ARGYLE, MICHAEL

Religious Behaviour

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of wear to lower edges. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a little wear and is not price clipped. Uniform with the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction series founded by Karl Mannheim. The author shows, by analysing a great deal of empirical material, how religious behaviour and beliefs are influenced by psychological, sociological, economic and physiological factors, and how a person's beliefs depend on those of his parents and of later social groups, on his social class and on the prevailing economic conditions. The methods and results of Billy Graham's campaigns are examined, and the effects of drugs and war experiences shown. NOT EX LIB R10. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 006411

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Behavioural Science, Billy Graham

BUMILLER, ELISABETH

May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons - a Journey Among the Women of India

New York, Random House. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0394563913). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 306 pages. In the book the journalist author captures the fascinating, complex and often tragic lives of the 400 million women of India. She went to India with her husband, a correspondent for the New York Times and, over a three and a half year period, travelled to all parts of the country, examining the paradoxes and - to a westerner - the often stunning realities of the lives of women. 4. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 008921

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Women in India, Sociology, Indian Women's Movement 0394563913

DAVIS, WILLIAM

The Lucky Generation - a Positive View of the 21st Century

London, Headline. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747212376). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with a Fine dustjacket. The financial editor author portrays a counter argument to the doomsday predictions of others and contends that such predictions have been proved wrong in the past two decades. He puts forward a powerful and detailed case for the view that the next century will be much better and that the young of today will be the lucky generation. An optimistic, provocative and challenging book. NOT EX LIB D4E. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002442

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0747212376

DOMINIAN, JACK

Marital Breakdown

London, Darton, Longman & Todd. 1968, First Edition. (ISBN: 0232509980). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy with gold title on green cloth boards which has a few spots of light foxing to top edge. Dustjacket has a small repaired closed tear to front and is not price clipped. A marriage collapses, psychology, sociology and medicine may say one thing : religion and law pronounce another. In this study, probably for the first time, a psychiatrist has made an unbiased attempt to bring together these different viewpoints. R2. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 006489

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Marriage Breakdown, Psychology, Psychology 0232509980

DONKIN, RICHARD

Blood Sweat and Tears - the Evolution of Work

New York, Texere. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 1587990768). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine uninscribed copy with gold title and author's initials on red cloth boards. Dustjacket is VG+ with a crease to inner flap. A captivating and erudite history of work from prehistoric times to the present day, which offers fascinating and intelligent analyses of the individuals, assumptions, theories, developments and practices that have so much changed work. Based on detailed research from around the world, the author examines early societies, slavery, the guilds, the creation of trade secrets and the influence of religion on work, such as the humanist ideals of the great Quaker industrialists. NOT EX LIB 21. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002955

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: History of Work, Guilds, Quakers 1587990768

FRANKS, HELEN

Mummy Doesn't Live Here Any More

London, Doubleday. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385269056). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The author examines the cases of women who find themselves living apart from their children, confronting this painful issue and seeking to explain what kind of woman would want to give up her children and why. A provocative look at this emotionally charged subject in the context of the stresses and changing role of motherhood today. NOT EX LIB C2A. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 002855

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0385269056

GEORGE, IVY AND MASSON, MARGARET

An Uncommon Correspondence - an East-West Conversation on Friendship, Intimacy and Love

New York, Paulist Press. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0809105004). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Ivy George grew up in India and continued her studies in the US where she teaches in Massachusetts. Margaret Masson was born in Zambia, later moving to Scotland, and teaches at St. John's College and Durham University. They met during teaching assignments in the US. The book allows us to eavesdrop on these college professors' fascinating letters about courtship, friendship, love and marriage, and how culture has shaped their understanding of each. A3C. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 007277

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Sociology, Eastern and Western Notions of Love 0809105004

SALT, JOHN AND ELLIOTT, B.J.

British Society 1870-1970

Amersham, Bucks, Hulton Educational Publications. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0717507106). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to one front corner tip). Uniform with 'Studies in Modern Social History' series. Comprise Part I - 1870-1918, Part II - 1918-1970 and takes certain basic social themes and follows them through the century, providing an interesting and useful social history of British life. NOT EX LIB D4B. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003257

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: English Social History 0717507106

KEANE, FERGAL

A Stranger's Eye - a Foreign Correspondent's View of Britain

London, Viking. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670888397). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The acclaimed foreign correspondent set out on on a journey through Britain for the BBC, although born in London he has never lived there until recently, having spent years covering the world's conflicts. In his travels in 1999 he discovered a world of poverty, exclusion and alienation. A shocking but sometimes uplifting work, he reports on the courage and lack of self pity of those he encountered and considers the changing ways of life and notes that in August 1999 a Scottish shipyard with 1,200 workers was sold for 2.4 million pounds which was the price for a large house in Islington, spiritual home of New Labour. B2A. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 002497

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0670888397

MARTIN, JOHN LEVI

Social Structures

New Jersey, Princeton University Press. 2009. (ISBN: 9780691150123). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. 4. Fino/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011557

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 9780691150123

MOUZELIS, NICOS P.

Organisation and Bureaucracy - an Analysis of Modern Theories

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1967, First Edition. (ISBN: 071003492X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to endpapers) in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. ix + 230 pages + 14 page list of books in the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction series. Newspaper cutting of the book review in the 'New Society' loosely included. Contributions to the theory of organisations have come from many sides: psychology, social psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and business administration. The output of written work is so vast that a newcomer will experience difficulty in making sense of the points of view expressed in organisational writings. The present study will help students orient themselves in relation to this literature. Theorists discussed include Marx, Weber and Michels. NOT EX LIB A1B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 008546

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Sociology, Marx, Michels, Organisation Theory, Bureaucracy 071003492x

PRIESTLAND, GERALD

Priestland Right and Wrong

London, Collins. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002155818). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A ery Good uninscribed copy with a touch of dust marking to top edge. Dustjacket is price clipped. The well known BBC correspondent, who has had many overseas assignments, retired in 1982, and this book is based on the thirteen television programmes in which he presents his essays on the tug of war between consience and circumstances in several fields of human activity. NOT EX LIB B2E. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002673

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0002155818

RUDGLEY, RICHARD

The Alchemy of Culture - Intoxicants in Society

London, British Museum Press. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714117366). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. From opium in Stone Age Europe to petrol sniffing in Aboriginal Australia, intoxicants have played an important part in societies all over the world. In this thought-provoking book the author shows that 'magic mushrooms' in Siberia and New Guinea, the mysterious soma/haoma plant in ancient India and Iran, and yaje. peyote and tobacco in the New World all had a central role in religious or social life, and that the altered states of consciousness produced by each intoxicant are shaped by cultural values. 38 illustrations. NOT EX LIBRARY 11. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 007980

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Culture, Sociology, Intoxicants, Yaje, Peyote, Soma/Haoma, Psychoactive Substances, Hallucinogens, Mescaline 0714117366

SHONFIELD, ZUZANNA

The Precariously Privileged - a Professional Family in Victorian London

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0192122657). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG price clipped dustjacket. xix + 266 pages. 20 illustrations. 1 map. Genealogical trees of the Marshall family and of the Williams family. Jeanette Marshall, daughter of an eminent anatomist, scanned the drawing rooms of late Victorian London, and assiduously recorded her impressions in diaries she kept for 23 years. In constant pursuit of a husband, craftily steering a course between strong-mindedness and frivolity, she applied her brisk realism and caustic manner to draw a vivid and unexpected picture of Victorian daily life. Drawing on this previously untapped source, the author reconstructs the story of the Marshall family, charting the trials and fortunes, both comic and poignant, which befell these precariously privileged newcomers to London society. Jeanette Marshall's trenchant comments provide a fresh view of such friends as Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, and Burne-Jones's mistress Mary Zambaco. NOT EX LIB A1E. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 008591

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: Jeanette Marshall, Victorian Memoirs, Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Mary Zambaco, Burne-Jones, Victorian Social History 0192122657

YANKELOVICH, DANIEL

New Rules - Searching for Self-Fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down

New York, Random House. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0394502035). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold lettering on black cloth with orange paper half boards with gold DY and motif to front. A very clean and unmarked copy VG+ with a complete dustjacket VG+. The author is one of America's leading analysts of changing social values and shows how the turbulent effect that these sharply changed circumstances have had, not only on individual Americans but on America itself. His conclusions are drawn from his own polls combined with life histories and paints a picture of how Americans are conducting risky experiments in living as they seek material wellbeing, creativity, autonomy, adventure and tender loving care while facing an ever more hazardous economic environment. A perceptive and seminal work. A SCARCE TITLE IN UK C3D. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 001392

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: 0394502035