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Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty
by Zygmunt Bauman  Publisher Comments The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough...
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How To Read a Village
by Richard Muir Publisher Comments What constitutes a village? What is the significance of the maypole? What was the true purpose of a village green? What is a moot hall? What is the origin of lich-gates? What was the real role of a yeoman? Why have whole villages disappeared...
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The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
by William Playfair Publisher Comments A scientific revolution began at the end of the 18th century with the invention and popularization of the graphic display of data by the remarkable Scot, William Playfair. His marvelous Atlas showed how much could be learned if one plotted data...
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The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 (Oxford Studies in Social History)
by Peter Borsay Publisher Comments In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the most striking features of that revival: the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical...
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Apocalypse Observed : Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe, and Japan (00 Edition)
by John R. Hall Publisher Comments As the millennium approaches, there is renewed interest in Apocalyptic visions. Over the years, several groups, or cults have brought the idea of the Apocalypse into the media. In this important and timely work, "Apocalypse Observed "analyzes five of the...
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Economy & Society 2 Volumes
by Max Weber Publisher Comments Max Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920's, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination. Economy and Society was the...
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Looking Out / Looking in (12TH 07 Edition)
by Ronald B. Adler Publisher Comments Used by more than a million students, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, Twelfth Edition, continues its outstanding tradition of combining current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life. You'll discover the...
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Fatal Strategies New Edition
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the...
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The Sixth Language; Learning a Living in the Internet Age, 2D Ed. (Reprint, 2000).
by Robert K Logan Book News Annotation This edition adds a new language, the Internet, that emerged between The Fifth Language (1995) and the 2000 iteration of The Sixth Language. Before sharing new insights into the nature and origins of language, Logan (Media Ecology Association, New...
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Man, the State, and War : a Theoretical Analysis ((Rev)01 Edition)
by Kenneth Waltz Publisher Comments What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and...
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Abnormal Psych. in Changing World (7TH 08 Edition)
by Jeffrey S. Nevid Publisher Comments For courses in Abnormal Psychology and Psychopathology. Within the field of abnormal psychology, research developments continue to sharpen the understanding of abnormal behavior. In Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World, Nevid, Rathus, and Greene...
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Social Psychology
by Dacher Keltner Publisher Comments Three major figures from the field of social psychology lead us on an exploration to better understand our social lives. This elegantly written book returns to the classic roots of the field by placing the focus on understanding phenomena from our...
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Primitive Classification (67 Edition)
by Emile Durkheim Publisher Comments Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss maintain that society is the source of the very categories of human thought. First published in the "Annee Sociologique" in 1903, this classic essay has been translated by Rodney Needham, who also provides a critical...
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Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
by John R. Stilgoe Publisher Comments Outside Lies Magic is a book about the acute observation of ordinary things, about becoming aware in everyday places, about seeing in utterly new ways, about enriching your life unexpectedly. For more than 20 years, John R. Stilgoe has developed and...
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Native North American Art (98 Edition)
by Janet Catherine Berlo Publisher Comments This exciting new investigation explores the indigenous arts of the US and Canada from the early pre-contact period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of...
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The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
by James Howard Kunstler 
Powells.com Staff Pick If civilization began, as it's often said, with the appearance of the first city, it stands to reason that the character of our cities can tell us a great deal about the state of our civilization. With this as his central premise, James Howard...
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
by Hasia R. Diner Publisher Comments Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of America's abundant food--its meat and white bread, its butter and cheese...
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Dialectic on Enlightenment (02 Edition)
by Max Horkheimer Publisher Comments Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set...
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Third World Political Ecology
by Raymond Bryant Publisher Comments Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World....
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Woman in the Body : a Cultural Analysis of Reproduction (Rev 01 Edition)
by Emily Martin Publisher Comments This bold reappraisal of science and society explores the different ways that women's reproduction is seen in American culture. "Spectacular. There is no better study of the power of metaphor in modern medicine." --Thomas W. Laqueur, author of Making...
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