Sociology from Goldring Books

New York: Random House, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 306 pages. In the book the journalist author captures the fascinating, complex and often tragic lives of the 400 million women of India. She went to India with her husband, a correspondent for the New York Times and, over a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with VG price clipped dustjacket. xix + 266 pages. 20 illustrations. 1 map. Genealogical trees of the Marshall family and of the Williams family. Jeanette Marshall, daughter of an eminent anatomist, scanned the drawing rooms of late Victorian London, and assiduously recorded her impressions in diaries she kept for 23… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to endpapers) in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. ix + 230 pages + 14 page list of books in the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction series. Newspaper cutting of the book review in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: British Museum Press, 1993. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. From opium in Stone Age Europe to petrol sniffing in Aboriginal Australia, intoxicants have played an important part in societies all over the world. In this thought-provoking book the author shows that 'magic mushrooms' in Siberia and New Guinea, the mysterious soma/haoma plant… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Paulist Press, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Ivy George grew up in India and continued her studies in the US where she teaches in Massachusetts. Margaret Masson was born in Zambia, later moving to Scotland, and teaches at St. John's College and Durham University. They met during teaching assignments in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1968. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy with gold title on green cloth boards which has a few spots of light foxing to top edge. Dustjacket has a small repaired closed tear to front and is not price clipped. A marriage collapses, psychology, sociology and medicine may say one thing : religion and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958. Gilt title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of wear to lower edges. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a little wear and is not price clipped. Uniform with the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction series founded by Karl Mannheim. The author… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1952. A near Fine copy with grey and black cloth boards which just has three small initials to front endpaper and university bookshop small label to front pastedown else unmarked. Dustjacket is complete and is VG +. 16 photographs, 14 tables and 7 charts. The first scientific enquiry into assembly line working which "presents a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amersham, Bucks: Hulton Educational Publications, 1975. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to one front corner tip). Uniform with 'Studies in Modern Social History' series. Comprise Part I - 1870-1918, Part II - 1918-1970 and takes certain basic social themes and follows them through the century, providing an interesting and useful social history of British… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Texere, 2001. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine uninscribed copy with gold title and author's initials on red cloth boards. Dustjacket is VG+ with a crease to inner flap. A captivating and erudite history of work from prehistoric times to the present day, which offers fascinating and intelligent analyses of the individuals, assumptions, theories, developments and practices that… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Doubleday, 1990. A near Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The author examines the cases of women who find themselves living apart from their children, confronting this painful issue and seeking to explain what kind of woman would want to give up her children and why. A provocative look at this emotionally charged subject in… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Collins, 1983. A ery Good uninscribed copy with a touch of dust marking to top edge. Dustjacket is price clipped. The well known BBC correspondent, who has had many overseas assignments, retired in 1982, and this book is based on the thirteen television programmes in which he presents his essays on the tug of war between consience and circumstances… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Viking, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The acclaimed foreign correspondent set out on on a journey through Britain for the BBC, although born in London he has never lived there until recently, having spent years covering the world's conflicts. In his travels in 1999 he discovered a world of poverty, exclusion and alienation. A shocking but… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Headline, 1995. A Fine uninscribed copy with a Fine dustjacket. The financial editor author portrays a counter argument to the doomsday predictions of others and contends that such predictions have been proved wrong in the past two decades. He puts forward a powerful and detailed case for the view that the next century will be much better and that… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Random House, 1981. Gold lettering on black cloth with orange paper half boards with gold DY and motif to front. A very clean and unmarked copy VG+ with a complete dustjacket VG+. The author is one of America's leading analysts of changing social values and shows how the turbulent effect that these sharply changed circumstances have… Saber más sobre este artículo