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The Strange Music of Social Life
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 28.95The Strange Music of Social Life presents a dialogue on dialogic sociology, explored through the medium of music. Sociologist and composer Michael Mayerfeld Bell presents an argument that both sociology and classical music remain largely in the grip of a nineteenth-century totalizing ambition of prediction and control. He provides the refreshing... more...
The Fiddler in the Subway
Simon & Schuster 2010; Not AvailableGENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is?in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which... more...
The Fiddler in the Subway
Simon & Schuster 2010; Not AvailableGENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is?in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which... more...
Talcott Parsons
University Press of America 2012; US$ 24.99Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century. This introduction dwells on Parsons' conceptual apparatus and offers a compendium of his research. His works are subdivided into three distinct periods, each characterized by specific concepts and theoretical developments. Parsons utilized... more...
Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: the best of Joe Bageant
Scribe Publications 2011; US$ 24.99‘Essentially, it comes down to the fact that a very large portion of Americans are crazier than shithouse rats and are being led by a gang of pathological misfits, most of whom are preachers and politicians.’ In 2004, at the age of 58, writer Joe Bageant sensed that the internet could give him editorial freedom. Without having to... more...
Your Money or Your Life
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableAs the host of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business , Neil Cavuto reports on today's most influential business leaders and newsmakers. His great talent is to get beneath the issues, connecting people to the events that define them and changing the way that Americans think about their money. Ending each show with... more...
This Is Running for Your Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 15.99Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched times In This Is Running for Your Life , Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother?s retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave in a world increasingly mediated?for better and for worse?by... more...
My 1980s and Other Essays
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 15.99Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays Wayne Koestenbaum has been described as ?an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag? ( Bidoun ). In My 1980s and Other Essays , a collection of extravagant range and style, he... more...
Vermeer in Bosnia
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding?author of Mr. Wilson?s Cabinet of Wonder ?here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades, the majority of which have never before been gathered together in book form. Lawrence Weschler is not simply a superb reporter, essayist, and cultural... more...
Youth, HIV/AIDS and Social Transformations in Africa
CODESRIA 2009; US$ 24.95The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), two institutions with a longstanding interest in the study of youth and social transformations in Africa. Under the collaboration,... more...









