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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
by Arlie Ru Hochschild  Publisher Comments Twentieth anniversary edition with new afterword of Hochschild's accessible study of how service professionals -- airline flight attendants, bill collectors, nurses, store clerks -- and other so-called emotion workers manage their feelings while making...
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American Urban History: An Interpretive Reader with Commentaries
by Alexander B Callow Review "Still one of the most complete and varied readers on urban history."--Kurt Leichtle, University of Wisconsin, River Falls "The best reader available in Urban History of the U.S. It has a broad base incorporating pertinent studies in disciplines other...
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Swimming Lessons: Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology
by David Ehrenfeld Publisher Comments Never in history has life been so complicated and full of sudden changes. Technology, the environment, and the way we work and relate to one another are all in upheaval. With wit, humor, a calm voice, and great authority, Swimming Lessons gives a clear...
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Richistan : a Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich (07 Edition)
by Robert L. Frank Publisher Comments Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, "Richistan" looks behind the glitz to find the real story behind new money and its impact on the richest nation in the world....
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Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (Cultural Front)
by Michael Berube Publisher Comments "Revels in a self-consciously renegade spirit." --The Chronicle of Higher Education "The wired left." --Toronto Globe and Mail "Lively and smart." --San Francisco Chronicle Using the cheap desktop publishing techniques of 'zine culture, and supplementing...
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The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration
by Anthony Giddens Publisher Comments Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective...
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Practice of Everyday Life Volume 2 Living &
by Michel De Certeau Publisher Comments To remain unconsumed by consumer society -- this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did...
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Racism (Key Ideas)
by Robert Miles Publisher Comments "Racism" provides an illuminating general overview of the history and debate surrounding the concept of racism. Its objective is to argue that the concept should retain a central place in the analysis of both the historical development and contemporary...
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Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
by Lee Siegel 
Publisher Comments From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about...
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Media in the Digital Age
by John V. Pavlik Publisher Comments Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news...
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Images of Organization -updated ((Rev)06 Edition)
by Gareth Morgan Publisher Comments In the twenty years since its first publication, Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise: that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images...
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The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century
by Scott Simmon Publisher Comments Includes filmography: p. 363-374. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-361) and index....
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The Kibbutz Movement: A History, Volume 1
by Synopsis 'Notably thoughtful and scholarly . . . he has succeeded in putting together an admirably coherent and clearly written account of the kibbutz movement's history, an authoritative narrative account of which has long been needed . . . is sure to serve as...
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The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
by Irving Wallace Publisher Comments "Revealing! An encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters do between the sheets."-TIME "More astonishing and outrageous than most of us would even imagine."-Forecast "Entirely fascinating. . . . Hugely entertaining."-Auberon Waugh, Inquiry "Something...
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack : the Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. (91 Edition)
by Paul Gilroy Publisher Comments Gilroy demonstrates the enormous complexity of racial politics in England today. Exploring the relationships among race, class, and nation as they have evolved over the past twenty years, he highlights racist attitudes that transcend the left-right...
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Home: A Short History of an Idea
by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing people's attitudes about convenience, decor, and technology in home design and furnishing. 10 black-and-white illustrations....
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Absinthe: History in a Bottle
by Barnaby Conrad Publisher Comments Crystal clear in the bottle, potent emerald green in the glass, and 144 proof — absinthe is as illicit as it is intoxicating. It's also among history's most notorious liquors — romanticized and maligned in equal measure. Here for the first...
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Logic of Collective Action : Public Goods and the Theory of Groups ((Rev)71 Edition)
by Mancur Olson Publisher Comments This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the...
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Talking the Walk: A Communications Guide for Racial Justice
by Hunter (edt) Cutting Publisher Comments "Talking the Walk" is an incomparable resource for learning to discuss and spin issues of race and racial justice. Its purpose is to help build the capacity of progressive activists and advocates to conduct media work, reframe public debate, and...
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The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Mike Featherstone Publisher Comments This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of...
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