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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.80
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Saul Alinsky
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484
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Publication Date: 1989-10-23
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.
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Price: $14.75
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Sale: $12.36
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Saul Alinsky
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484
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Publication Date: 1989-10-23
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new Introduction and Afterword, this volume represents the fullest statement of the political philosophy and practical methodology of one of the most important figures in the history of American radicalism. Like Thomas Paine before him, Saul Alinsky, through the concept and practice of community organizing, was able to embody for his era both the urgency of radical political action and the imperative of rational political discourse. His work and writing bequeathed a new method and style of social change to American communities that will remain a permanent part of the American political landscape.
"Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher."
-- Charles E. Silberman
"He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules."
-- The Economist
(London)
"I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century."
-- Jacques Maritain
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $16.50
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sanford D. Horwitt
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484092
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Publication Date: 1992-03-31
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Reading Level: 618
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Description: In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies-from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists and black activists-in battles waged against opponents from slumlords to the Eastman Kodak corporation. The range of Alinsky's activities, the intensity of his beliefs, and his exhilarating mixture of crudeness and calculation almost vibrate off the pages of this passionate and inspiring biography.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.35
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Wright Mills
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.30973
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Publication Date: 2000-02-17
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today.
What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills' book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.52
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Manufacturer: R I E
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Gaylon, Sr. Ross
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Publisher: R I E
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.5202573
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Publication Date: 2000-01
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Reading Level: 267
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.58
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Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.1
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Publication Date: 1994-04
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Reading Level: 200
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Description: 1912 work by the highly influential English writer of the early 20th century. Includes chapters on the homelessness of man, imperialism, feminism, education and the home of man.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $5.10
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Roy Porter
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 942.07
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Publication Date: 1990-09-04
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.25
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mike Davis
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Publisher: Vintage
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Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4850979494
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Publication Date: 1999-09-07
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets." As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996. Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $19.48
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barrington Moore
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1993-09-01
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Reading Level: 559
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Description: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott
"A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now."
-The New York Times Book Review
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $9.93
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Giambattista Vico
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Edition: 3rd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 195
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Publication Date: 2000-01-01
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Reading Level: 560
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Description: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
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