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Good to Great in the Social Sectors
by Jim Collins  Publisher Comments Jim Collins answers the social sector with a monograph to accompany Good to Great. 30-50% of those who bought Good to Great work in the social sector. This monograph is a response to questions raised by readers in the social sector. It is not a new...
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Privilege Power & Difference 2ND Edition
by Allan G Johnson Publisher Comments This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable...
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Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism (03 Edition)
by Max Weber Publisher Comments This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety...
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The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
by Richard Wilkinson Publisher Comments Why does the United States, the richest country in the world, rank twenty-fifth in international life expectancy? Richard Wilkinson, an epidemiologist and a pioneer in exploring inequality's impact on health, shows in The Impact of Inequality that the...
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Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
by Anne Elizabeth Moore Publisher Comments A writer and activist investigates corporate America's inroads into — and alliances with — the cultural underground. "There's an industry around you that works, whether you agree with it or not." — Alec Bourgeois, Dischord Records...
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Upside Down
by Eduardo Galeano 
Powells.com Staff Pick Journalist, historian, poet, author — there is no other writer whose style is comparable to that of Eduardo Galeano. The Uruguayan penner, best known for his acclaimed Memory of Fire trilogy, further indicts our culture of privilege in Upside Down...
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Art As Experience (05 Edition)
by John Dewey Synopsis Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, "Art as Experience" has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal...
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American Born Chinese (06 Edition)
by Gene Luen Yang
Powells.com Staff Pick For the winter holidays try American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Chang. This quirky book is a fabulous introduction to the new generation of graphic novels, and blends folklore with an exploration of racial stereotyping and the "right stuff" of America...
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Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds
by Tim Guest
Publisher Comments We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented...
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The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Bk Currents)
by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments In this powerful book, eminent social scientist Riane Eisler, author of the mega-bestseller The Chalice and the Blade, shows that the great problems of our time — such as poverty, inequality, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation — are...
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Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton Publisher Comments “Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual love—is well known and well charted. . . . The second—the story of our quest for love from the world—is a...
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Transgender History (Seal Studies)
by Susan Stryker Publisher Comments Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the...
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Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me
by Sarah Lewis Publisher Comments It’s said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consuming. You don’t need to look far—The Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a...
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Dancing on Drugs
by Publisher Comments The last decade has seen the transformation of recreational drug use from a minority, almost subcultural activity into a widespread increasingly normalised leisure activity. Each weekend millions of the young and not-so-young fill the floors of night...
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So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--And the President--Failed on Iraq
by Greg Mitchell Publisher Comments In early 2003, Greg Mitchell was one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously question the stated reasons for invading Iraq. In the years since, he has repeatedly challenged the media to probe the conduct of the war and its toll on our troops. Now,...
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
by Maggie Callanan Publisher Comments Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at...
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African Ceremonies with CD (Audio)
by Carol Beckwith Synopsis The original edition of this work was in two volumes. This concise edition contains more than half the photographs that were in the original, plus new images to focus fresh attention on specific ceremonies, many of which are vanishing. The book is...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (P.S.)
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our...
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Gross National Happiness
by Arthur C Brooks Publisher Comments Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In...
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Sex and the City
by Candace Bushnell Publisher Comments Here's the collection of columns that inspired the addictive and multiple award-winning HBO series! Sex and the City offers a tantalizing glimpse of the openings, launch parties, and celebrity affairs that keep society amused....
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