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Pomegranate Communications, 2006. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. A writer-editor with the Library of Congress, the sponsor of this series, introduces a first lady who "...could not...be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on." Keating presents a pictorial essay of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), who won esteem--not without controversy--for her social activism and humanitarian work. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Fithian Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Upon his retirement from working as a social scientist with the federal government in Washington, DC, Roth (PhD, cultural anthropology), begun a new fulltime "career" of exploring the woods around his suburban Virginia home. In diary and occasional haiku form, Roth reflects on his experiments with new ways of seeing by hanging upside down and other unique viewpoints on nature--especially the moon. (©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) ... more information

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Seven Stories Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. About 90 percent of Venezuela's people are poor, and that number is likely to rise as its middle class continues to disappear. Venezuela is also the third largest oil importer to the US. These two startling bits of data frame the career of Hugo Chavez, the nation's first indigenous head of state, who came to power by coup but stayed put through referenda, elections, and a highly suspicious but failed revolt. Seasoned journalist McCaughan bu... more information

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Pathfinder Press, 2009. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Waters, editor of New International magazine and president of Pathfinder press, has teamed with Koppel (managing editor, The Militant newsweekly) to underscore the social transformations of the capitalist and working classes of Equatorial Guinea that are emerging with the development of the oil extraction industry. Written for those interested in international development and economics, this volume combines this narrative with the story of Cuban medic... more information

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HarperCollins, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. One of the United States' most celebrated leftist historians, Howard Zinn is the author of Vietnam: the Logic of Withdrawal and A People's History of the United States. This volume collects eight recent interviews with Zinn conducted by David Barsamian, host of the syndicated Alternative Radio. In the interviews, Zinn reflects on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the importance of civil disobedience, the role of history and memory in American lif... more information

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Potomac Books, Inc., 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Black (history, U. of Exeter, UK) believes that there are two, equally important, areas of military history: accounts of the military, its organization, weaponry, and conflicts and consideration of the relationship between war and wider themes of international competition, state-building, and social developments, among others. Both of these themes are present in his brief historiographical essay surveying the main topics of European warfare from 14... more information

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The Lyons Press, 2006. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. "The Great Society has been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam." (Martin Luther King, Jr.) "A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after." (Gloria Steinem) "Yabba dabba do!' (Fred Flintstone) The editor of The 1960s: American Popular Culture Through History and Woodstock: An Encyclopedia of the Music and Arts Fair compiles such quotes characterizing this decade's politics, social struggles,... more information

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The Lyons Press, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. "Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet, and they won't bother you for weeks."--Anonymous. One part humor and one part history, this almost-pocket-size (6x7") collection of quotes about the Internet and the Web spans the overblown predictions of the early days through comments by today's bloggers and podcasters. Internet pioneers, politicians, journalists, scientists, and entertain... more information

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AEI Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Entine (Miami U., Ohio) compiles four essays, one his own, on the subject of public pension fund investing and the legal and political implications of socially-responsible investing. The authors argue that social investing of public funds violates fiduciary responsibility; ideological filters do not improve and may hurt stock performance; and that social investing has not brought the social reforms promised by its advocates, and has had unintended social and... more information

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Concept Pub. Co., 2007. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Indian philosopher Chattopadhyaya reflects on human evolution, human- environment relations, and human-society relations, building over the course of 15 essays towards a theory of the dynamics of values. Much of the work can be seen as a defense of gradualism versus dualism, as Chattopadhyaya rejects human/nature, value/fact, and other dichotomies, leading him to insist on recognition of the cultural and environmental rootedness of ethical, political,... more information

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Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The Pulitzer-winning Wills (Lincoln at Gettysburg, Why I Am a Catholic) updates his 1983 memoir with a slightly puzzled new preface: "As a sedentary old man, sitting at a desk and writing, I find it amusing to read about a younger self with the energy to chase around reporting on demonstrations, riots, communes, conventions, and political brawls," he writes. The eloquent essays that follow were written between 1968 and 1982, spanning culture... more information

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Westview Press, 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The wildly popular "Sopranos" TV series is a rich source for sociology, focusing viewers on a parade of social problems that worry the nation--crime; the structure of wealth and power, and the immoralities that can follow from both; a growing, media-fed culture of lies, deception, and alienation; and "micro-social" issues of marriage, family, and the crises of everyday life. This is the paper edition of a study first published in 200... more information

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Prometheus Books, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The influential American journalist Walter Lippman (1889-1974) published this collection of political essays shortly before his co- founding of The New Republic in 1913. Lippman provides the first outline of his views on the proper means of governing. Informed by a hostility to socialism and to mass democracy, Lippman's approach would later come to be critically characterized by Noam Chomsky, borrowing an actual phrase of Lippman's, as "... more information

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Concept Pub. Co., 2008. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Kumar (social work, Jamia Millia Islamia-A Central University, New Delhi) and Varghese (social work, Delhi U.) present findings from a study of a marginalized segment of India's unorganized agricultural workforce employed for seasonal work by farm owners, based on data collected from 750 women in three states. Coverage includes an overview of female landless labor worldwide; a demographic and social profile of the study's subjects; harassment,... more information

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Dover Pub. Co., 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Though perhaps more widely known now for her later controversial work on witchcraft in western Europe, Murray (1863-1963) was originally a renowned British archaeologist and Egyptologist. Here she discusses not only the monuments and dynasties, but also religion, furniture, social rituals, and other aspects of ordinary life. Her study was originally published in 1949; this edition reproduces the revised edition published by Hawthorn Books in 1963, rende... more information

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Council/Research in Values..., 2004. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. American and Italian social scientists and religious scholars, and an Italian diplomat, investigate how people with very different past experiences and present political loyalties, both in and beyond Italy, share common feelings toward many old and new cultural aspects of the Italian life style. The discussion continues with whether the concept of italicity can promote increased international understanding. (©2004 Book News, Inc., Po... more information

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Council/Research in Values..., 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Ten academics and administrators from Africa and the U.S. contribute nine chapters exploring Nigeria's challenges in developing universities that strike a balance between ancient cultural wisdom and traditions and the present global age. Coverage includes the struggles faced by Nigerian universities over the past 50 years in building a university system in the midst of a population explosion, a civil war and a revolution in the very n... more information

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Council/Research in Values..., 2007. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Górski (philosophy and sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and politics, Swierokrztska Academy) examines ideas about civil society, democracy, pluralism and universalism across Poland, Eastern Europe, Spain and Latin America. He describes the concepts about civil society by Gramsci applied by Italy and elsewhere, the transition from Marxism to liberalism, and the ideas about civil society extant in Poland and East Central Europe,... more information

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Fithian Press, 2005. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Known primarily as a friend and early promoter of Theodore Dreiser, Arthur Henry was a journalist, novelist, memoirist and playwright, whose varied career brought him together with many of the famous writers and social reformers of his day. The Walkers rescue Henry from Dreiser's shadow while also placing him in historical context. Much of the biography is based on Henry's private papers and unpublished manuscripts, which Maggie Walker, Henry'... more information

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