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9781633881693 | Prometheus Books, June 21, 2016, cover price $18.00
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9781412857130 | Transaction Pub, November 2, 2015, cover price $69.95
Product Description: Higher education is in trouble. Commentators of all stripes bemoan escalating costs and diminishing quality. Solutions have been offered from all quarters, but tend to be piecemeal and all too often ideological. In this tough-minded look at the history, current climate, and future of university education in the United States, Melvyn L...read more
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9781412853576 | Transaction Pub, April 7, 2014, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Higher education is in trouble.
Product Description: If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist. In the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating its faults. When I encounter its limitations, it is consequently with deep regret and continued surprise...read more
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9780306462115 | Plenum Pub Corp, September 1, 1999, cover price $199.00
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9781475772135 | Springer Verlag, March 8, 2013, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist.
Product Description: After I had finished my presentation, a colleague and I sat rocking on the hotel porch to discuss its merits. It was a picture-perfect fall day in Jekyll Island Georgia, and he was a friend. Yes, he explained, what I was saying seemed to be true...read more
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9780306465130 | Plenum Pub Corp, June 30, 2001, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: After I had finished my presentation, a colleague and I sat rocking on the hotel porch to discuss its merits.
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9781461354765 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, September 24, 2012), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: After I had finished my presentation, a colleague and I sat rocking on the hotel porch to discuss its merits.
Product Description: Liberalism is dyingâdespite its superficial appearance of vigor. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein, who argues that liberalism has made countless promises, almost none of which have come true...read more
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9781412846080 | Transaction Pub, September 17, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Liberalism is dyingâdespite its superficial appearance of vigor.
Product Description: Human beings are hierarchical animals. Always and everywhere, people have developed social ranking systems. These differ dramatically in how they are organized, but the underlying causal mechanisms that create and sustain them are the same...read more
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9781412845960 | Transaction Pub, May 16, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Human beings are hierarchical animals.
Product Description: All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress. All too often, their discomfort is treated as a medical issue requiring treatmentâusually through medication. Melvyn L. Fein argues for a broader understanding of loss and losing that offers another approach, which he characterizes as âresocialization...read more
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9781412842501 | 1 edition (Transaction Pub, October 19, 2011), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress.
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9780757546037 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, August 30, 2007, cover price $42.82
Product Description: Nowadays, liberalism is in crisis. Whereas conservatism suffered a profound meltdown during the Great Depression, today it is liberals who must confront the disconfirmation of many of their cherished beliefs. Sometimes, it seems as if a few are behaving like teenaged rebels, trying to prove that they will not buckle under adult hypocrisies...read more
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9781933483047 | Kennesaw State Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Nowadays, liberalism is in crisis.
Product Description: This comprehensive sociological analysis sheds light on the informal rules governing our moral decisions. According to Fein, we may not be aware of how we really play the morality game. His Negotiation/Emotion Paradigm (NEP) demonstrates that morality entails creating, enforcing, and modifying important social rules...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780275959241 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1997, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive sociological analysis sheds light on the informal rules governing our moral decisions.
Describes the destructive power of anger, suggests a theory of anger, and shows how to channel anger into constructive outlets
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9780275947736 | Praeger Pub Text, October 1, 1993, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Describes the destructive power of anger, suggests a theory of anger, and shows how to channel anger into constructive outlets
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9780275942441 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 1993, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Describes the destructive power of anger, suggests a theory of anger, and shows how to channel anger into constructive outlets
Product Description: This book reinterprets psychotherapy from a social role perspective, permitting a grand synthesis that explains many of the apparent contradictions in contemporary therapy, and challenging the usual definitions of therapy in terms of personality, behavior, and mental illness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780275939663 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1992, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This book reinterprets psychotherapy from a social role perspective, permitting a grand synthesis that explains many of the apparent contradictions in contemporary therapy, and challenging the usual definitions of therapy in terms of personality, behavior, and mental illness.
Product Description: Role Change: A Resocialization Perspective is a comprehensive introduction to role change theory and the first volume to systematically apply resocialization concepts to problem solving. Based on the premise that most personal problems are actually role problems best corrected by role change, this volume thoroughly explores the nature of role dysfunction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780275933586 | Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 1990, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Role Change: A Resocialization Perspective is a comprehensive introduction to role change theory and the first volume to systematically apply resocialization concepts to problem solving.
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