Becker: 1229 books
What About Mozart? What About Murder?
Reasoning From Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing...
Forcing the Spring
Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
**A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
“[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train...Becker's...
Tricks of the Trade
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students...
by Gary S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all human behavior. In a highly readable selection of essays Becker applies this approach to various aspects of human...
The United States
An Experiment in Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they...
Writing for Social Scientists
How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures—most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them—often lead to pretentious prose, academic posturing, and, not infrequently, writer’s block.
Sociologist Howard S. Becker has...
Mongolia
Travels in An Untamed Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
For seventy years Mongolia was all but closed to the west - a forbidden country, shrouded in darkness. Jasper Becker had long dreamed of exploring the sweeping land that lay just beyond China’s Great Wall and when communism disintegrated, he finally did. Setting out from Kublai Khan’s capital,...
Human Capital
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination,...
by Robin Becker
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Appearance and disguise—in a Costa Rican rainforest, a West Village repair shop, or an intimate relationship—reveal the turbulence that undergirds daily life, as families and places undergo change. In "Elegy for the Norther Flying Squirrel" and "Divers," Becker takes up the...
Thinking Together
An E-Mail Exchange and All That Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Faulkner and Becker, sociologists and experienced musicians, wrote a book about their musical experiences—Do You Know? The Jazz Repertoire in Action—describing how musicians who didn’t know each other could perform competently and interestingly without rehearsing, or playing from written music....
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec’s most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs—each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths...
Surpassing the Spectacle
Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
In her newest book, leading social critic Carol Becker offers a timely analysis of the nature of art and its role in politics and society. Completed just before the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center catastrophe, Surpassing the Spectacle is now especially relevant in its analysis of the spectacle...
by Howard S. Becker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade, Telling About Society, and What About Mozart? What About Murder? It turns...
The Wall
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A collection of newly translated stories “filled with astonishing dialogue and imaginative prose” from the acclaimed author of Jacob the Liar (Jewish Book Council).
One of the giants of postwar German literature, Jurek Becker was author of the acclaimed novel Jacob the Liar, which was awarded...