Bloodsworth (Shannon Ravenel Books)
by Tim Junkin


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Convicted in 1984 of the murder of a young girl, Kirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death. Proclaiming his innocence from the beginning, Bloodsworth spent nine years on Maryland's death row before being vindicated by then-innovative DNA evidence.... (read more)

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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
by Alissa Quart




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The perfect antidote for the post-holiday shopping hangover. In Branded, Alissa Quart dissects the insidious ways that corporations market directly to teens, targeting their basest desires (fitting in, making friends, celebrating freedom) and driving... (read more)

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Risk Analysis and Society: An Interdisciplinary Characterization of the Field
by Timothy Mcdaniels


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Interdisciplinary and international characterization of the state of the art and science of risk analysis.... (read more)

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This Is the City: Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles
by Ronald J Schmidt


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Jack Webb's Los Angles, a Southern California paradise built of confidence games and real estate booms, swindles and boondoggles, is indeed "the City." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined... (read more)

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Renewing the City
by Robert D. Lupton


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Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.... (read more)

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The Era of Choice: The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life
by Edward C Rosenthal


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How today's cornucopia of choices has transformed our lives and our culture, from the foundations of scientific theory to the anxiety of everyday decisions.... (read more)

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Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State
by Joe Domanick


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From an award-winning journalist comes an investigative look, through the stories of people on both sides of the law, at the development and impact of the three strikes legislation in California.... (read more)

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The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
by Charles Perrow


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Perrow, famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, proposes a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness. This is a penetrating reassessment of the very real dangers modern societies face and what must be done to confront them.... (read more)

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When the Center Is on Fire: Passionate Social Theory for Our Times
by Diane Harriford


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In this lively and provocative book, two feminist public sociologists turn to classical social thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and emile Durkheim--to understand a series of twenty-first century social traumas, including the massacre at... (read more)

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Stalking (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Bran Nicol


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It scares--and titillates--in such movies as "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle "and "Basic Instinct." It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex-lovers and... (read more)

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Beautiful Objects in Popular Culture
by Alan Mckee


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This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.... (read more)

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Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places
by Calvin Morrill


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Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, "Together Alone "ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships... (read more)

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Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds
by Susan Thomas


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'It's no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecurities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils the chilling fact that these corporations are using—and often funding—the latest research in child... (read more)

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A History of Old Age
by Pat Thane


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Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts, this is an uplifting companion for those who, like it or not, are beginning to understand... (read more)

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Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres: Water and Sanitation in World's Cities 2006
by Kalyan Ray


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*** The follow-up to the highly influential UN-HABITAT publication Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities, described as surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years by Peter Adamson, founder of New... (read more)

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Are We Good Citizens?: Affairs Political, Literary, and Academic
by Harvey J Kaye


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With keen observation and uncommon flair, Harvey Kaye presents a critical and democratic perspective on American politics, letters, and higher education in this vibrant collection of essays.... (read more)

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Runaways: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped Today's Practices and Policies
by Karen M Staller


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Drawing on period sources, Karen Staller investigates the emergence of public concern for runaway youth, the countercultural communities that supported them, and how those communities converged to shape the policies that guide our response to runaway... (read more)

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Making Aid Work (Boston Review Books)
by Abhijit Banerjee


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With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and... (read more)

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