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Explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we know about society to others. Becker explores the many ways knowledge about society can be shared and in
Telling About Society
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Pages: 335
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec’s most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs—each just a few short lines recalling a memory from
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Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earli
Society Without God
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Are lawyers, by their very nature, agents of the state, of capital, of institutions of power? Or are there ways in which they can work constructively or transfo
The Secret Life of Families
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Secrets come in all shapes and sizes. And for families as well as individuals, they are built on a complex web of shifting motives and emotions. But today, when