Sociology from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From the back cover: "Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, ardent pro-slavery Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina strode into the United States Senate Chamber in Washington, D.C., and began beating renowned anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner with a cane until it splintered and the helpless Massachusetts senator lay unconscious and covered in blood. It was a retaliatory… Read more about this item

From back cover: "A Profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the war between the states." "The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike each identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side." This book measures the gap between those claims and draws… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "Few biologists in the history of natural science have been as groundbreaking, controversial, and productive as Edward Osborne Wilson, long hailed as 'Darwin's successor'." Wilson focused on the insect society, then extended his research from social insects through the animal kingdom to human society. He is known for Sociobiology, published in 1975and demonstrated how Darwinian evolution shapes… Read more about this item

From the Preface: "This edition carries the core content of the preceding editions and records the changes in thinking and practice that have strengthened social work and increased its usefulness in the lives of the people it serves. New illustrative material has been drawn from the fields of practice and has been associated with the appropriate chapter. A new first… Read more about this item

Quote from back: "There's nothing artificial about Ann. She has a vision of the Constitution and the government's rightful role in our lives that is much different from the mainstream, and much different from mine, but she represents a significant constituency." - Geraldo Rivera Book - Very Good condition. White and black paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very… Read more about this item

From back cover: "Almost anyone growing up in rural America will be able to identify with the characters described in this book." Quote from back cover: "The Lutefisk Ghetto hits this reader zero to the bone because its author carefully dissects the folkways and mores of a little town." - Dave Wood, Solumnist, Minneapolis Tribune Book - Very Good+ condition. Very minimal… Read more about this item

From back cover: "The Power to Harm is a profound and original book. In his account of a 1989 killing spree and the subsequent trial of the drug company Eli Lilly, John Cornwell has written several books in one: a vivid courtroom drama; a sociological study of the American workplace; a survey of the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and… Read more about this item

Quote from the back cover: "This is an important book - the indispensable book - for understanding America in the age of Trump. It's an eye-opening history filled with brilliant insights, a saga of how we were always susceptible to fantasy, from the Puritan fanatics to the talk-radio and Internet wackos who mix show business, hucksterism, and conspiracy theories. Even… Read more about this item

From back cover: "This book, first published in the 1880s, brilliantly predicted the thawing of tensions between the United States and the Vatican. The author reaches some very important conclusions about what that new friendship means for the future." New book; however the front corners have a slight upturn and there are a couple very light bumps. Clean and tight. Never… Read more about this item

From internal dust jacket: For most of it's history, Scotland was a small, impoverished country with a reputation for violence, ignorance, and superstition. But suddenly, in the 18th century, it transformed itself into an intellectual superpower, providing the world with some of its greatest philosophers, architects, scientists, and men of letters. How did this remarkable phenomenon occur? In How the Scots Invented… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "Introducing us first to 'the people Jesus knew," Thomas Cahill describes the oppressive Roman political presence, the pervasive Greek cultural influence, and expecially the widely varied social and religious context of the Judaism in which Jesus moved and flourished. These backgrounds, essential to a complete understanding of Jesus, lead to the author's stunningly original interpretation of… Read more about this item

Quote from back of dust jacket: " Improbably gripping and often deeply moving, On Hallowed Ground chronicles both the evolution of our national cemetery and the profound ways in which treatment of the war dead reflects a nation's soul. Readers interested in political, social, or military history from the Civil War on will want to read this book." - Caroline… Read more about this item

According to "British Literature Wiki" Middlemarch is "...a fictional representation of provincial life during the Victorian era. It is a novel that encapsulates all aspects of Victorian life and its social classes where the working class, middle class and country gentry live and interact in a communtiy." New Edition - Complete in One Volume Published by John Wurtele Lovell, Publisher 1881 Fair condition.… Read more about this item

From Introduction: "When I began to research drive-ins I had no preset ideas or preconceived notions - with the exception of the drive-in's reputation as a passion pit. ... I have tried to strike a balance in this book between the technical aspects of the drive-in - which didn't fuel its rise but did contribute to its cecline - and… Read more about this item

From the front DJ flap: "But though centered on the United States the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations, discussing the classical and biblical justifications for chattel bondage, and also traces the long evolution of antiblack racism.... Equally important, it combines the subjects of… Read more about this item

From back cover: "The Color of Law is a groundbreaking investigation into how U.S. governments in the twentieth century deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide." Near Fine condition. Front cover is less wide than the next page you can see (that has some quoted reviews). No obvious edge/corner wear. Clean and tight, but not quite brand new tight. 342 pages… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "...to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody… Read more about this item

From back DJ cover: "Features more than one thousand alphabetically arranged entries covering the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped American history. Encompasses political, economic, social, and cultural history. Offers...essays, and...thematic articles.... Written by nearly four hundred eminent scholars, biographers, and journalists. Includes maps and tables, bibliographies, thorough cross-references, and an extensive index." Book - Very Good condition.… Read more about this item

From the front DJ flap: "In this spellbinding new history of the Civil War, David Goldfield crafts the first major reinterpretation of the conflict - its causes and costs - since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: a breakdown caused… Read more about this item

From the DJ back cover: "Two hundred and forty years after the Declaration of Independence, the story behind the birth of the United States is as significant today as it was when the ink was still wet on the document. Retold with the help of eyewitness accounts, biographies of key figures, and photographs of contemporary artifacts, this compelling visual guide… Read more about this item