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The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change
by Randall Collins  Publisher Comments Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges from this history is a social theory of intellectual change,...
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Social Theory of Modern Societies: Anthony Giddens and His Critics
by David Held Publisher Comments During the past decade, Anthony Giddens has published a series of substantial volumes that have defined a distinctive and original theoretical approach. The twin focal points of his research are the "theory of structuration" and the analysis of...
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Intercultural Competence : Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures (5TH 06 Edition)
by Myron Lustig Publisher Comments Striking a unique balance between skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides readers with the background and confidence to succeed in today's multicultural environment. Communication and intercultural competence; cultural differences in...
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Uncommon Ground : Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (96 Edition)
by William (ed.) Cronon Synopsis Argues that attempting to exclude humans from their place in nature is no solution to our environmental problems. Instead, environmental advocates should help us live in a sustainable relationship with nature. This is a reassessment of the environmental...
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Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture
by Sari Kawana Publisher Comments The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of interwar Japanese...
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Mom's House, Dad's House: A Complete Guide for Parents Who Are Separated, Divorced, or Living Apart
by Isolina Ricci Publisher Comments Can children flourish in any custody situation? If their parents read Mom's House, Dad's House, the answer is a resounding "yes." This unique ground-breaking classic, which has become the standard for two generations of parents, is again breaking new...
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The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families
by Mary Pipher Publisher Comments In The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher does for the American family what she did for adolescent girls and their parents in her bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: she opens our eyes wide to the desperate realities we are facing and shows us a way out...
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Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Seven Stories' Open Media Pamphlet Series)
by Robert W. McChesney 
Publisher Comments -- The global media market of the '90s is dominated by fewer than ten media conglomerates The tremendous growth of the so-called information superhighway has opened countless new channels for media, but only a very few opportunities for control of those...
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Ed Gein Psycho
by Paul Woods Publisher Comments America may have had its fill of psychos for the last forty years, but none of them has inspired so many books and films (Pyscho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as Wisconsin's cannibalistic handyman, Ed Gein. None of them has been...
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Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-To-Face Behavior
by Erving Goffman Synopsis In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, one of the great intellectual...
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The Division of Labor in Society
by Emile Durkheim Synopsis Emile Durkheim founded the French school of sociology....
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and...
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Sidewalk
by Mitchell Duneier Publisher Comments An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on “the blocks” of one of New York’s most...
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Macho Paradox (06 Edition)
by Jackson Katz Publisher Comments Praise for The Macho Paradox An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful work that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. --Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes...
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Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Re-Shaping the World
by Benjamin R Barber Publisher Comments "An important new book." --Newsweek "Mr. Barber is. . . the first to put Jihad and McWorld together in an inescapable dialectic . . . . [It] stands as a bold invitation to debate the broad contours and future of society." --Barbara...
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Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of...
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The Children
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Children is David Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people — the Children — who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. The Children is a story...
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Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives
by Martin N. Marger Synopsis RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, Eighth Edition, explores race and ethnic relations in a global context, while extensively covering groups and issues in the United States. The textas unique comparative approach is increasingly...
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
Publisher Comments Shocked by the commerce in everything from pet cloning to patriotism, frightened by the downward spiral of her finances and that of the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most...
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
by Saba Mahmood Publisher Comments Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or...
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