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Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation

Product Description: Living with people who differ—racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically—is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city...read more

By Richard Sennett

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9780300116335 | Yale Univ Pr, January 17, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Living with people who differ—racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically—is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today.

Conversations With Richard Sennett

By Eric Klinenberg and Richard Sennett

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9780745629018 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, March 19, 2013), cover price $49.95

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9780745629025 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, March 19, 2013), cover price $19.95

The Craftsman

Product Description: Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work...read more

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9780300119091 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 27, 2008), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman’s work.

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9780300151190 | Yale Univ Pr, March 31, 2009, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do?

Practicing Culture

By Richard Sennett (editor)

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9780203944950 | Routledge, August 16, 2007, cover price $41.95

On Suicide

Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work was the result of his research.

By Robin Buss (trans), Emile Durkheim, Alexander Riley (contributor) and Richard Sennett (introduced by)

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9780140449679 | 1 tra edition (Penguin Classics, June 26, 2007), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension.

The Culture of the New Capitalism

Product Description: In this provocative book Richard Sennett looks at the ways today’s global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives. He analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions have all contributed to what he terms the specter of uselessness,” and he concludes with suggestions to counter this disturbing new culture...read more

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9780300107821 | Yale Univ Pr, January 4, 2006, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A distinguished MIT sociologist surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global version that is evident today to illustrate how the work ethic is changing, new beliefs about merit and talent are displacing old values of craftsmanship and achievement, and how the boundary between consumption and politics is dissolving.

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9780300119923 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, January 31, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this provocative book Richard Sennett looks at the ways today’s global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives.

Respect in a World of Inequality

Presents a case for a society of mutual respect, recounting the author's experiences of growing up in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, proposing welfare system improvements, and citing the consequences of disrespectful behaviors in today's competitive society. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.

By Richard Sennett

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9780393051261 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents a case for a society of mutual respect, proposing welfare system improvements, and citing the consequences of disrespectful behaviors in today's competitive society.

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9780393325379 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a case for a society of mutual respect, recounting the author's experiences of growing up in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project, proposing welfare system improvements, and citing the consequences of disrespectful behaviors in today's competitive society.

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Drawing on interviews with former IBM executives, bakers, a former bartender who entered the advertising profession, and many other interesting characters, this exploration of work and the new economy looks at the effects of the changing workplace on a wide range of people. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Richard Sennett

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9780393046786 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Explores the effects of the new capitalism and explains the social and political context for today's personal confusions and offers suggestions on how to reimagine community and individual character

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9780393319873 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Drawing on interviews with former IBM executives, bakers, a former bartender who entered the advertising profession, and many other interesting characters, this exploration of work and the new economy looks at the effects of the changing workplace on a wide range of people.

1998 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture

By Annette W. Lecuyer, Robert A. Levit (introduced by) and Richard Sennett

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9781891197017 | Univ of Michigan College of, September 1, 1998, cover price $11.50

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

A description of urban life from a body sense perspective spans 2,500 years through ancient Athens, Hadrian's Rome, medieval and revolutionary Paris, Renaissance Venice, Edwardian London, and contemporary New York

By Richard Sennett

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9780393036848 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A description of urban life from a body sense perspective spans 2,500 years through ancient Athens, Hadrian's Rome, medieval and revolutionary Paris, Renaissance Venice, Edwardian London, and contemporary New York

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9780393313918 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1996), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A description of urban life from a body sense perspective spans 2,500 years through ancient Athens, Hadrian's Rome, medieval and revolutionary Paris, Renaissance Venice, Edwardian London, and contemporary New York

Palais-Royal: A Novel

By Richard Sennett

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9780393312515 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1994), cover price $19.95

The Performers

By Kyle Carter and Laura Conlon

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9781571030603 | Rourke Pub Group, September 1, 1994, cover price $111.60

Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends : Photographs 1986-1992

Product Description: In his first book to be published in the United States, German photographer Thomas Struth explores the social space and mental state of the modern metropolis. Thomas Struth: Strangers & Friends covers the entire trajectory of Struth's career and his work in several subject matters, including his restrained and rigorous architectural photographs, intimate family portraits, and frenzied museum interiors...read more

By Richard Sennett and Thomas Struth

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9780262193573 | Mit Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: In his first book to be published in the United States, German photographer Thomas Struth explores the social space and mental state of the modern metropolis.

The Hidden Injuries of Class

Product Description: In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America—an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the blue-collar worker who measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society gives a special premium...read more

By Jonathan Cobb and Richard Sennett

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9780393310856 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1993), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define a new form of class conflict in America—an internal conflict in the heart and mind of the blue-collar worker who measures his own value against those lives and occupations to which our society gives a special premium.

Authority

Product Description: Analyzes the role of authority in personal and public life. From the French revolution to the present, the author explores what happens when our fear of and need for authority come into conflict, and why, in the act of rebelling, we become tied to those we struggle against. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Sennett

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9780393310276 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1993), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Analyzes the role of authority in personal and public life.

The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Life

Product Description: Richard Sennett is one of the world's leading sociologists, and this book, first published in 1970, was his first single-authored work. It launched his exploration of communities and how they live in cities, and outlined his view that order breeds narrow, violence-prone lives, while an 'equilibrium of disorder' brings vigour and diversity to urban life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780393309096 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Richard Sennett is one of the world's leading sociologists, and this book, first published in 1970, was his first single-authored work.

The Fall of Public Man

Product Description: "A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public expression. . . ."--Robert Lekachman, Saturday Review

By Richard Sennett

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9780393308792 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "A fascinating evocation of changing styles of personal and public expression.

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities

Product Description: "Visionary, often brilliant." —Los Angeles TimesFrom the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem—a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture...read more

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9780394571041 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Suggests that modern architecture reflects society's fear of exposure, and looks at ways to overcome the impersonality, blandness, and neutrality of modern cities

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9780393308785 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1992), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: "Visionary, often brilliant.

Palais-Royal

A series of letters, diary entries, and essays reveal the inner lives of Frederick and Charles Courtland, two brothers who arrive in Paris in the early nineteenth century

By Richard Sennett

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9780394545387 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A series of letters, diary entries, and essays reveal the inner lives of Frederick and Charles Courtland, two brothers who arrive in Paris in the early nineteenth century

Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890

Product Description: Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984. Paperback. ISBN 067429226X.

By Richard Sennett

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9780674292260 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $25.50 | About this edition: Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984.

An Evening of Brahms

Follows an exceptional cellist, who uses his music to keep emotions at bay, to a tragedy-caused release into a fulness of musical and emotional reality

By Richard Sennett

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9780394513003 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Follows an exceptional cellist, who uses his music to keep emotions at bay, to a tragedy-caused release into a fulness of musical and emotional reality

Frog Who Dared to Croak

The fictional memoirs of Tibor Grau, a leading Marxist thinker, recounts his public and private lives from the early revolutionist period to the time of Stalin, detailing his official career, philosophical development, and homosexuality

By Richard Sennett

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9780374158842 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The fictional memoirs of Tibor Grau, a leading Marxist thinker, recounts his public and private lives from the early revolutionist period to the time of Stalin, detailing his official career, philosophical development, and homosexuality

Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the New Urban History

Product Description: 14 essays cover cities in United States, Canada, England, France, and Columbia. Contributors include Norman Birnbaum, Stuart Blumin, Michael Frisch, Clyde Griffen, Herbert Gutman, Michael Katz, Peter Knights, Lynn Lees, Anthony Maingot, Joan Scott, Leo Schnore. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Sennett (editor) and Stephan Thernstrom (editor)

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9780300094657 | Yale Univ Pr, March 11, 1969, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: 14 essays cover cities in United States, Canada, England, France, and Columbia.

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