Tributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research

by Irving Louis Horowitz and Irving Horowitz

In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty figures from the world of twentieth-century social science, Irving Louis Horowitz offers commentaries drawn from a variety of public occasions to explain one segment of this improbable event. In the process he reveals how the past century was defined in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076580218X
• ISBN13: 9780765802187
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.5"