Search Results: Sociology from Monkey House Books

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Very light wear, gift inscription. Richly illustrated. 257 pages. 1st Edition. Includes New York, Chicago, Mexico City, Paris, Rome, London, Moscow, San Francisco, Cairo, Tokyo, Beijing, and Sydney.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1990. Trade paperback. Fine. Explores the moral and ethical aspects of the social sciences and the philosophy of sociology. 303 pages, index, notes, bibliography. Clean and tight, original price sticker on back cover.

Boston; New York: Damrell & Upham and the Boston Book Company; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. Blue cloth boards. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Saratoga Papers of 1898. Papers read in the Departments of Education, Health, Jurisprudence, Finance, and Social Economy, with Stenographic Notes of Debates. Subjects include the care of deaf-mutes, war financing, public education, cooperative banking, the popular lecture, and a history of American morals. 263 pages, binding tight. Faded spine and darkened backstrip label. Endpapers spotted.

New York & Los Angeles: Oxford Book Company, 1972. Trade paperback. Good. Oxford Spectrum Series Aspects of Contemporary Life. Illustrated with photos, political cartoons, etc. 148 pages, index, brief underlining, tanned. Discusses issues such as political movements, civil rights legislation, stereotypes, integration, etc. for groups such as African-Americans, Asians, Jews, Native Americans, and Hispanics. School text with questions.

New York: Galton Publishing Co., Inc., 11 West 42nd Street, 1930. Blue boards. Good/No Dust Jacket. With a foreword by Major Leonard Darwin, Sc.D., President of the Eugenics Society since 1911. Discusses issues such as ""fitness and unfitness,"" ""the desirable citizen,"" and ""the emigration dilemma."" 139 pages. Title page and first page of foreword are loosening. Both covers are considerably bleached from moisture.

New York; Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1929. Light blue cloth boards, dark blue stamped cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. By the Superintendent of the Erie Chapel Institute, Chicago. 96 pages, stories from an early 20th century immigrant settlement house, teenage mothers, poor Italian immigrants, domestic violence. Sunned backstrip and edges, ends & corners worn.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875. Green cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Conversations on all manner of social issues. Ex-library with stamps & labels, moderate wear. Hinges cracking, backstrip peeling away at top. Spine cock, slight musty odor. 412 pages, text clean & unmarked.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Blue cloth, black & gilt stamped cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Early edition of this classic work of urban sociology by the founder of Hull House in Chicago. 162 pages. Advocates education and social programs for urban youth.

New York: Times Books, 1994. Trade paperback. Very Fine. Hamburg was President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Preface by Marian Wright Edelman. 376 pages, bibliography and index. Covers drug abuse, urban violence, illiteracy, and health care. 1 black slash on top edge.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. Trade paperback. Good. Policy Studies in Employment and Welfare No. 13. 143 pages, index. Tracks the beginning and growth of the AFDC programs. Reference copy, moderate wear & creasing to covers.