Scott Waalkes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Normal People
Sally RooneyScott WaalkesDeep thoughts of the day: "Time is more real. Time consists of physics, money is just a social construct." --Sally Rooney, "Normal People," page 112. "Time is the heart of existence." --Abraham Heschel, "The Sabbath" (1951), p. 3 https://t.co/wl2lynd00d
Paperback, 2020
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
James Q. WilsonScott Waalkes@seesachs Read James Q Wilson’s book “Bureaucracy” and you’ll see why the underlying issue is incentives. The intro starts out with why DMV offices are so slow.
Paperback, 1991
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Émile DurkheimScott WaalkesWhy culture matters: "There can be no society that does not experience the need at regular intervals to maintain and strengthen the collective feelings and ideas that provide its coherence and its distinct individuality." -Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Paperback, 2008
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, a Study in Religious Sociology
Emile DurkheimScott WaalkesWhy culture matters: "There can be no society that does not experience the need at regular intervals to maintain and strengthen the collective feelings and ideas that provide its coherence and its distinct individuality." -Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Paperback, 2022
$26.95Member price:$24.25 + Free shipping10% off
Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women's Professional Soccer
Rachel AllisonScott WaalkesI recommend reading this helpful piece on women's professional soccer along with the book "Kicking Center" by @rallis2, which captures the struggles to market an earlier WPS franchise. These issues haven't gone away. https://nyti.ms/2YgGqqh
Paperback, 2018
$35.95Member price:$17.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book