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Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution
by Robert W Mcchesney  Publisher Comments Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of...
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Sociology : a Critical Approach (96 Edition)
by Mary Alice Neubeck Publisher Comments This text offers students a lively, provocative introduction to the principles of sociology. It encourages students to develop what C. Wright Mills called a "sociological imagination," enabling them to see how their position in society and in history...
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Manhood in America : a Cultural History (2ND 06 Edition)
by Michael Kimmel Publisher Comments For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history, roles, and struggles. In Manhood in America, Second Edition, author Michael S. Kimmel--a leading authority in gender studies--argues...
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Tradition
by Edward Shils Publisher Comments Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the antitraditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here...
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Hip: The History (P.S.)
by John Leland Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland...
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Corporeal Image : Film, Ethnography, and the Senses (05 Edition)
by David Macdougall Publisher Comments In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge...
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New Ecological Order (92 Edition)
by Luc Ferry Publisher Comments Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological roots of the...
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Human Dignity and Welfare Systems
by Book News Annotation Arguing that the concept of human dignity is often considered as one of the highest values of human society, the authors (both senior lecturers in social policy at Nottingham Trent U., UK) construct a framework for evaluating welfare systems in terms...
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Gender, Development, and Globalization : Economics As If All People Mattered (03 Edition)
by Lourdes Beneria Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and index....
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Death, Society, and the Human Experience (9TH 07 Edition)
by Robert Kastenbaum Synopsis This landmark text in death education draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the...
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The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen
by Kevin O'keefe Publisher Comments Send an e-card for The Average American! Click here. John Q Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We think we know the type, but have we ever actually met the person? To be the perfectly average American is harder than it might seem: You must live within...
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Political Networks: The Structural Perspective
by David Knoke Publisher Comments Knoke explains the relevance of network theory in political science....
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
by bell hooks About the Author One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to...
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Seductions of Crime
by Jack Katz Publisher Comments In this startling look at evil behavior, a UCLA sociologist tries to get inside the criminal psyche to understand what it means or feels, signifies, sounds, tastes, or looks like to do any particular crime....
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Mcdonaldization of Society Rev Edition
by George Ritzer Publisher Comments The book provides a theoretical and analytical framework that both reflects reality and helps college students understand the reality of the world in which they grew up, live in, and are likely to continue to experience not only in the United States but...
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey Into the Heart of American Adolescence
by Patricia Hersch Publisher Comments For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight...
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
by James Surowiecki 
Powells.com Staff Pick Using anecdotes and statistics from such diverse sources as pre-election polls, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, traffic patterns, and jelly bean jars, The Wisdom of Crowds persuasively demonstrates that groups of people are usually smarter than their...
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Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy #4: Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
by Robert H Frank Synopsis Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. In a book that explores the very...
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Great Disruption : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (99 Edition)
by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments In the past thirty years, the United States has undergone a profound transformation in its social structure: Crime has increased, trust has declined, families have broken down, and individualism has triumphed over community. Has the Great Disruption of...
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Boomers, Xers, and Other Strangers : Understanding the Generational Differences That Divide Us (99 Edition)
by Rick Hicks Publisher Comments Ever wonder why your kids, parents, and even coworkers think and feel so differently than you do on core issues? Rick and Kathy Hicks contend and demonstrate that many of our core values are shaped largely by what was going on in our culture and world...
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