Nancy Isenberg

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

In White Trash, Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society and shows how poor whites have been deeply ingrained in the country's history for the past 400 years. They were central to the both the Civil War itself and the rise of the Republican Party, and still today feature in reality TV as entertainment. White trash have always been an integral part of the American identity, and here their history in both culture and politics in explored in depth. A fascinating work that's timely to today's public debate about rich and poor.

White Trash

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Thomas L. Friedman

Oliver Wyman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

Offers a concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India.

The World Is Flat

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Illinois

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade. Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth. “Joy,” David Brooks writes, “is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.” Praise for The Road to Character “A hyper-readable, lucid, often richly detailed human story.”—The New York Times Book Review “This profound and eloquent book is written with moral urgency and philosophical elegance.”—Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon “A powerful, haunting book that works its way beneath your skin.”—The Guardian “Original and eye-opening . . . Brooks is a normative version of Malcolm Gladwell, culling from a wide array of scientists and thinkers to weave an idea bigger than the sum of its parts.”—USA Today

The Road to Character

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Marianne Schneider Corey

Gerald Corey

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Texas

Social Studies

Process and Practice

A new edition of the group counseling resource guiding therapists through the formation of group process and offering examples, guidelines, and strategies in how leaders can apply key concepts. Therapists Corey and Corey discuss ways to maintain trust, deal with resistance, help members translate their group experience into life practice, and recruit members. Special attention is given to a number of particular group situations including a domestic violence group, a bereavement group for the elderly, an AIDS support group, and a counseling model for children. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Groups

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Gregg Lee Carter

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A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Readings

Designed for courses in Introductory Sociology. Can also be used in Data Analysis, Research Methods, or Social Problems courses, all found in sociology departments. A unique collection of readings rich in data that address significant sociological issuesand demonstrate the interplay between sociological insight and empirical observations. Empirical Approaches to Sociology is the only introductory level reader to offer a selection of major articles that are rich in data, yet may be easily understood without advanced math skills. Using original sources, the book gives students a chance to see how research findings are interpreted and incorporated into sociological theory. *New chapter on social change and social conflict (Ch. 12). *17 selections new to this edition emphasize important new social issues such as the impact of the Internet on social/psychological well-being, racial progress in America, and physical attractiveness and success. *40 essays provide a broad overview of the field and represent a range of theoretical perspectives. *Covers all the usual topics in an introductory course, and can be used with any introductory sociology text. *Follows the same order of topics as D

Empirical Approaches to Sociology

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#paperback #nonfiction #overlandjourney #sociology #womanstudies 

Oregon

A lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s



"Not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but . . .  also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history." --Journal of Social History



Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography.



Praise for the earlier edition:



"Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history." --Kathryn Kish Sklar



"An enlightening study." --American West

 

Women and Men on the Overland Trail

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Sigmund Freud

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Reprint of the 1930 American edition. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for sexual gratification) are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements severe punishments if such commandments are broken. This process, argues Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens. Contributors

Civilization and Its Discontents

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#hardcover #sociology #religion #science #politics #economics 
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Arkansas

A Sociological Study of Religion's Impact on Politics, Economics, and Family Life 

The Religious Factor (1961 First Edition)

Nicholas D. Kristof

Sheryl WuDunn

New York

Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Discusses the oppression of women in the developing world, sharing example stories about victims and survivors who are working to raise awareness, counter abuse, and campaign for women's rights.

Half the Sky

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#hardcover #sociology #addiction #current #1stedition #psychology
1st edition

The Spiritual Side of Alcoholism, Addiction and Recovery

Blessed Are the Addicts

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J. D. Vance

Florida

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy

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Don A. Dillman

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The Tailored Design Method

For students, researchers and professionals in all fields who need to effectively plan and conduct surveys, this classic text has been updated to include guidelines on electronic survey methods.

Mail and Internet Surveys

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M. Scott Peck

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The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally. You will learn to reach for the "ultimate step," which brings you face to face with your personal spirituality. It will be this that helps you appreciate the complexity that is life. Continue the journey of personal and spiritual growth with this wise and insightful book.

Further along the Road Less Traveled

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Indiana

Essays in Sociology

Introducing the student to the work of a great sociologist, this book opens with a comprehensive biographical essay on Weber's life and work and includes his essays on science and politics, power, religion, and social structures.

From Max Weber

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Readings in Social Foundations

This thought-provoking book examines education as a cultural phenomenon and explores the implications of this perspective on schooling, multicultural education, educational development, and the process of teaching and learning. The authors combine the concepts of anthropology, education, schooling, teaching, and learning into an insightful introduction to the study of the cultural basis of education. Key topics include conflict between core and youth values, minority languages in the classroom, contemporary analysis of the IQ issues, recent school reform efforts, a new look at approaches to multicultural education, the postmodern conception of childhood and its educational implications, a discussion of performance assessment, communication and learning styles, and intercultural communication and competence. For teachers or any individuals interested in the relationship between social context and educational issues.

Exploring Socio-Cultural Themes in Education

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Alaska

A Humanistic Perspective 

Invitation to Sociology 

#hardcover #nonfiction #politics #economics #history #sociology #socialscience #activism #smokefree

The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It

Hartmann argues that the middle class is not the natural consequence of a free market based economy, but rather, the intended result of policies put into place to maximize the public good. Unfortunately, he maintains, the American middle class is on its deathbed.

Screwed

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Utah

Sociology & Social Life 

Sam Harris

Georgia

Religion Terror and the Future of Reason

An analysis of the disparity between faith and logic in today's world tours humanity's willingness to challenge religious-based belief systems throughout history, citing the biological origins of spirituality while warning readers that tolerance for fundamentalism must occur with an awareness of the modern world's capacity for violence. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

End of Faith

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Hunter Thompson

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Washington

'The Maverick Voice of American Counterculture

. 'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once'. In September, 1964 a cavalcade of motorbikes ripped through the city of Monterey, California. It was a trip destined to make Hell's Angels household names across America, infamous for their violent, drunken rampages and feared for the destruction left in their wake. Enter Hunter S. Thompson, the master of counter-culture journalism who alone had the ability and stature to ride with the Angels on their terms. In this brilliant and hair-raising expose, he journeys with the last outlaws of the American frontier. A mixture of journalism, story-telling and sheer bravado, "Hell's Angels" is Hunter S. Thompson at full throttle.

Hell's Angels (Penguin Essentials Edition)

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Steven Pinker

Michigan

The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

If you follow the news, the 21st century doesn't seem to be going so well. From 9/11 to the Great Recession, the Syrian civil war, the Ebola epidemic, growing inequality, racial unrest, and bitterly contested elections, the world seems to be sinking into chaos and hatred. Moralizing commentators tell us that the decline of religious belief and close-knit communities has left us spiritually adrift, without a grounding in moral values, so it's no wonder we're suffering through an epidemic of loneliness, unhappiness, and suicide. And then there are the futurologists who speculate on what will finish us off first- resource wars, nuclear annihilation, unstoppable climate change, or robots that steal our jobs, enslave us, and turn us into raw materials.

But, as Steven Pinker argues in this landmark new book, we do not truly inhabit a dystopia of deprivation and violence- in fact, every global measure of human flourishing is on the rise. We're living longer, healthier, safer, and more affluent lives-not just in the West, but worldwide. Why?

In Enlightenment Now, Pinker proposes that human progress is the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even knowing it. The values of the Enlightenment underlie all our modern institutions, and deserve credit for the stupendous progress we have made. The progress we have enjoyed is not, of course, an excuse for complacency- some of the challenges we face today are unprecedented in their complexity and scope.

The way to deal with these challenges, Pinker argues, is to treat them as problems to solve, as we have solved other problems in our past. Putting the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how, by using our faculties of reason and sympathy to understand the world and to enhance human flourishing, we can tackle problems that inevitably come with being products of evolution in an entropic universe.

Enlightenment Now

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People of the Sacred Waterfalls

The Jivaro

Deborah Blum

Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection

An investigation into the life of the renegade psychologist who changed conventional views of human love and affection.

Love at Goon Park

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Ohio

Everyday Interactions That Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races

New York Times veteran Lena Williams candidly explores the everyday occurrences that strain racial relations, reaching a conclusion that "no one could disagree with" (The New York Times Book Review)

Although we no longer live in a legally segregated society, the division between blacks and whites never seems to go away. We work together, go to school together, and live near each other, but beneath it all there is a level of misunderstanding that breeds mistrust and a level of miscommunication that generates anger. Now in paperback, this is Lena Williams's honest look at the interactions between blacks and whites-the gestures, expressions, tones, and body language that keep us divided.

Frank, funny, and smart, It's the Little Things steps back from academia and takes a candid approach to race relations. Based on her own experiences as well as what she has learned from focus groups across the United States, Lena Williams does for race what Deborah Tannen did for gender. Finally, we have a book that traverses the color lines to help us understand, and eliminate, the alarmingly common interactions that get under the skin of both blacks and whites.



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