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The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future by James Martin Publisher Comments According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological progress, we have a magnificent future... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki Publisher Comments When being a rebel is sanctioned by society, what is left to rebel against? Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann Synopsis This critique of the new American imperialism analyses the action in Afghanistan, the war against terrorism and the warnings to "rogue states". It shows that American foreign policy exaggerates American power and fails to understand that the US has much... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why? by Charles Tilly Publisher Comments "Readers will find this book stimulating, amusing, enlightening, and engaging. The veteran analyst of political conflict and change has shifted the scale and style of his analysis once again. The result is a tour de force."--Viviana Zelizer, Princeton... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant Publisher Comments With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation by Jim Nelson Black Publisher Comments Exposing the liberal bias in today's universities, this book provides hard evidence that shows how today's colleges are covertly and overtly proselytizing with leftist slants on sexuality, politics, and lifestyles.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mcdonaldization of Society New Century E by George Ritzer Publisher Comments Most undergraduate students today have never lived in an un-McDonaldized world, and because this book speaks to them, it sparks lively class discussions. This new edition is finely updated, and even more interesting, as it demonstrates the globalization... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Children of Crisis: Selections from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Five-Volume Children of Crisis Series by Robert Coles Publisher Comments The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series that established Robert Coles as America's foremost child psychiatrist is available for the first time in a single, abridged volume. of color illustrations.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for Poor America (New Democracy Forum) by Richard B Freeman Publisher Comments 'A wake-up call on the new American inequality and what to do about it Harvard economist Richard B. Freeman launches this provocative book with the idea that in equality is the one problem from which all crises in America flow. He contends that... (read more) List Price $19.25 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay Synopsis This work is a catalogue of unusual enthusiasms including speculative, social and religious. It examines such fads as alchemy, "The South Sea Bubble", witch mania, the crusades, fortune-telling, haunted houses and even "Tulipomania".... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Sociology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Liberals & Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity by Steven Lukes Publisher Comments Asheirs of the Enlightenment, we in the West tend to view ourselves as humane, rational and reasonable. Genocides are atrocities that "others" commit, so revealing their backwardness and essential "otherness." Colin Tatz's study of genocide exposes this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall Mcluhan Publisher Comments with a new introduction by Lewis H. LaphamThis reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as andquot... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer Publisher Comments An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population. In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel Publisher Comments In today's world, making things look good is a growth industry, whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a toaster. In this penetrating "New York Times" Notable Book, Postrel shows that the allure of "look and feel" is both strong... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Would Jesus Buy?: Fabulous Prayers in the Face of the Shopocalypse by Reverend Billie Publisher Comments The Church of Stop Shopping was founded by Talen to protest the modern culture of commercialization and consumption. This short and powerful book is designed to entertain, to convince the skeptical, and inspire the converted.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste by Herbert J. Gans Publisher Comments Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?<P>In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember by Iain Levison Publisher Comments Over the course of ten years Levison worked 42 odd jobs across six states. A vivid and striking tour of wage labor in America, this book is perfect reading for anyone who has raced against the tick of a time clock.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Oxford Book of Work by Keith Thomas Publisher Comments Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity or embrace it as a compulsive addiction, it remains an inescapable and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $2.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History by Harvey J Graff Publisher Comments Asserting the need for social science historians to examine their own field, this wide-ranging volume offers an intellectual history and critical evaluation of interdisciplinary social science and social science historiography. The editors present a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Offspring Human Fertility Behavior In by Workshop On The Biod Publisher Comments Demographic interest in fertility has been driven less by the biological imperative to have children for the survival of a group. Its interest has been driven more on the threat of rapid population growth and the issue, for couples and women, of... (read more) Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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