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Sociology

1. The Age of Jim Crow

   Jane Dailey

   America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More

2. Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies

   Ross Macmillan, Michael J. Shanahan

   Biography and the Sociological Imagination introduces readers to life course sociology, the imaginative framework with which people can think about how their lives reflect the imprint of society, how this imprint reflects the intersection of social changes and personal development, and how these processes are greatly complicated by each person's unique location in society.More

3. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

   Michael Lewis

   "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

4. Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

   Judith Lorber

   In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More

5. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

   Helmut Walser Smith

   One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.More

6. Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

   Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson

   Third Edition

   The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior.More

7. Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies

   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jennifer Burton

   Class-tested by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his groundbreaking course, Call and Response is an innovative core reader for African American Studies.More

8. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

   Elijah Anderson

   Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)More

9. The Communist Manifesto

   Karl Marx, Frederic L. Bender

   This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party.More

10. The Contexts Reader

    Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, American Sociological Association

    The Contexts Reader collects over sixty of the best articles from the award-winning magazine Contexts in one affordable anthology.More

11. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    Richard Sennett

    A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of WorkingMore

12. Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

    Steven Levenkron

    The author of the seminal and groundbreaking Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa now explains the phenomena of self-mutilation, a disorder that affects as many as two million Americans.More

13. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

    Laurence Gonzales

    "Unique among survival books...stunning...enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver PostMore

14. Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century

    Hazel Rose Markus, Paula M. L. Moya

    A collection of new essays, written by a team of interdisciplinary authors, that gives a comprehensive introduction to race and ethnicity.
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15. Essentials of Sociology

    Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, Et Al.

    Second Edition

    Regarded as the most authoritative introduction to contemporary sociology, Essentials of Sociology adds a new author to its team with the Second Edition.More