|
Sociology
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) (Vintage) by Tom Vanderbilt Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
add to wish list |
|
Heat Wave : a Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (02 Edition) by Eric Klinenberg Publisher Comments On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Power of Place by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments THE SCIENCE OF PLACE Last spring, I spent several days sealed off from the sweet palmy swelter of New Orleans in a series of frigid polyester conference rooms, listening to men in white coats discuss the latest developments in brain science.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Dog Days: A Year in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile by Dave Ihlenfeld Publisher Comments It was the ultimate post-college road trip: a year-long journey in a 27-foot-long fiberglass hotdog across the US and Europe. Rife with breakdowns, meaty puns, the burdens of instant celebrity and more Wiener Whistles than anyone could ever hope for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The End of War by John Horgan Synopsis War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking,... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology) Publisher Comments A translation of the study in which Bourdieu develops the theory for his empirical work, based on fieldwork in Kabylia, Algeria.... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
|
Gray dawn :how the coming age wave will transform America--and the world by Peter Peterson Publisher Comments The major economies of the world are on a collision course toward a huge, as-yet-unseen iceberg: global aging. Increased longevity is a blessing, but it carries with it costs and questions few countries wish to deal with. This looming demographic... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
City of the Century (96 Edition) by Donald L. Miller Publisher Comments The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne Publisher Comments "When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?" -- An ad for sneakers "You can love it without getting your heart broken." -- An ad for a car "Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke." -- A woman in a cigarette ad... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Two Cultures by C P Snow Publisher Comments The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration by Hung En Sung Publisher Comments A comprehensive overview of rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration, with real-life examples of successes and failures and the most current research This text explores the challenges that convicted offenders face over the course of the rehabilitation,... (read more) List Price $56.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude M Steele Publisher Comments Claude M. Steele, who has been called "one of the few great social psychologists," offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Americas black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise by George Prochnik Publisher Comments More than money, power, and even happiness, silence has become the most precious — and dwindling — commodity of our modern world. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
No Logo (00 Edition) by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments A trenchant analysis of modern mass marketing methods, and the nature of consumer capitalism.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent by Richard Florida Publisher Comments Research-driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high-value jobs from the USA. Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor by Tad Friend Synopsis As a young man, Friend noticed that his illustrious family tree was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics. Part memoir, part family history, and part cultural study, "Cheerful Money" offers a captivating examination of the rise and... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times by Eyal Press Publisher Comments On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Publisher Comments From opium dens to the Bowery's suicide saloons, this lively, learned work of outlaw urban history ushers readers through the dark heart of New York City in the years between 1840 and 1919. "A systematic, well-researched historical account of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
