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Brookings Wharton Papers on Urban Affair
by William G Gale  Publisher Comments Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, this new series contains studies on urban sprawl, crime, taxes, education, poverty, and related subjects. Contents of the second issue include: " Decentralized Employment and the...
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Baseball and Country Music (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
by Don Cusic Publisher Comments The histories of baseball and country music ran in parallel tracks from the fringes to the mainstream, gaining exposure and building heroes, first via radio broadcasts and then on the television screen. Both evolved with American society through wartime,...
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Predictions: Thirty Great Minds on the Future
by Sian Griffiths Publisher Comments Here are a series of tantalizing predictions about the coming century, delivered by thirty of today's greatest minds--including Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Sherry Turkle, Steven Weinberg, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, and John Kenneth Galbraith. This...
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America Celebrates!: A Patchwork of Weird & Wonderful Holiday Lore
by Henning Cohen Book News Annotation Extracted from Gale's Folklore of American holidays, 2d ed. (1991). See following entry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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50 Ways to Help Your Community: A Handbook for Change
by Steve Fiffer Publisher Comments In the spirit of 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth comes an inspirational primer for making a difference in the 1990s. Provides profiles of innovative volunteer programs from all over the country started by people who saw a problem in their...
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Hagar's Daughters : Womanist Ways of Being in the World (95 Edition)
by Diana L. Hayes Publisher Comments 'Hagar's Daughters' is an eloquent plea directed at Christian Black women to use the strengths of their African heritage as a force to heal the divisiveness and sterile domination present in Western society....
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The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
by Virginia Postrel Publisher Comments Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of...
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Winning in the Second Half
by Marjorie Barton Publisher Comments Winning in the Second Half explores issues that affect Americans in the second phases of their life....
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On Our Own
by Melissa Ludtke Publisher Comments "Ludtke brings the voices of women having children on their own into a public debate from which these voices have been conspicuously absent. Interweaving their voices with her own savvy and intuitive commentary, she has written a vitally important book."-...
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Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love, Stay in Love, Rekindle Your Love
by Ed Wheat Publisher Comments Physician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple he'll help you improve your marriage through sharing, touching, appreciating, and focusing healing attention on...
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Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements and the State in Peru
by Susan Carol Stokes Publisher Comments In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation...
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Joined at the Heart
by Al Gore 
Publisher Comments Former Vice President and bestselling author Al Gore collaborates with his wife, Tipper, on a groundbreaking book about the changing face of the American family Al and Tipper Gore have long considered family their bedrock. They've also spent many years...
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In Our Backyard How 3 L a Neighborhoo
by Anne R Pebley Publisher Comments Focusing on the subtle interaction between children's well-being and the neighborhoods in which they grow up, the authors consider th age of the community's residents, their incomes, and residental turnover in the neighborhood to draw inferences from the...
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Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges
by Charles M Haar Publisher Comments In Suburbs under Siege Charles Haar argues passionately that all people--rich or poor, black or white--have a constitutional right to live in the suburbs and that a socially responsible judiciary should vigorously uphold that right. For various reasons...
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Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
by Lisbeth B Schorr Publisher Comments Schorr presents in-depth stories of large-scale social programs that are successfully transforming troubled inner-city neighborhoods and communities--and tells the reasons why they work. "Read and act on this important book".--Marian Wright Edelman....
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Families & Work New Directions in TH E T
by Fredriksen Goldsen Publisher Comments Families and Work: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century provides an innovative framework for understandingthe interface between family care and employment. It offers a detailed analysis of the needs and experiences of employed caregivers and...
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Data smog :surviving the information glut
by David Shenk Publisher Comments Media scholar David Shenk examines the effects of data overload on our lives, our relationships, and our culture, and offers strikingly down-to-earth insights for coping with our information infatuation. Hailed by the New York Times as "An Indispensable...
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Young at Heart: Aging Gracefully with Attitude
by Anne Snowden Crosman Publisher Comments A collection of personal stories of famous and non-famous elderly people and how they maintain vibrant lives even as they grow old....
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Making of Social Policy in Britain, 1830-1990
by Kathleen Jones Book News Annotation A textbook for a one-year undergraduate course in the social history of England, the Celtic periphery and recent European aspects being excluded for reasons of brevity and cohesion. In topical rather than chronological chapters, considers individual...
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Made Possible By...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States
by James Ledbetter Publisher Comments An engrossing history of public broadcasting, from its initial idealistic attempt to reshape the vast wasteland of television to its current lamentable state--as safe, consistently mediocre and dependent on corporate financing as its commercial...
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