Search Results: Social Sciences from The Owl at the Bridge

Chicago UP [1975]. Soft Cover. 191 p., illus.; 22.5 cm. Contributors include Miller & Ervin; Chomsky; Brown, Fraser, Bellugi; Lees; Bullowa, Jones, Bever; Hymes; Chan, Lenneberg, Rebelsky; Halle, Teuber; Jenkins & Palermo; Kagan; Deese, Moore. Stock#32022x. Vg/paperback.

Boston, Little, Brown [1971]. First Edition. Hard Cover. [ix], 301 p., index, 21 cm. Ten essays on 19th century slavery and racism. "Woodward not only transformed scholarly understanding of crucial areas in American history, but he also transformed Americans' perception of who they were," Bibliographical footnotes. NEU119. Vg/ dj vg.

Dusseldorf, Eugin Diederichs, 1965. Hard Cover. 488 p. 23.5 cm. Has the ex-library stamps, etc. of the Goethe Institute, Boston. Stock# 31,684. Vg/ no dj.

New York, Crown, 1985.. Hard Cover. 256 p. : illus. (some col.), index, 29 cm. A zoologist takes a sociological view of human anatomy examining the body from head (and hair) to feet and toes, always with something illuminating to observe. Bibliography: p. 250-251. Stock# 40,799. Vg/ dj good.

Anchor Books 1973.. First Edition. Soft Cover. 255 p.; 18 cm. Contents: The Beautiful Body; A View of the United States; The New Environment; Topics and Questions on Arcology; Function Follows Form; The Craftsman and Obsolescence; Transarcology; A Canadian Alternative?; Simulation and Becoming; Estheticism and Esthetogenesis; Man and Separateness; Psychosomatic Man; Bulldozer Man; The Sculpture Earth; Back to Nature?; The Inner and the Outer in Arid Land; The Quiet Greed; Pollution as Entropy; The Flight from Flatness; Going Nowhere, Anyone?; Utopia; Arcomedia; American Withdrawal from America; The Lust Bag; Civitate Dei. Paper; minor wear, ink inscription on title-page, ink owner name on fore-edge; good. stock#44174/drk.

NY, Free Press [1972]. Hard Cover. x, 341 p.; 24 cm. 13 essays on how science and technology influenced how Americans organized to achieve success in goverment, the military, business, medicine, law and social progress. With an introduction by Samuel P. Hays. ISBN (10): 0029157803. Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#NEU252.

NY, Random House, ©1977. Hard Cover. xii, 239 p.; 25 cm. "A systematic discussion about the reasons for a culture making a transition from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to hierarchically based states as population density increases." ISBN (10): 0394407652. Very Good; no dust jacket. Stock#47501.

Harper & Bros., 1946 ['Fourth Edition']. Hard Cover. Growth; The Growing Child (The First Four Years; Five Years Old... Ten); The Growth Complex (Moto Characteristics, Personal Hygiene, Emotional Expression, Fears & Dreams, Self & Sex, Interpersonal Relations, Play & Pastimes, School Life, Ethical Sense, Philosophic Outlook); References & Readings. Over a half century old and centered in middle- class white America, yet still useful as a guide to chronological development in a child's personality & character. xii, 475 p., index; 24 cm.; blue cloth covers; spine darkened, cocked; good. 30382

Northampton: Hopkins, Bridgman, & Co., 1854. Hard Cover. 'May I hope that the daughter, who, away from her home, just entering upon the untried scenes of school, shall open this little volume, will find something to guide, to encourage, to stimulate and ennoble her, so that she shall return to her home in after days, like the king's daughter, 'all glorious within'; and that the anxious mother, on putting it into the carefully-packed trunk, will feel that her child has not gone wholly unattended by any friend. --Pittsfield, September 1, 1853' (p. iv). x, 256 p., front., added t.-p., 18 cm.; publisher's blue embossed boards; small split at bottom of spine, some light foxing, inconspicuous stain on rear cover; VG. 33719.

NY, Free Press, ©1995. Hard Cover. xi, 724 p.; 25 cm. The End of Racism goes beyond familiar polemics to raise fundamental questions that no one else has asked: Is racial prejudice innate, or is it culturally acquired? Is it peculiar to the West, or is it found in all societies? What is the legacy of slavery, and what does America owe blacks as compensation? ISBN (10): 0029081025. Fine, gift inscription urges Charles Neu to read the book, the mint condition indicates he did not / dj fine.

Princeton UP, 1977. Soft Cover. xiv, 209 p., 20.5 cm. Eight articles that first appeared in Philosophy and Public Affairs, "consider the moral problems associated with improving the social and economic position of disadvantaged groups." Stock# 34,250. Vg/ paper.

St. Martin's Press, NY [c1984]. Soft Cover. "...our goal... has been to produce a composition reader that is truly cross-curricular. ...We have drawn this material equally from the arts and humanities, from the social sciences and public affairs, and from the sciences and technologies." Sections are Reporting, Explaining, Arguing, Reflecting; includes Rhetorical Index. 771 p., paper; VG. 34149.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1952. Hard Cover. viii, [1], 275 p.; 21 cm. A survey of American business culture and how the pressure of the profit-money-success ideal distorts us all. "The psychological attributes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life" (p. 61). A book maybe more important today than 60+ years ago. stock#47709. Vg, gift inscription on front fly / dj good, frayed, edges torn.

London, Collins, 1961. Hard Cover. 266 p. A study of the English ladies' magazine 'The Queen' from 1861 to 1961. Canvas cloth; no dj; VG. Stock#27310.

Fondo de Cultura Economica, México. Primera edición española, 1943. First Edition. Soft Cover. 327 p., 22 cm. First published in German, 1939; this is the first Spanish edition. series: Sección de obras de sociología [del Fondo de Cultura Económica] l. Manuales introductorios. Printed green wraps; unopened; spine faded, minor wear; VG+. Stock#39969.

Princeton University Press, ©1989. Soft Cover. Signed. x, 232 p., [10] p. of plates, illus.; 24 cm. "Most Americans take it for granted that a thirteen-year-old in the fifth grade is "behind schedule," that "teenagers who marry "too early" are in for trouble, and that a seventy-five-year-old will be pleased at being told, "You look young for your age." Did an awareness of age always dominate American life? Howard Chudacoff reveals that our intense age-consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, he explores a wide range of topics, including demographic change, the development of pediatrics and psychological testing, and popular music from the early 1800s until now." Inscribed by the author. Stock#45215. Vg / soft cover.

New York: Prairie House Book/ Trident, 1973. Hard Cover. 250 p.: ill.; 21 cm. Conversations taken in the girl's working enviornment. Prostitutes, streetwalking, madames, massaging, call girls, tricks, partying, hookers. Stock# 35,601. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Modern Library, c1937. Hard Cover. xviii, 923 p., 17 cm. An anthology of writings about social thought from the Bible to Leon Trotsky and academic sociologists. Stock# 32,189. Good+/ no dj.

Cambridge UP [c2000]. "This book presents several new mechanisms, indicating that money affects long-term production. The consequent policy implications are also discussed, including: the uses of monetary policy and monetary regimes in achieving macroeconomic goals; the impact of an independent central bank; the effects of a movement from floating exchange rates to fixed exchange rates in a monetary union." With an extensive bibliography. Hard Cover. viii, [1], 308 pages, index; black glossy covers, no dj as issued; fine. stock#101354.

Braga, Editóra Pax, 1967. The question of race gets complicated in Portuguese culture. Race relations in Brazil have one trajectory; Portuguese colonies in Africa have another pattern altogether. Bibliography, pages [183]-191. Soft Cover. 198 pages; 21 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#45706.