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The System of Professions
An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the...
Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals
The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career, Bourdieu challenged the commonly held view that...
The Ecology of Place
Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so few ecologists and so many systems to study,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current
information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and
empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral
biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich
source of ideas about other taxa.
"A superb...
Untrodden Ground
How Presidents Interpret the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation’s best interest. His successors would follow his example, setting their own constitutional...
Human Targets
Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job...
Beyond Redemption
Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists...
Immersion
A Writer's Guide to Going Deep
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have...
Swimming Science
Optimizing Training and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Swimming is often touted as one of the most accessible workouts—low impact, low tech, and beneficial at any stage of life. Yet each time you suit up and dive in, your body’s moving parts must work together to propel you through dozens of pounds of water resistance, somehow emulating the movements...
Rising Ground
A Search for the Spirit of Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called “one of our most thoughtful travel writers,” moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landscape around him, and, in particular, by the traces...
Maps and Civilization
Cartography in Culture and Society, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS),...
Conjugations
Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed radically. Production and distribution of films became...
Loving Little Egypt
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
In the early 1920s, nearly blind physics prodigy Mourly Vold finds out how to tap into the nation's long distance telephone lines. With the help of Alexander Graham Bell, Vold tries to warn the phone companies that would-be saboteurs could do the same thing, but they ignore him. Unfortunately, his...
Money, Morals, and Manners
The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class—the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book...