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The Strange Death of Moral Britain Christie Davies 9781412806220
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86In the last half of the twentieth century, a once respectable and religious Britain became a seriously violent and dishonest society, one in which person and property were at risk, family breakdown... -
Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21st Century Francis Sempa 9781412807265
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86Writers, observers, and practitioners of international politics frequently invoke the term "geopolitics" to describe, explain, or analyze specific foreign policy issues and problems. Such... -
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 1, Renaissance and Reformation Egon Friedell 9781412807494
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.46Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars. His masterpiece, A... -
Muslim Minorities in Modern States: The Challenge of Assimilation by Raphael Israeli
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12Political 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... -
Killing the Competition: Economic Inequality and Homicide Martin Daly 9781412863360
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them. There is a simple, compelling answer: most homicides... -
Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory by Francis T. Cullen
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Criminology is in a period of much theoretical ferment. Older theories have been revitalized, and newer theories have been set forth. The very richness of our thinking about crime, however, leads to... -
Racial Structure and Radical Politics in the African Diaspora: Volume 2, Africana Studies by James L. Conyers
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68This is a must read book for anyone interested in the areas of racial theory and racial relations, multicultural and polarized religions, and the making of African personality and culture. In keeping... -
Designing Clothes: Culture and Organization of the Fashion Industry by Veronica Manlow
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86Fashion is all around us: we see it, we buy it, we read about it, but most people know little about fashion as a business. Veronica Manlow considers the broader signifi cance of fashion in society,... -
Military Rules, Regulations and the Code of War: Francis Lieber and the Certification of Conflict by Richard Shelly Hartigan
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07Military 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... -
Family Worlds: A Psychosocial Approach to Family Life by Gerald Handel
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.37How does a family function? How does a family make a distinctive life of its own while living according to the values of society? In what ways is a family a unit when all its members have... -
Globalization and Identity: Cultural Diversity, Religion, and Citizenship by Majid Tehranian
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86In the first decade of the twenty-first century, globalization and identity have emerged as the most critical challenges to world peace. This volume of Peace & Policy addresses the overarching... -
Presidential Relations with Congress by Richard S. Conley
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.91The presidential-congressional relationship is the most important and vivid of all the inter-branch relationships. It defines presidential activities, priorities, and successes. No president, from... -
Forced into Genocide: Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Turkish Army Adrienne G. Alexanian 9781412865524
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.04This memoir recalls Yervant Alexanian's death-defying experiences in the center of the Armenian Genocide. Like other Armenians of his generation, he was an eyewitness to the massacre and dislocation... -
The Persistence of the Particular by Dennis Wrong
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.24Definitions of human beings as "symbolic animals" emphasize our capacity to form theories and general laws that can be applied to common social experience. This is balanced by an equally... -
Communication Theory by C. David Mortensen
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $39.46Communication is the most complex and elevating achievement of human beings. Most people spend up to 70 percent of our waking hours engaged in some form of communication. Listening and responding to... -
Teachers and Scholars: A Memoir of Berkeley in Depression and War by Robert Nisbet
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78The University of California at Berkeley is today best known as a great research center and popularly remembered as a locus of campus unrest in the 1960s. This memoir by the eminent sociologist and... -
Suicide: Closing the Exits Ronald V. Clarke 9781412851695
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Suicide prevention is a major goal of the Public Health Service of the US government. This has been the case since the 1960s when the National Institute of Mental Health established a center for the... -
Cultural Landscapes: Religion and Public Life by Gabriel R. Ricci
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78A dualism between man and nature has been a persistentfeature of Western thought and spirituality from ancient times to the present. The opposition of mind and body, consciousness and world has... -
The War Between the State and the Family: How Government Divides and Impoverishes by Patricia Morgan
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Patricia Morgan's core assumption is that the family is an extremely effective vehicle for raising the welfare of its members. If this is correct it is quite possible that the state can best support... -
The Politics of Reapportionment by Malcolm E. Jewell
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07The 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: $44.62The 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,... -
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: Volume 26, 2007 by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspectives that continue to define the debate today... -
The Subdivision and Site Plan Handbook by David Listokin
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.10The Supreme Court decision that property owners may be entitled to compensation for government regulations that deprive them of reasonable use of their property has thrown the land-use field into a... -
Suburban Gridlock by Robert Cervero
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in... -
Book Matters: The Changing Nature of Literacy by Alan Sica
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Scholars have been puzzling over the "future of the book" since Marshall McLuhan's famous maxim "the medium is the message" in the early 1950s. McLuhan famously argued that... -
Curriculum, Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher Education: Perspectives on the History of Higher Education by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines... -
On Loss and Losing: Beyond the Medical Model of Personal Distress by Melvyn L. Fein 9781412842501
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.51All 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: $56.68Debates 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"... -
The Art of Conjecture Bertrand de Jouvenel 9781412847483
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.36Commissions of experts regularly meet to reply to questions such as: What will be the population of the country, or even of our planet, in ten, fifteen or twenty-five years? In what proportion will... -
Political and Military Sociology: Volume 40: An Annual Review by Neovi M. Karakatsanis 9781412851497
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.45Several contributions in this volume focus on the modern Middle East, with other articles examining justifications for war, the return of war veterans, white nationalists, and the activities of the... -
The Case Against the Davis-Bacon Act: Fifty-Four Reasons for Repeal by Armand J. Thieblot 9781412849883
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07The Davis-Bacon Act is a United States federal law that established the requirement that prevailing wages must be paid on public works projects. In this book, Armand J. Thieblot argues that the law... -
Africare: Black American Philanthropy in Africa by Penelope Campbell 9781412852548
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Africare is a US-based non-profit organization specializing in development aid for Africa. It is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the development field. Since its... -
Women in Muslim Rural Society by Joseph Ginat 9781412851763
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.37This study reassesses several accepted truths about Arab village society. It shows first that one cannot speak about the position of women in general, because there is a great difference among women... -
The Problem with Multiculturalism: The Uniqueness and Universality of Western Civilization by John M. Headley 9781412854979
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78The horrors of the past century have done little to advance appreciation for the virtues of Western civilization. Criticism of the West has mounted and the West itself has lost sight of its... -
Thomas Jefferson: America's Philosopher-King by Max Lerner 9781412852760
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To... -
Purgatory and Utopia: A Mazahua Indian Village of Mexico by Alicja Iwanska 9781412805582
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78The conflict between a people's determination to preserve their socio-cultural identity and the aspiration toward technological progress and knowledge has become common in the age of globalization... -
Voluntary Associations by John W. Chapman 9781412805650
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $58.86A vast and complicated array of subject matter is subjected to analysis, comment, and speculation by fifteen contributors representing three separate but contiguous disciplines. Their approaches are... -
The Americans by Hugh Munsterberg 9781412806527
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.46The Americans by Hugo Munsterberg stands alongside Alexis de Tocqueville's American Democracy as one of the great works on the New World written by a scholar deeply familiar with the Old World. When... -
American Political Ideas, 1865-1917 by Charles Merriam 9781412807159
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.46Charles Merriam is scarcely read today, and even among scholars he is probably more often cited than read seriously. His ambiguous position in the study of American democracy is unfortunate. Between... -
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics: Citizenship and Popular Culture by Michael Mitchell 9781412862417
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $57.78Broadening 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...