Sociology

Little, Brown: 1921 174 pages, with numerous tables and charts. "Miss Donham shows how the household income can be divided proportionately to cover the six principal items into which the expenses naturally fall, - savings, food, shelter, clothing, operating and development. She explains the standards for these six essentials as determined by the income, and shows whether the reader is trying to apply a "luxury" standard to a "comfort" income, or a "comfort" standard to a mere "living" income, or whether he is spending for one essential at the expense of another. Sample proportions and percentages are given for various budgets: for the household, for the individual outside the home, for the child, and for the student." The author was an instructor in Household Management at the Garland School of Homemaking, in Boston, Ma. FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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University of California: 1987. The first printing, 339 pages. "In 1945 Director Dillon S. Meyer pronounced the program of the War Relocation Authority "an exciting adventure in the democratic method". For the preceding three years he and his staff had been the offical keepers of over 110,000 persons of Japanese descent, most of them citzens, who had been removed from the West Coast and penned up in WRA camps." FINE- HARDCOVER, with a few margin lines, in pen, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harvard University Press: 1923. 421 pages. A detailed study that " the presentation of these cases is to demonstrate the possibilities of using orphanages for special cases, rather than utilizing such institutions only for the easy and "normal" problem of child dependency. Such a practice is exactly opposite to that followed so religiously by all such institutions up to a decade ago and still lingering in many places." Eight chapters titled; Truants; Weaklings; Wanderers; Pilferers; Characterially Defective; Precocious; Sex Problems and Intractables. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, with an inscription by one of the author- Saul Drucker, who was Superintendent of Home For Jewish Children in Boston.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No dust jacket present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Beacon Press:, 1966. 294 pages, illustrated. "Few American cities are traditionally considered to have been as socially rigid and homogeneous as Boston in the early 19th century. Yet it was there, in 1816, the Congregationalist descendents of the Puritans launched one of the earliest organized programs to aid and uplift the urban poor and the culturally deprived.The City Missionary Society of Boston is the second oldest voluntary family welfare agency in our nation." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newmarket Press: , 1987. 229 pages, illustrated. "Part biography, part cultural history- this fascinating book evokes America in the thirties and forties while telling the story of the formative years of one of America's best-known women and the first (and, so far, only) Jewish Miss America." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. First Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Beacon Press: 1989. first printing, 227 pages. This "is the first book to examine how child victims and their families are treated in the courts and how thy are often revictimized by the legal system that is supposed to help them." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Charles Scribner's Sons:, 1923. "Man stands to-day at the parting of the ways, with the choice of controlling his own destiny or of being tossed about until the end of time by the blind forces of the environment in which he finds himself. An epitome of the facts on whcih this conclusion is based is given in the following pages without supression or evasion, though with the constant feeling of inability to do justice to the subject." VERY GOOD+ HARDCOVER, red cloth, lettering on spine and cover.. First printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No dust jacket present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harper & Row: 1965. first edition, 340 pages. In the Foreword written by David Riesman says "this is the most rounded picture I know of how a single community experienced an effort at integration." Along with this book, there is a 7 page typed letter, with pen corrections to David Reisman, written March 26, 1965 on 'The Ford Foundation' letterhead. This revealing letter is a glimpse back to that era. This is a current events news letter with Ehle's own impressions and understanding of the situation at hand. Ehle begins his letter saying "Of, course the students are showing more and more unrest, and the administrators in many colleges and universities are worried.. news update at Berkley..to what is happening with the Northern Student Movement and SDS. Ehle next mentions MLK and SNCC. More on the Selma conflict and MLK, and on and on. This letter is a day in the life of this country in 1965. This book is inscribed by Ehle to David Riesman. Riesman is the author of THE LONELY CROWD, also present are 2 minor letters. FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Houghton Mifflin:, 1970. 381 pages, illustrated. "It couldn't happen here, almost everyone said about the oldest and most renowned university in the country. Then on April 9, 1969, a band of students led by the radical wing of SDS seized University Hall and disproved the conventional wisdom that put Harvard above such violence. The authors have probed the confusion of inflamed and contradictory reports. They identify forces set in motion many mouths before the bust, and follow the gradual hardening of attitudes on issues that divided students faculty, and administration." FINE- HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. . First printing. Hard Cover. Fine-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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University Of Massachusetts Press:, 1988. 153 pages, illustrated. "Based on original documents, diaries, and interviews with Holocaust survivors, this book, explores how both the children and adults used play as a means of survival in a world gone mad. Eisen concludes that play activities were a conscious attempt to shape and reshape the social and psychological dimensions of ghetto and camp life, an effort to control space, time, and behavior in the midst of chaos and savagery." VERY GOOD+ HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD+ DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Basic Books:, 1987. "In this brilliant, startling original inquiry, a distinguished political philosopher and feminist demonstrates that the old myths - flattering to both men and women-will not do. They are defined by the reality of female bellicosity and sacrificial male love, and undermined by ambiguous issues-from the role of women in combat to the moral imperatives of just wars." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. First printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Center for Urban Policy Research: First publsihed in 1986, this book is the third printing from 1989, 430 pages. "Homelessness has become a social issue of vital national concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers." FINE SOFTCOVER. . Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Stein and Day: 1971 336 pages. "Professor Esler begins with the great ideological, social, and economic revolutions of 150 years ago, putting the youth revolt of the past decade in historical perspective." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Government Printing Office: 1976 233 pages. "Attention must be drawn to the little-known fact that the U.S. Government did contract for eight years in the 1940's a constructive program aimed directly at offering assistance to the Chinese people in education, public health, sanitation, agriculture, engineering, and the like. Such was the U.S. program of cultural exchanges with China, initiated by the Department of State in 1942, administered by the Division of Cultural Relations, and continued up to the 1949 severance of relations. This program was a pioneer effort in several ways. It was, first of all, an experiment in the unaccustomed field of governmental cultural activity. It was also the first such program to be tired outside of the Western Hemisphere." FINE HARDCOVER. . Hard Cover. Fine/No dust jacket present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Basic Books: 1972. 228 pages. "In this important contribution to social history, the first careful analysis of family life in America from 1775 to 1815, he shows that, as in the colonial period, the fundamental institution in American society during this period was not rank or class- nor the detached indivdual; it was the family household. The family was in practice as well as theory an integral component of the system of economic production, the community, the church, and the politican commonwealth." *Note: the back blank endpaper has been cut out, else fine. Hard Cover*. Fine-/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Oxford University Press: 1997 324 pages, illustrated. "Kidnapped is a mesmerizing look at some of the great kidnapping cases in American history, the stories that have haunted parents over the past 125 years. More importantly Kidnapped presents, in a series of brilliant narratives, a window into the American mind, providing us with new insights into parenting and the American family, the media and our fascination with celebrity, policing and law enforcement, gender and sexuality, mental health, and much more." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Government Printing Office:, 1939. 1140 pages, illustrated, with numerous maps and illustrations. The back pocket should include three maps (see page XVII), map #1 is present (District of Columbia map showing all streets, locations of important buildings, parks and street cars and bus routes). Map #2 & 3 are not present.. Hard Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Basic Books: 1969 543 pages. "In this carefully researched, highly readable and provocative study of the history and meaning of student dissidence from the earliest centuries to the present, the eminent scholar Lewis Feuer offers an indispensable key for understanding what brings about student rebellions and how best to cope with them" FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harper: 1943. fifth edition, 225 pages. GOOD HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Pegasus: 1968 287 pages. "The right of a person who conscientiously objects to participation in all wars are recognized by the Selective Service regulations of the United States government. However, an increasing number of persons- not generally opposed to war- refuse to participate in the war in Vietnam- believing it to be unjust. Although the problem of the selective conscientious objector is posed most acutely by the Southeast Asian crisis, the issues will remain even if the war were to end tomorrow. This volume explores those issues, distinguished contributors examine the moral, philosophical, political and legal aspects of the problem." . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Withdrawal*. more information

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Arthur Fields Books:, 1973. 270 pages. "The dramatic story of an adoptee who was determined to find her natural parents- and, after 20 heartbreaking years, did." The author is the adoptee trying to find her biological parents. She does, almost by a miracle, as the political and legal systems tried to keep her in the dark about who she really was. FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. . First Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Prometheus Books: 1993 217 pages, illustrated. "During her lifetime, Myra Bradwell (1831 -94)- America "first" woman lawyer as well as publisher and editor-in-chief of a prestigious legal newspaper- did more to establish and aid the rights of women and other legally handicapped people than any other woman of her day." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Little, Brown and Co.:, 1953. The twenty-first printing, 212 pages. This book covers Chinese, Hindu, Jewish Christain, and Moslem holidays. FINE- HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Good. Illus. by Anne Marie Jauss. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Macmillan & Co.:, 1989. 338 pages. "The Bradley Commission on History in Schools was created in 1987 specifically in response to the widespread concern over the inadequacy, both in quantity and in quality, of the history taught in American elementary and secondary classrooms." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Pantheon 1973 The first edition, 261 pages. "We are, Herbert Gans feels, an unequal society that would like to think of itself as egalitarian. In this book, he argues that post industrial America is slowly beginning to move toward greater economic and political equality, and indeed, that it can only hold together and function effectively by becoming more egalitarian." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harper & Row: 1966 The first edition, 421 pages, illustrated. This book is the "fascinating account of the vital role of religion in the history of America surges with movement and with the restlessness of change the upthrust of a new young nation whose basic ideals may prove to be its most valuable legacy to world history." FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harper & Row: 1966 The first edition, 421 pages, illustrated with 293 in b&w and 8 in color. "This fascinating account of the vital role of religion in the history of America surges with movement and with the restlessness of change- the upthrust of a new young nation whose basic ideals may prove to be its most valuable legacy to world history." FINE- HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Random House:, 1968. 184 pages. This book "was written by General Gavin in an effort to turn America around. General Gavin offers specific reasoned solutions to end the Vietnamese war based on his now famous enclave strategy. Then, provocatively and thoughtfully, he deals with America's domestic crisis." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. First printing Stated. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Viking: 1970. 344 pages. "This extraordinary account of Selective Service violators who chose jail rather than deferment or exile is based on Dr. Gaylin's two-year research project intended originally as a scientific study. He interviewed 26 white and black imprisoned war resisters to determine who they were, why they went to prison, and what effects it had on them." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Tower Hill Press/Bucks County Historical Society:, 1983. With an introduction by James A.Michener. 275 pages, illustrated. The biography of Elizabeth Chapman Lawrence. FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Bedminster Press: 1961 85 pages, with 90 Tables. "This book features and essay giving a statistical summary of the contemporary United States, and a selection of statistical tables, presenting some of the sources of the essay in greater detail. Our collection is designed for those who want to be generally informed about American society as it appeared in 1960 or the (late) 1950s." FINE HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine/No dust jacket present. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Wiley-Interscience:, 1977. The first printing, 443 pages. "This book compares the status of women in eight different countries: Egypt, Bangladesh, Mexico, Ghana, Japan, France United States and Poland. Every chapter presents a remarkably comprehensive picture of a country within a very brief space." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harvard University Press:, 1975. 258 pages. "This volume constitutes an achievement nowhere duplicated in the three related and critical areas of education, work and manpower policy. It is the mature production of over a dozen years of research- an endeavor by the dean of manpower studies.In Part One, Mr. Ginzberg warns against simplistic reliance on prevailing models for action, whether they are economic, psychological, or political. Part Two concerns work and its discontents. Ginzberg examines the changing role of women, the position of blue-collar workers, labor reforms suggested in America and abroad, and the place of the work ethic in today's culture. Part Three focuses on public employment policy." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Wiley & Sons: 1956 139 pages. "Where do minority groups stand in the U.S. today? What are the problems confronting- the catholic, the U.S. Indian, the Jew, the Negro, the Japanese America, and the Puerto Rican in the U. S." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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The Joint Information Service of the American Psychiatric Association and the National Association for Mental Health: 1973 216 pages. "During the 1960's that portion of the college-age population who were actually enrolled in colleges increased by 41 percent. During that same time, more than 500 new colleges and universities were created, so that fully one fifth of all the country's institutions of higher learning in 1970 had come into being during the previous decade. Many of these new schools- as well as many long-established ones- appeared to be providing little if anything in the way of formal support services for students who undergo any form of emotional or behavioral crisis. With the hope of stimulating interest in creating such support services, the Joint Information Service undertook to survey the numerous helping resources being provided at the selected group of college of widely varying characteristics." FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Basic Books: 1975 248 pages. "One of the most controversial social developments of recent years is "Affirmative Action," the government's Policy of requiring educators and employers to actively favor members of discriminated-against groups in decisions on admissions, hiring, and promotions." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chandler Publishing Co.: , 1969. 621 pages. This "is an expansion of the December 1968 Social Science Quarterly, a double issue devoted entirely to articles on "Blacks in America." Forty-five articles by fifty-seven contributors representing seven disciplines (1) survey the social, economic, and political context of Black Life in the United States and (2) examine the courses of action that are most likely to be adopted and the probable consequences of these actions." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Knopf: 1934 539 pages, introduction by Roscoe Pound. A detailed "analysis of the lives of 500 women offenders after their release from a (Mass.) reformatory. This is the first volume to be published in the series which the members of the Institute of Criminal Law of the Harvard Law School hope to contribute in the fields of criminal law and criminology." FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Nan Talese/Doubleday: 1995 first edition, 309 pages. "Skin Deep captures the sound, the shape, and the boundaries of the contemporary relationships between black and white women." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Addison Wesley: 1952. 280 pages. "This book reports the results of the first comprehensive research focused upon these questions. The investigation was made in "New Dublin" a city in the northeastern United States. A research team made intensive studies of nursery school children, both Negro and white." The author was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Wellesley College when she wrote this book. GOOD HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paragon House:, 1990. The second printing stated, 222 pages, illustrated. "He's been named permanent Hobo King of the East, so who better than Steam Train Maury Graham to chronicle the life and times of the American hobo." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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University of California Press:, 1991. 247 pages. "This is the best available single-volume treatment of the causes and consequences of Dominican migration to and from the 'two islands'." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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United States Catholic Conference: Publication Office for the National Opinion Research Center Study at the University of Chicago, directed by Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, Ph.D.: 1972, 458 pages. "This volume presents the complete report of the sociological survey and the publication of the complete psychological report reflecting the continued adherence to the norm "not to fear to speak the truth. The complete report is based on replies from nearly 600 priests. It provides a wealth of data which are invaluable in understanding many of the problems encountered by priests today," FINE HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. . Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Wiley-International:, 1974. 347 pages. "This book is devoted to a preliminary exploration of European-American ethnic diversity in the United States." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. . First printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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American Council on Education, 1989. 180 pages. "Disturbed by the faltering pace of minority advancement in American life and by the discouraging decline of participation of minority individuals (ACE) Board of Directors convened a special meeting in February 1987 to consider how higher education could take a leadership role in rekindling the nation's commitment to the full participation of minority citizens." Three institution making a difference: The University of Massachusetts at Boston; Miami-Dade Communiy College and Mount St. Mary's College. FINE HARDCOVER. . Hard Cover. Fine/No dust jacket present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Macmillan and Co.: 1893, 1894, 971 pages, total. A complete study of England in the Fifteenth century. Volume One covers: English towns, the Industrial Revolution, the Commerical Revoltuion, the common life in town, the townspeople the towns and churches, the problems of government, and battle for freedom. Volume Two covers: Town manners, town markets, town traders, labour, crafts, the tailors of Exeter, the guild merchant, common councils, and more. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, Ex-library withdrawal.. Hard Covers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Withdrawal*. more information

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University Press of Virginia, 1965. 98 pages. The Preface notes the following. "Except for a few minor changes in wording and citations and the addition of a brief epiloque, this book is simply a reprint of the Introduction to THE DIARY OF COLONEL LANDON CARTER OF SABINE HALL, 1752 - 1776." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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American Library Association: The third edition, a complete revision of the seond edition of the work by Mary Emogene Hazeltine published in 1944. The scope of this third edition is international.Many new nations have been established and new holidays creasted since the publication of the second edition." FINE HARDCOVER, ex-library withdrawal.. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library Withdrawal. more information

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Harvard University Press:, 1968. 705 pages and edited by John W. Ward. "First published in 1848, Frederick's Book, in the words of the editor "deserves comparison with Tocqueville's justly famous work, Democracy In America, and is in certain ways superior. It is the single best book written by an American in the nineteenth century on the meaning of our political way of life." A second edition of Grimke's work was published in 1856, and a third edition appeared posthumously in 1871, but since then this classic in American thought has been almost completely lost to sight. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No dust jacket present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Young People's Missionary Movement, NY: 1906 337 pages, illustrated, and tipped in map. "It is not a question as to whether the aliens will come. They have come, millions of them; they are now coming, at the rate of a million a year...Immigration- the foreign peoples in America, who and where they are, whence they come, and what under our laws and liberties and influences they are likely to become- this is the subject of our study. The subject is as fascinating as it is vital. Its problems are by far the most pressing, serious, and perplexing with which the American people have to do." VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, front blnak endpaper missing from the book, colored map is fine.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No dust jacket present. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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