Why does Mircea Eliade get short shrift in Robert N. Bellah's
Religion in Human Evolution?
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posted by ibmcginty
on Dec 18, 2012 -
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What politically neutral book(s) should I read on multiculturalism and Islam, immigration/integration politics and/or ethnic/religious tensions in Europe?
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posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Jul 25, 2011 -
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I'm looking for nonfiction books published prior to 1970 that focus on existential threats to life. I have
Silent Spring (DDT),
One Dimensional Man (consumerism), and
The Population Bomb (population).
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posted by perhapses
on Jun 9, 2011 -
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I'm looking for some good, meaty non-fiction to read over Christmas break while I'm home from grad school. Something with difficult ideas, yet readable and contemporary, and taking a fairly "big picture" view of a particular field. Any suggestions? Examples below.
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posted by decoherence
on Dec 12, 2010 -
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This recent link on the blue reminded me how fascinating ethnography can be. Now I have a hankering for some well-written works of anthropology or sociology that offer insight on different people and different ways of life. Please recommend some good books for me! This is for "pleasure reading," so really dense jargon is a turn-off, but they don't need to be written for a popular audience.
posted by bookish
on Aug 13, 2010 -
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What are some interesting pop-psychology or pop-sociology books that I could read this summer?
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posted by kylej
on Jul 6, 2010 -
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Can you please recommend some books on daily life, home life, and general society in the UK and the US in the 1840s - 1880s for me?
I already have
What Jane Austen Ate, and What Charles Dickens Knew and
An Elegant Madness. It doesn't have to be specifically on daily life- creative nonfiction like Larson's
The Devil in the White City or Johnson's
The Ghost Map are awesome, too.
posted by headspace
on Feb 16, 2009 -
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Good books that about a type of person/subculture/etc., which does not necessarily hang out together or think of itself as a group?
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posted by toomuchkatherine
on Dec 2, 2008 -
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What one book will allow others to gain the truest insight into the soul of each city or region
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posted by reenum
on May 6, 2008 -
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Book filter: I am looking for recommendations for recent books written about online culture for a Sociology course I am teaching this summer. The book doesn't need to be sociological.
posted by Quartermass
on Apr 20, 2007 -
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A friend in a sociology graduate program has turned to me for advice and I could use yours: she is required to read a book of fiction (a novel or short story collection) per week for a course, and wants recommendations.
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posted by melissa may
on Sep 12, 2004 -
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