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.

Fawcett Crest, Greenwich, Conn. [c1963] M1272. Soft Cover. 288 p., index, 17.5 cm. A thoroughly documented account of the American funeral industry, its attitudes and profits. Paper; minor wear; good+. 36921.

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

Editorial Labor, 1954. Hard Cover. Investigaciones acerca del problema de la constitución y de la doctrina de los temperamentos. Traducción de la vigésima edición alemana por José Solé Sagarra. Con 71 ilustraciones. Segunda Edición. xxvii, 405, [1] pages, photos, tables & charts; 23.5 cm. Spanish translation of Körperbau und Charakter, which advanced the theory that certain mental disorders were more common among people of specific physical types. Brown cloth stamped in brown; pictorial dj torn, chipped; ink signature (Noé Delaflor?) at beginning of chapters VIII & X; good. Stock#39374.

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.

Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karl-Universitat, 1978. Soft Cover. 235 p. in various pagings, 21 cm. Doctoral dissertation in the Juristischen Fakultat at Heidelberg on works councils and social security law and legislation in West Germany. Vita. Bibliography: p. [i]-vii. Stock# 39,138. Vg/ paper.

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.

N.Y., Praeger, 1985. Soft Cover. Praeger, 1985. Folio; 430 p., index, bibliography, photos incl. color, graphs, illus., 28 cm. On food, the politics of food, and development in Third World countries. Stock# 30,793. VG/ wrappers.

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.

Ediciones Ercilla, Santiago de Chile, 1940. Colección Condor. First published in French (Paris, Michel), 1939. Contents include El ateniense hermoso y bueno; El ciudadano romano; El hombre del Renacimiento; El honesto francés; El gentleman inglés; Qué conclusión puede sacarse de lo que precede? Soft Cover. 227 pages, 22 cm. Printed wraps; edges chipped, spine darkened; good. Stock#39193.

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.