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Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action
by Pierre Bourdieu  Publisher Comments Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the “subject” of action? In this new volume, one...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks 
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals...
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Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugo (Central Asia Book Series)
by Andreas Kappeler Publisher Comments The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insight into the background of these catastrophic conflicts. First published in German on the eve...
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Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives
by John Edwards Publisher Comments A popular former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate presents an inspiring mosaic of how childhood homes and communities shape a person's adult life, in a collection of narratives by such figures as Stephen Spielberg, John Glenn, and Sugar Ray...
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Genocide of the Mind : New Native American Writing (03 Edition)
by Marijo Moore Publisher Comments - Marijo Moore was chosen as North Carolina's Distinguished Woman of the Year in Arts (1998) and named by Native Peoples magazine as one of the top five America Indian writers of the new century.- Draws together Native American writers living both on and...
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We Are All the Same: A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
by Jim Wooten Publisher Comments Award-winning correspondent for ABC World News and Nightline Jim Wooten is a seasoned newsman who has covered tragedy the world over. Now he tells the story of Nkosi Johnson, an eleven-year-old South African boy born with AIDS into poverty in a...
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French Beans and Food Scares : Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age (04 Edition)
by Susanne Freidberg Publisher Comments From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in an increasingly industrialized, internationalized food supply. These food...
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Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom (Rutgers Series in Human Evolution)
by Paul H. Rubin Publisher Comments In this lively and insightful book, Paul Rubin shows just how much light can be shed on the institutions of modern life by reference to our long species' history as hunter-gatherers. This is highly recommended reading.-Herbert Gintis, author of Game...
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People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia
by Michael I Niman Synopsis Since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote forests to pray for world peace and create a model of a functioning utopian society. In People of the...
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From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play
by Victor Turner Publisher Comments How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role...
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Women and Work in Indonesia
by Michele (edt) Ford Publisher Comments With chapters written by Indonesian scholars and based upon extensive fieldwork experience in Indonesia, this is a fascinating and significant examination of the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. Taking a broad definition of work so as...
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The True History of Chocolate
by Sophie Coe Publisher Comments "A beautifully written...and illustrated history of the Food of the Gods, from Olmecs to present-day developments."—Chocolatier This delightful and best-selling tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, and culinary...
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Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Prctices
by Brenda Love Synopsis This unusual volume contains more than 700 entries and 150 original and sometimes shocking illustrations. Brenda Love covers strange methods of arousal as will as hundreds of bizarre sex activities such as erotic balls, and love potions....
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Applied Social Research #05: Case Study Research: Design and Methods
by Robert K. Yin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index....
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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened
by Rosalyn Baxandall Publisher Comments Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair...
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Ethnicity (Oxford Readers)
by John Hutchinson Publisher Comments Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an...
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Fame Us: The Culture of Celebrity
by Brian Howell Publisher Comments "Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul."-Marilyn Monroe "Washington is Hollywood for ugly people."-Chuck Todd, Hotline.com "Fame: It's only a punch, a drug bust, or a public defecation away."-Adrianne...
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril...
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide...
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New Transnational Activism (05 Edition)
by Sidney Tarrow Publisher Comments Argues that individuals move into transnational activism which links domestic to international politics....
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