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The Age of Extremes : 1914-1991by Eric J. HobsbawnISBN 0394585755 (0-394-58575-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Age of Uncertaintyby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395249007 (0-395-24900-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Age of Uncertainty: Points of Departureby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395259479 (0-395-25947-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergartenby Robert FulghumISBN 0394588940 (0-394-58894-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Thingsby Robert FulghumISBN 0394571029 (0-394-57102-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Among the Believers: An Islamic Journeyby Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394711955 (0-394-71195-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Anatomy of Revolutionby Clarence Crane BrintonISBN 0394700449 (0-394-70044-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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And Their Children after Them : The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of the Cotton in the Southby Dale Maharidge, Michael WilliamsonISBN 0394577663 (0-394-57766-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Behind the Mask of Innocence : Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Eraby Kevin BrownlowISBN 0394577477 (0-394-57747-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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The Bonds of Love : Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Dominationby Jessica BenjaminISBN 0394757300 (0-394-75730-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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In The Bonds of Love, noted feminist theorist and psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin explains why we accept and perpetuate relationships of domination and submission. She reveals that domination is a complex psychological process which ensnares both parties in bonds of complicity, and shows how it underlies our family life, our social institutions, and especially our sexual relations, in spite of our conscious commitment to equality and freedom. [via]More editions of The Bonds of Love : Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination:
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
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The Changing Anatomy of Britainby Anthony SampsonISBN 0394531434 (0-394-53143-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Chomsky Readerby Noam Chomsky, James PeckISBN 0394751736 (0-394-75173-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Corporation Man; Who He Is, What He Does, Why His Ancient Tribal Impulses Dominate the Life of the Modern Corporationby Antony JayISBN 0394472535 (0-394-47253-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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A Country of Strangers : Blacks and Whites in Americaby David K. ShiplerISBN 0394589750 (0-394-58975-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Crisis in Black and Whiteby Charles E. SilbermanISBN 0394702794 (0-394-70279-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cultural and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0394587383 (0-394-58738-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultural and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Cultureby Marvin HarrisISBN 0394744268 (0-394-74426-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Darkby Carl SaganISBN 039453512X (0-394-53512-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroitby Zev ChafetsISBN 0394585259 (0-394-58525-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Distant Neighbors: Portrait of the Mexicansby Alan RidingISBN 0394740157 (0-394-74015-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of Americaby Morgan SpurlockISBN 0399152601 (0-399-15260-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America'Book summary:The literary debut of the funniest and most incisive new voice to come along since Michael Moore-and the acclaimed director of the film phenomenon of the year.
Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by Spurlock's experiment, during which he gained twenty-five pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared.
But this story goes far beyond Spurlock's good-humored "Mc-Sickness." He traveled across the country-into schools, hospitals, and people's homes -to investigate school lunch programs, the marketing of fast food, and the declining emphasis on health and physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive, and what Americans can do to turn the rising tide of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes that have accompanied its ever-growing popularity. He interviewed experts in twenty U.S. cities-from surgeon generals and kids to lawmakers and marketing gurus-who share their research, opinions, and "gut feelings" on our ever-expanding girth and what we can all do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions.
In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, "benevolent muckraker" Morgan Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves. [via]More editions of Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America:
Economics and the Public Purposeby John Kenneth GalbraithISBN 0395178940 (0-395-17894-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Everyday Life in Ancient Romeby F.R. CowellISBN 0399200525 (0-399-20052-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Researchby Julian C. Stanley, Donald T. CampbellISBN 0395307872 (0-395-30787-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0394724038 (0-394-72403-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890by Richard SennettISBN 0394710894 (0-394-71089-4)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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Genderby Ivan IllichISBN 0394527321 (0-394-52732-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gender Images: A Critical Lookby Melita C. SchaumISBN 0395594898 (0-395-59489-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving inby Roger Fisher, Bruce Patton, William UryISBN 0395631246 (0-395-63124-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Geniusby Edward De GraziaISBN 039457611X (0-394-57611-X)
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economyby Karl MarxISBN 039448942X (0-394-48942-X)
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
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The Hite Report on Male Sexualityby Shere HiteISBN 039441392X (0-394-41392-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ..: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Centuryby Blandine Kriegel, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394493109 (0-394-49310-9)
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Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical Social Theoryby Robin BlackburnISBN 0394485238 (0-394-48523-8)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women's Studiesby Sheila RuthISBN 0395286913 (0-395-28691-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0399134204 (0-399-13420-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joy Luck Club'Book summary:Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissanceby John BoswellISBN 0394570057 (0-394-57005-7)
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The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval Franceby Georges DubyISBN 0394524454 (0-394-52445-4)
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"It is typical of Duby's modest spirit and his book-long concern with the ancient status of beleaguered wives that he ends his study with a plea: 'We must not forget the women. Much has already been said about them. But how much do we really know?' Not everything, certainly, but far more than we did before the author began these charmingly erudite investigations."Ken Turan, Time
"It is refreshing to find a historian who is always conscious that we simply do not know what or how people thought 1000 years ago. . . . Duby explains the complicated machinations of the medieval churchman and the paterfamilias in a scholarly but lively style."Sarah Lawson, New Statesman
"Duby has written an extraordinarily rich booka panoramic view of medieval marriage and the relations between men and women, full of arresting insights and human detail. . . . It is the work of a master historian at the peak of his powers on a subject of central relevance, compulsive and essential reading."P. Stafford, British History
Georges Duby (1919-1996) was a member of the Académie française and for many years held the distinguished chair in medieval history at the Collège de France. His books include The Three Orders; The Age of Cathedrals; The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest; Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages; and History Continues, all published by the University of Chicago Press.More editions of The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France:
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La Vidaby Oscar LewisISBN 0394704215 (0-394-70421-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese Schoolby Bruce S. FeilerISBN 039558521X (0-395-58521-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japanby Bruce S. FeilerISBN 0395647266 (0-395-64726-6)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0395052149 (0-395-05214-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Man and the Natural World: A History of Modern Sensibilityby Keith ThomasISBN 0394727126 (0-394-72712-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Marx for Beginnersby RiusISBN 0394737164 (0-394-73716-4)
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A Natural History of the Sensesby Diane AckermanISBN 0394573358 (0-394-57335-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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New Russiansby Hedrick SmithISBN 0394581903 (0-394-58190-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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No Boundary : Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growthby Ken WilberISBN 0394748816 (0-394-74881-6)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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No Contest: The Case Against Competitionby Alfie KohnISBN 0395631254 (0-395-63125-4)
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Not in Our Genesby Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon J. KaminISBN 0394728882 (0-394-72888-2)
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstanceby Henry PetroskiISBN 0394574222 (0-394-57422-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance'Book summary:Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an exemplar of all things that are designed and manufactured.
Petroski ranges widely in time, discussing the writing technologies of antiquity. But his story really begins in the early modern period, when, in 1565, a Swiss naturalist first described the properties of the mineral that became known as graphite. Petroski traces the evolution of the pencil through the Industrial Revolution, when machine manufacture replaced earlier handwork. Along the way, he looks at some of pencil making's great innovators--including Henry David Thoreau, the famed writer, who worked in his father's pencil factory, inventing techniques for grinding graphite and experimenting with blends of lead, clay, and other ingredients to yield pencils of varying hardness and darkness. Petroski closes with a look at how pencils are made today--a still-imperfect technology that may yet evolve with new advances in materials and design. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Policing of Familiesby Jacques DonzelotISBN 0394737520 (0-394-73752-0)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Policing of Families'Book summary:In The Policing of Families, Jacques Donzelot, a student and colleague of Michel Foucault, offers an account of public intervention in the regulation of family affairs since the eighteenth century, showing how this intervention effected radical changes in the structure of what had traditionally been a private domain. Treating the family as a focal point of multiple social practices and discourses, Donzelot examines the role of philanthropy, social work, compulsory mass education, and psychiatry in the control of family life and describes the transformation of mothers into agents of the state. Donzelot also provides a critique of Marxist, psychoanalytic, and feminist conceptions of the family and shows how the policies of the state and the professions molded working-class and middle-class families in quite different ways.
"An essential corrective both to the old overly optimistic interpretation and to the new pessimistic and apocalyptic vision of the recent history of the family and society in the West."--Lawrence Stone, New Republic
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The Politics of Rich and Poor : Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermathby Kevin P. PhillipsISBN 0394559541 (0-394-55954-1)
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Colin Gordon, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394513576 (0-394-51357-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Michel FoucaultISBN 039473954X (0-394-73954-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
Preparing for the 21st Centuryby Paul M. KennedyISBN 0394584430 (0-394-58443-0)
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The Promised Land : The Great Black Migration and How It Changed Americaby Nicholas LemannISBN 0394560043 (0-394-56004-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Prozac Nationby Elizabeth WurtzelISBN 039568093X (0-395-68093-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prozac Nation'Book summary:Elizabeth Wertzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation still manages to be a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era. [via]
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Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issuesby Donald T. Campbell, Thomas D. CookISBN 0395307902 (0-395-30790-2)
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The Redundant Male: Is Sex Irrelevant in the Modern Worldby Jeremy Cherfas, John R. GribbinISBN 039474005X (0-394-74005-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Redundant Male: Is Sex Irrelevant in the Modern World'Book summary:Cherfas and Gribbin explore the possibility of doing without the human male by examining the benefits of sexual reproduction. They discuss the biological implications of the chromosome mixture that results from the joining of sperm and egg and emphasize the possibilities of genetic change and adaptation through this method of reproduction. Male-female reproduction allows mutation to occur much more rapidly than female-only reproduction, and the mutations have a much greater chance of surviving several generations until their usefulness, if any, to the species becomes apparent. THE REDUNDANT MALE is an educational book, without the dreariness that adjective often implies. Its friendly exploration of the "why" of reproduction is more concerned with why sexual reproduction is biologically important, or unimportant, to life on this planet, than with human social or sexual interaction. Despite its title, it is not flippant; it is a serious look at an important and misunderstood subject. [via]
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Self and Othersby Ronald David LaingISBN 0394444604 (0-394-44460-4)
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Snobbery: The American Versionby Joseph EpsteinISBN 0395944171 (0-395-94417-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snobbery: The American Version'Book summary:Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it. With ample humor and insight, Epstein uncovers the new outlets upon which the old snobbery has fastened: food and wine, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, health, being with-it, name-dropping, and much else, including the roles of Jews and homosexuals in the development of snobbery. He also raises the question of whether snobbery might, alas, be a part of human nature. Snobbery: The American Versionis the first book in English devoted exclusively to the subject since Thackeray's THE BOOK OF SNOBS.[via]More editions of Snobbery: The American Version:
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Sociable Godby Ken WilberISBN 0394726928 (0-394-72692-8)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociable God'Book summary:In one of the first attempts to bring an integral dimension to sociology, Ken Wilber introduces a system of reliable methods by which to make testable judgments of the authenticity of any religious movement. A Sociable God is a concise work based on Wilber's "spectrum of consciousness" theory, which views individual and cultural development as an evolutionary continuum. Here he focuses primarily on worldviews (archaic, magic, mythic, mental, psychic, subtle, causal, nondual) and evaluates various cultural and religious movements on a scale ranging from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric to Kosmic. By using this integral view, Wilber hopes, society would be able to discriminate between dangerous cults and authentic spiritual paths. In addition, he points out why these distinctions are crucial in understanding spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness.
In a lengthy new introduction, the author brings the reader up to date on his latest integral thinking and concludes that, for the succinct and elegant way it argues for a sociology of depth, A Sociable God remains a clarion call for a greater sociology. [via]
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Social Psychologyby S. BrehmISBN 0395538041 (0-395-53804-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Social Psychologyby Saul M. Kassin, S. BrehmISBN 0395358760 (0-395-35876-0)
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The Sociology of Max Weberby J. FreundISBN 039444602X (0-394-44602-X)
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Spiritual Life of Childrenby Robert ColesISBN 0395599237 (0-395-59923-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for Americaby Richard P. Taub, William Julius WilsonISBN 0394579364 (0-394-57936-4)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0394605276 (0-394-60527-6)
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality'Book summary:In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
Utopian Essays and Practical Proposalsby Paul Goodman, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0394702476 (0-394-70247-6)
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The Weaker Vesselby Antonia FraserISBN 0394732510 (0-394-73251-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Weaker Vessel'Book summary:Drawing from a wondrously deep well of diaries, letters, and papers from 17th-century England, the gifted historian Antonia Fraser gives the image of the "softer sex" a drubbing, plunging readers into the lives of "heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress." Prophetess Jane Hawkins, called "a witty crafty baggage" by one angry bishop, got around the ironclad law forbidding women to preach by claiming inspiration from God, while Catholic Mary Ward risked her neck repeatedly to found a string of convents and schools for girls on the European continent. Although several good wives of London beat the Lord Mayor in 1649 for his part in trying to arrest five members of Parliament, it's certainly true that most Englishwomen of the time were hemmed in by the whims and fears of men. Wealthy girls were routinely used as chips to bolster family fortunes through marriage, and any old, poor woman unfortunate enough to have "a furred brow, a hairy lip, a squint eye, a squeaking voice or a scolding tongue" lived under suspicion of witchcraft, wrote one contemporary observer. In Fraser's sure hands and supple prose, memorable and execrable historic moments spring to life. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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The Weaker Vessel : Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century Englandby Antonia FraserISBN 0394513517 (0-394-51351-7)
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Deadby William S. BurroughsISBN 0394475860 (0-394-47586-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead'Book summary:The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.[via]More editions of The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead:
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Wisconsin Death Tripby Charles Van Schaick, Michael LesyISBN 0394709624 (0-394-70962-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wisconsin Death Trip'Book summary:The last decade of the 19th century was, for some Americans, a time when great fortunes were to be made. For many others, however, the period was a time of economic dislocation, when the gap between city and countryside, rich and poor, grew ever wider. As the Indian Wars ended and the Gilded Age extended into America's first Imperial Age, social critics such as Mark Twain and William Dean Howells began to examine the dark side of the American dream: violence, poverty, degenerate behavior, suicide, and insanity.
In the late 1960s, another desperate time, historian Michael Lesy took a long look at fin-de-siècle America. Examining a collection of several thousand glass plate negatives and historical documents from Jackson County, Wisconsin, he concocted a sprawling treatise on a past that had been willfully forgotten, a brooding rejoinder to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. First published in 1973, Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, now reissued in a handsome paperbound edition, became a key text of the counterculture, a book to shelve alongside Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Custer Died for Your Sins--and it sometimes reads like a hip product of its time. Lesy documents the unsettling record of one small corner of rural America, turning up accounts of barn burnings, attacks by gangs of armed tramps, threatening and obscene letters, death by diphtheria and smallpox (the Wisconsin townsfolk had, some years, to attend several funerals a week), alcoholism, madness, business and bank failures, and even a case or two of witchcraft.
After reading Lesy's texts and viewing the sometimes unsettling images he's turned up, you would be forgiven for thinking that no one in small-town Wisconsin in our great-great-grandparents' time was well-adjusted--which is, of course, not the case. Hyperbole notwithstanding, this is a remarkable study, one that Lesy himself rightly calls an experiment in both history and alchemy. --Gregory McNamee [via]
Women As Mothersby Sheila KitzingerISBN 0394740793 (0-394-74079-3)
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The Work of Nations : Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalismby Robert B. ReichISBN 0394583523 (0-394-58352-3)
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