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Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, & Programs
by Gerald P. (edt) Mallon  Publisher Comments This up-to-date and comprehensive resource by leaders in child welfare is the first book to reflect the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997. The text serves as a single-source reference for a wide array of professionals who work...
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Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 27
by Karen Cook Book News Annotation Cook (Stanford U.) and Hagan (Northwestern U.) have assembled 19 essays on diverse topics by specialists, almost all of whom work in American universities. Individual papers consider the following topics: sociological miniaturism, consequences of...
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The Europeanisation of Social Protection.
by Jon Kvist And Juho Saari Book News Annotation The 14 essays published here emerged from a November 2006 conference organized by the European Union Finnish presidency to analyze the future of European social protection systems and of the European social model against the challenges of increasing...
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Yuman Tribes of the Gila River (78 Edition)
by Leslie Spier Publisher Comments Noted anthropologist's superb study of the relatively primitive tribes south of the Pueblo Indians; one of the basic works in the ethnography of the North American Indian. Coverage of tribal distribution, housing, dress, manufactures, time reckoning...
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Crossing Border Street
by Peter Ja Honigsberg Publisher Comments In 1966 Peter Jan Honigsberg--a young, idealistic law student--arrived in the South to help provide legal representation for civil rights workers. Although based in New Orleans, most of his work was in the city of Bogalusa and in Plaquemines Parish...
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Voyages : From Tongan Villages To American Suburbs (97 Edition)
by Cathy A. Small Synopsis This book documents the momentous social phenomena of mass migration from undeveloped cultures to the industrial world. Moving between the South Pacific island nation of Tonga and California, anthropologist Cathy Small chronicles the experiences of an...
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The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life
by Richard Sennett Book News Annotation Sennett's compelling proposal for a city that can incorporate creative anarchy to goose its adults into expressive community was originally published in 1970 by Knopf. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming
by Gary Alan Fine Synopsis Drawing on the observations of three years spent in the company of dedicated amateur mushroomers and professional mycologists, Gary Alan Fine explores the ways in which Americans attempt to give meaning to the natural world, while providing an eye...
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Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia
by Marc Raeff Publisher Comments Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement....
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Blood is their argument :warfare among the Mae Enga tribesmen of the New Guinea highlands
by Mervyn J Meggitt Publisher Comments The scarcity of arable land in the central highlands of Papua New Guinea has created fierce competition among the Mae Enga for territorial control. Blood Is Their Argument studies the Mae Enga and their continuous struggle to survive and sustain both...
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Cities of the Dead: Circum-atlantic Performance
by Joseph Roach Publisher Comments The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the...
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Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver
by Laura Huey Book News Annotation Huey (sociology, Concordia U.) investigates the extent to which political, social, and economic supports or constraints lead to the willingness of public police to initiate or engage in inclusionary or exclusionary policing practice within poor urban...
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How To Lie With Maps 2ND Edition
by Mark S Monmonier Publisher Comments Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that,...
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Homicide
by David Simon Publisher Comments "Remarkable . . . A true crime classic . . . A journalistic masterpiece . . . [A] saga of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit . . . This is interior reporting at its finest." Associated Press "We seem to...
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Last Shot : City Streets, Basketball Dreams (94 Edition)
by Darcy Frey Publisher Comments For the average American boy, a basketball scholarship to college is not a necessity. But for many young athletes at Lincoln High School in Coney Island, New York, it is the only escape from the crime and poverty of the inner city. In The Last Shot...
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Multiculturalism : a Critical Reader (94 Edition)
by David T. Goldberg Synopsis "Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader" delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of "multiculturalism."...
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Family in Transition 14TH Edition
by Arlene S Skolnick Synopsis This bestselling reader on families and intimate relationships identifies the most current trends, places them in historical context, and balances cutting-edge scholarship with perennial favorites. The authors, who are leading scholars, build each new...
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Introduction To Sociology 6TH Edition
by Anthony Du Giddens Publisher Comments Introduction to Sociology, Sixth Edition, organizes the core concepts of modern sociology around the unifying theme of globalization. Taking a comparative approach, the authors examine American society in a global and historical context, underscoring the...
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Reinventing Government: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government
by David Osborne Publisher Comments Reinventing Government details the most revolutionary idea of our time — an idea whose time has come. Its authors give proof positive that government does not have to be a gigantic and inefficient bureaucracy. Instead, it can govern in the true sense...
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Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings, Thirteenth Edition
by James M Henslin Publisher Comments For more than thirty years and through twelve editions, James Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world. Now in its thirteenth edition, the most popular anthology in all of sociology includes...
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