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Spirit Level (Reprint) (11 Edition) by Kate Pickett Publisher Comments It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Publisher Comments Jin Wang starts at a new school where hes the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesnt want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because hes in love with an all-American... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don't Shoot the Dog! (Rev 99 Edition) by Karen Pryor Publisher Comments A Better Way to Better Behavior Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made Don't Shoot the Dog! a bestselling classic. Now this revised edition presents more of her insights into animal—and human&... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Walk Out Walk on (11 Edition) by Margaret Wheatley Publisher Comments No One Is Coming to Help. Now What? In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? In Walk Out Walk On, we... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: "On Robustness and Fragility" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publisher Comments A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft Publisher Comments "He doesn't mean to hurt me-he just loses control." "He can be sweet and gentle." "He's scared me a few times, but he never hurts the children he's a great father." "He's had a really hard life..." Women in abusive relationships tell... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nisei Daughter (79 Edition) by Monica Itoi Sone Publisher Comments With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" dring World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Force More Powerful : Century of Nonviolent Conflict (00 Edition) by Peter Ackerman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-533) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reframing Organizations : Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (4TH 08 Edition) by Lee G. Bolman Publisher Comments First published in 1984, Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal's best-selling book has become a classic in the field. Its four-frame model examines organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame how to organize and... (read more) List Price $63.75 Your price: $45.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks Publisher Comments With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Families as They Really Are by Barbara Risman Publisher Comments Families as They Really Are goes to the heart of the family values debate by reframing the question about families from "Are they breaking down?" to "Where are they going, how, and why?" Essays in the book are not reprints; you won't find them anywhere... (read more) List Price $46.90 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rules for Radicals : a Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (71 Edition) by Saul D. Alinsky Publisher Comments First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant Staff Pick Deer Hunting with Jesus is a hilarious, depressing, and painfully honest chronicle of an America often cited but rarely listened to: rural lower-class whites. With brilliant, spot-on detail, Joe Bageant reports on the historical, economic, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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9226 Kercheval : the Storefront That Did Not Burn ((Rev)00 Edition) by Nancy Milio Publisher Comments In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking book which analyzes the success of the Mom and Tots Center in urban Detroit in the late 1960s. At the time of its first... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Give Peace a Chance : Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (92 Edition) by Melvin (ed.) Small Publisher Comments Written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the organized opposition to it, this book examines how the activities of America's most important antiwar movement affected the lives of its citizens and its government.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $18.35 New - Trade Paper
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Our Social World: Condensed Version by Jeanne H Ballantine Publisher Comments In this brief text, two leaders of the Teaching Sociology movement encourage students' development of their sociological imaginations through role-taking. Assuming the role of a child living in poverty in India or of a member of an African tribe... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World by Paul Hawken Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter M Senge Publisher Comments Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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