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Shelf Pictures December 2024 Sale
Sociology, Anthropology & Archaeology

brought to you by section manager Natalia Koulinka (Наталья Кулинка)

Please note that by the time of the sale, some books may have been rearranged to other shelves or moved to other sections.
There is no guarantee that a book will be exactly where these pictures show.
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For the upcoming sale, the Sociology/Anthropology section offers 520 books. Although all of them deserve attention, I will point to two books whose topics seem most relevant to current events.

The Sociology of Criminology sub-section features Our Criminal Society: The Social and Legal Sources of Crime in America by Edwin M. Schur. This is how a reader describes the book first published in 1969: “Schur’s authoritative analysis of criminological findings shows that if Americans really want to curb crime, they must act now to promote massive social and economic changes, reassess basic values, and reform the principles of criminal law.”

In the U.S.: Self-Reflection sub-section, you will find another authoritative study: Samuel Huntington’s Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. In the book, a renowned American political scientist and historian writes about “an identity crisis … as he examines the impact other civilizations and their values are having on our own country.”

Sociology

Note that the following overflow shelf of Sociology is located on the other side of Aisle A2

Anthropology & Archaeology