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A Reappraisal of Economic Development: Perspectives for Cooperative Research by Andrew H. Whiteford 9780202362670
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24What have the social sciences to show for decades of systematic investigation of the problems of economic development? What basic problems have they solved and what remains to be done in the... -
Social Systems and Social Regulations by Elaine Cumming 9780202363417
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24In Social Systems and Social Regulations, Elaine Cumming describes attitudes of patients and clients toward health and welfare organizations. The focus is on the complex relationships between... -
Society, Economics, and Philosophy: Selected Papers by 9781412864039
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.17Michael Polanyi was a polymath who primarily studied medicine and chemistry. Precisely because of Polanyi's work in the physical sciences, his writings have a unique dimension not found in other... -
Power, Norms, and Inflation: A Skeptical Treatment by 9780202304304
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Explanations for inflation had for a long time been ceded to the purview of economists. The acceleration in rates of inflation within advanced economies during the 1960s and 1970s, however, prompted... -
The Origin of Values: Reprint Edition: Sociology and Philosophy of Beliefs Raymond Boudon 9781412849838
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86Values have always been a central topic in both philosophy and the social sciences. Statements about what is good or bad, fair or unfair, legitimate or illegitimate, express clear beliefs about human... -
On Enlightenment David Stove 9781412851862
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, mass murder, and... -
Newsgathering in Washington: A Study in Political Communication by Dan Nimmo
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume strong strong stems from Dan... -
The State of Our Disunion: The Obama Years by Eugene Goodheart
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the separation of powers is that... -
Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know about Terrorism R.L. Bruckberger 9780202306797
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $59.44The book acts as a guide to the images of terrorism that we see daily in the mass media. The author believes that our perceptions of terrorism are formed by the interaction of bureaucratic agencies,... -
China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 R. J. Rummel 9781412806701
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $63.26Except for Soviet citizens, no people in this century have endured so much mass killing as have the Chinese. They have been murdered by rebels conniving with their own rulers, and then, after the... -
The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life by James A. Clapp
RRP: $74.81Booksplease Price: $66.55The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged, with excellent woodcut illustrations, more than three... -
Sociology of the Renaissance by Alfred von Martin
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ages to the rise of the haute bourgeoisie in the early Renaissance. Here Alfred... -
Dysfunctions of the Welfare State Joel Gibbons 9781412810982
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.30This timely analysis of today's economic realities relates the headlines to the long term causes from which they spring. Why did we have a worldwide financial crisis in 2008? Is stimulus the answer,... -
Entrepreneurship: Values and Responsibility by Stefan Kwiatkowski
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Entrepreneurship is the capability to be an entrepreneur. Beyond that idea is an ideology that a person's business actions result in industrial growth or technical advances, making that person a... -
Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda by Paul Kurtz
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97The contemporary world is witness to an intense controversy about secularism. This controversy has intensified due to the presence of fundamentalism, which challenges secular society and the... -
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities Eugene Goodheart 9781412811477
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and... -
Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States by Gabriel A. Barhaim
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12This book argues that the transition by Western society to late modernity has weakened the social order, creating a quasi-anomic state that favors those conditions that place culture in a position of... -
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits Steven Mosher 9781412807135
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68For over half a century, policymakers committed to population control have perpetrated a gigantic, costly, and inhumane fraud upon the human race. They have robbed people of the developing countries... -
Voices in a Revolution: The Collapse of East German Communism by Melvin J. Lasky
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic... -
A Psychological Approach to Fiction: Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad by Bernard J. Paris
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78"Psychology helps us to talk about what the novelist knows, but fiction helps us to know what the psychologist is talking about." So writes the author of this brilliant study. The chief... -
Vegetation and Soils: A World Picture S. R. Eyre 9781412851565
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07Vegetation and Soils is an introduction to the study of vegetation and soil distribution. In this accessible work, S. R. Eyre describes the distributions of these two important elements in the... -
Henry Adams and the American Naturalist Tradition by Harold Kaplan
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78The naturalist tradition in American fiction was a product of the tremendous changes wrought in late nineteenth-century America by the development of science and technology and by the intellectual... -
Empowerment as Ceremony by William M. Epstein
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housing. Multitudes in other parts of the world, in... -
Law, Culture, and Africana Studies by James L. Conyers
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa, African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. Much of what we have studied in African... -
Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind by Vernon Louis Parrington 9781412818681
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.07In Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind, Parrington gives a brilliant account of the beginning and development in American letters, the early ideas that have come to be reckoned as... -
Images of Voting/Visions of Democracy by Peter B. Natchez 9781412842921
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68When survey research, statistics, and electronic data processing were first introduced, they held out promise that a new level of political knowledge would be created. Applied to the study of voting... -
Frederick Douglass: A Biography by Booker T. Washington 9781412847391
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account... -
Legal Foundations of Environmental Planning: Textbook-Casebook and Materials on Environmental Law by Jerome G. Rose 9781412849272
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $76.36Planners and lawyers engaged in the formulation and implementation of plans affecting the environment should have a working knowledge of the legal principles affecting those plans. They should also... -
Restricting Freedoms: Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America by Eric Beasley 9781412849722
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United... -
Management Crisis and Business Revolution by John Harte 9781412853668
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.07Formerly a top operational manager with multinational organizations, John Harte applies his hands-on knowledge of the business world to provide a realistic examination of workplace and marketplace... -
Incest Fantasies and Self-Destructive Acts: Jungian and Post-Jungian Psychotherapy in Adolescence Mara Sidoli 9781412853873
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Mainstream analysts working in the Jungian tradition have largely neglected adolescents. Mara Sidoli and Gustav Bovensiepen remedy that omission by showing how and why psychological and physical... -
The Natural Family Where it Belongs: New Agrarian Essays Allan C. Carlson 9781412855655
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78The Natural Family Where It Belongs emphasizes the vital bond of the natural family to an agrarian-like household, where the "sexual" merges with the "economic" through marriage... -
Political Philosophy: Fact, Fiction, and Vision Mario Bunge 9781412855877
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.36Political philosophy is not a well-defined field. It hovers between political theory and classical philosophy. Few early political thinkers could have anticipated the most pressing political issues... -
Bearing Witness: A Personal Perspective on Sixty Years of Polish History by Maria Jarosz 9781412855952
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Bearing Witness offers personal insight into the collective experience of Poles over the last sixty years. One of Poland's leading social scientists combines objective, academic rigor with... -
Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900-1950 by John R. Lukacs 9781412855976
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97An unorthodox historian known and respected for his work on the grand conflicts of nations and civilizations, John Lukacs has peopled a smaller canvas in this volume, with seven colourful figures who... -
Writers and Thinkers: Selected Literary Criticism by Daniel Fuchs 9781412862660
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78This is a collection of critical essays that integrate literature and ideas. Daniel Fuchs presents the writer's individuality as artist and thinker, focusing on the writer's interaction within a wide... -
Handbook of Human Behavior and the Social Environment: A Practice-Based Approach by Joe M. Schriver 9781412863216
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Handbook of Human Behaviour and the Social Environment is a compendium of new theories for all aspects of social work practice. It pulls together major theories and concepts used in the field. By... -
Politics and the Novel During the Cold War David Caute 9781412862905
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97David Cautes wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the... -
Farewell to the Leftist Working Class by Peter Achterberg 9781412849531
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86Social conflicts and voting patterns in Western nations indicate a gradual erosion of working-class support for the left, a process that class theory itself cannot adequately explain. Farewell to the... -
The Russian Intelligentsia: From Torment to Silence by Vladimir C. Nahirny 9781412865326
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.85Vladimir C. Nahirny's brilliant study of major issues in Russian social and intellectual history synthesizes historical and sociological perspectives in an analysis of the nineteenth century Russian...