The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. 8vo. 164 pp. Guide to understanding the Latino/Hispanic family in the US.
SOCIOLOGY
Historical Sociology.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. 353 pp., 8vo. Paperback. A well-informed study of the varied methods of writing about history in a sociological manner. Light shelfwear & sunning to covers & spine; some creasing to spine. Some light pencil underlining & marginalia scattered to very clean textblock interior.
Theoretical Logic in Sociology, Volume Three:; The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber
Berkeley: Univ of California Pr, 1985. 240 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Sunning to spine and cover edges. Light wear to edges. Small sticker mark to rear cover. Interior clean.
The Knowledge Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Distribution of Knowledge.
New York: State University of New York Press, 1987. 8vo. 203 pp. Light scratching to back cover, spine lightly sunned, light soiling to top book edge. A book about the publishing and dissemination of knowledge.
Fuzzy States and Complex Trajectories:; Observation, Modelization and Interpretation of Life Histories
Paris: Ined, 2009. 174 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Methodes et Savoirs. Groupe de Reflexion sur L'approche Biographique. Faint shelfwear to covers. Pgs clean & crisp.
Color Class Identity: The New Politics of Race.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 230 pp. 8vo. Very light shelf wear to edges, light highlighting to contents pgs. Otherwise clean.
The Saving Lie:; Truth and Method in the Social Sciences
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 213 pp, 8vo. Cloth in dj. Light shelfwear to boards and dj, else fine. Clean and crisp, binding strong.
Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nurture?
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980. 8vo. 627pp., part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Selected Symposium Series, clean interior, slight roll to spine, light paste action to paste down and end pages, light bumping to spine ends, embossed cover.
Who Should Know That?:; Social Science, Privacy and Ethics
Cambridge, London, et al: Cambridge University Press, 1980. 232 pp. 12mo. Paperback. Slightly soiled. Lightly edgeworn. Sunning to spine and joints. Light foxing to textblock and eps.
Some of My Best Friends Are Left-Handed People:; An Investigation Into the History of Left-Handedness
Hollywood, CA: Wilshire Book Co., 1968. 228 pp., 8vo. Paperback. 1968 edition. Illustrated w/ drawings & photos. Slight soiling & shelfwear to covers & spine. Binding tight. Light foxing to textblock edges. Some creasing through pgs 71-78, otherwise interior basically clean & crisp.
The Turbulent Decades:; Jewish Communal Services in America 1958-78
New York: Conference of the Jewish Communal Services, 1980. 8vo. 1557 pp. in 2 Volumes. Leatherette covers and gilt text; front joint of Vol. 1 split from boards; light edgewear w/ sm. chip to vol 1 spine head. Po pen inscription to ffeps.
The Children of the Dream:; Communal Child-Rearing and American Education
London: Macmillan, 1969. 363 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover in dj. Slight flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Faint soiling to textblock edges. Sm po pen inscription to fep, otherwise pgs clean & crisp. Some scuffing & edgewear to dj; sunning to.....
Housing: A Factual Analysis.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1958. 8vo. 355pp. Rubbing to spine ends and cover corners; board exposed at lower fore edge corner of front cover. Light rubbing to covers. Light edgewear. Spine slightly rolled. Foxing to text block. Front cover very slightly bowed towards spine head. "Advance examination copy" card.....
Pathways to Manhood: Young Black Males Struggle for Identity.
New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1996. 8vo. 367 pp. Expanded second edition, with foreword by Richard Majors and epilogue by Bernard E. Bruce. Very light edgewear.
American Mythologies.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. 513 pp., 8vo. Half-cloth hardcover in dj. First edition. Light shelf-wear. Blonsky spent four years on three continents as a fly on the wall watching the dreammakers of international culture construct the attitudes and lifestyles of the early 90's. Including stories abd.....
Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity.
New York: State Univ of New York Press, 1993. 222 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Light shelfwear to covers and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Interior clean.
Overkill:; Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. 265 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Very light scuffing & shelfwear to covers & spine. Pgs clean & crisp.
The Frankfurt School and Its Critics.
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 93 pp., 12mo. Paperback. Key Sociologists series. A controversial perspective on the many contributions made by the Frankfurt School to modern sociology, including the examination of several issues never before discussed. Some faint shelfwear to covers & spine & faint soiling to front cover.....
Monster: Adventured in Ameican Machismo.
San Francisco: Council Oaks Books, 2001. First edition. 8vo. 248 pp. Excellent condition. Tight and clean. First edition. Examines male machismo.
Activating Theory:; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Politics
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1993. 266 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Light scuffed soiling to cover, light wear to edges, crease to spine, sl. bumping to sp. ends. Binding splitting between pp 82-3. Small price sticker to rear cover.
Mission Underway: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967-2001.
Bowling Green, OH: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2002. 8vo. 254 pp. And its fight for academic standing.
Historical Materialism:; A System of Sociology
New York: International Publishing Co., Inc., 1934. Fifth printing. 318 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Fifth printing. Authorized translation from the third Russian edition. Slight soiling & wear to boards. Sunning, cocking & shaking to spine but binding holding sturdy. Some light soiling scattered to textblock; po name stamp to ffep. Hinge.....
Erving Goffman.
London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 386 pp., 8vo. Paperback. "I doubt that anyone will write a more comprehensive, painstaking, literate exposition of Goffman's complete oeuvre than this one." - Prof. Dennis H. Wong. , NYU. Light shelfwear to covers. Textblock clean & crisp.
Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.
Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1994. 350 pp. 8vo. Boards. Light scuffing to boards, light sunning to spine and board edges, bumping to spine ends and corners, edges soiled. Interior clean, binding tight.
Control and Freedom:; Power and Paranois in the Age of Fiber Optics
Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2005. 352 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Shelfwear. Black marker remainder mark and small pen mark to bottom edge of textblock.