Search Results: Sociology from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Yellow-orange cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, gilt titles on front board, vii, 632 pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, extremities lightly rubbed and spine slightly faded. Twenty-one articles review recent literature in sociology in the areas of differentiation & stratification, social processes, institutions, individual & society, urban sociology, demography, policy, theory & methods, historical sociology, and sociology of world regions. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Yellow-orange cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, gilt titles on front board, ix, 479 pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp, one bumped corner, extremities lightly rubbed and spine slightly faded. Sixteen articles review recent literature in sociology in the areas of organizational structure, deviance, health care delivery systems, urban community & personality, alienation, race & ethnic relations, age differentiation, macrosociology, science, development, voluntary action & voluntary groups, community power, sex roles, evaluation research, collective behavior, and political participation & public policy. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, Inc., 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Yellow-orange cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, gilt titles on front board, vii, 453 pp. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp and extremities lightly rubbed. Fifteen articles review recent literature in sociology: technology, alienation & job satisfaction, by Jon M. Shepard; response to social crisis & disaster, by E. L. Quarantelli & Russell R. Dynes; measurement in social stratification, by Marie R. Haug; trend studies with survey sample & census data, by Norval D. Glenn & W. Parker Frisbie; family interaction patterns, by Joan Aldous; structural equation models, by William T. Bielby & Robert M. Hauser; mortality trends, by Samuel H. Preston; social structure of world regions: mainland China, by Martin King Whyte, Ezra F. Vogel & William L. Parish, Jr.; political socialization, by Richard G. Niemi & Barbara… Read More

Hanover, NH & London: University Press of New England (Dartmouth College), 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Expanded English edition translated & edited by Marcia Levenson. Grey cloth, foil titles on spine, xix, 355, [3] pp, 11 photos, 14 figures, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "...Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information from years of field research, interviews with native Siberians, and archaeological site visits, Krupnik demonstrates that these societies are characterized not by stability but by dynamism and significant evolutionary breaks." Contents: arctic context & research design; sea-mammal hunters of the arctic coast; reindeer pastoralists of the inland tundra; the challenge of change in the arctic environment; the rise of reindeer pastoralism in the arctic; the evolution of maritime hunting; the aboriginal hunter in the… Read More

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Half red cloth, half red paper, gilt titles on spine, 319 pp, notes, index. Tail of spine rumpled and slightly worn, else fine. DJ also shows a bit of wear at tail of spine, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Based on a wide range of data sources, Baby Boomers is the first authoritative and accurate assessment of a generation whose size is at once its advantage and disadvantage." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, orange spine with gilt titles, xxix, 327 pp, bibliography. DJ has slight wear to spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "...in a work of more than 200 alphabetically arranged entries, the skills, techniques, and historical significance of every Biblical "trade" from accountant to governor to wrestler are described in full. Documented from all available sources--texts Egyptian, Babylonian, Phoenician, Hebraic, Greek, and Latin, as well as works of contemporary scholarship...." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fine/Near Fine. 21 X 14½ cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow cloth, black titles on spine, xxii, 288 pp, b & w photos in text, footnotes, bibliography, index. Owner's name on ffep, else fine. DJ spine, edges, & rear panel unevenly sunned, otherwise VG, showing some rubbing & tiny nicks to spine ends & corners; in Brodart archival cover. According to the author's introduction, "This book tells the story of those women who launched the modern study of sex differences. With the exception of the youngest, none of them was ever famous, and all are now forgotten. But their ideas have endured. Trained as social scientists in the new research universities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these women formulated theories about intelligence, personality development, and sex roles that not only altered American thinking about the nature of women and men, but also affected the whole… Read More

New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey boards, black titles on red spine, xix, 284 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Anthology of 26 original essays by women about what makes them angry. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Eugenics Publishing Company, Inc. WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No date, apparently early 20th century. Green cloth, gilt titles on spine, 146, [6] pp, index, ads. Some spotting to rear board & top edge. This edition of Stiles's oft-reprinted 1871 treatise is of interest in part for the publisher's six pages of advertisments for other books on sex education, mostly either written or edited by Dr. William J. Robinson. Shipping weight 1 lb.. . VG/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards, blue cloth spine with gilt titles, 286 pp, b & w photos in text, index. Spine ends slightly worn. Price-clipped DJ has slight wear to bottom edge; in Brodart archival cover. Memoirs of the former number 3 man at the FBI. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher: Collier-Macmillan, London. Brown cloth, copper titles on front board & spine, xiii, 625 pp, chapter notes, author & subject indices. The book aims to be "a comprehensive study of the principal child welfare services." Contents: child welfare-orientation, scope, perspectives; supportive services; supplementary services; income maintenance; protective services; homemaker services; day care service; foster family care; adoption; the child-caring institution; child welfare services in other countries; sociology of the child welfare worker. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 6th ptg. . Fine/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Viking, 2005 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, black spine with copper titles, xv, 575, [1] pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, 11 maps, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. "In...Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?" Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, top edge dyed blue, 346, [1] pp. DJ has several tears (longest about 1"); in Brodart archival cover. Ramsey Clark was Assistant Attorney General in the Kennedy administration and Attorney General for Lyndon Johnson. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Washington, D. C: National Academy Press, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Two volumes, both full blue cloth with foil titles on front board & spine. Vol. I: ISBN 0-309-03684-4, xv, 458 pp, bibliography, index. Vol. II: ISBN 0-309-03683-6, xi, 404 pp, chapter bibliographies. Top corner of front board bumped on both volumes, otherwise fine. Vol. I contents: studying criminal careers; participation in criminal careeres; dimensions of active criminal careers; methodological issues in criminal career research; crime control strategies using criminal career knowledge; use of criminal career information in criminal justice decision making; agenda for future research. Appendices: participation in criminal careers, by Christy A. Visher & Jeffrey A. Roth; research on criminal careers: individual frequency rates & offense seriousness, by Jacqueline Cohen; workshop on criminal careers: program & participants; biographical sketches,… Read More

New York & Columbus, OH: American Society of Criminology, 2004 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Perfect bound in stiff white wraps, [iv], 309-546 pp. Bump to fore-edge, else fine. Articles, with reactions, on police searches, sentencing drug offenders, prison siting and economic development, and surveillance and crime prevention. Fits in padded flat-rate envelope. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Magazine. Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Navy blue cloth, pink & silver foil titles on spine, xiii, 251 pp, 4 drawings, 2 photos, 3 tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, Taggart "presents dozens of orally transmitted tales...collected from seven villages in the region of Cáceres, and analyzes the differences in male and female approaches to telling them. His study shows how men and women use the tales to grapple with some of the contradictions found in gender relations in their culture, which conditions men to be sexually assertive and to marry virgins and which teaches women to fear the men who court them." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. Illus. by Beatrice Taggart. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: National Association of Social Workers, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xxvii, 1060 pp, index. Boards lightly rubbed & spotted, owner's name & address on fpd. This is the last single-volume edition. Contains a brief general history of social work & social welfare; a series of articles & biographies (the bulk of the book); statistics; directory of agencies; list of periodicals; code of ethics. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . VG/No dj. 24½ X 17 cm.

Taipei: The Orient Cultural Service, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on boards & spine, [x], 190 pp. Soiled spots on boards & foxing to edges. Collection of essays originally published in English-language journals from 1931-1974. In English except for parts of the title page, colophon, and back cover. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 20 X 14 cm.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full burnt-orange cloth, gold titles on spine, 334 pp, many maps & charts, footnotes, index. Coffee spots in margin of one leaf & fore-edge, otherwise very good, sticker mark on ffep. Contains ten essays by eleven authors grouped under the general headings: point of departure; exploration at the all-India scale; exploration at regional & local scales; a preliminary map. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 24½ X 16 cm.

Lexington, MA & Toronto: Lexington Books (D. C. Heath & Co.), 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth-textured boards, black titles on spine, xvi, 318, [1] pp, 16 b & w photos, notes, index. Ownership stamp on recto of ffep, slight wear to spine ends. DJ spine somewhat faded; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "This compelling, carefully documented study takes the reader to the streets to meet the homeless and those who endeavor to help them. Through these first-hand observations, the authors reveal the causes of homelessness....." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 17 cm.