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China's Long March to Freedom: Grassroots Modernization by Kate Zhou
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $117.36China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Th eir success has been phenomenal, despite the fact... -
History of Higher Education Annual: 1998: The Land-Grant ACT and American Higher Education: Contexts and Consequences by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412805445Author Roger L. GeigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint -
Picking Judges by Nancy Maveety 9781412863308
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97What defines a president? Is it policymaking? A good relationship with the American people? Or is it legacy? Most would argue that legacy imprints a president in the American consciousness. A... -
Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations by Morris Barer 9780202304892
Booksplease Price: $142.79Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed... -
Ideology and Social Knowledge Harold J. Bershady 9781412853682
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics... -
Business Groups and Financial Markets: A Weberian Analysis by Sandro Segre 9781412856850
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97This work builds on the classical sociological contributions of Weber, Simmel, and Toennies, and makes the case for different and alternative ideal-typical models of business relations, which the... -
Knowledge and Networking: On Communication in the Social Sciences by Anton Oleinik 9781412864077
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97Success and career growth in academic life depend upon reaching and influencing the widest audience possible. To do so, scientists strive to develop personalized trust. They do so by establishing... -
False Consciousness: An Essay on Mystification by Guenter Lewy 9781412864114
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86In this book, Guenter Lewy explains and critiques the idea of false consciousness - that people living under capitalism do not know their best interests. This idea was prevalent in the writings of... -
Beyond Therapy: Igniting Life Focus Community Movements Erving Polster 9781412862622
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to... -
Political and Military Sociology: Volume 43, Political Attitudes, Perceptions, and Culture: An Annual Review by Neovi M. Karakatsanis 9781412856997
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $45.72This volume encompasses a wide range of empirical research on a variety of topics that are related by their focus on the importance of attitudes, culture, and perceptions. The significance of public... -
The Management of Purpose by Lewis Anthony Dexter 9781412810340
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Lewis Anthony Dexter may well have been one of the better known and least appreciated political scientists of the last century. This outstanding collection of Dexter's writings, demonstrates why... -
Into the Heart of European Poetry John Taylor 9781412811095
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97John Taylor's brilliant new book examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. Venturing far and wide from the France in which he... -
Louis I. Kahn-Architect: Remembering the Man and Those Who Surrounded Him by Charles E. Dagit, Jr. 9781412865234
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04Few people in the history of art and architecture have planted a seed of inspiration that grew to become a towering oak of lasting influence. There are those, particularly colleagues and students of... -
Newsgathering in Washington: A Study in Political Communication by Dan Nimmo
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86In 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: $116.98The 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... -
Dysfunctions of the Welfare State Joel Gibbons 9781412810982
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49This 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,... -
Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States by Gabriel A. Barhaim
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98This 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... -
Henry Adams and the American Naturalist Tradition by Harold Kaplan
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97The 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: $116.98Many 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... -
Liberalism, Puritanism and the Colonial Mind by Vernon Louis Parrington 9781412818681
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.25In 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... -
Restricting Freedoms: Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America by Eric Beasley 9781412849722
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Today, 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... -
British Miscalculations: The Rise of Muslim Nationalism, 1918-1925 Isaiah Friedman 9781412863001
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $63.26In the aftermath of World War I there was furious agitation throughout Islam against the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Coupled with the powerful effect of the principle of self-determination,... -
Ideology and the Ideologists Lewis S. Feuer 9781412814423
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55The revival of ideology, which began early in the second half of the last century, has led to reconsideration of the following questions: What underlies the pattern of the rise and decline of the... -
Animals and Criminal Justice Carmen M. Cusack 9781412865210
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Since civil societies are ruled by law, they can be evaluated, both... -
Immigrants on the Threshold by Judith T. Shuval
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary... -
Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today William M. Johnston 9781412842334
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86In the twentieth century, celebrations of historical anniversaries abounded. There was the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 150th anniversary of photography, Bach's 300th anniversary, and... -
Long Old Road: Back to Black Metropolis by Horace R. Cayton
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36From the time that he ran away to sea at sixteen, until he graduated from the University of Washington, Horace R. Cayton was a messman on a freighter, an unknowing handyman in an Alaskan brothel, a... -
Psychiatry and Public Affairs: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry by Leo H. Bartemeier 9781412842839
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75This stimulating collection bears witness to the insight that psychiatrists, with their special training and background and concern for human relationships, can contribute solutions to major problems... -
Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making by A. Pablo Iannone 9781412853958
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $117.36The problems and issues arising from globalization are difficult to resolve, in part because our ways of conceptualizing the conflicts and responding to them are inadequate. This book fills this gap,... -
Post-Liberalism: The Death of a Dream by Melvyn L. Fein 9781412864053
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $42.43Liberalism is dying-despite its superficial appearance of vigour. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein,... -
Power, Norms, and Inflation: A Skeptical Treatment by 9780202304304
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Explanations 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... -
Muslim Minorities in Modern States: The Challenge of Assimilation by Raphael Israeli
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Political leaders of the 1930s may be accused of blindness to danger in their failed attempts to appease totalitarian aggression, but no one doubts they believed they were doing so to preserve their... -
Military Rules, Regulations and the Code of War: Francis Lieber and the Certification of Conflict by Richard Shelly Hartigan
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Military commanders from ancient time had set down rules and regulations to discipline their troops. From the Pharaohs on, commanders directed the strategy, tactics, and camp discipline of the often... -
The Politics of Reapportionment by Malcolm E. Jewell
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36The issue of apportionment is one of the most important problems facing citizens of most of the states in America. It underlies many other problems of state government. Growing judicial concern with... -
Political and Military Sociology, an Annual Review: Volume 44, Democracy, Security, and Armed Forces by Jonathan Swarts
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $46.80The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security, military training, culture, and the challenges of bureaucracy,... -
On Loss and Losing: Beyond the Medical Model of Personal Distress by Melvyn L. Fein 9781412842501
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $117.36All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress. All too often, their discomfort is treated as a medical issue requiring treatment-usually through medication. Melvyn L. Fein argues... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity by Irving Louis Horowitz 9781412846219
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between... -
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics: Citizenship and Popular Culture by Michael Mitchell 9781412862417
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first... -
Lessons from Ground Zero: Media Response to Terror by Jay Perkins 9781412813365
Booksplease Price: $59.97It ranked among journalism's finest hours. That is what was heard in the weeks following September 11, 2001. They made mistakes, of course, but in covering one of the biggest disasters ever to hit... -
Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage by Janice Crouse 9781412863179
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97In Marriage Matters, Janice Shaw Crouse argues that marriage is a critical element in a free society and that society's most vulnerable communities, especially minorities and the poor, suffer the...