Search Results: Social Sciences from 100 POCKETS

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1992. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/As New & Bright w/underling to page 78. Softcover/VG w/light shelfwear & rubs to corner tips. PO initials to fEP. Anthology of Latino, Mestizo & Puerto Rican poets who write, primarily, in English. The "After Aztlan" title evokes the historical/mythical ancestral home of Aztec peoples, as well as Mexican territories annexed by the US following the Mexican-American War of 1846 - 1848 ... literally near half of then Mexico, encompassing present-day states of California, Nevada & Utah, most of New Mexico, Arizona & Colorado, and, parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas & Wyoming. Contributors to this anthology have cultural roots to extending to that past. Lead poem from Francisco Alacon titled "In a Neighborhood in Los Angles" reads: "I learnt/ Spanish/ from my grandma/ mijito/ don't cry/ she'd tell me/ on the mornings/ my parents/ would leave/ to work/ at… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books/Lumen Editions, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY, no loan pocket. Text/NEW & Bright. 1998, First Edition, 1st Printing. Softcover/NF. Social dynamics. Guide to developing & implementing, family-centered assistive technological for children w/disabilities. Written for professionals, parents, therapists & all involved w/helping handicapped children to gain use of, and benefit from new, available technology. 309 pgs, 9 chapters supported by 6 appendices.

Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute/US Dept of State, 1987. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. 1987 First Edition, First Thus. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light shelf wear. PO name on fEP. Anthology of papers presented at six symposia held at the Foreign Service Institute from winter of 1985 through the spring of 1986. Papers arranged in six chapters presented in two parts: Part I, reviews authoritarian governments in which democratic values do not prevail; and, II, six nations that have chosen paths to democracy..

New York, NY: Avon/Hearst Corp, 1969. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW w/faint margin discoloration.Vintage 1969 First Edition, 1st Printing. Softcover/VG; strong w/light edge & surface wear, and faint creasing to lower front corner tip. Text edges dyed red. Human physiology. A thorough, informative introduction to the biology of the human body & its environmental needs for sustenance. 602 pgs. 36 chapters selected by the Popular Science Book Club.

San Francisco, CA: Association of Chinese Teachers Chinese American Heritage Project, 1977. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Illustrated with Line Drawings. Ex-Lib. Text/NEW & Bright. 1977 publication, issued w/o ISBN number. Library stamp to front cover verso. Stapled, illustrated softcover/Fine. Study funded by the US Dept of Health, Education & Welfare. Juvenile literature. Socio-economic background of early Chinese-Americans. 1848 surface gold was found in CA gold --- when closer South American labor costs were less available and at the eve of Civil War's end of African-American slavery. So leading to massive import of indentured, cheap Chinese labor (mostly poverty stricken farmers of Southern China). So numerous that in Chinese history is described as "the 2nd Opium War" for the sake of building railroads, new farms, and for working surface mines abandoned by white gold miners while penalized w/a special CA miner's tax. So many… Read More

Beijing, China: Foreign Language Press, 1980. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/None (As Issued?). Tian Yuen (Author-Illustrator). Text/NEW. Gilt embossed boards w/pastedown/NF w/trace edge & surface rubs. DJ/None (as Issued?). PO name to fEP. LAID-IN: Two 1981, advanced samples of commentory stamps to be issued by Canton, Kwangtung. Charming, whimsical collection of Chinese watercolors inspired by traditional, folk themes long favoured in children's toys & ornamentations. In a real sense Tian Yuan's free brush work is a record of art as a "written" language beyond the confines of script. The last illustration is of beloved Pigsy of the 16th century tale of the Monkey King --- a major presence in popular operas, and introduced to the West through translations of British sinologist Arthur Waley (1889-1966).

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Inked check marks to pg 1 of Contents & pg 33, else As NEW. 1975 First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to all leading edge & surface, & light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. PO name to first title page. Stimulating study of sociological class structure of modern societies by prominent British scholar Anthony Giddens (1938 - ). Critical examination of classic writings of Max Weber & Karl Marx on social classes & economic issues versus Capitalism. 336 pgs. in 15 chapters. 1, Marx's Theory of Classes; 2, The Weberian Critique; 3, Some Later Theories; 4, Marx's Critics A Critique; 5, The Marxian Standpoint Reassessed; 6, Rethinking the Theory of Class (I); 7, Rethinking the Theory of Class (II); 8, The Problem of Capitalist Development; 9, The Institutional Mediation of Power & Mediation of Control; 10,The Growth of the… Read More

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1973. First Edition, 5th Impression . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF w/light edge wear. First Edition, 5th Printing of 1983. Educator & lecturer Robert Roberts (1905 - 1979), was born behind his father's general shop in Salford, an area considered unfit for human habitation a good sixty years before his birth by Frederick Engels. Carefully researched study, fortified by the author's own experiences, of the complex world in Edwardian slums of Great Britain. Poverty & degradation took its toll within the complex social sub-structure of power play of sub-classes of the lowest of classes.

New York. NY: McGraw Hill, 1947. First Edition, 2nd Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/AS NEW & Bright; Vintage publication of 1947. Black linen boards/VG w/light surface wear & fading to spine. DJ/None. PO name to fEP. Companion volume to Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles. Author, Keynesian economist Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887 - 1975), professor of economics at Harvard, was a 1930s influential advisor to the government, helped create the Council of Economic Advisors, and the Social Security system. 340 pgs in 22 chapters followed by 5 appendices. Discourse on planning for full employment & maximum production towards societal stability.

Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. BRAND NEW Copy. Dust jacket under mylar. A guide to interapersonal behavior and how we communicate through verbal language, body language, mode of dress, and other behavior patterns. Contributions from some 27 experts augmented by photographs.

New York, NY: A.S. Barnes & Co, 1948. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW w/nip to illustrated front endpaper. Salmon linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. 2nd volume in a series of 5 in the Folk Dance Library. Historical study of folk art. Dance steps illustrated with line drawings & accompanied with music scores, This volume of 118 pgs is devoted to Scandinavia, covers folk dances of: 1, Denmark (the Crested Hen); 2, Finland (the Kynkklaiepakko); 3, Norway (the Feiar); and 4, Sweden (the Oxen Dance). Author's comments on the Danish dance, "Little Man in a Fix": "This variation may prove hazardous and should not be attempted by inexperienced dancers" --- be warned!

Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ Press, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 1997, First Edition, 1st Thus, on Golden Arches erected in the Far East. Softcover/NF w/faint creasing to lower front corner. Societies in transition. Anthropological studies of McDonald's fast food restaurants in East Asia, expanding their wares into some 100 countries ... and now, in 2022, putting on hold their presence in Russian for Ukraine. An analysis of American socio-economical, far reaching cultural influences of big bigness. Essays show McDonald's has become a "local" institution in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, and Japan at large --- adopting of fast food habits an extension of blue jeans & T-shirts in rebellion against "tradition" from which there is no return?

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. 1953 Vintage Edition. Gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; Price clipped w/nips to upper front edge & light surface wear; under mylar. Anthropologist, historian, author Alice Lee Marriott (1910 - 1992) was a Specialist in Indian Arts & Crafts with the Dept of the Interior. 274 pgs in 19 lively chapters. Volume recounts her life's work among American Indian tribes, of which chapter 8, 10, & 11 were first published in the New Yorker. 274 pgs in 19 chapters. Included is an essay on Adoption practices and also is a charming, hilarious visit to a San Francisco department store w/two Indian craftswomen from the World's Fair.

Albany, NY: State Univ of New York Press, 1986. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None (As Issued?). BRAND NEW & Collectible.1986 First Edition, 1st Printing. DJ/None (as Issued?) An in depth study of the transient & homeless in New York State during the Depression era. The 11 chapters are: I, Precedents from the Past; II, New York State on the Eve of the Depression; III, IV, & V, Immediate Impact of the Depression - State Reaction, Local Reaction, and the Transients' Perspective; VI, VII, & VIII, The Federal Transient Program, IX, Liquidation; X, 'On Every Town's Doorstep'; and, XI, Knocking at Washington's Door --- In lands of abundance and opportunity 'the man on the move' is often a super national hero much admired. But in times of economic depression, the same wanderers become surplus people representing economic threat to be guarded against, and in addition, are targets of resentment as their very idle existence is… Read More

New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1977. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG w/creasings, closed tears & chips to edge. Textbook. An examination of human agression from a social perspective. The 6 chapters are: 1, Agression: Definitions & Perspectives; 2, Agression: Methods for Systematic Study; 3, Social Determinants of Agression; 4, Environmental & Situational Determinants of Agression; 5, Individual Determinants of Agression: Personality, Attitudes, & Genes; and, 6, The Prevention & Control of Human Aggression. Fine copy.

Swanley, Kent, UK: Myddle-Brockton Publishers, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. BRAND NEW Copy with closed nip to dust jacket on upper front leading edge. The authors identify positive behavorial patterns that enhance prospects of social, nomadic, tool-using, omnivorous gatherer-hunter human being need to satisfy collective welfare and be determined by consensual agreement. Whereas these same patterns of behavior propelled forth social changes (including transition to agriculture and specialized industries, and various socio-economic institutions), the current stress on individual rights and gains above all else threatens the very fundamentals of social cohesion.

New York, NY: Avon, 1972. First Edition, First Pinting . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Avon W346. Text/BRAND NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Soft cover/VG w/edge & surface rubs. Analysis of differences in self-perception between the sexes by the author of Body Language. Text in 10 chapters: 1, The Perfect Match; 2, From the Man's Corner: How Do Men See Women?; 3, The Bad Woman; 4, The Mirror of Venus: Women Look at Women; 5, How Women See Men; 6, The Predator With a Brain: How Men See Themselves; 7, It's Tough to Be a Man; 8, Aggression & Submission; 9, Aggression & Sex; and 10, Sexual Equality: The Great Mistake. Fine copy despite flaws.

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1966. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. Stated First Edition, First Printing, 1966. BRAND NEW Copy. Biological science. Monograph of behavioral aspects of the integration of individuals into a coherent population, which itself generates new types of population behavior --- a concept of biology viewing behavior as an integrating mechanism. 8 chapters: 1, Introduction: Behavior of Plants; 2, Behavioral Equipment; 3, Adjustment to Habitat; 4, Emancipation from Environment; 5, Organization of Populations; 6, Behavior & Regulation of Populations; 7, Behavior & Survival of Populations; and, 8, Behavior of Man.

New York, NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1964. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/Near New & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF; strong & sound with faint edge & surface wear, and showing discoloration. PO name to fEP. Case study of Demirciler, a village of 60 houses, not too distant from Ankara. This treatise is based on some six years of field work, when the village primarily engaged in wheat farming and tended sheep and goats. Relatively insulated, the residents all shared the precepts of the Muslim faith and were further bound by a rich store of folklore and superstition; modern education was still absent. Written half century ago, the study is an excellent reference/resource for understanding the Turkey of today.

New York, NY: Dover, 1961. Dover Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. John Held, Jr. (Illustrator). Text/Clean & Near New. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge & surface rubs & humidity stains to upper back top edge & discoloration. Collection of drinking songs sung by professional drinkers assembled by Greenwich Villager Frank Shay (1988 - 1954). Enduring songs of the Naughty Nineties & early 20th century, separately first published in 1927 & 1928 respectively; this is the Dover combined reprint of 1961. Not songs that glorify drinking of spirits & drunkards, but those that were sung & enjoyed by "professional drinkers" when in a mellow & convivial mood of comradeship to the pleasure of all. Some were first heard on a Standard Oil tankship, others from sea-coast gin-mills sailors visited, and army camps of America and France ... 235 pgs, some with music, w/ John Held's illustrations. Find full refrains of Clementine (as sung by Ralph Geddes),… Read More