helped create America's current car glut--namely, our attitudes toward land use and growth management; her comparisons between American and European practices in these areas are particularly interesting. Others have written about the American love affair with the automobile, but Holtz revisits the discussion with lively writing and a dramatic narrative. [via]
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Assimilation, American Styleby Peter D. SalinsISBN 0465098177 (0-465-09817-7)
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politicsby Cynthia EnloeISBN 0520069854 (0-520-06985-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics'Book summary:This radical new analysis of international politics reveals the crucial role of women in implementing governmental foreign policies, be it Soviet Glasnost, Britain's dealings in the EEC, or the NATO alliance. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes--governments restricting imported goods, bankers negotiating foreign loans, soldiers serving overseas--and shows that the real landscape is less exclusively male.[via]
Bananas, Beaches and Bases shows how thousands of women tailor their marriages to fit the demands of state secrecy; how foreign policy would grind to a halt without secretaries to handle money transfers or arms shipments; and how women are working in hotels and factories around the world in order to service their governments' debts.
Enloe also challenges common assumptions about what constitutes "international politics." She explains, for example, how turning tacos and sushi into bland fast foods affects relations between affluent and developing countries, and why a multinational banana company needs the brothel outside its gates. And she argues that shopping at Benneton, wearing Levis, working as a nanny (or employing one) or planning a vacation are all examples of foreign policy in action.
Bananas, Beaches and Bases does not ignore our curiosity about arms dealers, the President's men or official secrets. But it shows why these conventional clues are not sufficient for understanding how the international political system works. In exposing policymakers' reliance on false notions of "feminity" and "masculinity," Enloe dismantles a seemingly overwhelming world system, exposing it to be much more fragile and open to change than we are usually led to believe.More editions of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics:
The Battle With the Slumby Jacob A. RiisISBN 0486401960 (0-486-40196-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Behind the Mask of Innocenceby Kevin BrownlowISBN 0520076265 (0-520-07626-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Book of Teaby K. OkakuraISBN 0486200701 (0-486-20070-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 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 The Book of Tea:
Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century Americaby Judith StaceyISBN 0520214005 (0-520-21400-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeitsby John McKnightISBN 0465091261 (0-465-09126-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Children of Alcoholismby Judith S. Seixas, Geraldine YouchaISBN 0517555999 (0-517-55599-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally Retardedby Robert B. EdgertonISBN 0520018990 (0-520-01899-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally Retarded'Book summary:This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation. For the first time, the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives, their fears, and their hopes. He focused on the role of stigma in their lives and their efforts to pass as normal, as well as the need they had for normal benefactors.[via]
Now, using the same ethnographic methods, Robert Edgerton follows up the original population over a period of three decades. His new findings greatly expand our knowledge of these individuals, suggesting that as they grow older they increase their social competence, life satisfaction, independence, and ability to contribute to the lives of others. Human service professionals and others concerned with mental retardation will welcome Edgerton's discussion of current issues such as the role of environmental factors in modifying mental retardation and the need for new conceptual approaches.More editions of Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally Retarded:
The Cocktail Waitress: Woman's Work in a Man's Worldby James P. Spradley, Brenda J. MannISBN 0471817686 (0-471-81768-6)
Hardcover, Wiley
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The Communistic Societies of the United States, from Personal Visit and Observation.by Charles NordhoffISBN 0486215806 (0-486-21580-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Communityby Faye D. GinsburgISBN 0520217357 (0-520-21735-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequalityby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0486434141 (0-486-43414-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'Book summary:A strikingly original inquiry into politics and human nature, the Discourse presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. The author develops a theory of evolution that prefigures Darwinism and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment.[via]More editions of Discourse on the Origin of Inequality:
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economyby Kevin BalesISBN 0520217977 (0-520-21797-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Domestic Manners of the Americansby Frances Milton TrollopeISBN 0486431398 (0-486-43139-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Domestic Manners of the Americans'Book summary:Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on American dress, food, speech, politics, manners, customs, the landscape, architecture, and more often critically but always with considerable insight and literary flair.[via]More editions of Domestic Manners of the Americans:
Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluenceby Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloISBN 0520214730 (0-520-21473-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Essential Art Of Warby Sun-Tzu, Ralph D. Sawyer, Mei-Chun Lee SawyerISBN 0465072046 (0-465-07204-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Art Of War'Book summary:Ralph D. Sawyer is the preeminent scholar and translator on Sun-tzu's masterful work. More than 200,000 copies of his Sun-tzu Art of War and more than 55,000 copies of The Complete Art of War have been sold. The Art of War is the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The Essential Art of War brings Sun-tzu's classic work to a new, uninitiated readership. This clear and compact volume presumes no prior knowledge of the subject and presents only the material that is essential to understanding this text. Using his best-selling Art of War translation as the centerpiece, Sawyer has re-approached every chapter to include an introduction and closing commentary that deliver the key concepts. An introduction to the volume on the relevance of Sun-tzu's teachings, a chronology, historical background on the translation itself, and a bibliographic essay are also included. The Essential Art of War is presented in an attractive 208-page hardcover volume with foiled jacket, stamped case, and ribbon marker, in a convenient gift size.[via]More editions of The Essential Art Of War:
Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolisby Michael BurawoyISBN 0520073223 (0-520-07322-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Europe and the People Without Historyby Eric R. WolfISBN 0520048989 (0-520-04898-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914by Richard BiernackiISBN 0520208781 (0-520-20878-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott AbbottISBN 048627263X (0-486-27263-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. [via]
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Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Moralsby William Graham SumnerISBN 0486424960 (0-486-42496-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals'Book summary:This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization in Europe and America. Subjects include labor, wealth, slavery, cannibalism, marriage, education, and many other absorbing topics.[via]More editions of Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals:
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Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhoodby Kathleen GersonISBN 0520057457 (0-520-05745-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood'Book summary:How do women choose between work and family commitments? And what are the causes, limits, and consequences of the "subtle revolution" in women's choices over the 1960s and 1970s? To answer these questions, Kathleen Gerson analyzes the experiences of a carefully selected group of middle-class and working-class women who were young adults in the 1970s. Their informative life histories reveal the emerging social forces in American society that have led today's women to face several difficult choices.[via]More editions of Hard Choices: How Women Decide About Work, Career, and Motherhood:
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Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"by Linda WilliamsISBN 0520066537 (0-520-06653-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible"'Book summary:In this unprecedented and brilliant study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of anti-porn/anti-censorship position-taking to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. Working against tendencies to oversimplify hard core--either as pure abusive power or pure liberatory pleasure--Williams sees the form as inherently contradictory. Hard core claims to speak confessional and involuntary "truths" of sex. However, analysis of its forms (including its spectacular "money shots" and sexual "numbers" parallel to those in musicals) reveals that sex in the sense of a natural, visible "doing what comes naturally" is in fact the supreme and deeply contradictory fiction of the genre. Gender, the social construction of the relation between the sexes, is what determines this fiction.[via]
For most of its history, pornography has been for men and about women. Yet in hard core's attempt to solve the riddles of sex with more, different, or better sex, the monolith of masculine pleasure breaks down and the possibility of women using pornography for their own purposes begins to emerge. To this end, Williams traces the roots of contemporary hard core's quest to see the "truth" of sex back to the origins of cinema itself--in motion studies of women's bodily movements. She then follows the generic development of hard core through its silent, primitive stag form and into feature-length narratives like Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, up to its recent sadomasochistic and "couples market" permutations--showing how the form has begun to respond and react to changing gender relations. Neither a defense of what pornography has been nor a utopian dream of what it should be, this daring book refuses simply to scapegoat the form as the cause of all our ills. Instead, Williams utilizes the insights of recent studies of mass culture to show that hard core is a discourse, a genre, and a rhetoric that can only be understood through comparison with, rather than separation from, other forms.More editions of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible":
Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Lifeby Eviator ZerubavelISBN 0520056094 (0-520-05609-4)
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Historical Atlas of World Mythology: The Way of the Animal Powers, Mythologies of the Primative Hunters & Gatherersby Joseph CampbellISBN 0517105209 (0-517-10520-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islamby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0517223120 (0-517-22312-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam'Book summary:Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for God. Like all beloved historians, Armstrong entertains us with deft storytelling, astounding research, and makes us feel a greater appreciation for the present because we better understand our past. Be warned: A History of God is not a tidy linear history. Rather, we learn that the definition of God is constantly being repeated, altered, discarded, and resurrected through the ages, responding to its followers' practical concerns rather than to mystical mandates. Armstrong also shows us how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have overlapped and influenced one another, gently challenging the secularist history of each of these religions. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Implementationby Aaron Wildavsky, Jeffrey PressmanISBN 0520053311 (0-520-05331-1)
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Mythby J. P. MalloryISBN 0500276161 (0-500-27616-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermasby David HeldISBN 0520041755 (0-520-04175-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Japan's High Schoolsby Thomas P. RohlenISBN 0520048636 (0-520-04863-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translationby Richard F. Burton, VatsyayanaISBN 0486452379 (0-486-45237-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation'Book summary:A classic of world literature for 1,700 years, this is the most explicit and fascinating book ever written for lovers. Its methods of cultivating sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and loving union offer a wellspring of erotic knowledge and inspiration. It also serves as a window into Indian culture and mysticism.[via]More editions of The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation:
The Kingdom of God Is Within Youby Leo Tolstoy, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486451380 (0-486-45138-0)
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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comicby Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, Cloudesley BreretonISBN 0486443809 (0-486-44380-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic'Book summary:Clem Kadiddlehopper wore a funny hat. Even animals other than humans seem to laugh, because they, too, possess emotions. And sometimes, when you're by yourself, you just start giggling for no reason. But that's not funny. As Henri Bergson, proto-existentialist French philosopher and author of Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, would say, you can stop laughing now. We must rethink what tickles us. For Bergson, laughter is a purely intellectual response that serves the social purpose of assuaging discomfort over the unaccustomed and unexpected. We chuckle at Lucy attempting to wrap the bonbons speeding by on a candy-factory conveyor belt because she's stuck in one place, performing the same task over and over, and failing; we hope that in similar situations we could be more flexible. Bergson recaps: "Rigidity is the comic, and laughter is its corrective."
Bergson's thinking typifies a peculiarly Gallic tendency to rationalize the apparently ephemeral and subjective (in this case, humor), discussing it in exquisitely rarefied language in order to assert that which defies common sense (a funny hat is not funny, laughter expresses no emotion, no one laughs alone) but partakes nonetheless of a logical inevitability. Laughter, first published in 1911, clearly draws upon the early years of European modernism, yet also prefigures the movement in some ways. In recognizing the comic as it embodies itself in a "rigid," absentminded person, locked into repetitious, socially awkward behavior, Bergson--even as he looks backward, primarily to Molière--seems to be spawning the sophisticated visual and physical comedy of Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd; the transformation of Léger's figures into anthropoid machines; and Nijinsky's starring role in Stravinsky's satirical clockwork ballet Pétrouchka.
This little book resurrects a British translation that has long been out of print. While Laughter won't quite explain why the French love Jerry Lewis, or keep you in stitches, it's a bracing read that will make you think twice about laughing the next time someone stumbles into a lamppost. --Robert Burns Neveldine [via]
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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Taleby Catherine OrensteinISBN 0465041264 (0-465-04126-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Looking Backwardby Edward BellamyISBN 0486290387 (0-486-29038-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Loose Changeby Sara DavidsonISBN 0520209109 (0-520-20910-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950sby Alan EhrenhaltISBN 0465041922 (0-465-04192-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in Americaby Alan EhrenhaltISBN 0465041930 (0-465-04193-0)
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Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985by G. SeidmanISBN 0520083032 (0-520-08303-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520203089 (0-520-20308-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Military Brats : Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortressby Mary Edwards Wertsch, Pat ConroyISBN 051758400X (0-517-58400-X)
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A groundbreaking exploration of what it means to grow up in the military. Based on five years of research, including in-depth interviews with eighty military brats, Military Brats analyzes the consequences--both positive and negative--of being reared in a family characterized by strict discipline, frequent moves, and dedication to military service. [via]
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Moral Educationby Emile Durkheim, Everett K. Wilson, Herman Schnurer, Paul FauconnetISBN 0486424987 (0-486-42498-7)
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Multiple Intelligences: New Horizonsby Howard GardnerISBN 0465047688 (0-465-04768-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Menby Anne Fausto-SterlingISBN 0465047920 (0-465-04792-0)
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Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowermentby James I. CharltonISBN 0520207955 (0-520-20795-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburbby Bernard LefkowitzISBN 0520205960 (0-520-20596-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb'Book summary:Leslie, a sweet-natured young woman with the mental age of an 8-year-old, just wanted to be friends with the high school football stars. When they invited her down into the basement rec room of a suburban home, she jumped with joy at being included. The young men raped her--with a baseball bat and a broomstick. In this vividly detailed book, Bernard Lefkowitz brings us into the daily life of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the hometown of Tom Cruise. It's an affluent white community that values propriety, order, discretion, continuity, and a fantasy of the gentleman-athlete. Lefkowitz writes of the boys who raped Leslie: "'These Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mother's dream, every father's pride. They were not only Glen Ridge's finest, but in their perfection they belonged to all of us. They were Our Guys." What's ultimately most shocking about this crime is how ordinary it was, how predictable--how in one way or another it's happening now, all across America. [via]
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Piece of the Pie: Black and White Immigrants Since 1880by Stanley LiebersonISBN 0520043626 (0-520-04362-6)
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Professor Lieberson scoured early U. S. censuses and used a variety of offbeat information sources to develop data that would throw light on this question, as well as provide new information on occupations at the turn of the century, finding remarkable parallels between the black position in the urban South and the urban North. He examines and compares progress in education and in politics between the new Europeans and the blacks. What were the effects of segregation? Why did labor unions discriminate more severely against blacks than against the new immigrant groups? This book will generate a fresh interpretation of the origins of black-new European differences, one which explains why other nonwhite groups, such as the Chinese and Japanese, have done relatively well.More editions of Piece of the Pie: Black and White Immigrants Since 1880:
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolutionby Lynne HuntISBN 0520057406 (0-520-05740-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Poor Support: Poverty in the American Familyby David T. EllwoodISBN 0465059953 (0-465-05995-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Pr!: A Social History of Spinby Stuart EwenISBN 0465061796 (0-465-06179-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Prisoners of Childhoodby Alice MillerISBN 0465063470 (0-465-06347-0)
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Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communitiesby James S. Coleman, Thomas HofferISBN 0465067670 (0-465-06767-0)
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The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Lifeby Kenneth J. GergenISBN 0465071856 (0-465-07185-6)
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The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Cultureby Walter KendrickISBN 0520207297 (0-520-20729-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Secret Societies,by Norman Ian MacKenzieISBN 051710508X (0-517-10508-X)
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Sociologyby Jon M. Shepard, Sylvia Southard Odom, Brent Taylor BrutonISBN 0471783196 (0-471-78319-6)
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Sociologyby Rodney StarkISBN 0495093440 (0-495-09344-0)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Sociology: The Essentialsby Margaret L. Andersen, Howard F. TaylorISBN 0495006831 (0-495-00683-1)
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Sperm Wars: The Science of Sexby Robin BakerISBN 0465081800 (0-465-08180-0)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0486440281 (0-486-44028-1)
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Understanding Social Problemsby David Knox, Caroline Schacht, Linda A. MooneyISBN 0495091588 (0-495-09158-8)
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0486287386 (0-486-28738-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Up from Slavery: An Autobiography'Book summary:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. [via]
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Up from Slavery : An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Composition History, Criticismby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0517091224 (0-517-09122-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Placeby John R. Logan, Harvey L. MolotchISBN 0520063414 (0-520-06341-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Varieties of Religious Experienceby William JamesISBN 0486421643 (0-486-42164-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varieties of Religious Experience'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytellingby Milton J. BatesISBN 0520204336 (0-520-20433-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Wealth and Povertyby George GilderISBN 0465091059 (0-465-09105-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Woman's Worthby Marianne WilliamsonISBN 0517156997 (0-517-15699-7)
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The World of Goodsby Mary DouglasISBN 0465092284 (0-465-09228-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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