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American School Reform
What Works, What Fails, and Why
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation’s largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge—launched...
Manufacturing Consent
Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers...
by Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were...
The Social Citizen
Peer Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on...
Without a Stitch in Time
A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. Without a Stitch in Time, a selection of...
More than Cool Reason
A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme...
The Old-Time Saloon
Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, T**he Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading...
A Sister's Memories
The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in turn-of-the-century struggles to improve the lives...
Rave On
Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. Cultural liberation and musical innovation. Pyrotechnics, bottle service, bass drops, and molly.
Electronic dance music has been a vital force for more than three decades now, and has undergone transformation upon transformation as it has taken over the world....
The Remittance Landscape
Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico—one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With The Remittance Landscape, Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with that money, and in particular how the building boom...
Elephant Memories
Thirteen Years in the Life of an Elephant Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Cynthia Moss has studied the elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park for over twenty-seven years. Her long-term research has revealed much of what we now know about these complex and intelligent animals. Here she chronicles the lives of the members of the T families led by matriarchs Teresia,...
Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change
A Guide to Environmental Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change. One of the most trafficked terms in the press, on university campuses, and in the corridors...
Stigma and Culture
Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States—and around the globe—is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and income by dishonoring other stigmatized...
Liberace
An American Boy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
More people watched his nationally syndicated television show between 1953 and 1955 than followed I Love Lucy. Even a decade after his death, the attendance records he set at Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, and Radio City Music Hall still stand. Arguably the most popular entertainer of...