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Letters to His Parents : 1939-1951
Theodor W. Adorno
Hardcover - $83.95
'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us.' So begins Adorno's letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Na ...
Max Weber : An Intellectual Portrait
Reinhard Bendix
Paperback - $62.95
"Where others have restricted themselves to brief interpretations of analyses of specific aspects of Weber's work, Bendix has attempted the full scale study that has long been needed. As such, it unquestionably fulfills the minimum requirements. It i ...
Authors of Their Own Lives : Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists
Bennett M. Berger
Paperback - $72.95
All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Famil ...
Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination : The Wilds of Society
Shawn Chandler Bingham
Hardcover - $113.95
Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination : The Wilds of Society
Shawn Chandler Bingham
Paperback - $52.95
Zygmunt Bauman
Tony Blackshaw
Hardcover - $245.95
This timely book provides a concise but critical introduction to the work of a sociological phenomenon. After introducing the man, his major influences, and his special way of "thinking sociologically," Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's pr ...
On Fire
Larry Brown
Hardcover - $28.95
On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, award-winning novelist Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, Fire Department. With three published books to his credit and a fourth nearly finished, he made the risky decision to try life as a ...
