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  • The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff

    Edited by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    Philip Rieff (1922–2006) was a preeminent American social and cultural theorist. The original essays in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff offer an important new assessment of the major works of Philip Rieff by leading writers in the fields of social and cultural theory. These essays are the first to assess Rieff’s influence and significance as a master theorist and teacher, drawing on the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff

    Edited by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Companions to Sociology
    Philip Rieff (1922–2006) was a preeminent American social and cultural theorist. The original essays in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff offer an important new assessment of the major works of Philip Rieff by leading writers in the fields of social and cultural theory. These essays are the first to assess Rieff’s influence and significance as a master theorist and teacher, drawing on the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff

    Edited by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    Philip Rieff (1922–2006) was a preeminent American social and cultural theorist. The original essays in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff offer an important new assessment of the major works of Philip Rieff by leading writers in the fields of social and cultural theory. These essays are the first to assess Rieff’s influence and significance as a master theorist and teacher, drawing on the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anthem Companion to Peter Berger

    Edited by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was among the most prominent sociologists of the past half-century. He co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, considered to be a modern classic of social science. His work on social theory, the sociology of religion, third-world development, and the role of capitalism in modern life define his enduring importance as a leading figure in ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all twenty-six of the obstetrician-gynecologists in “Daleton,” a city that did not have an abortion clinic. The decision as to whether, when, and how to perform ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Markets, Morals, and Religion

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    The examination of the relationship of economic activity to other important aspects of human life and social behavior has inspired some of the most interesting and provocative social-scientific research in the past one hundred years. This book of original essays by leading thinkers across many disciplines offers new insights into enduring questions about how modern and modernizing market economies ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Searching for Science Policy

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine what kind of scientific research will be funded. Searching for Science Policy offers innovative ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Culture

    Triumph and Defeat

    by Donileen Loseke, Jonathan B. Imber ...
    For nearly half a century, social scientists have made claims that there is a "therapeutic ethos" with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture, twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions, extending from the family to schools, and operating in religious behavior and within the legal ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • In Search of the Nonprofit Sector

    Edited by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state and the market. The chapters span a broad range of emerging issues including nonprofit commercialism, sector-bending hybrid ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Trusting Doctors

    The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

    by Jonathan B. Imber ...
    For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

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    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
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  • An Analysis of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning and philosophical argument, an approach that has been credited with influencing Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other key modern philosophers. That approach is the so-called “Hegelian dialectic” – ... Read more

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