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    Jester

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    I make being a criminal so much fun.I have a problem.When we were teenagers, I broke Faith Decker's heart.Seven years later, she's back in Mayhem and I'm a man on a mission to prove I won't make the same mistake twice.When Faith gets caught in the crossfire of the Unholy's war with a drug lord, trust and believe I'll unleash hell on anyone who hurts her.Welcome back to Mayhem—where the villains ... Read more

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  • Doctors Without Borders

    Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières

    by Renée C. Fox ...
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  • In the Field

    A Sociologist's Journey

    by Renee C. Fox ...
    In the Field, by Renee C. Fox, is a narrative account of the author's life as a sociologist. It is not a memoir in the conventional sense; rather, it is an ethnographic autobiography. Drawing on a vast reservoir of notes and documents that chronicle the span of her career, this work also focuses on the places Fox's field research has carried her.Propelled by a conviction to move beyond the ... Read more

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  • Spare Parts

    Organ Replacement in American Society

    by Renee C. Fox ...
    Spare Parts examines major developments in the field of organ replacement that occurred in the United States over the course of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. It focuses upon significant medical and social changes in the transplantation of human organs and on the development and clinical testing of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, with special emphasis on how these biomedical events were ... Read more

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  • Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist

    by Renée C. Fox ...
    "Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist" is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide unique insight on such enduring—and pressing—issues as the lived experiences of physicians and patients, including patients who are physically challenged, elderly, mortally ill or ... Read more

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  • Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist

    by Renée C. Fox ...
    When the author’s aging body and the post-polio symptoms it was manifesting made it impossible for her to undertake the physically strenuous ethnographic research in the array of American, European, African and Asian settings that underlay her book Doctors Without Borders and characterized her research throughout her career, she began writing ethnographic essays, drawing from a range of things she ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist

    by Renée C. Fox ...
    When the author’s aging body and the post-polio symptoms it was manifesting made it impossible for her to undertake the physically strenuous ethnographic research in the array of American, European, African and Asian settings that underlay her book Doctors Without Borders and characterized her research throughout her career, she began writing ethnographic essays, drawing from a range of things she ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stalking Sociologists

    J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology

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    Until recent years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation enjoyed an exalted reputation as America's premier crime-fighting organization. However, it is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While ... Read more

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  • Observing Bioethics

    Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media. The book is written from the perspective of two social scientists--a sociologist of medicine(Renee C. Fox) and a historian of medicine (Judith P. Swazey)--who have ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Observing Bioethics

    Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of American society and its courts, legislatures, and media. The book is written from the perspective of two social scientists--a sociologist of medicine(Renee C. Fox) and a historian of medicine (Judith P. Swazey)--who have ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Experiment Perilous

    Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown

    by Renee C. Fox ...
    "This is a brilliant work of lasting value to both sociology and anthropology by a person combining the talent of keen observer with the highest level of theoretical sophistication. . . a major contribution to our understanding of the nature and structure of a significant social situation."--David M. Schneider, The University of Chicago. Experiment Perilous covers a three-year period In the lives ... Read more

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  • The Necromantics

    Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

    by Renée Fox ...
    Winner, 2025 Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian StudiesHonorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book PrizeHonorable Mention, American Council for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First BookThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses—monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally ... Read more

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