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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh  
Powells.com Staff Pick Sudhir Venkatesh's work was featured prominently in Freakonomics; here his research is fleshed out and humanized, telling his remarkable and unusual story. For seven years, Venkatesh was granted unprecedented access to one of Chicago's most notorious...
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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
by Xaviera Hollander and Robin Moore and Yvonne Dunleavy Publisher Comments How did you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera Hollander. In the late 1960s — that era of sexual chaos, when Playboy Clubs and love-ins were competing for national...
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Manson in His Own Words
by Charles Manson Publisher Comments Distilled from hundreds of hours of interviews, Manson's story reveals an enormous amount of new information about his life and how it led to the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders, and provides grim insight into the making of a criminal mind. 16 pages of photos....
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Charles S. Johnson: Leadership Beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow
by Patrick J Gilpin Publisher Comments "It seems almost inexplicable that the national and international prominence enjoyed by Johnson at the time of his death is only now receiving the well-considered appreciation of Patrick J. Gilpin and Marybeth Gasman's comprehensive biography." --from...
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Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
by Marty Jezer Synopsis 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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Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
by John F. Galliher Publisher Comments Laud Humphreys (1930–1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. In graduate school during the late 1960s, he conducted extensive fieldwork in public restrooms in a St. Louis...
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Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society: Implications of the Work of Jack Goody
by David R. Olson And Michael Cole Publisher Comments Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians...
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Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists
by John Scott Synopsis "Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists" covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in the second half of the twentieth century, such as...
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Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)
by Thomas J. Scheff Synopsis One of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually invisible to us. Goffman's...
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Tales of the Lavender Menace : a Memoir of Liberation (99 Edition)
by Karla Jay Synopsis Karla Jay, a direct participant in the dramatic history of the women's and gay liberation movements, brings on stage a dazzling cast of unforgettable characters and gives voice to the sweeping tale of the activists who struggled for their vision of...
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: Asian-American Odyssey, an
by Lydia Yuri Minatoya Publisher Comments Chapter 1 Albany, New York My Mother's Music "I believe that the Japanese word for wife" "literally means honorable person remaining within," says my mother. "During the nineteen twenties, when I was a child in Japan, my seventeen-year-old cousin...
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The Story of a Marriage: The Letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson
by Helena Wayne Publisher Comments Malinowski is known internationally as one of the founders of social anthropology, as the creator of modern field work, as a great writer and an inspiring teacher. Until now little has been known about his personal life and thoughts. In these two volumes...
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Darkwater Voices From Within the Veil
by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments The distinguished American civil rights leader, W. E. B. Du Bois first published these fiery essays, sketches, and poems individually nearly 80 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals. This volume has long...
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Max Weber and Karl Marx (Routledge Classics in Sociology)
by Karl Lowith Synopsis Karl Lowith's study of Max Weber and Karl Marx is a key text in modern interpretations of the theme of alienation in Marxist theory and the subject of rationalization in Weber's sociology. Lowith's philosophical approach, a product of Heidegger's...
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Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists
by Bennett M. Berger Synopsis All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family...
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Zygmunt Bauman (Key Sociologists)
by Tony Blackshaw Synopsis This timely book provides a concise but critical introduction to the work of a sociological phenomenon. After introducing the man, his major influences, and his special way of "thinking sociologically," Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's...
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The Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society
by E. J. Hundert Publisher Comments The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the Enlightenment. This book approaches this problem from the perspective of the challenge offered...
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Endless Crusade : Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (90 Edition)
by Ellen Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments This book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their...
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Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists
by John Scott Synopsis Covering the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most significant thinkers in sociology, Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists concentrates on figures in the field writing principally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
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Place in El Paso : a Mexican-american Childhood (96 Edition)
by Gloria Lopez-stafford Publisher Comments This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the money boys who beg...
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