Publication date: 2005-11-25
Dewey code: 301.0923
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Review Interpretative Origins of Classical Sociology: Weber, Husserl, Schutz, Durkheim, Simmel (Mellen Studies in Sociology, Bd. 52) / Edwin Mellen Press:In their efforts to define the boundaries of a new discipline, the founders of modern sociology - Durkheim, Simmel, and Weber - left a rich legacy of theoretical insights. But, with the exception of Weber's Verstehen (interpretative understanding), standard treatments of classical sociological theory have tended to understate interpretative influences. The founders held different views of the place of alternative interpretations in sociology and of their symbolic and epistemological implications for a subject matter. For Weber, collective concepts failed to meet the standards of a unit of analysis for sociology. Durkheim and Simmel's approach to sociology's subject matter emphasized not the study of individuals or objects, but the social construction of what they meant and how they were experienced. Armed with the conceptual distinction drawn in phenomenological sociology between "appearing things" - things in the raw, life's content - and their "appearances," a rereading of Durkheim and Simmel's contribution to classical theory reveals how well their concepts fit descriptions of interpretative influences in social life. This book seeks to trace the influence of a package of interpretative ideas - signs, representations, symbols, and meanings - on the issues addressed by the founders in the development of classical sociological theory.
Publication date: 2004-10-15
Dewey code: 378.12092
Price: $59.95
Review I'm The Teacher, You're The Student: A Semester In The University Classroom / University of Pennsylvania Press:This award-winning college professor's enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester is a unique eye-opening guide for parents whose children are heading off to college.
Creator: John M. Carroll
Publication date: 1985-02
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $22.95
Price: $108.59
Review I, Varnum: The Autobiographical Reminiscences of Custer's Chief of Scouts / Amereon Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 355
Price: $17.95
Review Tiger Men: A Young Australian Soldier Among the Rhade Montagnard of Vietnam / Orchid Press:In 1963 Barry Peterson left Australia for Vietnam to train local tribes to defend their villages against the Vietcong. This is the story of those Truong Son, or "Tiger Men, " who became the most respected and feared native forces in South Vietnam. But it is also the sad story of the defeat and destruction of the Montagnard culture and way of life, as Vietnamese and American leadership ultimately turned its back on its loyal supporters.
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 940
Price: $24.95
Review Looking Back: The Story of a Tail Gunner / Airlife Publishing, Ltd.:This is the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic story of the author's service in the USAAF from 1942 to 1943. Dale R. VanBlair was tail gunner with a B-24 crew in the 448th Bomb Group, with whom he flew missions over Germany from December 1943 to April 1944. The climax of the book is his account of the crew's last mission when they led a formation to Berlin. Severely damaged by flak and fighters, they were forced to ditch in the North Sea with the loss of five men. A gripping narrative of terrifying action in WWII, the book describes in vivid detail the experience of the remote tail gunner’s position.
Authors
- Michael Jaeger
- T. S. C. Lowe
- Carol, Ph.D. Lauritzen
Dewey code: 973.73
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Review Memoirs of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War (Studies in American History (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 53.) / Edwin Mellen Press:Although Thaddeus Lowe is a known figure to some historians, his scientific contributions such as the portable gas generators that filled his balloons and the compression ice machine that introduced "artificial" ice to the world, remain largely hidden. Ironically, it is very possible to find literature that references his work and his Civil War experiences, yet it is nearly impossible to read the book that this related literature is based upon - Lowe's autobiography. This book has been painstakingly prepared from one of the only known copies of Lowe's difficult-to-decipher text. This amplified autobiography includes photographs of the inventor and his balloons as well as photos of artifacts such as correspondences (including a handwritten note from President Lincoln) and receipts. It also contains relevant maps and supplementary information to enhance understanding of Lowe's journeys and the battles he participated in.
Creator: David Hamilton
Publication date: 2008-11-11
Dewey code: 813.54
List Price: $109.95
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Review The Concept of the Moment: A Philosophical Tale / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Publication date: 1992-01
Dewey code: 300
Price: $54.95
Review The Innocent Anthropologist (G K Hall Audio Books Series) / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 971.403092
List Price: $109.95
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Review A Biography of Francois-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, Quebec's Foremost Political Maverick in the Nineteenth Century (Canadian Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:Francois-Xavier-Anselme Trudel was a lawyer, politician, and journalist, a maverick and free spirit who undermined all the institutions and values he professed to hold dear. He was a forceful proponent of Roman Catholicism of the harsh, conservative, ultramontane variety, who disobeyed ecclesiastical authority; he stressed family values but neglected his wife and children in his pursuit of fame and fortune; a conservative; an anti-Semite; personal in his attacks on those who disagreed with his point of view. He was a strong French-Canadian nationalist. He died a lonely figure, disliked and ridiculed by almost everyone he had come into contact with during his rather short lifetime. The man behind the self-righteous exterior is revealed in this biography, his public career fleshed out through a clearer understanding of his personal life.
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $109.95
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Review Social Discontinuity in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: The Conservative Quest (Studies in British Literature , Vol 38) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Creator: T. N. F. Murtagh
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 194
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Jean Cavailles: A Philosopher in Time of War, 1903-1944 (Studies in French Civilization) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1998-01
Dewey code: 609
Price: $14.95
Review No Justice for Millie: An Hmo Tragedy / Bookpartners:
Creator: Russell C. White
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 973.74
List Price: $30.00
Price: $110.00
Review The Civil War Diary of Wyman S. White, First Sergeant of Company F, 2nd United States Sharpshooter Regiment, 1861-1865 / Butternut and Blue:
Publication date: 2004-12
Dewey code: 355
Price: $12.95
Review Wing Ding / Bookman Publishing:There are no battlefield monuments To mark where each life was spent Smoke from burning aircraft rises no more To tell the tales of what went on before. Contrails are no longer across the sky To mark the routes we used to fly. Another great air war I will never see, But this one remains forever with me. Let this story be their monument To mark young lives bravely spent.
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 070.40820973
List Price: $109.95
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Review Women Journalists and the Municipal Housekeeping Movement, 1868-1914 (Women's Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 31.) / Edwin Mellen Press:This study is the first to concentrate on the work of women journalists during the municipal housekeeping movement, explores the different ways women promoted reform activities in newspapers and magazines. It links the work of the earlier women journalists of the 19th century to the themes of domesticity and municipal housekeeping and then explores the work of representative women writers around the United States in specialized club magazines, women's magazines and general interest magazines, and newspapers.
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 355.0019
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Review The Valor of Male And Female Warriors Around the World: Case Studies from History / Edwin Mellen Press:Examines human courage and cowardice in combat in many parts of the world. This book provides an introduction to an essential attribute of humanity - the quest for self-respect and the respect of others.
Creator: James E. Gilg
Publication date: 2008-09-14
Dewey code: 370.92
List Price: $109.95
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Review Changing Brain Structure Through Cross-Cultural Learning: The Life of Reuven Feuerstein / Edwin Mellen Press:Tells the story of Reuven Feuerstein, who encourage the Paradigm shift from development and behaviorism to cognitive psychology during the twentieth century, in his words, those of his family, colleagues, and former students.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-10-30
Dewey code: 070.92273
List Price: $110.00
Price: $109.12
Review Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists (Studies in African American History and Culture) / Routledge:This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for newspapers, magazines and other media during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
Publication date: 2005-12-16
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $18.99
Price: $108.84
Review From Ovaltiney to Angry Old Man: The Life and Times of John Taylor / BookSurge Publishing:This book bucks the trend that has seen a raft of memoir books published by 'authors' hardly out of their teens. 'From Ovaltiney to Angry Old Man' is a real memoir by a man looking back over a full and varied life as he reaches his eighties, remembering childhood stardom, Royal Navy service in World War Two, a successful career in journalism, TV commentating, old Fleet Street and old Soho, and then the final critique of an Angry Old Man.
Creator: James A. Weisheipl
Publication date: 1980-01-01
Dewey code: 509.24
Price: $124.95
Review Albertus Magnus and the Sciences (Studies and Texts) / PIMS:
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Lowe, Chief of the Aeronautic Corps of the Army of the United States During the Civil War: My Balloons in Peace and War (Studies in American History (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 53.), The Concept of the Moment: A Philosophical Tale, The Innocent Anthropologist (G K Hall Audio Books Series), A Biography of Francois-Xavier-Anselme Trudel, Quebec's Foremost Political Maverick in the Nineteenth Century (Canadian Studies), Social Discontinuity in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: The Conservative Quest (Studies in British Literature , Vol 38), Jean Cavailles: A Philosopher in Time of War, 1903-1944 (Studies in French Civilization), No Justice for Millie: An Hmo Tragedy, The Civil War Diary of Wyman S. White, First Sergeant of Company F, 2nd United States Sharpshooter Regiment, 1861-1865, Wing Ding, Women Journalists and the Municipal Housekeeping Movement, 1868-1914 (Women's Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 31.), The Valor of Male And Female Warriors Around the World: Case Studies from History, Changing Brain Structure Through Cross-Cultural Learning: The Life of Reuven Feuerstein, Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists (Studies in African American History and Culture), From Ovaltiney to Angry Old Man: The Life and Times of John Taylor, Albertus Magnus and the Sciences (Studies and Texts)Top headlines: Have a question for a cougar?: Whether you're explaining why you're the best person for a job, pushing across a 10-K finish line, or climbing toward your between-the-sheets peak, success can often come down to what you've been eating. 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