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Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States by Gabriel A. Barhaim
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $176.83This 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98For 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: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Afeatured 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 Republic... -
A Psychological Approach to Fiction: Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad by Bernard J. Paris
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66"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 impulse of... -
Vegetation and Soils: A World Picture S. R. Eyre 9781412851565
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29Vegetation 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: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66The 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: $185.23Booksplease Price: $176.83Many 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Ever 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.56In 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98When 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98This 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... -
Restricting Freedoms: Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America by Eric Beasley 9781412849722
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $176.83Today, 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.56Formerly 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: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Mainstream 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: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66The 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 and child-rearing and... -
Political Philosophy: Fact, Fiction, and Vision Mario Bunge 9781412855877
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $96.21Political 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... -
Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900-1950 by John R. Lukacs 9781412855976
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63An 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: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66This 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: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Handbook 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: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63David 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: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.95Social 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: $58.48Booksplease Price: $57.51Vladimir 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... -
Womankind: Beyond the Stereotypes by Nancy Reeves 9780202303000
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $64.14A stereotype can be defined as a rendering by consensus. Since WOMANKIND: BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES first appeared in 1971, a turbulent decade has passed. In launching a new edition after such an... -
The Rate of Exchange and the Terms of Trade by S. A. Ozga 9780202361543
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98This volume originated in a course of lectures which the author originally gave at the Universitu lnternationale de Sciences Comparues at Luxembourg. The book appeared under the title of the course,... -
Foundations of Macroeconomics: Its Theory and Policy by Frederick S. Brooman 9780202362908
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $109.47Emphasizing careful, lucid explanation rather than the lavish use of cryptic graphs and mathematics, and combining the rigor of statement of the best American theoretical work with the extraordinary... -
A Dictionary of Geography by John Rice
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98The geographer seeks to describe the diverse features of the earth's surface, to explain if possible how these features have come to be what they are, and to discuss how they influence the... -
Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Change by Karl E. Taeuber
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98This book is an invaluable reference. First published in 1965, it is at once a snapshot of a moment in history and a timeless conceptualization of the issues inherent in societal segregation... -
Thinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives by 9780202306841
RRP: $105.28Booksplease Price: $93.95Like the first edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook, the new second edition brings into the classroom an overview of how images of social problems can shape not only public policy... -
The Micropolitics of Knowledge: Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups by Emmanuel Lazega
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $215.26For many years Emmanuel Lazega has explored communication behavior and decision-making processes of small workgroups within larger organizations. To account for the knowledge claims of members of... -
The Origins and Nature of Sociality by Robert W. Sussman
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98This book results from a symposium sponsored by the Program for Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The organizers of... -
Tie a Knot and Hang on: Providing Mental Health Care in a Turbulent Environment by Teresa L. Scheid
RRP: $202.78Booksplease Price: $176.83The author provides a description and a sociological analysis of mental health care work, emphasizing the interaction of professionally generated norms that guide the emotional labor of mental health... -
Framing the Victim: Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems by Nancy S. Berns
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98Framing the Victim is a must-read for anyone concerned about the politics and processes that shape how we understand and respond to social problems.It illustrates how victims of domestic violence are... -
Becoming Mature: Childhood Ghosts and Spirits in Adult Life by Valerie Bentz 9780202303598
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Presents an integrated theory of development and maturation focusing on the influence of childhood experience on adult women. The book draws on the theories of Mead, Habermas, and Schutz, and on... -
Person-Environment Practice: Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping by Susan Kemp 9780202361031
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention... -
Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present by John H. Leith 9780202362977
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87Christianity has always been a "creedal" religion in that it has always been theological. It was rooted in the theological tradition of ancient Israel, which was unifi ed by its historical credos and... -
The Face of the Fox by Frederick O. Gearing 9780202308425
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98In The Face of the Fox, an anthropological and sociological study of the Fox American Indians (the Mesquakie, their actual tribal name) who live just outside Tama, Iowa, Frederick Gearing puts a face... -
Global Aging and Challenges to Families by Vern Bengtson 9780202306865
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $215.85The recent explosion in population aging across the globe represents one of the most remarkable demographic changes in human history. There is much concern about population aging and its consequences... -
American Penology: A History of Control by Thomas G. Blomberg
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $69.11The purpose of American Penology is to provide a story of punishment's past, present, and likely future. The story begins in the 1600s, in the setting of colonial America, and ends in the present. As... -
Race, Class, and Power: Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies by Leo Kuper 9780202308005
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past... -
The Disposable Work Force: Worker Displacement and Employment Instability in America by Thomas Moore 9780202305202
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98The twenty-first century has witnessed a transformation of the organization, opportunities, and terms of work. Downsizing, restructuring, and outsourcing are the forces altering employment...