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Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
by John Searle  Publisher Comments As human beings, we see ourselves as rational, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless physical particles. Is there a conflict between these two visions...
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Essentials of Sociology: A Down-To-Earth Approach
by James Henslin Synopsis Study Smarter! Need Additional Help Studying? Use these great tools to help you get a better grade! Study Guide Plus This manual provides learning objectives, key terms, self-tests, and glossaries, plus free access to the Tutor Center. Companion Website...
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The Conservative Mind
by Russell Kirk Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-524) and index....
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Friends, Lovers, and Soulmates: A Guide to Better Relationships Between Black Men and Women
by Derek S Hopson Publisher Comments Are you looking for a special companion? Frustrated because you can't seem to communicate with the person you are with? Determined to meet someone whose vision matches yours? If so, Friends, Lovers, and Soul Mates is for you! Filled with self-assessments,...
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
by Martin Amis Publisher Comments To this tantalizing nonfiction collection Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while...
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Video Green Los Angeles & the Triumph
by Chris Kraus Publisher Comments Video Green examines the explosion of late 1990s Los Angeles art driven by high-profile graduate programs. Probing the surface of art-critical buzzwords, Chris Kraus brilliantly chronicles how the City of Angels has suddenly become the epicenter of the...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich 
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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Politics of Masculinities (97 Edition)
by Michael A. Messner Publisher Comments Michael A. Messner provides a sociological framework to understand the responses of men to the changes, challenges, and crises in the social organization of gender. By examining not only what certain groups of men say about gender, but what they do...
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Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus: An Investigation Into Economic and Social Conditions During.....
by Joachim Jeremias Synopsis An investigation into economic and social conditions during the New Testament period....
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Telecourse Guide for Exploring Society.. (3RD 07 Edition)
by Penney Publisher Comments This Telecourse Guide for Kornblum's SOCIOLOGY IN A CHANGING WORLD, 8/e, is designed to accompany the "Exploring Society: Introduction to Sociology" telecourse produced by DALLAS TeleLearning of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD). This...
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
by Erich Auerbach Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
by Marilyn Johnson
Publisher Comments The New York Times comes each morning and never fails to deliver news of the important dead. Every day is new; every day is fraught with significance. I arrange my cup of tea, prop up my slippers. Obituaries are history as it is happening. Whose time am...
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Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
by Karen Tranberg Hansen Publisher Comments When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business...
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Abnormal Psychology : Core Concepts (08 Edition)
by James Butcher Publisher Comments Finally, a briefer version of the most authoritative and respected introductory book on abnormal psychology. As in their more comprehensive version, the esteemed author team of Butcher, Mineka and Hooley offers readers a thoroughly researched and up-to...
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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
by Susan Faludi
Powells.com Staff Pick With the publication of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women in 1992, Susan Faludi became a feminist icon. When current trends put economic theory or genetic programming at the center of the dialogue on gender issues, Faludi...
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson
Publisher Comments Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited...
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Portraits of 'The Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments 'Drawing on current theory in symbolic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this interpretive essay investigates a complex form of joking based on material collected in a Western Apache community wherein Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo...
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Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions
by Hans Gerth Publisher Comments A synthesis of biology and psychology that examines man's institutional structures, and the interaction of the individual and society....
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and...
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Our Lady of the Sewers
by Paul Richardson Publisher Comments Paul Richardson's mission—"to sieve out the ancient, perverse and eccentric from the new, nice and normal"—took him from coastal plain to mountainous peak. From ritual pig killings to wood-chopping competitions, from an alchemist who eats...
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