The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida
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The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money managers to make–up artists, software programmers to steady–cam operators who are in constant demand around...
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Dictionary of Sociology 3RD Edition
by John Scott
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This wide-ranging and authoritative book is the most informative sociology dictionary of its kind available. Compiled by a team of sociology experts, it is packed with over 2,500 entries. Each entry is elaborated with a clear description and in-depth...
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The Economy of Cities
by Jane Jacobs
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Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of...
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Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs
by Preston Peet
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In the latest in the oversize Disinformation Guide series of anthologies, editor Preston Peet assembles an all-star cast to lay to rest the specious misinformation peddled by prohibitionists who depend upon the "War on somedrugs and users"for their...
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When America Became Suburban
by Robert A. Beauregard
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In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization...
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The Business of Holidays
by Maud Lavin
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- Exciting and innovative graphic presentation draws in design elements from every holiday imaginable.<BR>- Writing style rich in history, opinion, and satire.<BR>- Addresses visual culture, design history and studies, cultural criticism and...
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Livable City Revitalizing Urban Communit
by Partners For Livable
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Includes 50+ best-practice case studies
Put urban design policies and programs into action
The Livable City
Revitalizing Urban Communities
Livability. It's open space, free-flowing traffic, historic preservation, attractive cultural and civic...
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Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings
by Katherine S Newman
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In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of disconnected teens, but this...
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee
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In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local...
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House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live
by Winifred Gallagher
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This lyrical, room-by-room exploration of the American home past, present, and future reveals how houses reflect identity and affect daily lives....
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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier
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I was very skeptical about this book when I first picked it up — and became even more so when Gordinier predicted my exact reaction. But X Saves the World is impossible to resist: a well-written, extremely funny, and, I have to say, unnervingly...
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What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier
by James Gleick
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A lively time capsule, this brilliant chronicle explores and illuminates the ways in which technology has rearranged our world during the past ten years....
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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From a bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing....
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Agequake: Riding the Demographic Rollercoaster Shaking Business, Finance and Our World
by Paul Wallace
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This is the first-ever, truly global, indepth look at the massive effects of the demographic rolllercoaster and what it means for employment, investments, new business development, marketing and the economic power map of the world....
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Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno
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Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going...
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Keeping Women and Children Last Revised
by Ruth Sidel
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A renowned sociologist revists the explosive issue of women, children, and poverty in this hard-hitting sequel to her searing expose. Sidel explores the condition of America's poor women today, with particular focus on the federal government's attempts...
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The Division of Labor in Society
by Emile Durkheim
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Emile Durkheim founded the French school of sociology....
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The Culture Struggle
by Michael Parenti
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One of America's most astute and engaging political analysts turns his attention to how culture is perceived. Richly informed and well written with style and dashes of ironic humor, this is a buffet of ideas that explain the world....
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No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizi
by William Ups Wimsatt
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Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics....
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I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers
by Thomas Hine
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“ Hine offers fresh insight into why we shop and how we are--in some ways--born to do so. A jaunty writer who breaks down an unwieldy topic in to a thoughtful cultural riff... Hine delivers a balanced and entertaining analysis of how we arrived at...
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