4. Requires cookie* Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business

Author: Gerlach, Michael L

Published: University of California Press, 1997

Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan

Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . .

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8. Requires cookie* Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies

Author: Berger, Bennett M

Published: University of California Press, 1990

Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies

Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . .

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13. Requires cookie* Title: Big doctoring in America: profiles in primary care

Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh

Published: University of California Press, 2002

Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Sociology

Publisher's Description: The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later . . .

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