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Sketch for a Self-Analysis
by Pierre Bourdieu  Publisher Comments Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died in 2002, he was considered to be the most influential sociologist in the world and a...
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh 
Powells.com Staff Pick Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious...
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Manson in His Own Words
by Charles Manson Publisher Comments Distilled from hundreds of hours of interviews, Manson's story reveals an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, and provides grim insight into the making of a criminal mind. 16 pages of photos....
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Otto Neurath
by Otto (con) Neurath Publisher Comments Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal Modernist figure. Much attention has been given to his achievements in the fields of graphic design and philosophy (Neurath was a member of the Vienna Circle, founder of the Museum of Society and Economy...
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Montana 1911
by Mary (edt) Eggermont-molenaar Publisher Comments "Dutch Professor C. C. Uhlenbeck and his wife, Willy, spent the summer of 1911 on the Blackfeet Reservation where he collected traditional Blackfeet stories, songs, and bits of language and she distributed candy, watched the weather, and wrote in her...
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Herbert Spencer on the Americans and the Americans on Herbert Spencer
by Edward Livingston Youmans Synopsis Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)
by Thomas J. Scheff Publisher Comments One of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually invisible to us. Goffman's...
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Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
by Karla Jay Publisher Comments Karla Jay, a direct participant in the dramatic history of the women's and gay liberation movements, brings on stage a dazzling cast of unforgettable characters and gives voice to the sweeping tale of the activists who struggled for their vision of...
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: Asian-American Odyssey, an
by Lydia Yuri Minatoya Publisher Comments Chapter 1 Albany, New York My Mother's Music "I believe that the Japanese word for wife" "literally means honorable person remaining within," says my mother. "During the nineteen twenties, when I was a child in Japan, my seventeen-year-old cousin...
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The Story of a Marriage: The Letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson
by Helena Wayne Publisher Comments Malinowski is known internationally as one of the founders of social anthropology, as the creator of modern field work, as a great writer and an inspiring teacher. Until now little has been known about his personal life and thoughts. In these two volumes...
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Darkwater Voices From Within the Veil
by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments The distinguished American civil rights leader first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems nearly 80 years ago in various periodicals. This volume has long inspired readers with its militant cry for reforms for black Americans....
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Max Weber and Karl Marx (Routledge Classics in Sociology)
by Karl Lowith Publisher Comments Karl Lowith's study of Max Weber and Karl Marx is a key text in modern interpretations of the theme of alienation in Marxist theory and the subject of rationalization in Weber's sociology. Lowith's philosophical approach, a product of Heidegger's...
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Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists
by Bennett M. Berger Publisher Comments All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family...
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Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists)
by Tony Blackshaw Publisher Comments This timely book provides a concise but critical introduction to the work of a sociological phenomenon. After introducing the man, his major influences, and his special way of "thinking sociologically," Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's...
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The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
by E. J. Hundert Publisher Comments The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the Enlightenment. This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered...
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On Fire
by Larry Brown Publisher Comments Award-winning novelist Larry Brown's first work of nonfiction looks back at the life he left--that of full-time firefighter. "A wonderful book."--John Grisham "Larry Brown is never romantic about danger and . . . in this book he goes through his life...
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Endless Crusade : Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (90 Edition)
by Ellen Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments Their shared commitment to social knowledge and social change, she shows, helped to shape the character of early-twentieth-century reform....
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My Brother's Keeper
by Amitai Etzioni Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-460)....
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Place in El Paso : a Mexican-american Childhood (96 Edition)
by Gloria Lopez-stafford Publisher Comments This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the money boys who beg...
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The Virtual Marshall McLuhan
by Donald F Theall Publisher Comments Marshall McLuhan was a satirist and prophetic poet, a pop guru adopted by Tom Wolfe, Woody Allen, and others, a North American precursor of French theory (Baudrillard, Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze), an artist, and a shaman. The Virtual Marshall McLuhan...
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