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  • THE PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIST
    LEE RAINWATER / ANSELM L. STRAUSS
    This classic book, available in paperback for the first time, is based on a 1962 study of the American Chemical Society, one of the great U. S. scientific societies. The society has a membership educated in the fundamental scientific field of chemistry, whose knowledge and talents are essential to modem industrial civilization. Without chemistry, we would have neither automobil...

    $860.00

  • PUBLIC/PRIVATE INTERPLAY IN SOCIAL PROTECTION
    MARTIN REIN / LEE RAINWATER
    This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic - a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic concepts, including justifications of liberty, harm to others, private property rights, distributive justice, environmental harms, help to others and offensive behaviour. Gaus acquaints t...

    $1,100.00

  • DEVIANCE AND LIBERTY
    LEE RAINWATER
    Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of people want their norms to be enforced. Many modern societies place considerable value on personal liberty, so much so that interference with personal choices to deviate from group nor...

    $1,360.00

  • THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL AND THEIR PLACE IN HISTORY
    LEE RAINWATER / WILLIAM SMITH
    In the history of nineteenth-century religious thought, William Robertson Smith occupies an ambiguous position. More than any other writer, he stimulated the theories of religion later advanced by Frazer, Durkheim, and Freud. Smith himself was not an original scholar, but was rather ""clever at presenting other men's theories"" within new and sometimes hostile contexts. Smith w...

    $1,280.00

  • FAMILY DESIGN
    LEE RAINWATER
    Why do contraceptive practices work for some couples and not for others? How do couples decide the number of children they want? What are the implications of family design in terms of the "population explosion?"Family Design is a thoroughly documented study undertaken by Social Research, Inc., for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Based on intensive interviews with ...

    $1,320.00