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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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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Something for Nothing: Luck in America
by Jackson Lears
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Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and...
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Freud and the Non-European
by Edward W Said
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Quite differently from the spirit of Freud's deliberately provocative reminders that Judaism's founder was a non-Jew, and that Judaism begins in the realm of Egyptian, non-Jewish monotheism, Israeli legislation countervenes, represses, and even cancels...
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After Prohibition: An Adult Approach to Drug Policies in the 21st Century
by Timothy Lynch
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More than 10 years ago, federal officials boldly claimed that they would create a drug-fee America by 1995....
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The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century
by Judith Sealander
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Charts the effort to use state regulation to guarantee health and security for America??'s children....
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Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
by A Seligman
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Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman...
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Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007
by United Nations Human
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The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. It is an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society...
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Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology #17: Where Children Live: Solutions for Serving Young Children and Their Families
by Richard N Roberts
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Where Children Live is a natural extension of the Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology Series. It extends our coverage and concerns for children and families in their natural habitats. The message of this volume is that effective delivery of...
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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science
by Robert K Merton
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From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book...
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Busier Than Ever!: Why American Families Can't Slow Down
by Charles Darrah
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“Overscheduled families with mission statements. Parents on the run. Kids too busy for childhood. Work invades family life, and vice versa. Blurred boundaries and compartmentalized behavior. How do families create and manage the myriad obligations...
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Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph Over Hate Crime in the Deep South
by Sandra E Johnson
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A sweeping epidemic of hate crime targeted over one hundred Southern Black Churches between 1995 and 1996, leaving them in charred ruins. St. John Baptist Church in Dixiana, South Carolina, was one of the first destroyed. This small, isolated church had...
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Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930
by Louis M Kyriakoudes
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The causes and effects of rural-to-urban migration In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about...
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Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy
by David Quigley
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A striking new assessment of New York's place in our nation's political history At the close of the Civil War, Americans found themselves drawn into a new conflict, one in which the basic shape of the nation's government had to be rethought and new rules...
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Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection
by Michael G. Zey
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Some people understand the potential for technological advances to foster real social and personal change. Among them is Michael Zey, whose groundbreaking predictions about superlongevity -- humans living up to 150 years -- are detailed in "Ageless...
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Child Welfare
by Harry Hendrick
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This work offers a provocative account of contemporary policies on child welfare and the ideological thrust behind them and provides an informed historical perspective on the evolution of child welfare during the last century....
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Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom
by Dale Mcconkey
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The essays in this collection examine the relationship between institutional structures and community integration. Each chapter emphasizes the practical, realistic ways that social institutions create and sustain social capital and protect personal...
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Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources (Social Issues Primary Sources: Family in Society)
by K Lee Lerner
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These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic: < ul> < li> Crime and Punishment < li> Environmental...
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Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B Schor
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This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&...
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Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities
by William H Dutton
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This work illuminates the social and economic implications of advances in information and communication technologies. It has been written and edited to reach a broad audience across the social sciences interested in constructive ways of thinking about...
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