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America Becoming: Racial Trends and Consequences in the United States

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By Faith Mitchell (editor), Neil J. Smelser (editor) and William Julius Wilson (editor)

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9780309064958 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $49.95

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

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By Faith Mitchell (editor), Neil J. Smelser (editor) and William Julius Wilson (editor)

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9780309068406 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

9780309068383 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $30.00

America Becoming Racial Trends and Their Consequences: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

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By Faith Mitchell, National Research Council (U. S.) Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (other contributor), Research Conference on Racial Trends in the United States (corporate author), Neil J. Smelser (editor) and William J. Wilson (editor)

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9780309068390 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $49.95

Behavioral and Social Science: Fifty Years of Discovery

By Dean R. Gerstein (editor) and Neil J. Smelser

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9780309035880 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $29.50

Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities

By Dean R. Gerstein, R. Duncan Luce, Neil J. Smelser and Sonja Sperlich

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9780309037495 | Natl Academy Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $29.50

The Changing Academic Market: General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study

Product Description: THE CHANGING ACADEMIC MARKET is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department's search, during the mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions. This was attempted in the middle of the fundamental changes to the U...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520037533 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: THE CHANGING ACADEMIC MARKET is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department's search, during the mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions.

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Product Description: In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"âand on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jeffrey C. Alexander (editor), Ron Eyerman, Bernhard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser and Piotr Sztompka

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9780520235946 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"âand on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility.

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9780520235953 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $34.95

Discouraging Terrorism: Some Implications of 9/11

By Faith Mitchell, National Research Council (other contributor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780309085304 | Natl Academy Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $18.00

Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society

Product Description: Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades. Familiar terms such as culture wars, multiculturalism, moral majority, and family values all suggest a society fragmented by the issue of cultural diversity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jeffrey C. Alexander (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780691004365 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades.

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9780691004372 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 12, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades.

Dynamics of the Contemporary University: Growth, Accretion, and Conflict

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520275812 | Univ of California Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $39.95

Economy and Society: Overviews in Economic Sociology

Product Description: This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology. Normally considered quite separately, the volume reconciles the disciplines. Amongst the many questions considered are: the formal relationship between the two disciplines; the distinctive ranges of empirical data which each discipline calls into question; how the substantive findings of one discipline can modify the assumptions of the other...read more

By Alberto Martinelli (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780803984165 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 1, 1991, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology.

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9780803984172 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 1, 1991, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology.

Effective Committee Service

Product Description: Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee. It explains how to get on certain committees and avoid others, how to get committee work done efficiently, how to ensure that your views are properly represented, how chairing a committee can help direct its outcome, and how to use committees to advance your academic career...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780803948181 | Sage Pubns, August 17, 1993, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee.

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9780803948198 | Sage Pubns, August 10, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee.

The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780691133089 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 30, 2007, cover price $45.00

Getting Sociology Right: A Half-century of Reflections

Product Description: Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons, Smelser discusses his views on the discipline of sociology and shows how his perspective of the field evolved in the postwar era...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520282070 | Univ of California Pr, April 12, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Neil J.

The Global Campus: Education Abroad and the University of California

By William H. Allaway and Neil J. Smelser (foreword by)

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9780877724032 | Univ of California Inst of, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967

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By Clark Kerr and Neil J. Smelser (foreword by)

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9780520223677 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $42.00

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 : Political Turmoil

Product Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka, Clark Kerr and Neil J. Smelser (foreword by)

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9780520236417 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities.

The Handbook of Economic Sociology

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780691603490, titled "Handbook of Economic Sociology" | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 2014, cover price $110.50 | also contains The Handbook of Economic Sociology

9780691044859 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $60.00

Miscellaneous:

9781400835584 | 2 edition (Princeton Univ Pr, January 15, 2010), cover price $60.00 | also contains The Handbook of Economic Sociology

Handbook of Sociology

Product Description: The publication of the Handbook of Sociology heralded a new age of sociological thought and practice. This volume synthesizes the field. It provides an orginal and comprehensive look at this vital discipline - which has not had a new Handbook in 25 years ...read more

By Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780803926653 | Sage Pubns, August 1, 1988, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The publication of the Handbook of Sociology heralded a new age of sociological thought and practice.

International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences

By Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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Miscellaneous:

9780080548050 | 2 edition (Elsevier Science, December 23, 2007), cover price $0.04

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

By Paul B. Baltes (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780080430768 | Pergamon Pr, November 22, 2001, cover price $17180.00

Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science

Product Description: The reach of the social and behavioral sciences is currently so broad and interdisciplinary that staying abreast of developments has become a daunting task. The thirty papers that constitute Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science provide a unique composite picture of recent findings and promising new research opportunities within most areas of social and behavioral research...read more

By Dean R. Gerstein (editor), R. Duncan Luce and Neil J. Smelser

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9780871545602 | Russell Sage Foundation, March 1, 1990, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: The reach of the social and behavioral sciences is currently so broad and interdisciplinary that staying abreast of developments has become a daunting task.

The Odyssey Experience: Physical, Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Journeys

Product Description: This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520258976 | Univ of California Pr, March 5, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives.

Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995

Product Description: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays identify, as he says in the first chapter, "...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520206755 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J.

Reflections on the University of California

Product Description: These invaluable essays offer an insiderâs perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520260962 | Univ of California Pr, March 4, 2010, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: These invaluable essays offer an insiderâs perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil.

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