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Product Description: For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...read more

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9780691135748 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 25, 2008, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.
9780538655880, titled "Computer Interactive Algeblocks, Mac Site License/Network Version" | South-Western Pub, March 1, 1997, cover price $809.95 | also contains Computer Interactive Algeblocks, Mac Site License/Network Version | About this edition: These computer programs use the attention-holding power of color and animation to privde the bridge from fundamental algebraic concepts to concrete models.

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9780691168142 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 2015), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

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Product Description: Life and the Student (1927), with a new introduction by Jonathan B. Imber, is a compilation of reflections, commentaries, and letters from other scholars that Charles Horton Cooley, accumulated throughout his life. The book includes personal passages on various topics within the realms of reading and writing, thinking, art, science, sociology, academia, religion, and human nature...read more
By Jonathan B. Imber (introduced by)

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9781412854788 | Transaction Pub, December 18, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Life and the Student (1927), with a new introduction by Jonathan B.

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Product Description: Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics? A myriad of forces shape and fashion human action, reaction, thought, and feeling, and these are not always well understood. Norman L. Farberow argues that culture itself provides structure for its members, developing in a well-defined way the rules to which they will conform...read more
By Jonathan B. Imber (introduced by)

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9781412852814 | Aldine De Gruyter, January 23, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics?

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Product Description: It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 112 proceedings of the Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society––WSKS 2010––that was organized by the International Scientific Council for the Knowledge Society, and supported by the Open Research Society, NGO, (http://www...read more

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9783642163234 | Springer-Verlag New York Inc, October 16, 2010, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS 112 proceedings of the Third World Summit on the Knowledge Society––WSKS 2010––that was organized by the International Scientific Council for the Knowledge Society, and supported by the Open Research Society, NGO, (http://www.

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Product Description: For nearly half a century, social scientists have made claims that there is a "therapeutic ethos" with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture, twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions, extending from the family to schools, and operating in religious behavior and within the legal system...read more
By Jonathan B. Imber (editor)

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9780765805928 | Transaction Pub, July 30, 2004, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: For nearly half a century, social scientists have made claims that there is a "therapeutic ethos" with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society.

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Product Description: At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state and the market...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Frumkin (editor) and Jonathan B. Imber (editor)

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9780765805188 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state and the market.

By Jonathan B. Imber (editor)

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9780765801630 | Transaction Pub, March 1, 2003, cover price $40.95

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Product Description: The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them...read more
By Rosanna Hertz (editor) and Jonathan B. Imber (editor)

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9780803970373 | Sage Pubns, August 3, 1995, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study.

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Product Description: Thomas G. Masaryk was founding and first president of the State of Czechoslovakia. He was also a dissident charter member of the theoretical vanguard that established modern sociology in the nineteenth century. Many social scientists are aware of Masaryk's political role, but do not know about his significant contributions to sociology...read more

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9781560001645 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1994, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: Thomas G.

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Product Description: Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.

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9780226716411 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $121.00

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9780226716428 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 8, 1991, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture.

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