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Culture of Fear

Product Description: In this startling and widely acclaimed book, Barry Glassner exposes the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our anxieties. These peddlers of fear - politicians, advocacy groups, and TV newsmagazines, among others - cost Americans dearly, weighing us down with needless worries and causing us to squander billions of dollars on fixing fanciful problems...read more

By Barry Glassner

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9780465027491 | Basic Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this startling and widely acclaimed book, Barry Glassner exposes the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our anxieties.

The Gospel of Food

By Barry Glassner

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Miscellaneous:

9780061862465 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $10.99

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review

By Barry Glassner (editor) and Jeremy Schoenberg (editor)

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9780971740037 | Purdue Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $25.00

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review

Product Description: This second volume of the Jewish Role in American Life continues the Casden Institute's ongoing examination of the contemporary American Jewish community and its contributions to life and culture in the United States. Focusing again on five key areas-values, politics, education, image, and culture-this yearâs volume draws on recent scholarly and popular literature to shed light on contemporary crises and advancements in biomedical ethics, international politics, experiential learning, the arts, and popular film...read more

By Barry Glassner, Hilary Taub Lachoff and Gene Lichtenstein

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9780971740013 | Purdue Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This second volume of the Jewish Role in American Life continues the Casden Institute's ongoing examination of the contemporary American Jewish community and its contributions to life and culture in the United States.

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review

Product Description: The relationship between Jews and the United States is necessarily complex: Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and, of course, Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II...read more

By Barry Glassner (editor) and Hilary Taub Lachoff (editor)

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9780971740020 | Purdue Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The relationship between Jews and the United States is necessarily complex: Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and, of course, Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II.

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review

By Barry Glassner, Hilary Taub Lachoff and Tom Teicholz

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9780971740006 | Purdue Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The relationship between Jews and the United States is necessarily complex: Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and, of course, Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II.

The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat

The author of The Culture of Fear presents an argument for an end to food fads and renewed support for calmer and more pleasurable eating, discussing how America's fear-based admiration of celebrity chefs, high-status restaurants, and nutrition experts have caused many to develop unhealthy relationships with food. Reprint.

By Barry Glassner

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9780060501228 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2008), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The author of The Culture of Fear presents an argument for an end to food fads and renewed support for calmer and more pleasurable eating, discussing how America's fear-based admiration of celebrity chefs, high-status restaurants, and nutrition experts have caused many to develop unhealthy relationships with food.

Investigating Deviance: An Anthology

Product Description: The highly readable articles in this comprehensive anthology explore the essence of deviant behavior--its construction, explanation, commission, and control. Substantive introductions to each section and to each article allow the book's component parts to stand on their own depending on instructional needs...read more

By Barry Glassner (foreword by) and Bruce A. Jacobs

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9780195330038 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 15, 2002, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: The highly readable articles in this comprehensive anthology explore the essence of deviant behavior--its construction, explanation, commission, and control.

9781891487569 | Roxbury Pub Co, September 1, 2001, cover price $59.95

The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong

The author of The Culture of Fear presents an argument for an end to food fads and renewed support for calmer and more pleasurable eating, discussing how America's fear-based admiration of celebrity chefs, high-status restaurants, and nutrition experts has caused many to develop unhealthy relationships with food. 40,000 first printing.

By Barry Glassner

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9780060501211 | Ecco Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Argues for an end to food fads and renewed support for calmer and more pleasurable eating, discussing how America's fear-based admiration of celebrity chefs and high-status restaurants has led to unhealthy relationships with food.

Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work

By Herbert J. Gans (editor), Barry Glassner (editor) and Rosanna Hertz (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780195146615 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 21, 2003, cover price $51.00

Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

A noted sociologist examines why Americans are subject to misplaced fears, discussing the people and organizations who manipulate common perceptions and raise anxieties for their own benefit.

By Barry Glassner

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Hardcover:

9780465014897 | Basic Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A noted sociologist examines why Americans are subject to misplaced fears, discussing the people and organizations who manipulate common perceptions and raise anxieties for their own benefit.

Paperback:

9780465003365, titled "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" | 10 anv edition (Basic Books, January 5, 2010), cover price $16.95

9789990061888, titled "The Culture Of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid Of The Wrong Things" | Perseus Books Group, April 1, 2000, cover price $0.02 | also contains Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

9780465014903, titled "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" | Basic Books, March 15, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A noted sociologist examines why Americans are subject to misplaced fears, discussing the people and organizations who manipulate common perceptions and raise anxieties for their own benefit.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781572703544, titled "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" | Abridged edition (Audio Partners, December 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A noted sociologist examines why Americans are subject to misplaced fears, discussing the people and organizations who manipulate common perceptions and raise anxieties for their own benefit.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781572703537, titled "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things" | Abridged edition (Audio Partners, December 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A noted sociologist examines why Americans are subject to misplaced fears, discussing the people and organizations who manipulate common perceptions and raise anxieties for their own benefit.

Qualitative Sociology As Everyday Life

Product Description: This insightful volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today. They examine the ways that sociological understanding helps them with their daily experiences. These essays reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events - and how the qualitative approach can achieve that end...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Barry Glassner (editor) and Rosanna Hertz (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780761913689 | Sage Pubns, March 22, 1999, cover price $122.00 | About this edition: This insightful volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today.

Paperback:

9780761913696 | Sage Pubns, March 22, 1999, cover price $65.00

Career Crash: America's New Crisis-And Who Survives

An examination of the epidemic of career crashes among baby boomers describes the generation's problematic relationship with employment and discusses the signs to look for, who can benefit from career counseling, going back to school, and other topics. 30,000 first printing.

By Barry Glassner

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9780671690267 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Examines the epidemic of career crashes among baby boomers, discussing the generation's problematic relationship with employment, the signs to look for, and who can benefit from career counseling

Bodies: Overcoming the Tyranny of Perfection

Product Description: Book by Glassner, Barry

By Barry Glassner

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9780929923949 | Lowell House, March 1, 1992, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Book by Glassner, Barry

Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights

Product Description: Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures and drug pushers. This book provides a new perspective, which is sociological rather than epidemiological, understanding patterns of drug taking in the context of ordinary social interaction...read more

By Barry Glassner and Julia Loughlin

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9780312042073 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 1990), cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures and drug pushers.

Drugs in the Adolescent World

Product Description: This book looks at patterns of teenage drug taking in the context of ordinary social interaction. In this social worlds analysis, adolescents' own concerns with boredom, depression, social identity, friendship, access to drugs, self-control and folk pharmacology replace the professionals' focus on deviant behaviour...read more

By Barry Glassner

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Hardcover:

9780333370612 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, September 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book looks at patterns of teenage drug taking in the context of ordinary social interaction.

The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences

Product Description: Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of the modem world, but usually the ideas were taken separately and as divided from their systematic context...read more

By Barry Glassner and Jonathan D. Moreno (editor)

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9789027728296 | Kluwer Academic Pub, May 1, 1989, cover price $239.00 | About this edition: Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors.

Bodies: Why We Look the Way We Do

Product Description: Bodies/Why We Look (And How We Feel About It)

By Barry Glassner

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Hardcover:

9780399133428 | Putnam Pub Group, July 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Bodies/Why We Look (And How We Feel About It)

Kids, Drugs and Crime