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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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Letters to His Parents: 1939-1951
by Theodor W. Adorno Publisher Comments 'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us.' So begins Adorno's letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Nazi...
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Alain Touraine
by Jon Clark Synopsis The 17 essays in this volume discuss the work of Alain Touraine and consider his contribution to the social sciences. The text includes his most recent thinkings on the market and communities, social conflict, democracy social movements, history and...
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Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow
by Patrick J Gilpin Publisher Comments A compelling biography of a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an eminent Chicago-trained sociologist, and a pioneering race relations leader....
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Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times (Great Barrington Books)
by Richard Flacks Publisher Comments Not long after co-authoring The Port Huron Statement, the charter document of 1960s activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright Mills. It is published here for the first time...
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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
by Xaviera Hollander and Robin Moore and Yvonne Dunleavy Publisher Comments To commemorate the 30th anniversary of one of the modern classics of the sexual revolution, Xaviera Hollander--former New York City madam and the world's best-known observer and commentator on sexual issues--presents a new Afterword to her life story in...
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An American Idyll the Life of Carleton H. Parker
by Cornelia Stratton Parker Publisher Comments 1919. The story of Parker, a liberal academic and a pioneer in the sociology of the Industrial Workers of the World. If you admire strong men and true, if you enjoy biography, if you like love stories, if naiveti appeals to you, if a tale of happiness...
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Talcott Parsons: Economic Sociologist of the 20th Century
by Laurence S. (edt) Moss Publisher Comments Talcott Parsons' writings are indisputably classics of American sociology. Today, more than a quarter century after Parsons' death and a full thirty years since he dominated sociological discourse, Parsons' theories still serve as flashpoints in many...
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Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition
by Judith Nies Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index....
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Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea (Living Out)
by Tobias Schneebaum Publisher Comments In the swamps of Asmat in West New Guinea, Tobias Schneebaum -- traveler, writer, painter, explorer -- finds the way of life that suits him best. Secret Places reels readers into a world of storytellers and sorcerers, cannibals and carvers, a place where...
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Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
by Marty Jezer Publisher Comments The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into...
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Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination: The Wilds of Society
by Shawn Chandler Bingham Book News Annotation Bingham (sociology, Saint Leo U., Florida) provides the first full-length sociological examination of the ideas of Thoreau, concentrating on the relationship between the individual and society, social change, and the deconstruction of society's ideas...
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
by Marc Parent Publisher Comments Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for...
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Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology
by Clifford Wilcox Publisher Comments Relying upon close readings of virtually all of his published and unpublished writings as well as extensive interviews with former colleagues and students, Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology traces the development of Robert...
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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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Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology (Columbia Classics in Anthropology)
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead presents the anthropologist's work in the context of her life and times. Mead also defends Benedict's humanistic approach to anthropology as she considers...
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C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings
by Kathryn Mills Publisher Comments This book gathers an assortment of professional and personal correspondence to form a complex and authentic portrait of one of the century's most dynamic public intellectuals....
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Ever After: A Father's True Story
by William Wharton Publisher Comments From the author of Birdy, the acclaimed memoir about the tragedy that killed the famous author's daughter and her family, and his personal struggle toward recovery and spiritual renewal....
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Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of Central America and Yucatan
by Victor W Von Hagen Publisher Comments This classic Chronicle book remains available as a print-on-demand title. You can purchase it from an online bookseller or by order from your local bookstore....
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Locating Bourdieu (New Anthropologies of Europe)
by Deborah Reed-danahay Publisher Comments Pierre Bourdieu's work viewed within the context of his life and times....
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