Thomas A. Hollihan

Kevin T. Baaske

There is sticker residue on the back.  No marks inside.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

The Products and Process of Human Decision Making

The primary focus of the updated, second edition has not changed-it embraces the narrative or storytelling approach to the study of argumentation. The first section introduces readers to rhetorical theorists and their principles. These significant contributions to the field of argumentation and debate include Aristotle's views on audiences and the ethical character of an advocate, Burke's dramatistic theory of communication, Brockriede's metaphorical image of arguers, Fisher's narrative paradigm, Mill's guidelines for testing the causal correlation, Perelman and Obrechts-Tyteca's conception of a universal audience, Rokeach's definition of values, and Toulmin's model for developing and analyzing argument claims and his conception of arguments as field dependent. Hollihan and Baaske's discussions of these ideas and their applications are easy to follow, unencumbered by technical jargon, and illustrated with engaging examples drawn from current and well-known historical events. The key to the success of this text is the authors' ability to show readers how foundational principles of argumentation are used in a variety of real-world situations. The second section covers specialized contexts such as academic debates, courts of law, politics, business and organizations, and interpersonal relationships. Activities that stimulate critical thinking and the implementation of the ideas discussed are provided at the end of each chapter.

Arguments and Arguing

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Ijeoma Oluo

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans. Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay "The Meaning of a Word."

So You Want to Talk about Race

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Daniel Goleman

North Carolina

The New Science of Human Relationships

Redefines the nature of human relationships and its impact on nearly every aspect of daily life, combining the latest research in biology and brain science to reveal how daily encounters shape the brain and affect the body.

Social Intelligence

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James Garbarino

Brand new, no sign of wear and tear, pages are crisp and intact

Nevada

Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them

"Remarkable. What sets Lost Boys apart from the ordinary lament is the author's palpable sense of care and compassion."--The Washington Post Book World

Our national consciousness has been altered by haunting images of mass slaughters in American high schools, carried out by troubled young boys with guns. It's now clear that no matter where we live or how hard we try as parents, our children are likely to be going to school with boys who are capable of getting guns and pulling triggers. What has caused teen violence to spread from the urban war-zones of large cities right into the country's heartland? And what can we do to stop this terrifying trend?

James Garbarino, Ph.D., Cornell University professor and nationally noted psychologist, insists that there are things that we, both as individuals and as a society, can do. In a richly anecdotal style he outlines warning signs that parents and teachers can recognize, and suggests steps that can be taken to turn angry and unhappy boys away from violent action. Full of insight, vivid individual portraits, practical advice and considered hope, this is one of the most important and original books ever written about boys.

Lost Boys

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Duplicate copy. Never read. Unbroken spine. #paperback #fiction #thekiterunner #historical #historicalfiction #socialscience #afghanistan #general #KhaledHosseini

Traces the unlikely friendship of Amir, a wealthy Afghanistani youth, and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of the nation's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

The Kite Runner

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Kate Bolick

One or two pages have super tiny tops but otherwise great!!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Making a Life of One's Own

"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"--

Spinster

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Never read, but there are some indents on back from storage #hardcover #science #nonfiction #astrophysics #educational #bestseller #socialscience #knowledge #space

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestive chapters consumable any time and anywhere in the busy day

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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Susannah Cahalan

South Carolina

The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

In 2009, 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan hovered on the precipice between life and death. Even as her doctors informed her family that she had incurable schizophrenia and would spend the rest of her short life in an institution, another doctor down the hall performed one final, informal test that, miraculously, delivered a lifesaving diagnosis: her disease was brought on by a physical problem and therefore treatable -- more "real," in other words, than the intangible problem of a purely mental illness. Susannah is the rare patient who has experienced both sides of this divide: the compassionate response to a treatable, physical diagnosis and the frightening realities of the label of insanity. Obsessed with that same dichotomy, psychiatrist David Rosenhan published a study in 1974 in the prestigious journal Science titled "On Being Sane in Insane Places." Eight people -- sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society -- checked themselves into mental institutions with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia forced to remain until they'd "proven" themselves sane. Rosenhan's watershed report, built on the data they collected, broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But the story doesn't end there: as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. The more we learn about the study, the more questions emerge about what really happened behind those closed doors. How far have we come in answering the question that David Rosenhan posed all those years ago: "If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them"?

The Great Pretender

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Signed copy. Includes card that provides background on signing. #hardcover #nonfiction #signed #socialscience #politics #hilaryclinton

Connecticut

And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of "It Takes a Village," this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Senator Clinton. As relevant as ever, this anniversary edition makes it abundantly clear that the choices made by parents today about how to raise children and how to support families will determine how the nation will face the challenges of the 21st century.

It Takes a Village - Signed

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Robert B. Reich

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket.

New York

Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America

Reich explains how liberals can begin to reascend the political ladder by reclaiming the courage of their convictions, organizing those marginalized by society, and finding powerfully effective ways to minimize the abuse of wealth and power in our political system.

1st edition *Reason

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Mark Graham

Excellent condition - no markings or underlining. Spine is in perfect shape. Some minor shelfwear on cover. From a dog-friendly smoke-free home. 

Minnesota

How networks of information and communication are changing our lives

Society & the Internet

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Published in 2013. Full name signature on half-title page. Light wear to dust jacket. Pages clean and binding intact. 

New Jersey

Six Drivers of Global Change

SIGNED—The Future

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Derek E. Blackman

Book is in great/excellent condition. Some slight wear on the cover. No annotations. Spine and binding are in great condition. 

The textbook covers a lot of topics related to the behavioral sciences (see picture of back cover and contents page for more info). 

New Mexico

Social Studies

Contributions and Controversies

This edited book addresses four themes of contemporary importance in the experimental and applied analysis of behaviour: chronobiology (relationships between time and behaviour), the emergence of rational thinking, language, and behavioural medicine. The current empirical and theoretical status of each theme is considered in individual chapters, the authors of which are distinguished research scientists drawn from a wide range of scholarship and with a distinctive European dimension. This cultural and theoretical diversity emerges from the fact that each chapter is developed from a paper originally presented by invitation at the Second European Meeting on the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour, which was held in Liège, Belgium in 1988. Within the four themes, individual topics address issues such as circadian rhythms in behaviour, temporal regulation in children and in animals, the emergence of equivalence relations in children and animals, the development of thinking in mentally retarded children, reasoning and associative learning in animals, rule'governed behaviour, theoretical issues relating language to the theory of mind, the relationship between behavioural and visceral functions, the relevance of behavioural approaches to the prevention of AIDS, and the development of self'detection skills for breast cancer. The book makes an important contribution to the literature of contemporary behaviour analysis by reviewing issues of current interest and importance from a broad theoretical base.

Behaviour Analysis in Theory and Practice

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#culturetheory #popularculture #socialscience 

In this second edition of his successful introduction to cultural theory and popular culture, John Storey has revised the text throughout. As before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of the competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. In addition to the theoretical positions discussed in the first edition -- the "culture and civilization" tradition, the American "mass culture" debate, culturalism, structuralism/post-structuralism, and postmodernism -- there are new sections on popular culture and the carnivalesque, and on postmodernism and the pluralism of value. Five of the earlier sections have been extended, with new material on neo-Gramscian cultural studies, popular film, cine-psychoanalysis and cultural studies, feminism as reading, postmodernism in the 1960s, and the cultural field. Retaining the accessible approach of the first edition, and using up-to-date examples from popular culture texts, this new edition is essential for those who study and teach cultural theory and popular culture.

An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

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Michael Omi

Howard Winant

Virginia

Racial Formation in the United States is appearing here in an entirely new edition, 20 years since its last publication. Authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant have maintained the structure and vision of their classic work, but have completely revised and rewritten every chapter. The ambitious purpose of the book remains the same: to develop a theory of race and racism adequate to their complexity, historical depth, and ongoing political importance. Racial Formation explains how concepts of race are created and transformed, how race shapes U.S. society, and how it permeates both identities and institutions....Omi and Winant continue to see race as a fundamental organizing principle of social life, one that deeply structures politics, economics, and culture in the United States. They rethink race as intersectional, ubiquitous, and unstable, continually operating at the crossroads of social structure and identity. Because race is socially constructed and historically conflictual, it is continually being made and remade in everyday life. Race is constantly in formation. (Publisher).

Racial Formation in the United States

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Loose leaf for binder- pre owned in great condition 

3rd Edition

Pre-Owned Essentials of Physical Anthropology : Discovering Our Origins

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True Stories

A collection of nonfiction writings documents encounters with Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis, the challenges faced by the author when "Fight Club" was made into a movie, the lives of submariners, and the violent experiences of college wrestlers.

Stranger Than Fiction

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#nonfiction #socialscience #paperback #hawaiianreligion #Hawaiinmagic #hawaii 

Georgia

This is the first book solely devoted to the spirituality of the Hawaiian people and how taboos, superstitions and magical practices permeated and defined every aspect of their lives. With a historical and sociological perspective, it examines in detail their beliefs: the structure of their society; the names and ways of the deities; the practice of deifying ancestral spirits; the importance of dance, colors, water, stone and plants; and the concept of Mana, the spiritual power in all things.

Hawaiian Religion and Magic

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#Brazil #Fieldresearch #socialscience #latinamericanstudies #RobertLevine

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Science

Brazil- Field Research Guide 

Thomas L. Friedman

Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How It Can Renew America

Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

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Warren St. John

Bends at the corners, and a couple of page bend. No markings or highlights in book. 

An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees. Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives—and the lives of their families—in the face of a series of daunting challenges. This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.

Outcasts United

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#paperback #nationalbestseller #nonfiction #socialscience #antiracism #educational #africanamericanstudies #adult 

Rhode Island

And Other Conversations about Race

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America. "An unusually sensitive work about the racial barriers that still divide us in so many areas of life."-Jonathan Kozol

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

#thecoloroflaw #history #nonfiction #paperback #socialscience #antiracism #richardrothstein #antiracist 

Pennsylvania

A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Widely heralded as a "masterful" (Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation" (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, "virtually indispensable" study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

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Thomas A. Hollihan; Kevin T. Baaske

Arguments and Arguing

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So You Want to Talk about Race

Daniel Goleman

Social Intelligence

James Garbarino

Lost Boys

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

Kate Bolick

Spinster

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Susannah Cahalan

The Great Pretender

Hillary Clinton

It Takes a Village - Signed

Robert B. Reich

1st edition *Reason

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Society & the Internet

Al Gore

SIGNED—The Future

Derek E. Blackman

Behaviour Analysis in Theory and Practice

John Storey

An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture

Michael Omi; Howard Winant

Racial Formation in the United States

Clark Spencer Larsen

Pre-Owned Essentials of Physical Anthropology : Discovering Our Origins

Chuck Palahniuk

Stranger Than Fiction

Scott Cunningham

Hawaiian Religion and Magic

Robert Levine

Brazil- Field Research Guide

Thomas L. Friedman

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

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Outcasts United

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law