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Three classic works by Neil Smelser return as quality eBook editions; two in new paperback
Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences: Even after teaching generations of social scientists, this classic book by Berkeley’s Neil J. Smelser remains the most definitive statement of methodological issues for all comparative scholars and in political science, anthropology, sociology, economics and psychology. Such issues are timeless and therefore Smelser’s lucid analysis remains timely and relevant. Smelser posits a methodological continuity between the comparative studies of past masters and the more recent flow of contemporary comparative work. To that end, he takes a pragmatic, critical look at the classic studies of Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. His analyses respect the historical specifics and contexts of their work, but…
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Scientific Evidence and the Law-Science Divide: Book by Cedric Gilson Offers Reconciliation Analysis
THE LAW-SCIENCE CHASM is a new socio-legal study that takes seriously the varying approaches to science that physicians and scientists use, as compared to legal actors such as judges and lawyers. Offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and assumptions, Gilson uses sociological and philosophical methodologies to explain each discipline to the other. Part of the new Dissertation Series from Quid Pro Books. The book also includes an introduction by Professor John Paterson, of the faculty of law at the University of Aberdeen. As Paterson writes in the Foreword: “Gilson’s book takes seriously the idea of the autopoietic closure of society’s communicative subsystems and works out the…
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Samuel Krislov’s Representative Bureaucracy is back in paperback, hardcover & eBooks
“Professor Samuel Krislov’s Representative Bureaucracy remains among the most important and enduring books in the field of public administration and its intersection with political science. It takes the kernel of the idea, inchoately introduced in J. Donald Kingsley’s 1944 book by the same title, that public bureaucracies can be representative political institutions and it develops an overall analytic framework with empirically testable propositions that has served subsequent generations scholars very well. So well, in fact, that as the literature on representative bureaucracy blossomed, these propositions have become so ingrained that many younger scholars are unaware of their initial formulation and roots. That is one reason why the republication of this…
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Talcott Parsons’ Foundational Book, The Social System: Digitally Remastered,™ adds analytical Intro by Neil Smelser
The classic and unabridged work on the theory of sociology from one of its greatest voices in the U.S. over the 2oth century is finally available in a modern, affordable eBook, and new paperback. We are proud to note that this is Quid Pro’s 100th book published to Amazon Kindle since April 2010, in addition to all our print editions in our expanding catalog, and eBook editions for Apple, Nook, Sony, and other apps and devices. Part of the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro: quality digital formatting features fully-linked footnotes, active table of contents, proper formatting, all graphs and tables, and the original Index. The 60th…
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Abernethy’s classic history examines Tennessee and democracy in emerging territories: From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee
FROM FRONTIER TO PLANTATION IN TENNESSEE is the classic book by late UVa professor of history Thomas Perkins Abernethy about the formative years of Tennessee and its early political leadership. Now republished in a quality paperback edition without underlines and distracting stray marks, it has been Digitally Remastered to restore missing parts of words, cleaner text, and more consistently legible footnotes. Abernethy studied a time when Tennessee was the original Wild West and a laboratory for U.S. expansion and repopulation–the first new state born out of a territory. Answering the idealized histories that had uncritically praised the democracticizing effects of the Frontier in American history, Abernethy discusses such leaders as…
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Lee Scheingold’s One Silken Thread ties poetry, loss, and introspection
Lee Scheingold’s rich, painful personal journey—following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold—is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and family medicine. Poetry is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems she studied long ago in college, and then to a variety of contemporary American and English verse. This is an emotional and intellectual account of profound grief from a professional psychotherapist who has approached her recent life with continual introspection and self-reflection. She explores the experiences which enabled her to tolerate and even welcome the feelings of grief. She examines, with the issue of…
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The annotated Common Law: Holmes Gets Decoded for a New Generation, in Hardcover, Paperback & eBook
The only corrected and annotated version available of this foundational work on law and legal reasoning, read by generations of law students, scholars, and historians -- now in a 2010 edition with an explanatory Foreword, active contents, linked and numbered footnotes, and clarifying annotations throughout. In hardcover, paperback, and eight digital versions.
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Thomas Reed Powell’s classic Vagaries and Varieties of Constitutional Interpretation is digitally remastered to new eBooks; and in paperback
The classic study of historical and then-emerging ways in which the U.S. Constitution has been interpreted and applied, especially as regards judicial power to review congressional acts, sharing of power between states and the federal government, Lochnerism, the change in the Supreme Court during the Roosevelt years, taxing power, and interstate commerce. Thomas Reed Powell presented this material first as lectures at Columbia Law School, and their enduring nature and historical insider-ness makes them of current interest to law professors and students, historians, and political scientists who see constitutional structure, and not only rights and liberties, as crucial to understanding U.S. government, the federal-state balance, and the infusion of government…
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Abbott and Johnson’s classic study of public administration in ancient Rome is republished as digitally remastered
MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is Frank Abbott and Allan Johnson’s classic and much-cited study of the origins of professional administration and bureaucracy in the Roman Empire. The text features source materials and extensive notes, including municipal documents in Greek and Latin from Italy and the provinces, as well as documents from Egypt. Generations of scholars of ancient history and public administration have used these source materials and the authors’ sophisticated analysis to good advantage. This new print republication from Quid Pro Books is digitally corrected to eliminate underlines, stray marks, and printer artifacts typically found in such reprints. It is ideal for research, libraries, and classroom adoption. Part…
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Lawyer, Train Robber, Convict, Candidate for Governor, Author. They All Wore the Same Hat.
Finally a lawyer and politician who openly campaigned on the fact that he was a thief. The New York Times, April 5, 1914: “HOW I ROBBED TRAINS: BY A CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR; Al Jennings, Reformed Outlaw and Ex-Convict, Who Expects to be Chief Executive of Oklahoma, Tells the Story of His Exploits as Head of ‘The Jennings Gang.’ … AL JENNINGS has written his autobiography. Or, to be exact, he has dictated it to a stenographer, and Will Irwin has edited it. So Mr. Irwin says, by way of preface and explanation; and he adds (Irwin does) that the stenographer alternately chuckled and sobbed as she made her hen-tracks.” Alphonso…
