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Veteran's Guide to Benefits (Veteran's Guide to Benefits)
by P J Budahn Synopsis -- Updated information on veterans' programs, services, and facilities -- Practical advice for over 26 million veterans and active duty personnel An indispensable reference for U.S. veterans and their spouses, and active duty servicemembers who want to...
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Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
by Jean Kilbourne Publisher Comments "When was the last time you felt this comfortable in a relationship?" -- An ad for sneakers "You can love it without getting your heart broken." -- An ad for a car "Until I find a real man, I'll settle for a real smoke." -- A woman in a cigarette ad...
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Robert Louis Dabney: The Prophet Speaks (Battlefield Evangelism)
by Doug Phillips Publisher Comments With remarkable accluracy, Rl Dabney predicted the rise of feminism, goverment education, and even the children's rights movement. His insights are thought provoking....
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Contributions in Political Science #4: Legacy of Fear: American Race Relations to 1900
by Michael J Cassity Review An ambitious attempt to discern, a posteriori and existentially, a dynamic for racism. Cassity provides a provocative essay followed by a guided tour of carefully selected contemporaneous documents. ... Recommended for graduate libraries and those...
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Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research
by Catherine Riessman Publisher Comments Sociology and psychology are experiencing an increase of interest in qualitative methods, yet existing literature emphasizes quantitative methods. Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research provides actual examples of social work investigators working...
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Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape
by John Miller Book News Annotation A Silicon Valley public relations consultant and long-time crusader against blatant commercialism, Miller says the American landscape is no longer the physical manifestation of public and communal values, but a manifestations of our exaggerated sense...
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Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender, and the Social Order
by Cynthia F Epstein Publisher Comments In this important book a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender research in a range of disciplines, showing how distinctions between the sexes are maintained by ideology and social controls....
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Poverty and Water Security
by John Soussan Publisher Comments Recognizing that safe and adequate water supplies are an essential component of fighting poverty and disease, the ADB Water for All Publication series focuses on understanding the water issues facing poor people in developing countries in Asia and the...
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Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Seven Stories' Open Media Pamphlet Series)
by Robert W. McChesney Publisher Comments -- The global media market of the '90s is dominated by fewer than ten media conglomerates The tremendous growth of the so-called information superhighway has opened countless new channels for media, but only a very few opportunities for control of those...
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September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero
by Jeff Meyers Publisher Comments This anthology consists of responses to September 11th from 34 notable West Coast writers that attempt to extract meaning from chaos. The outstanding list of contributors includes: T.C. Boyle, Michael Byers, Peter Coyote, Harlan Ellinson, Maxine Hong...
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The Ambitious Generation: America's Teenagers, Motivated But Directionless
by Barbara Schneider Publisher Comments "A fascinating account of how the lives and dreams of American teenagers have changed in the past 50 years" (Mihaly Csikszentmihali), this landmark study offers practical, specific advice about how parents and teachers can better direct and support...
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The Church and International Development
by Jay R. Lawlor Publisher Comments An insightful new book on the challenges of international development and how the church can gain a more effective voice in working for solutions.<P>"Let not the needy, O Lord, be forgotten; nor the hope of the poor be taken away." This prayer from...
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Innovations in Health Service Delivery: The Corporatization of Public Hospitals
by Bank World Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-588) and index....
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The Humanity of Cities: An Introduction to Urban Societies
by John Gulick Publisher Comments Combining major urban theories with empirical studies from around the world, the author offers poignant glimpses into urban life, including: the streets of San Francisco as seen through the eyes of a proud garbage collector; the marketplace of Ibadan, as...
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When Push Comes to Shove: A Routine Conflict Approach to Violence (Suny Series, Violence)
by Leslie W Kennedy Publisher Comments When Push Comes to Shove examines the ways in which people define and respond to confrontations and interpersonal dilemmas in their lives. It includes insights from constructionist, interactionist, and criminal event perspectives to present the...
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Kiss of Death
by John Bessler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-174) and index....
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Cultural Mischief
by Frank Davey Publisher Comments Cultural Mischief is collection of prose poems on the hyperbolic absurdities of multiculturalism in action. Whether digging up the midden under Greg Curnoe's house, revisiting Hiroshima, attending a dog breeders' show, or retelling the history of Quebec...
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The Class of '75: Reflections on the Last Quarter of the 20th Century by Harvard Graduates
by George E Vaillant Publisher Comments Published here with the participation of contributing graduates, independent of Harvard University, these essays offer a fascinating perspective on life trajectories, changing mores, evolving priorities, and issues of race, class, and gender....
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Renewing American Compassion: How Compassion for the Needy Can Turn Ordinary Citizens Into...
by Marvin Olasky Publisher Comments In a ringing call to churches, community leaders, and ordinary citizens, Marvin Olasky points the way to a reinvented War on Poverty and a renewal of faith-based charity. Only in recent decades have we relegated compassion to the government and lost...
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Erotic wars :what happened to the sexual revolution?
by Lillian B Rubin Book News Annotation Results of Rubin's (sociology, Queens College and UC Berkeley) intensive interviews or questionnaires with some 1,000 heterosexuals aged 13 to 48 and members of all social classes. She studies the generation of the sexual revolution, that which came...
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