Harvard University Press
A Theory of Law
$14.86
This book outline's Philip Soper's theory that legal systems must serve the interests of the community, instead of using coercion to force ideas on a community. Author: Soper, Philip Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674880250 ISBN-13: 9780674880252..
A Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims,...
$13.51
This collection examines the forces, both external and internal, that lead corporations to behave efficiently and to create wealth. Corporations vest control rights in shareholders, the author argues, because they are the constituency that bear business risk and therefore have the appropriate incent..
A Treatise on the Family: Enlarged Edition
$15.63
Imagine each family as a kind of little factory a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary S. Becker in his landmark work on the famil..
Academic Duty
$8.69
The university today is under attack from all sides. Parents and students resent the escalating costs of education and wonder where the money is being spent. Aspiring scholars feel betrayed by an institution that prepares them for nonexistent jobs. Critics on the right condemn the teachers who negle..
Acts of Meaning (Four Lectures on Mind and Culture...
$14.40
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor;" has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we ..
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
$15.70
ReviewA brilliant synthesis of contemporary anthropology, sociology, literary theory, and philosophy as well as psychology. (Michael Stern San Francisco Chronicle)This delightful volume invites the reader into dialogue with one of the most imaginative, articulate, and broadly sophisticated scholars ..
Adaptation and Natural Selection in Caves: The Evo...
$11.13
The harsh environment of caves--dark, damp, sparse of food--is home to a variety of "bizarre" creatures. Biologists, for their part, often treat these delicate, colorless organisms having no eyes, or at least greatly reduced eyes, as mere oddities with little to tell us about a topic as grand as evo..
Adaptation to Life
$15.80
Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research wa..
Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law
$30.37
American methods of policy implementation and dispute resolution are more adversarial and legalistic when compared with the systems of other economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits. American laws are generally more complicated and prescriptive, adjudi..
Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law
$20.46
American methods of policy implementation and dispute resolution are more adversarial and legalistic when compared with the systems of other economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits. American laws are generally more complicated and prescriptive, adjudi..
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and ...
$12.31
Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United States; evaluates pu..
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues...
$173.44
Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially..
Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Soci...
$70.99
Against Essentialism presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to current debates in social theory, including society, culture, meaning, truth, and communication. Stephan Fuchs argues that many mysteries about these concept..
Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Profess...
$7.80
Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of ..
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (Commonwealth Fu...
$12.19
She was first considered "subversive" during World War I, yet she lived to protest our involvement in Vietnam. She was America's foremost industrial toxicologist, a pioneer in medicine and in social reform, long-time resident of Hull House, pacifist and civil libertarian. She was Edith Hamilton's si..
All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History o...
$17.64
With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. In All on a Mardi Gras Day Mitchell tells us s..
All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spir...
$8.72
The nation was powerful and prosperous, the president was vigorous and young, and a confident generation was gathering its forces to test the New Frontier. The cold war was well under way, but if you could just, as the song went, “put a little love in your heart,” then “the world would be a better p..
All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spir...
$11.13
The nation was powerful and prosperous, the president was vigorous and young, and a confident generation was gathering its forces to test the New Frontier. The cold war was well under way, but if you could just, as the song went, "put a little love in your heart," then "the world would be a better p..
Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changin...
$8.72
Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve satisfying and stable relationships. Others believe that changes, such as increasing gender equality, have made marriage a bett..
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved G...
$24.37
When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless How, for example, does the mother w..
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved G...
$34.61
When a loved one dies we mourn our loss. We take comfort in the rituals that mark the passing, and we turn to those around us for support. But what happens when there is no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us nonetheless How, for example, does the mother w..
America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal ...
$43.04
John J. McCloy was the "wise man" of the Cold War era who had the longest substantial American connection with Germany. A self-made man of great ambition, enormous vitality, and extraordinary tenacity, McCloy served in several government positions before being appointed High Commissioner of Germany ..
America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentiet...
$8.73
This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing ine..
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of ...
$41.91
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities.American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth cent..
American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion (The...
$14.73
In this illuminating look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all profess their devotion to the work ethic, earn..