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Science in Action : How To Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (87 Edition)
by Bruno Latour  Publisher Comments Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers...
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The Early Works of John Dewey, Volume 3, 1882 - 1898: Essays and Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics, 1889-1892 (Collected Works of John Dewey)
by John Dewey Publisher Comments This third volume in the definitive edition of Dewey's early work opens with his tribute to George Sylvester Morris, the former teacher who had brought Dewey to the University of Michigan. Morris's death in 1889 left vacant the Department of Philosophy...
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Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
by Dan Jaffee Publisher Comments Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But is it working? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the...
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Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape
by Demond Shondell Miller Synopsis Miller and Rivera explore how the fundamental changes to the physical landscape after Hurricane Katrina set the stage for dramatic changes to come for the city and region, and how these changes altered the economic, cultural, and political lives of the...
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A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out...
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Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
by Molly Ivins Publisher Comments Only Molly Ivins can write about redneck politics in her native Texas and the discreet charm of the Bushwazee and manage to be both brutally honest and unabashedly affectionate....
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten Publisher Comments *Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time *Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting there In The Great Turning, David Korten argues that...
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Yusuf and Zulaikha
by Jami Synopsis In this classic Persian tale, translated by David Pendlebury, Jami explores the intimate and many-levelled relationship between love and beauty. It is known as the most popular of Jami's works....
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The Rumour
by Hans-joachim Neubauer Publisher Comments Rumours have always left an enigmatic trace through history. Beginning in Greek antiquity and culminating in a discussion of the rumour in the technological age, Hans-Joachim Neubauer takes the reader on a tour of its historical and cultural...
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The Movement and the Sixties
by Terry Anderson Publisher Comments It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam,...
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Doing Democracy : the Map Model for Organizing Social Movements (01 Edition)
by Bill Moyer Publisher Comments Citizen activism has achieved many positive results. But the road to success for social movements is often complex, usually lasting many years, with few guides for evaluating the precise stage of a movement's evolution to determine the best way forward...
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Welfare in Ireland: Actors, Resources, and Strategies
by Michel Peillon Publisher Comments Employing the conceptual framework elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu, Peillon provides a unified analysis of social welfare institutions and practices in Ireland. In an effort to offer an overview of the forces that have shaped and continue to influence the...
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American Technological Sublime
by David E. Nye Publisher Comments Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans' sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity from the common feeling of awe inspired by large-scale...
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Mcdonaldization of Society New Century E
by George Ritzer Publisher Comments Most undergraduate students today have never lived in an un-McDonaldized world, and because this book speaks to them, it sparks lively class discussions. This new edition is finely updated, and even more interesting, as it demonstrates the globalization...
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Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
by Philip Garrison Synopsis For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant...
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must
by Kalle Lasn Publisher Comments America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions...
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
by Studs Terkel 
Publisher Comments Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as...
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
by Robert Engelman Publisher Comments In the capital of Ghana, a teenager nicknamed “Condom Sister” trolls the streets to educate other young people about contraception. Her work and her own aspirations point to a remarkable shift not only in the West African nation, where just a...
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu and Samuel B. Griffith Publisher Comments Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding...
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Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
by Bruce Feiler Publisher Comments “ A charming and incisive close-up of the most important part of the Japanese miracle- the making of a Japanese.”...
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