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  • The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty

    by Peter Collier, David Horowitz ...
    This is the story of an American dynasty: the father, who built the fortune, the son who cleansed the name, the brothers who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends, and the cousins who often wish they had inherited neither. Cast against the backdrop of America’s history is a spectacular array of characters: a bigamist, a robber baron, a philanthropist, a world-weary cynic, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Kennedys

    An American Drama

    by Peter Collier, David Horowitz ...
    The Kennedys may well be the most photographed, written about, talked about, admired, hated, and controversial family in American history. But for all the words and pictures, the real story was not told until Peter Collier and David Horowitz spent years researching archives and interviewing both family members and hundreds of people close to the Kennedys.An immediate classic, The Kennedys combines ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Economic Anthropology

    Lectures at the College de France, 1992 - 1993

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    Has the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most precapitalist societies, to the economy of modern societies been accomplished in all spheres of life, as tacitly assumed by those who claim to apply the model of the profit-optimizing agent to every practice – to art, to education and even to marriage, seen as an exchange of economic services of production and ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Imperialisms

    The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international circulation of ideas and the imperialisms of the universal – where two political powers, such as the United States and France, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Return to Reflexivity

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work.For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise in introspection but rather a way of applying the tools of sociology to itself. The aim is to make explicit and control the effects of the presuppositions, standpoints and dispositions that the researcher brings to the ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Germinal

    by �mile Zola, Robert Lethbridge ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Interest in Disinterestedness

    Lectures at the College de France 1987-1989

    by Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be treated as a set of universal rules that are independent of particular interests, or is this mere ideology? Is the state ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Things in Glocca Morra

    by Peter Collier ...
    “What’s the point of being Irish anyway if you don’t think the world will break your heart?” asks Jack Kennedy. He is spellbound by a song about Ireland’s neverland of dreams: “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?”No one better knew the real JFK’s dreams and passions than Lem Billings, a prep-school roommate who made himself “sidekick everlasting.” The late Peter Collier had the great fortune to obtain ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Choosing Courage

    Inspiring True Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero

    by Peter Collier ...
    How does an ordinary person become a hero? It happens in a split second, a moment of focus and clarity, when a choice is made. Here are the gripping accounts of Medal of Honor recipients who demonstrated guts and selflessness on the battlefield and confronted life-threatening danger to make a difference. There are the stories of George Sakato and Vernon Baker—both of whom overcame racial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Fugitive

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, Peter Collier ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    Series Book 6 - In Search of Lost Time
    **The long-awaited penultimate volume--"the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth"The greatest literary work of the twentieth century*." --The New York Times*A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper**Peter Collier's acclaimed translation of The Fugitive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Fords

    An American Epic

    by Peter Collier, David Horowitz ...
    In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America’s greatest industrial empire.The story begins with the first Henry Ford, the mechanical wizard, tinkerer and “mad genius” who drove the automobile into the heart of American life and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD