Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Practicing culture Practicing culture Richard Sennett,Craig Calhoun,Craig J. Calhoun,Craig J. Calhoun Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research… OL18613188W
Palais-Royal Palais-Royal Richard Sennett Ablaze with intellectual and social change, Paris in the 1830s and 1840s beckons to two English brothers-Frederick and Charles Courtland, an architect and a priest-each of whom is struggling for self… OL1870884W
An evening of Brahms An evening of Brahms Richard Sennett A young cellist is headed for success based upon his technical mastery of his instrument. But, he is stunted, detached from the music itself. It is through the music of Brahms that he seeks his relea… OL1870887W
The Culture of the New Capitalism The Culture of the New Capitalism Richard Sennett The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that … OL1870888W
The frog who dared to croak The frog who dared to croak Richard Sennett 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, philoso… OL1870889W
The Corrosion of Character The Corrosion of Character Richard Sennett In the brave new world of the "flexible" corporation, Richard Sennett observes, workers at all levels are regarded as wholly disposable, and they have responded in kind, ceasing to think in terms of … OL1870891W
Flesh and Stone Flesh and Stone Richard Sennett This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life? how women and men moved in p… OL1870892W
The hidden injuries of class The hidden injuries of class Richard Sennett,Jonathan Cobb This book deals with class not as a matter of dollars or statistics but as a matter of emotions. Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb isolate the “hidden signals of class” through which today’s blue-col… OL1870898W
La revolución de la proximidad La revolución de la proximidad Belén Gala Valencia,Richard Sennett,Moreno, Carlos En el complejo y vibrante laboratorio a cielo abierto de nuestros espacios urbanos, donde se manifiestan nuestras contradicciones y se experimentan los cambios en los hábitos y modos de vida, se conc… OL35074993W
Nineteenth-century cities Nineteenth-century cities Yale Conference on the Nineteenth-Century Industrial City New Haven 1968.,Richard Sennett,Stephen Thernstrom,Stephan Thernstrom Research on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century cities held in November 1968 at Yale University. These papers from the conference attempt to define wh… OL7212453W
Respect in a World of Inequality Respect in a World of Inequality Richard Sennett The powerful case for a society of mutual respect. As various forms of social welfare were dismantled though the last decade of the twentieth century, many thinkers argued that human well-being was b… OL7982916W