Sociology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, 1981 386 pages. Index, bibliography, glossary. Lightly worn former library copy with usual markings. Sound working copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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USA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998 554 pages including index. "Makes sociology come alive by showing that it is the product of individuals who were creatures of their era and of their place and who were responding to issues and concerns that became significant in the context of their time." - from Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. . Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Fine+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Don Mills, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1993 443 pages. A new anthology of essential readings tracing the development of sociological thought from Marx, to Weber, to modern feminist theory. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. . Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Harcourt Canada, Limited, 2001 586 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked. Lightest wear. Beautiful copy. . Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1995 Introduces fresh and varied perspectives on the nature of our everchanging and diverse society. Combines the essentials of sociological method and theory with engaging and contemporary topics. Light to moderate wear. Large and heavy volume. Nice copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1995 295 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white plates. "How masculinities are made and how they differ; why gender change occurs and how men handle it; how social science understands masculinity; how we can pursue social justice in a gendered world." - from title page. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company, 1974 429 pages including index. Assists the student in exploring the philosophical, economic, and historical bases of engineering and technological change as well as the petential we have for understanding (and therefore controlling) technological innovation. Includes black and white illustrations, charts and graphs. Unmarked. Average wear. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Holland/USA/UK: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980 Still in shrinkwrap. Unopened. Light wear at edges. Excellent copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1998 245 pages including index. A sociological exploration of how people recover from what medicine labels 'eating disorders', and the first book to focus exclusively on recovery. "...a bold new departure in the approach to anorexia" - Joel Kovel, Bard College, New York. Very light wear. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 161 pages including index. Small bit of soiling to top edge of text. Argues that biology has a great deal to say that should be of interst to social scientists, historians, philosophers, and humanists in general. Draws examples from neurobiology, psychology, and ethology. Significantly advances a more well-rounded view of human evolution and sheds new light on the perennial question of what it means to be human.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: Between the Lines, 2001 323 pages including references. Illuminates the world of Canadian experience in all its variations. "A comprehensive selection of personal reflections on social experience... Grounded, provocative, enlightening, useful and, above all, compelling." - Richard Fung, U. of Toronto. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1996 372 pages including index. "I loved it... This is an important dispatch from the trenches as we slouch towards the millennium, giving us some moral and cultural guidance for the parlous journey." - Peter C. Newman. Part polemic, part personal journalism, part intellectual fodder. Examines the disparate cultural phenomena - global warming, economic and democratic demise, Internet enthusiasm - that fost er millennial anxiety and link us to other apocolyptic periods in history. Excellent copy in attractive glossy illustrated covers.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 279 pages including index. "An excellent, compact review of some of the best and most famous evaluation research on intervention programs for juvenile delinquents..." - Contemporary Sociology. Unmarked copy with light wear.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968 327 pages. Index. "Offers for the first time in English a number of essays, originally produced in various German periodicals, in which the author first elaborated his insight into the social dimensions of thinking." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean unmarked book. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket. Prior owner's name clipped from top corner of first two pages. A sound copy. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967 253 pages. Index. "Contains three hitherto unpublished essays by Karl Mannheim." - from dust jacket. i Towards the Sociology of teh Mind, An Introduction ii The Problem of the Intelligentsia, An Inquiry into its Past and Present Role iii The Democratization of Culture. Book clean and unmarked. Opening along front hinge. Above-average wear to dust jacket. A worthy working copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Wadsworth, 1997 620 pages. Index. Few markings to contents. Clean with very light wear. Very nice tight copy. . Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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U.K.: Sage, 1996 361 pages. Minimal highlighting. Modest wear. A sound working copy. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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U.K.: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1947 335 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "This book is so full of meat and so brilliant, both analytically and synthetically, that subtle and thought-stimulating quotations might be taken from every page." - Times Literary Supplement. Tiny bit of writing inside front board else clean and unmarked with light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket bears average wear and is now preserved in an archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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U.K.: Viking/Penguin, 1989 264 pages including index. "Of fundamental importance, and relevance, to our time" - Oliver Sacks. "Progressively brings out the understanding of authority and the myriad varieties of good authority. Gradually the implications for good of the good authority and the implications for evil of its loss, its absence or its failure to be recovered by mourning are brought home." - from introduction. Clean and unmarked except for star-shaped rubber stamp to bottom edge. Light wear to book. Moderate wear to jacket. Nice copy.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Free Press, The/Martin Kessler Books, 1996 275 pages including index. "A strong, loving statement that answers the question, 'What do fathers do?'" - Jean Elshtain, University of Chicago. Examining evidence from social and behavioral science, history, and evolutionary biology, author shows why fathers today are deserting their families in record numbers. Suggests concrete policies, and new ways of thinking and acting, that will help all fathers improve their marriages and family lives, and tells us what we as individuals and as a society can do to support and strengthen the most important thing a man can do. Unread. Very light signs of handling. Remainder dot upon bottom edge. Excellent copy. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Three Rivers Press, 2000 370 pages including index. "Essential reading for understanding the converging forces for profound social change in the coming decades." - Duane Elgin, author of Promise Ahead and Voluntary Simplicity. Moderate quantity of marginalia. Average wear. Spine leans moderately to right. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1952 264 pages. Index. Short bibliography. Author submits that "all means of enforcing laws comprise physical, or military, force, moral force and police force, used separately or together, and that military force and moral force alone or together always fail to secure sustained observance of laws in a community unless they are provided with police force, as a medium through which they can function." - from Preface. Cleand unmarked with moderate wear. Bit of foxing, primarily at and near endpapers. Sound copy,. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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British Columbia: Frances Ricks, 1999 151 pages including extensive bibliography. Extends an invitation to join in the search to discover the essential foundations of community. Former reference copy with card pocket inside front cover, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Praeger, 1998 217 pages. Index. "Communism has collapsed and socialism is discredited. 'The end of history?'... The author argues the opposite." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Pine Forge Press, 1999 622 pages including index. An authentic breakthrough for teaching social research. "Provides a connection between real sociological research and a discussion of the underlying methods like no other text before. It is truly innovative." - Debra Kelley, Longwood College. Professional review copy. Clean, bright, unmarked and unused with faintest signs of handling. Superior copy.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Fine+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1998 176 pages including index. "A brilliant portrait of the flexible American workplace in the age of corporate re-engineering." - Financial Times. Minimal markings. Average wear. Lean to spine. Half-inch tear to back cover. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Canada: WLU, 1991 194 pages. Name index. Subject index. Includes items missed by the first volume in 1977. Binding tight. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Handsome gilt lettering and decoration upon front board. A sound working copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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USA: Univ of Illinois Press, 1998 265 pages. References. Index. "Very important and wonderfully researched - this guy knows boiler rooms like nobody's business!" - Jack Katz. "... a fine contribution to the sociology of deviance, occupations, and fieldwork." - Robert R. Faulkner. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket with short closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Quality copy of this fascinating reference. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1999 198 pages including index, notes and bibliography. Looks at the perennial battle between the computer underground and the security industry. Talks to people on both sides of the law about the practicalities, objectives and wider implications of what they do. Reveals the dangers inherent in the extremes of unquestioning conciliation and antagonism with which society tends to react to hacking and argues that a new middle way must be found if we are to make the most of society's high-tech meddlers. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Community Research Associates, Inc., 1973 94 pages. "A brief analysis of the attitudes, knowledge, technologies, and changes in institutional practices requisite to the prevention, resolution or control of major community problems." - from title page. Moderate wear. Some soiling to front board. Contents unmarked. Solid copy. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1985 162 pages. Provides a complete and carefully observed picture of the elderly in St. Petersburg, Florida: the conditions of their lives, representative social programs created to provide for them, and their interaction with the city around them. Unmarked. Very light wear. Excellent copy. . Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Belmont, CA, U.S.A.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992 319 pages. Light wear. Unmarked. Designed for use in conjunction with The Practice of Social Research, sixth edition, by Earl R. Babbie. Reinforces and extends your understanding of the material in the text and provides opportunities to apply that information.. Sixth Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1970 490 pages. Index. Footnotes. "An anthology of the work of Weber in the fields of science and politics, power, religion and social structure. Each section contains either the original essays in their entirety, or extensive excerpts from Weber's works on the subject under discussion." - from dust jacket. Average wear to book which is unmarked but for some squiggles to lower edge of textblock. Binding sound. Dust jacket heavily worn. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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USA: Prentice Hall PTR, 1991 527 pages including index. "I want this book to speak to our present, and I hope that the fact that the narrative concludes circa 1920 with the account of the seminal turn-of-the-century social theorists, will not prove to be an obstacle to this." - from preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Limited, 1986 409 pages including index. Examines the constituents of development - cultural as well as political and economic - throughout the world from pre-history to the present. An ambitious contribution to the debate on development theory . First half examines theories of development. Second half considers successive forms of rural organization, the rise of large-scale 'agribusiness' in the capitalist world and collectivized agricutlure in communist countries. Develops a new definition of the urban poor. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Original price sticker upon front cover. Some yellowing to pages. Sound copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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