BENEDICT, RUTH

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

NY: Meridian Books, 1974. 0452005612. First Edition. Later Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0452005612. Publisher's glossy wraps.. VERY GOOD.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 328 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 16871

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0452005612 Sociology; Anthropology; Japanese Culture; Japan; History Philosophy & Social Sciences Travel & Adventure

BOK, SISSELA

Common Values

Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1995. 0826210384. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0826210384. Green boards, yellow lettering on spine, tight and clean. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xi 130 pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 14837

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0826210384 Ethics Values; Social Values Philosophy & Social Sciences Science, Medicine & Technology

CHAFETS, ZE'EV

Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit

New York: Random House, 1990. 0394585259. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394585259. Quarter bound in black cloth over red boards, gilt lettering on cover and spine.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. x, (ii), 240, (1) pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 25716

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0394585259 Detroit Sociology Stories Race Relations Social Sciences Philosophy & Social Sciences

COUPLAND, DOUGLAS

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 031205436X. Later Printing. 1. Soft Cover. ISBN: 031205436X. Publisher's glossy wraps. "Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as 'twentysomething.' Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit 'pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause' in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they've mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs--'low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry.' They create modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges--landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, 'Elvis moments,' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. / Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian Armed Forces Base in Baden-Söllingen, Germany in 1961. He is the author of Miss Wyoming, Generation X, All Families are Psychotic, and Girlfriend in a Coma, among others. He attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, the Hokkaido College of Art and Design, Instituto Europeo di Design, and the Japan/America Institute of Management Science." - Publisher. This is an unmarked, seemingly unread copy, tight and square. The wraps show only slight shelf-wear. NEAR FINE. Trade Paperback. Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. 183 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 6706

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 031205436x Novels; Fiction; Literature; Generation; Gen X;; Americana; Sociology; Culture; American Culture; Novels, Poetry & Literature Philosophy & Social Sciences

DRUCKER, PETER F.

The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. -. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full grey cloth, gilt lettering on spine, fore edge deckle, beige endpapers. Bothe the volumeand unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition, showing only mild shelf-wear, former owner's name written on ffep of volume, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiii, 402 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 25862

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Sociology Culture Philosophy & Social Sciences

HARRIS, IRVING B.

Children in Jeopardy Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty?

New Haven, CT: The Yale Child Study Center, 1996. 0300068921. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0300068921. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Dust jacket has some light wrinkles at the top edge of the front cover, else fine. AS NEW/ VERY GOOD+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxxi, 236 pp. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 18653

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0300068921 Sociology Education Psychology; Philosophy & Social Sciences Education

THE EDITORS OF AMERICAN HERITAGE

American Manners & Morals: A Picture History of How We Behaved and Misbehaved

New York: American Heritage, 1969. First Printing. Hard Cover. Covered in dark blue cloth with decorated endpapers. Clipped dust jacket, now in Mylar, is chipped and worn. B&W and Color Photographs and Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 399 pp. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 20183

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: American Culture; American History; Cultural History; Illustrated Books; Travel Sociology; Morality; Manners; History Philosophy & Social Sciences

LAWLER, PETER AUGUSTINE

Aliens in America: The Strange Truth About Our Souls

Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002. 1882926714. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1882926714. Both the volume and the unclipped ($24.95) dust jacket are in perfect condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. FINE/FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 298 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 29469

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 1882926714 Sociology Social Change Social History Social Conditions Philosophy Biotechnology End of Times History Philosophy & Social Sciences Science, Medicine & Technology

MCFATE, KATHERINE; ROGER LAWSON; AND WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON (EDS)

Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order

NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. 0871545934. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0871545934. Publisher's glossy wraps.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 756 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 28492

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0871545934 Income Distribution Poor People Poverty Sociology Social Policy

MYTINGER, CAROLINE

Headhunting in the Solomon Islands Around the Coral Sea

New York: Macmillan, 1942. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine, black medallion on cover, maps on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W woodcuts, drawings and photographs. Unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD.. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 416 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 13856

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Travel Coral Sea Solomon Islands Travel & Adventure

PINCUS, FRED L; HOWARD J. EHRLICH (EDITORS)

Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence

Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. 0813316618. First Edition. 1. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0813316618. Publisher's glossy wraps.. Volume has some mild water damage, former owner's name written on half-title, else near fine. VERY GOOD+.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xv, 408 pp. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 20863

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0813316618 Sociology Race Prejudice Anthologies Ethnic Conflict History History Philosophy & Social Sciences

PINDELL, TERRY

A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration

NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1995. 0805023526. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0805023526. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over white boards, gilt lettering on spine. "For three years, Pindell (Making Tracks: An American Rail Odyssey) traversed North America, visiting several mostly small cities he views as good places to live. His report, he says, is "surprisingly good news," and it also makes good reading for both questers and those merely wondering about what makes for "place" in the '90s. In Santa Fe, his first stop, he fine-tuned his criteria, which are different from the standard tables of schools, taxes and crime: they include walkability, the presence of "third places" like coffee houses, a mix of cultural and natural amenities and a sense of local identity. Pindell's curiosity and engaging style, combined with reflections on his native New Hampshire, overcome the occasional superficiality of his reports. In San Luis Obispo, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, he finds a unique chamber of commerce devoted to preservation "not only of lands but of buildings," while in Bellingham, Wash, he sees the only Seattle suburb surviving the Long Islandization of the region. He discovers pockets of cosmopolitanism in writerly Missoula, Mont, and Wilmington, N.C, a filmmaking center. While Ithaca, N.Y, seems a fractured town, Burlington, Vt, is the most civil place he's visited. He concludes by assessing the preconditions for livable cities and reflecting that the voices of urban critics like Jane Jacobs and Howard Mumford, who stressed that cityscapes should provide mixed-use zoning and downtown living, still echo." - Publisher's Weekly . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition other than minor shelf-wear; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi, (ii), 413 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 27189

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0805023526 Cities: Towns; Community Life; Urbanization; Social Conditions; United States; Travel; Philosophy & Social Sciences Business, Law & Government

ROCHE, GEORGE

The Fall of the Ivory Tower Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education

Washington, D. C.: Regnery Publishing, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Light damp-stain on last Index page, else as new. NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 310 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 11288

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Sociology Higher Education State and Federal Aid Book of the Year, Insight Mag Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. Business, Law & Government Education

SCHNEIDER, BARBARA AND DAVID STEVENSON

The Ambitious Generation America's Teenagers, Motivated But Directionless

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 0300079826. First Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0300079826. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiii, 321 pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 18644

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0300079826 Sociology Psychology; Education Philosophy & Social Sciences Education

TERKEL, STUDS

Division Street: America

New York: Pantheon Books / Random House, 1967. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full maroon cloth, silver and copper lettering on spine, blind-stamped design on cover, fore-edge deckle. Division Street: America, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country" (in the words of Tom Wolfe). Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, Division Street: America chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race, and personal history. From a mother and son who migrated from Appalachia to a Native American boilerman, from a streetwise ex-gang leader to a liberal police officer, from the poorest African Americans to the richest socialites, these unique and often intimate first-person accounts form a multifaceted collage that defies any simple stereotype of America. As Terkel himself put it: "I was on the prowl for a cross-section of urban thought, using no one method or technique….I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature." Revealing aspects of people's lives that are normally invisible to most of us, Division Street: America is a fascinating survey of a city, and a society, at a pivotal moment of the twentieth century.. Ex library with the usual markings including pocket removed from rep, shadow from label removed from spine, otherwise unmarked; tight and square. GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 381 pp. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 29497

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Literature Journalism Interviews Chicago Sociology Studs Terkel Philosophy & Social Sciences Women