Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $19.95 add to wish list |
45 Dangerous Minds: The Most Intense Interviews from Seconds Magazine
by Steven Blush Publisher Comments Forty-five key interviews with celebrities from the worlds of rock, art, literature and the counterculture, taken from the 18-year history of New York-based "Seconds magazine. Interviewees include Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, JG Ballard, Henry Rollins,...
|
|||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $25.00 add to wish list |
The Foresight Principle: Cultural Recovery in the 21st Century (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century)
by Richard A Slaughter Publisher Comments Why do things always get harder before they get easier? Why is foresight useful? What are the real megatrends? What does foresight really cost? Who should support it? These and other questions form the backbone of this strongly argued and thoroughly...
|
|||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $17.00 add to wish list |
The Fountain of Ages
by Betty Friedan Publisher Comments Betty Friedan launches a new revolution with this powerful, bestselling book breaking through the American mystique of aging as decline. Through hundreds of interviews, Friedan confronts our denial and demolishes society's compassionate contempt--to...
|
|||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.95 add to wish list |
In the City: Random Acts of Awareness
by Colette Brooks Publisher Comments WINNER OF THE PEN/JERARD FUND AWARD, In the City is an idiosyncratic re-creation of the jagged edges and orphaned curves, stray bits of data and half-overheard stories that comprise the urban experience. Colette Brooks's daring but eminently readable...
|
|||||||
Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $10.95 add to wish list |
Introducing Sociology
by Richard Osborne Publisher Comments What is sociology? Simply it is the study of how society functions (or not). Osborne, a lecturer in Philosophy at London's Guildhall University, traces the origins of these differing conceptual systems, from Enlightenment thought and the pioneering work...
|
|||||||
Used: $2.60 Hardcover List Price $18.95 add to wish list |
The Scar of Race
by Paul M Sniderman Publisher Comments entangled with politics--the process of negotiating who gets what through government action. We now have to understand and cope with a politics of race....
|
|||||||
Used: $3.50 Trade Paper List Price $5.95 add to wish list |
The Souls of Black Folk (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
|
|||||||
Sale: $4.98 Trade Paper List Price $9.95 add to wish list |
The Sanctity of Marriage Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Marriage--Between a Man and a Woman--Featuring Those Whocast the First Stone
by Bryan Harris Publisher Comments An edgy, tongue-in-cheek look at the lives of some of the most vocal "defenders" of marriage, and how they have (not) lived up to the sacred standards of the institution they claim to protect. In November 2004, the right wing won elections across the...
|
|||||||
Used: $6.50 Trade Paper List Price $19.50 add to wish list |
This Is the City: Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles
by Ronald J Schmidt Publisher Comments Jack Webb's Los Angles, a Southern California paradise built of confidence games and real estate booms, swindles and boondoggles, is indeed "the City." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined...
|
|||||||
Sale: $6.98 Trade Paper List Price $14.95 add to wish list |
What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store?
by Bill Talen Publisher Comments The spiritual leader of the Church of Stop Shopping takes his anti-consumerist sermon from the stage to the page....
|
|||||||
Used: $6.38 Trade Paper List Price $22.00 add to wish list |
Social Dilemmas (Social Psychology)
by Samuel Komorita Publisher Comments Emphasizing real-world examples, Komorita and Parks illustrate both the theoretical and the ecological relevance of social dilemmas, focusing on "exchange theory" to explain how conflicts are resolved. This book is appropriate for students of psychology,...
|
|||||||
Used: $4.50 Trade Paper List Price $8.95 add to wish list |
The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today (Quest Book)
by Shirley Nicholson Publisher Comments The feminine principle in spirituality today; essays by Riane Eisler, June Singer, and others....
|
|||||||
Used: $3.40 Trade Paper List Price $14.95 add to wish list |
Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance
by David Elkind Publisher Comments What has happened to the American family in the last few decades? And what are these changes doing to our children? David Elkind, renowned child psychologist and author of The Hurried Child, has devoted his career to these urgent questions. This eloquent...
|
|||||||
Used: $6.40 Trade Paper List Price $20.00 add to wish list |
City Development Strategies to Promote Urban Poverty Reduction
by Asian Development Ba Publisher Comments The initiatives created by the pilot cities in the City Development Strategy and City Without Slums programs are presented with vivid on-the-ground examples in this retrospective look at these programs. Detailed plans formulated by cities around Asia...
|
|||||||
Used: $6.40 Trade Paper List Price $19.95 add to wish list |
The Public Family: Exploring Its Role in Democratic Society
by David J Herring Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-255) and index....
|
|||||||
Used: $4.38 Hardcover List Price $25.95 add to wish list |
Our Last Best Shot: Guiding Our Children Through Early Adolescence
by Laura Session Stepp Synopsis A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist translates the behavior of young adolescents and guides readers through this pivotal developmental stage. "A wealth of practical understanding and guidance for parents and others who care for our youth".--David A...
|
|||||||
Used: $4.95 Trade Paper List Price $16.00 add to wish list |
Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family
by Al Gore Publisher Comments Al and Tipper Gore have long considered family their bedrock. Now, in this provocative and personal book, they explore the myriad ways in which the idea of family is being redefined in America. Over the past two generations, cultural shifts and economic...
|
|||||||
Used: $3.20 Hardcover List Price $28.00 add to wish list |
Dragons for Sale: Studies in Unreason
by Robert E Wheeler Publisher Comments Fear and ignorance have run rampant throughout human history, stifling creativity and unleashing unspeakable cruelty. Those sinister mythical dragons that often stood in the path of truth and knowledge seem to return century after century as each new...
|
|||||||
Used: $3.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.00 add to wish list |
Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
by Sissela Bok Publisher Comments What is the effect of long-term media violence on our national character? Do we want four-year-olds watching slasher films? Who should decide?While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the profusion of violence-in film, TV, video games, and on line-...
|
|||||||
Used: $4.80 Trade Paper List Price $29.95 add to wish list |
Clubspotting 2.0: Street & Club Culture
by Paolo Davoli Publisher Comments Clubspotting 2.0 broadens its coverage from Italy to the international scene and features the world's hottest clubs, music, flyers and artists. Its focus is street culture, the progenitor of club culture, and a major highlight of the book is the project...
|
|||||||








