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Economics of Women, Men, and Work (5TH 06 Edition)
by Francine Blau  Synopsis A current summary and synthesis of research and data on gender issues in the labor market, this book presents readers with a single volume that thoroughly explores gender issues in the workplace and in the family. Chapter topics include women and men...
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Urban Tribes : Are Friends New Family? (04 Edition)
by Ethan Watters Publisher Comments The numbers can't be ignored: the current generation of young Americans is delaying marriage longer than any other generation in history. But while the media trumpets this fact in a way that seems designed to scare us, until now no one has really taken...
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Apocalypse Culture
by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments Two thousand years have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are...
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Beyond Listening
by Publisher Comments Focuses on listening to young children, both from an international perspective and through combining theory, practice and reflection. With contributions and examples from researchers and practitioners in six countries, this book examines critically how...
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Organizational Culture and Leadership (3RD 04 Edition)
by Edgar H. Schein Synopsis In this third edition of his classic book, Edgar Schein shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a practical tool that managers and students can use to understand the dynamics of organizations and change. Organizational pioneer Schein...
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The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith Michaels Publisher Comments Susan Douglas first took on the media's misrepresentation of women in her funny, scathing social commentary Where the Girls Are. Now, she and Meredith Michaels, have turned a sardonic (but never jaundiced) eye toward the cult of the new momism: a trend...
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Gift-giving in Japan : Cash, Connections, Cosmologies (03 Edition)
by Katherine Rupp Publisher Comments “[The author] displays not only acute observation of the content of gift-giving but also sensitivity to ambiguities of motives on the part of both giver and receiver.”—Asian Studies Review “Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections,...
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Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
by Wendy Shalit Publisher Comments At twenty-three, Wendy Shalit punctured conventional wisdom with A Return to Modesty, arguing that our hope for true lasting love is not a problem to be fixed but rather a wonderful instinct that forms the basis for civilization. Now, in Girls Gone Mild,...
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Sociology : Essentials (4TH 07 - Old Edition)
by Margaret L. Andersen Publisher Comments SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Fifth Edition, uses the theme of debunking myths to look behind the facades of everyday life; challenge ready-made, common-sense assumptions; and help students develop critical thinking skills and better understand how society...
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Manliness
by Harvey Claflin, Jr. Mansfield Publisher Comments This book invites—no, demands—a response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often contentious) discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a...
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Int
by Steve Ettlinger Publisher Comments A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in most common packaged foods Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he didnat have a clue as to what most of the ingredients on the labels mean. So...
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Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
by Richard Hernstein Publisher Comments The seminal book about IQ and class that ignited one of the most explosive controversies in decades, now updated with a new Afterword by Charles Murray Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a...
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Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism
by Daniel Pinchbeck Publisher Comments A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the...
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments Francis Fukuyama's criticism of the Iraq war put him at odds with neoconservative friends both within and outside the Bush administration. Here he explains how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed in its stewardship of American...
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You Belong To Me: Ann Rule's Crime Files, Volume 2
by Ann Rule Synopsis Following the success of four top-ten New York Times bestsellers, former Seattle policewoman Ann Rule offers readers Volume Two of her Crime Files. In the trademark style that makes her books such extraordinary pageturners, Rule now focuses on one of...
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance : Hidden Transcripts (90 Edition)
by James C. Scott Synopsis An examination and discussion of the public and the hidden discourses (transcripts) of those who wield power and of those who feign deference to it. Examples are drawn from literature, history and politics to illustrate the many guises the interaction of...
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler 
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and...
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
by Donna J Haraway Publisher Comments The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific...
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No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizi
by William Ups Wimsatt Publisher Comments Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics....
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From the Ground Up : Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (01 Edition)
by Luke W. Cole Publisher Comments "They assess the effectiveness of the organizing tactics employed, casting particular scrutiny on the courts as agents of social change...The authors have presented concrete examples, all the while making clear that there are no road maps for successful...
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