Morrie: In His Own Words
 Amazon.com Review: Preceding the phenomenal success of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, in which Albom discusses his weekly visits with his mentor, Morrie, as Morrie faces death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Morrie Schwartz published his [... more]
$11.00
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Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey
Grateful to Ms. Minatoya for sharing....Engrossing..........: I was reading "Growing Up Asian American" and had it for over a year. Recently I have been wanting to hear more from other Asian Americans and so, resumed reading the excerpts [... more]
$13.00
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With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and ...
One of the best!: I enjoyed the careful description of two legendary lives observed by the author as a daughter and an anthropologist. As a piece of anthropological writing, a certain distance is maintained when the author tells of her memories of [... more]
$16.00
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Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
An unintentionally poetic inspiring memoir: Good fortune was with me when I happened upon this book last year. It is now one of my all-time favorites and I went on to read the two books that chronologically follow this one. My only complaint is that Ms. [... more]
$14.00
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Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society (Heritage of ...
Great for students: Bellah has gathered Durkheim's most oft-cited writings (including Elementary Forms, Division of Labor, Suicide, and Sociological Method) and arranged them topically in this work. The book begins with Durkheim's review of French social [... more]
$19.00
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Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life (Women in ...
Amazon.com Review: Elsie Clews Parsons (1874-1941) was a pioneering anthropologist whose writings on the Pueblo Indians challenged American notions about racial and cultural purity. She was also a committed feminist whose unconventional marriage survived [... more]
$24.00
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Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss
Not essential Levi-Strauss, but worthwhile: Didier Eribon's conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss, the father of Structural Anthropology and one of the leading intellectuals of 20th century France, are enlightening and occasionally entertaining. You get [... more]
$25.00
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Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Fritz Ringer Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9780226720050 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0226720055 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 2004-10-15 [... more]
$19.00
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George Herbert Mead: THE MAKING OF A SOCIAL PRAGMATIST
THE George Herbert Mead biography: I would not have found this book but for the fact that the author (Gary Cook) is my advisor, professor, and friend here at Beloit College. He introduced me to the works of Mead, as well as the other great American [... more]
$30.00
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Amazon.com Review: The founding mother of feminism comes across as vividly as the heroine of a romantic novel in this fascinating biography, which quotes extensively from Wollstonecraft's correspondence to evoke her high-strung personality. Mary [... more]
$28.00
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Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and ...
A Different World: This is a very well-written and sympathetic biography of a great human being who struggled through many of his human impulses yet he remained true to himself till the end, the courage to live with enormous integrity. The author has [... more]
$39.00
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Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography
Author: Fritz Ringer Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9780226720043 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0226720047 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 2004-11-15 [... more]
$55.00
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