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  • Doormen

    by Peter Bearman ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Little fascinates New Yorkers more than doormen, who know far more about tenants than tenants know about them. Doormen know what their tenants eat, what kind of movies they watch, whom they spend time with, whether they drink too much, and whether they have kinky sex. But if doormen are unusually familiar with their tenants, they are also socially very distant. In Doormen, Peter Bearman untangles ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • After the Fall

    New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed

    Edited by Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith ...
    New Yorkers remember 9/11 in this landmark volume of oral history commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks—A "staggering book of living memory" ( Booklist, starred review).Within days of September 11, 2001, Columbia's Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the city to collect the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working for Respect

    Community and Conflict at Walmart

    by Adam Reich, Peter Bearman ...
    Series series The Middle Range Series
    Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

    Edited by Peter Bearman, Peter Hedström ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Robert Rauschenberg

    An Oral History

    Edited by Sara Sinclair, Peter Bearman, Mary Marshall Clark ...
    Series series The Columbia Oral History Series
    Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others, Rauschenberg bridged the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Robert Rauschenberg

    An Oral History

    Edited by Sara Sinclair, Peter Bearman, Mary Marshall Clark ...
    Series series The Columbia Oral History Series
    Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art. Through collaborations with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and others, Rauschenberg bridged the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology

    Edited by Peter Hedström, Peter Bearman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social facts such as network structures, patterns of residential segregation, typical beliefs, cultural tastes, and common ways of acting. It explains such facts by detailing in clear and precise ways the mechanisms through which the social facts were brought about. Making sense of the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Working for Respect

    Community and Conflict at Walmart

    by Adam Reich, Peter Bearman ...
    Series series The Middle Range Series
    Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law

    by Peri Bearman ...
    This unparalleled Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to Islamic law to all with an interest in this increasingly relevant and developing field. The volume presents classical Islamic law through a historiographical introduction to and analysis of Western scholarship, while key debates about hot-button issues in modern-day circumstances are also addressed. In twenty-one ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Who Killed My Daughter?

    The Startling True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer

    by Lois Duncan ...
    On July 16, 1989, Lois Duncan’s daughter was chased down and shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After the police abandoned all leads, Duncan refused to give up her search for the truth.In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation ... Read more

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  • Beyond Belief

    My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

    by Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer ...
    Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org—the church's highest ministry, speaks of her "disconnection" from family outside of the organization, and tells the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD