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Beginning Chinese Reader, Part 2
Second Edition
This second edition, like the earlier first edition, introduces some of the main varieties of Chinese as found before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. While continuing to stress the basic...
Cambodian-English Glossary
Designed to accompany the series of Cambodian readers prepared by Franklin E. Huffman and Im Proum, this work is now reissued as an aid not only to students of the Cambodian language but also to Cambodians residing in English...
The Protestant Establishment
Aristocracy and Caste in America
This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F. Kennedy. Sociologist E. Digby...
Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art
Grammar and Gender
A lively history of the sexual biases that exist in our language and a fascinating account of past and present efforts to correct these biases by reforming usage and vocabulary. “A valuable contribution to the...
The Material Basis of Evolution
Reissued
In his autobiography, published posthumously in 1960, Richard Goldschmidt wrote: “I am confident that in twenty years my [work], which is now ignored, will be given an honorable place in the history of evolutionary...
The Future of Marriage
When The Future of Marriage was first published it was immediately acclaimed as a classic contribution to the literature of marriage and of sex roles. In it, the eminent sociologist Jessie Bernard argued that in...
The Divine Relativity
A Social Conception of God
Charles Hartshorne has set himself the task of formulating the idea of deity "to preserve perhaps even increase, its religious value, while yet avoiding the contradictions which seem inseparable from the idea of customarily...
Class and Economic Change in Kenya
The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie
This analysis of the transformation of the political economy of colonial and post-colonial Kenya is followed by a theoretical discussion of its implications for such issues as the type of class analysis which is appropriate...
How Courts Govern America
It is a familiar complaint that the courts are everywhere and no one is untouched by court intrusions into our everyday life. Why have life-tenured judges who are beyond the reach of the democratic process taken...