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Martin Eden

Jack London

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Jack London was one of the first writers to write for fictional magazines. He was also one of the first American writers to earn a living just from his writing. Martin Eden is a writer who resembles London. When Eden sent a manuscript off in the mail he thought there was no human editor at the other end. There must be a machine designed to take ...more

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Best Short Stories of Jack London

Jack London

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"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about."Brilliant, poetic, swift with viole...more

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White Fang

Jack London

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The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.

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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader fully appreciate London's masterful weaving of science, philosophy, and the storyteller's art. This gripping story follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh...more

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Ancient Society (Classics of Anthropology)

Lewis Henry Morgan

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Lewis Henry Morgan studied the American Indian way of life and collected an enormous amount of factual material on the history of primitive-communal society. All the conclusions he draws are based on these facts; where he lacks them, he reasons back on the basis of the data available to him. He determined the periodization of primitive society by l...more

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The Power Elite

C. Wright Mills

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First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good ac...more

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All Editions	An Introduction to the Social Sciences Maurice Duverger Write the first review.(See your review)
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All Editions	Cultural Theory Philip Smith Write the first review.(See your review)
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Aesthetic Theory

Theodor W Adorno

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The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is paradoxical in its defense of illusion. In it, Adorno takes up the problem of art in a day when "it goes without saying that nothing concerning art goes without saying". In the course of his discussion, Adorno revisits s...more

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