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Our Last Best Shot: Guiding Our Children Through Early Adolescence
by Laura Session Stepp  Synopsis A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist translates the behavior of young adolescents and guides readers through this pivotal developmental stage. "A wealth of practical understanding and guidance for parents and others who care for our youth".--David A...
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Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family
by Al Gore Publisher Comments Al and Tipper Gore have long considered family their bedrock. Now, in this provocative and personal book, they explore the myriad ways in which the idea of family is being redefined in America. Over the past two generations, cultural shifts and economic...
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Dragons for Sale: Studies in Unreason
by Robert E Wheeler Publisher Comments Fear and ignorance have run rampant throughout human history, stifling creativity and unleashing unspeakable cruelty. Those sinister mythical dragons that often stood in the path of truth and knowledge seem to return century after century as each new...
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Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
by Sissela Bok Publisher Comments What is the effect of long-term media violence on our national character? Do we want four-year-olds watching slasher films? Who should decide?While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the profusion of violence-in film, TV, video games, and on line-...
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Clubspotting 2.0: Street & Club Culture
by Paolo Davoli Publisher Comments Clubspotting 2.0 broadens its coverage from Italy to the international scene and features the world's hottest clubs, music, flyers and artists. Its focus is street culture, the progenitor of club culture, and a major highlight of the book is the project...
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions
by Charles Mackay Publisher Comments Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania." Fired by greed and fed by naivete, these stratagems gone awry offer essential...
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What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future
by Rebecca Walker Publisher Comments What does it mean to be male in the twenty-first century? What does the concept of masculinity even mean in the wake of four decades of modern feminism? What makes a man a man today and a woman a woman? Are those distinctions even real anymore? In...
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine Publisher Comments Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats...
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Life on the Screen
by Sherry Turkle Publisher Comments gy of online life and how the computer provokes new ways of thinking about our most basic concepts of self....
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Diversity: The Invention of a Concept
by Peter Wood Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-335) and index....
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All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure (Harvest/HBJ Book)
by Kenneth Keniston Publisher Comments A study of the past, present and future of the American family....
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A home in the heart of a city
by Kathleen Hirsch Publisher Comments When Kathleen Hirsch first moved to Jamaica Plain, an unassuming neighborhood in Boston, she was looking to belong, to set down roots and raise a family. Was it possible, she wondered, to find community in a contemporary city? A Home in the Heart of a...
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Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region
by David R Goldfield Book News Annotation Tracing nearly four centuries of social and economic history, Goldfield (history, U. of North Carolina, Charlotte) shows that the southern city--unlike its northern counterpart--continues to reflect the surrounding region, with its staple-crop...
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Fifty and Beyond: New Beginnings in Health and Well-Being
by Susanna Starr Publisher Comments A non-authoritarian approach to fitness and well-being, aimed especially at people approaching and beyond age fifty. An inspiration during a time of mid-life for those who are ready for new beginnings. Clear and insightful suggestions for developing our...
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Hollywood Beyond the Screen: Design and Material Culture (Materializing Culture)
by Anne Massey Publisher Comments Hollywood has exerted a profound influence on British style and design. From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles, and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. But the influence of Hollywood was more than skin...
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Paroled for Life Interviews With Parolee
by P J Murphy Publisher Comments In 1976, Canada's parliament set a new ten-year minimum sentence for second-degree murder. The sentence can, in fact, be set anywhere between ten and twenty-five years. Whatever the minimum, at some point those serving time will come up for parole. In...
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Social Structure & Change Vol. 4: Development & Ethnicity
by A M Shah Publisher Comments This volume, the fourth in a series of five volumes in honor of M. N. Srinivas, deals with issues related to development and ethnicity. The distinguished contributors analyze a number of important problems facing contemporary Indian society. These...
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Social Conditions, Status and Community: c. 1860-1920
by Keith Laybourn Publisher Comments Leading scholars explore recent research on the social and economic history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The years between 1860 and 1920 saw dramatic changes in the lives of the English people and the attitudes of society towards poverty...
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Next: Trends for the Near Future
by Marian Salzman Publisher Comments "Next is a book for everyone, explaining that what already exists technologically is about to change the way we live, not the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow - and not necessarily the way one would expect."--BOOK JACKET. "A non-fiction armchair journey...
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The Black Family: Past, Present & Future: Perspectives of Sixteen Black Christian Leaders
by Lee N June Publisher Comments A collection of sixteen perspectives by black Christian leaders on the salient issues facing the church and society....
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