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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler  Publisher Comments Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are...
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Credit and Blame
by Charles Tilly Publisher Comments IIn his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this...
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The Social Work Experience: An Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare
by Mary Ann Suppes Publisher Comments The Social Work Experience: An Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare helps students to understand how social workers use their professional expertise to help people solve a wide variety of problems and improve their lives. It not only introduces...
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Poverty and Water: Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship (International Studies in Poverty Research)
by David (edt) Hemson Publisher Comments Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, Kassin Kulindwa, Haakon Lein, and Adolfo Mascarenhas use a global spread of case studies to illustrate...
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A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
by Dudley Clendinen Publisher Comments Old age in America is not what it used to be In 1994 New York Times writer Dudley Clendinenas motheraa Southern matron of iron will but creaking bonesasold her house and moved to Canterbury Tower, a geriatric apartment building with full services and a...
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Homo Domesticus: Notes from a Same-Sex Marriage
by Da Valdes Greenwood Publisher Comments In this “sweet, funny, true tale of same-sex romance” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY), David Valdes Greenwood sets the record straight on gay marriage-and reminds us what really matters to any couple. Here he charts the ups and downs of an all-too-human...
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Poverty and Water: Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship (International Studies in Poverty Research)
by David (edt) Hemson Publisher Comments Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, Kassin Kulindwa, Haakon Lein, and Adolfo Mascarenhas use a global spread of case studies to illustrate...
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Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head--And Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings
by Peter Sheahan Publisher Comments Emphasizing flexible, counterintuitive decision making, Flip calls for a new way of doing business in an economy where conventional wisdom won't get you anywhere "Business today requires new perspectives"—this is how Peter Sheahan, one of the...
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The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century
by Mike Wallace Publisher Comments The world is an uncertain place, which is why the future and the unknown absolutely fascinate us. Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question What will life be like 50 years from now? to sixty of the world's greatest minds. Their...
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Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture
by Daniel Radosh Publisher Comments What does it mean when a band is judged by how hard they pray rather than how hard they rock? Would Jesus buy "Jesus junk" or wear "witness wear"? What do Christian skate parks, raves, and romance novels say about evangelicalism -- and America? Daniel...
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Transgender History (Seal Studies)
by Susan Stryker Publisher Comments Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the...
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1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977 (Palgrave MacMillan Series in Transnational History)
by Martin (edt) Klimke Publisher Comments A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of...
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The Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of the Prom
by Rob (edt) Spillman Publisher Comments Remember the ill-fitting tuxes, regrettable dresses, wilting corsages, cheap beer, and rented limos that marked the biggest, most-anticipated celebration of the school year? Remember when the whole world hung in the balance of just one night? Well, lots...
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Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America
by Marina Moskowitz Publisher Comments Coined in 1902, the term standard of living grew popular in early twentieth-century America. Though its exact definition remained ambiguous, it most often reflected the middle class and material comfort. The term was not a precise measure of how people...
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Fatal Strategies Fatal Strategies (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the...
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Dancing on Drugs
by Publisher Comments The last decade has seen the transformation of recreational drug use from a minority, almost subcultural activity into a widespread increasingly normalised leisure activity. Each weekend millions of the young and not-so-young fill the floors of night...
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Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen
by Susan Griffin Publisher Comments Susan Griffin, winner of a MacArthur grant and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is widely recognized as one of the most important feminist thinkers of our day. Griffin has been broadly praised for her erudition and depth...
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Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me
by Sarah Lewis Publisher Comments It’s said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consuming. You don’t need to look far—The Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a...
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Gross National Happiness
by Arthur C Brooks Publisher Comments Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In...
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A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life
by Neil Gilbert Publisher Comments The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. ...
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