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Smelser and Content’s Introspective Account of Hiring at Berkeley in the Mid-1970s, The Changing Academic Market is Digitally Remastered™ and in Paperback
The Changing Academic Market: General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department’s search, during the mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions. This was attempted in the middle of the fundamental changes to the university market that began in the 1960s and was especially acute at the University of California at Berkeley. That sea change is exposed with candid self-awareness and examined in its practical effects on faculty hiring procedure, treatment of candidates, professors’ relations with each other and their political stances, and recommendations for other academics in a similar recruitment process throughout the United States. Quality eBook formatting from…
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Selznick’s Leadership in Administration Still a Management and Sociology Bestseller
Remarkable in its insight and staying power, Philip Selznick's Leadership in Administration is still read in droves by business and management students, sociologists, and political scientists -- and of course by interested individual readers within corporations, institutions, and governmental agencies who want to lead effectively. It forms the backbone of most accepted self-help or seminar-style management courses and guides. Quid Pro is the exclusive digital publisher of this fine book.
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Harvard Law Review‘s June Issue, in ebook formats, now available including memoriam to William Stuntz
Harvard Law Review: Volume 124, Number 8 – June 2011 is now available, beating the streets, as an ebook in leading formats. It features quality presentation, legible charts, active TOC (including that of the articles), linked notes and URLs, and complete and linked cross-referencing in text and notes. Its contents are: In Memoriam: William J. Stuntz Pamela S. Karlan Michael J. Klarman Martha Minow Daniel C. Richman Robert E. Scott David Skeel Carol Steiker ARTICLES: The Host’s Dilemma: Strategic Forfeiture in Platform Markets for Informational Goods Jonathan M. Barnett Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation John F. Manning NOTES: Interpreting Silence: The Roles of the Courts and the Executive Branch…
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New Stanford Law Review Issue 5 Is Available in Kindle, Nook, and iTunes Formats
Now available is Stanford Law Review‘s Issue 5 – May 2011. The Stanford Law Review is published six times a year by students of the Stanford Law School. Each issue contains material written by student members of the Law Review, other Stanford law students, and outside contributors, such as law professors, judges, and practicing lawyers. The current volume is 63, for the academic year 2010-2011, and the present compilation, in ebook form, represents Issue 5, May 2011. Contents for the issue: “The Objects of the Constitution,” by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz”; “The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-1972,” by David…
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Neil Smelser explains Sociological Theory in a clear and pithy book on how to read, criticize, and do theory
Renowned sociologist Neil J. Smelser republishes his classic and clear guide, Sociological Theory -- A Contemporary View. It remains timeless because he uses foundational examples such as Durkheim, Marx and Parsons, examining still-applicable criteria. New Foreword by Arlie Hochschild, new Preface by the author.
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Jones’ Introspective, Candid Memoir About Living with Mental Illness as a Law Professor, A Hidden Madness: Available in eBooks
James Jones’ acclaimed A Hidden Madness tells the story of an accomplished individual who has reached the pinnacle of his profession despite suffering for over thirty years from the severe mental illness bipolar disorder. He has done so mostly in silence because of fear of stigma. Extreme childhood bullying helped cause his condition, which has seen him hospitalized five times in psychiatric facilities for periods as long as six months. It is an eye-opening voyage through the little-understood realm of severe mental illness featuring its powerful medications, periodic hospitalizations, often rocky relationships, and light as well as dark moments. The story offers both real hope for those afflicted by serious…
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Virgil’s Aeneid Gets Translated to a Modern Ear and Abridged to its Essentials
New condensed and annotated edition of the epic Aeneid makes it live for new readers, and explains key words, names, and places. David Crump's edition is lively and fast paced, and even rhymes. Ebook editions use innovative jumps to brief asides, rather than footnotes, while print editions place explanations at margins, arranged to mirror the text. Bridge summaries explain omitted parts.
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7th 2011 Issue of Harvard Law Review, May 2011, Available in Ebook Formats
The Harvard Law Review is now offered in a digital edition for ereaders — featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs in citations, and proper ebook formatting. Available download sites are linked below. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2000 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Aside from serving as an important academic forum for legal scholarship, the Review has two other goals. First, the journal is designed to be an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and…
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G. Edward White describes Patterns of American Legal Thought
A renowned legal historian at UVA and author of 14 books republishes his collection of astute and timeless essays on such subjects as the method and debates of legal history; the truth about Holmes and Brandeis; the legal realism school and its critics; the development of gay rights in constitutional law; and the origins of tort law. In digital formats and new, modern paperback edition.
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Stuart Scheingold’s classic The Politics of Law and Order reissued in print and digital with new Foreword by Malcolm Feeley
How crime and public fear of it are socially constructed -- not just a set reality to observe. Politicians and others use public anxiety for their purposes, and push a 'law and order' platform even as crime rates drop. As the foundational, supported study of the issue, it's often cited and used in later scholarship on crime and politics, from a legendary scholar in the field--an acclaimed follow-up to his landmark 'The Politics of Rights.' Available in ebook and print formats.
