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Sociology (Cliffs Quick Review) - Study Notes
by George D. Zgourides  Publisher Comments CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. CliffsQuickReview Sociology provides you with an in-depth review of...
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome,...
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Middletown
by Robert Lynd Publisher Comments The first of two classic studies that examined the daily life of a typical small american city-in actuality, Muncie, Indiana-in the mid-1920s, using the approach of social anthropology. Of enduring interest to students of SOCIOLOGY (740), these works...
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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan (Tut Books. S)
by Charles J Dunn About the Author Charles Dunn's research into Kabuki and puppet drama at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, brought him into contact with various aspects of traditional Japan....
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Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography
by John Van Maanen Publisher Comments Once upon a time ethnographers returning from the field simply sat down, shuffled their note cards, and wrote up their descriptions of the exotic and quaint customs they had observed. Today scholars in all disciplines are realizing how their research is...
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A Fever in the Heart: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 3
by Ann Rule Synopsis A Fever in the Heart probes a volatile triangle of one woman and the two men who trade roles as her lover/husband--until both are murdered, leaving a double widow and a killer. Publicity tie-in to Everything She Ever Wanted, and A Rose For Her Grave...
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The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.)
by Virginia I. Postrel Publisher Comments Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how...
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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons
by Al Ventner Publisher Comments It is called the "Club of Nine," the exclusive group of nations that have detonated nuclear weapons. Apart from the major powers, its membership also includes, India, Pakistan, and Israel. More recently, its membership was blighted by North Korea. Based...
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Theory of Justice Original Edition
by John Rawls Publisher Comments Though the Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again...
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Second Sex (89 Edition)
by Simone De Beauvoir Publisher Comments This triumphant and genuinely revolutionary book began as an exceptional woman's attempt to find out who and what she was. It ended up shocking, infuriating, and galvanizing millions of readers and dramatically revising the way women talk and think about...
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Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
by Douglas Wolk Publisher Comments The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field. Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas...
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On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (MacArthur Foundation)
by Richard A., Jr. (edt) Settersten Publisher Comments On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job...
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Contemporary Gothic (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Catherine Spooner Publisher Comments Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and try not to stare at the pierced and tattooed teens we pass on the streets. But...
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Marriages and Families : Making Choices in a Diverse Society (9TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Mary Ann Lamanna Publisher Comments The number one seller in the market, this mainstream marriage and family text combines a balanced scholarly and applied approach with a unique theme, "making choices in a diverse society" The text achieves an excellent balance between the sociological...
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Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History
by Mary Lefkowitz Publisher Comments Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do we owe the underlying tenets of our democratic...
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On War (Penguin Classics)
by Carl Von Clausewitz Synopsis Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this treatise on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent system of political thought....
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Irons in the Fire
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments This acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history....
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Poor People's Movements : Why They Succeed, How They Fail (77 Edition)
by Frances F. Piven Publisher Comments Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this...
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We Are the Romani People (02 Edition)
by Ian Hancock Publisher Comments Written by a Romani (gypsy), this introduction to Roma life, health, food, culture, and society provides an insightful look at this despised by mysterious minority originating in India. Extensively illustrated, it looks at the people, their history since...
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Illness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors (89 Edition)
by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain...
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