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An eminent sociologist offers insightful impressions and discussions of American culture and the ways it both liberates and imprisons various social ... More

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An eminent sociologist offers insightful impressions and discussions of American culture and the ways it both liberates and imprisons various social ... More

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Are the men you know obsessed with strange details? Do they sometimes seem to have less interest in you than they do in box scores and the history of ... More

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It is not even clear that all those who have talked about the "White Slave Traffic" have been quite sure what they meant by the term. Some people, ... More

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Decay is unavoidable. It's everywhere around us, physically, socially, spiritually. In our crumbling inner cities and foreclosure-ravaged suburbs. In ... More

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Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest ... More

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Suicide - the act of killing oneself intentionally - has been part of human life since the dawn of time, but has never been so widely and openly ... More

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The ninety pieces of J. G. Ballard's non-fiction writing collected here for the first time were written between 1962 and 1995. Many touch on themes ... More

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In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home ... More

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This lively and stimulating collection of essays from anthropologist, award-winning nonfiction writer, and bestselling author of A Yellow Raft in ... More

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A collection of narratives that view lived experience as constructed, at least in part, by the stories that people tell about it.

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In these essays, the author tried to set forth, as clearly as possible, certain fundamental principles, together with their practical application to ... More

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Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke ... More

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Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in this ... More

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A collection of essays by young writers recounting their awkward, and often painful, quarter-life crises.

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Contributing Authors Include Charles Darwin, Henry Steele Commager, James Pike, Joseph Wood Krutch, And Many Others.

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This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly commissioned essays provides an essential resource - the very first collection of the major theories ... More

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Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. ... More

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