Search Results: Sociology from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG in VG DJ. 1993. The individual urge toward idealistic action, what inspires & sustains it. .

Boston: Little Brown. VG in VG DJ. (1992). 1st ed ss. Inside a world that few adults ever penetrate but where millions of children spend most of their waking hours. .

NY: Norton. VG in VG DJ. (1990). 1st ed ss. Few pages w/notations, one text page torn in half. Sleeper offers "clear, unsentimental honesty" to save us from hypocrisy. .

NY: Simon and Schuster. VG. 1946. 1st ed. A southern white woman talks honestly about her feelings about race and its status in the 1940's. .

Appleton, WI: Aid Assn for Lutherans. VG. (1995). If I had my life to live over I'd relax, I would limber up take fewer things seriously, pick more daisies, go to more dances... .

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press. VG in VG DJ. (1996). 1st ptg. Includes CD-Rom & Web site. .

Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press. VG PB. (1997).

Upton Sinclair. VG. 1925. 2nd ed. Selected from 25 languages for a period of 5,000 years with reproductions of social protest in art. Owner name pencil ft . endpaper. Writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers & others who have voice the struggle against social injustice. Maroon binding, gilt lettering. Sl edge wear. .

Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ Press. VG in VG DJ. 1973. A complex, pervasive form of ancestor worship in Ch'inan, a four-lineage village in northern Taiwan. DJ price clipped & . edge wear, underlining. .

NJ: Prentice Hall. VG PB. (1995). 1st ptg.

NY: Doubleday & Co. G in VG DJ. 1970. Published for the American Museum of Natural History, ex lib but the only ex lib markings are an ink stap on the fep .

NY: HarperCollins. VG in VG DJ. (2005). 1st ed 6th ptg. The dancing girls inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque and have an illustrious history. What they do is . forbidden by Islam, though tolerated, but they are "unclean" and they are born into the business and will not leave it. Remainder mark. .

NY: Funk & Wagnalls. G ex-library. 1890. Gen. Booth's struggle against the poverty of people and lack of work through the Salvation Army. Library markings, edge wear. .

NY: Wiley. VG. (1985). Owner name ft endpaper. .

NY: Philosophical Library. VG PB. (1984). 75 yr old religious peace activist Zahn tells of his problems in putting Gandhian nonviolence into daily practice in his . revolutionary life. Raised a Christian Scientist & now a Quaker, Zahn strove to become God-centered with his own versions of twice-daily meditation, celibacy, vegetarianism & voluntary poverty. Zahn relates how building houses led to introducing blacks into segregated areas & to neighborhood opposition. He sailed into a forbidden nuclear test zone in the Pacific, organized a taxpayer's suit challenging the Vietnam war's tax on telephone service, was in a "symbolic blockage" of a munitions ship, etc. .

NY: Blue Ribbon. Fair. (1942). A study of prostitution in the U.S. Black binding, red lettering. Binding mottled, owner bookplate. .

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press. VG PB. 1992. Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks as a teenage pachuco. Duran is now a counselor for youth gangs. .

NY: Watts. VG PB. 1974. 1st ed thus.

NY: Scholastic. G PB. (1972). 5th ptg. Decker was 22 & fresh out of college when she went to teach in an inner-city high school with the highest dropout, crime & . absentee rate in the city. Cover creased, edge wear, some page corners creased. .

Ithaca: Cornell Univ Press. VG in VG DJ. (1981). 1st ed. Study of the reason for the higher numbers of males in the northwestern plains region of rural Indian with the most . skews in the higher castes. Rather than the outright female infanticide of a century ago, there is now deliberate neglect and discrimination against females by the allocation of food, medical care and love. Miller attributes this in part to the low demand for and use of female labor in agriculture in the Northwest and large dowry costs. .