The relevance of sociology
Appleton-Century-Crofts. Trade Paperback. As is. Remainder mark on the top edge of the print block. More
Appleton-Century-Crofts. Trade Paperback. As is. Remainder mark on the top edge of the print block. More
Verso, August 2021. Paper Back. Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the "family" The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates around the world work in terrible conditions--deception, wage-stealing and money..... More
Blackwell Pub, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
HarperSanFrancisco, September 1988. Trade Paperback. The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- "The Chalice and the Blade" has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping..... More
Gadjah Mada Univ Pr, December 2003. Trade Paperback. In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own..... More
Policy Press, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Father and daughter provides an unique â ~insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter Ann Oakley. More
Palgrave Macmillan, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates the actions and practices of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States, and presents it as a case study of institutional corruption. More
University of Chicago Press, August 2022. First Thus. Paper Back. Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the..... More
Random House, March 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of How to Do Nothing comes a "paradigm-destroying new book . . . about the various problems that swirl out from dominant conceptions of 'time'" (The New York Times Editors' Choice). "Saving Time's real triumph lies in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against..... More
MIT Press, October 1987. First Thus. Paper Back. Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan Carey develops an alternative to these two ways of thinking about childhood..... More
Mariner Books, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "[From] an influential educational leader and activist...an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh--a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan--stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. A celebration of the acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary movements and heroes who have moved our democracy forward. In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now! to focus on the..... More
Scribner Book Company, September 2011. Hardcover. It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him..... More
Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture, December 1986. Oversize Softcover. {7' x 11'} Small quarto; mild external wear. Very good+/fine overall. (250 pages.). More
David McKay, June 1963. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd U.S. printing in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $5.75 on flap. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked interiors. Sound binding. Bertine (1887 - 2968) was an early U.S. follower of Jung. This is her only..... More
Picador, August 2011. Trade Paperback. In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Executioner's Current' is the amazing story of how the electric chair was developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging, but in an effort by one 19th-century electric company to discredit the other. 22 illustrations..... More
Wayne State University Press, March 2007. Paper Back. In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differences between two compatible varieties of English but..... More
University of California Press, March 1993. Paper Back. Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits--the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore--in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western..... More
Atlantic Editions, January 2023. Paper Back. Twelve incisive, probing essays on womanhood in popular culture. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive. On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice gathers a selection of Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert's..... More
DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, 2021. First Edition. Trade Paperback. {8 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'} Mild shelfwear. French-folds. Clean & sound. [230 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, December 2010. Paper Back. More
Oxford University Press, July 2020. Hardcover. Radicalization, and the terrorism that is frequently linked to it, have been subject to much study and governmental intervention. Nevertheless, the processes that lead to radicalization remain thinly conceptualized although governments and their agencies worldwide have invested heavily in counter and de-radicalization programs. There..... More
Ohio University Press, November 2020. Hardcover. Violent conflict, climate change, and poverty present distinct threats to women worldwide. Importantly, women are leading the way creating and sharing sustainable solutions. Women's security is a valuable analytical tool as well as a political agenda insofar as it addresses the specific problems affecting..... More