Charisma: The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us
by Philip Rieff
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An original, thoughtful assessment of the human concept of charisma ranges from biblical accounts in which charisma meant a gift of grace and the mark of true authority, to its evolution from a theological concept into a political one, and to a modern...
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Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square
by Daniel Makagon
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“This is the best book I've read about the recent changes in Times Square and what they mean.” —Luc Sante, author of Low Life During the 1990s, Times Square changed its colors, from a notoriously seedy urban center to a family...
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Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic Over the City
by Steve Macek
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For the past twenty-five years, American culture has been marked by an almost palpable sense of anxiety about the nation's inner cities. Urban America has been consistently depicted as a site of moral decay and uncontrollable violence, held in stark...
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Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities
by Nicolas P Retsinas
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While rental housing is increasingly recognized as an important
option in the United States, many problems remain to be solved:
affordability, distressed neighborhoods, poor selection, concentrated
poverty, and health hazards. The chapters in this...
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The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
by Dalton Conley
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Inequality begins at home, according to this exploration of the "pecking order" in American families....
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Hemp: A Short History of the Most Misunderstood Plant and Its Uses and Abuses
by Mark Bourrie
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The history of a controversial and useful plant, including the on-going struggle to reclaim its legitimacy....
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Sacred Mushrooms & the Law
by Richard Glen Boire
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-116)....
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Sprawl: A Compact History
by Robert Bruegmann
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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their...
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All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
by Robert W. Fuller
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Robert Fuller's bestseller "Somebodies and Nobodies diagnosed and named the malady of rankism -- "what somebodies may do to nobodies." In this sequel, he further explores the social and psychological costs of this problem and counters it with the vision...
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A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960
by Elizabeth Rose
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Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care. We criticize mothers who choose not to stay at home, but we pressure women on welfare to leave their children behind. We recognize the benefits of early childhood education, but do not provide...
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The Americanist
by Daniel Aaron
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“I have read all of Daniel Aaron’s books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable...
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A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 (Architecture, Landscape and American Culture)
by Abigail Van Slyck
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Since they were first established in the 1880s, children's summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this...
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Economics of Aging 7TH Edition
by James H Schulz
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Still the definitive book on the subject, this volume has been thoroughly revised to cover rapidly changing aspects of the economics of aging. It provides an in-depth examination of the nation's evolving private and public policies on retirement, pension,...
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Cities
by John Reader
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John Reader, author of the seminal book Africa: A Biography of the Continent, now brings us Cities: A Magisterial Exploration of the Nature and Impact of the City from Its Beginnings to the Mega-Conurbations of Today?an eye-opening journey from the...
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Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective (Critical Perspectives in Criminology)
by Michael A Hallett
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Under the auspices of a governmentally sanctioned "war on drugs," incarceration rates in the United States have risen dramatically since 1980. Increasingly, correctional administrators at all levels are turning to private, for-profit corporations to...
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Introducing Cultural Studies
by Ziauddin Sardar
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index....
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The First Twenty-Nine Days
by Johnny Ellis
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The first twenty-nine days outside of the prison walls are the most challenging days a person could face. The rejections, intimidation, fear, and not knowing how to navigate in society as a convicted felon unfortunately lead many men and women back to...
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In Old Friendship: The Correspondence of Lewis Mumford and Henry A. Murray, 1928-1981
by Frank G Novak
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Novak (English, Pepperdine U.) compiles some 500 of the approximately
600 letters exchanged between architectural and cultural critic Lewis
Mumford and Melville scholar and Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray
between 1928 and 1981. The letters reveal...
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The Word on the Street: Homeless Men in Las Vegas
by Kurt Borchard
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Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city's homeless people are largely invisible...
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Irony and Crisis
by Stuart Sim
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A critical history of postmodern culture....
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