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Fatherless America : Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (95 Edition)
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Fatherless America : Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (95 Edition)
by David Blankenhorn

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A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation....
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From the Fat of Our Souls: Social Change, Political Proces
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From the Fat of Our Souls: Social Change, Political Proces
by Lib Crandon Malamud

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"From the Fat of Our Souls" offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical...
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Environment and Society : Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues (3RD 04 - Old Edition)
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Environment and Society : Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues (3RD 04 - Old Edition)
by Charles Harper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-466) and index....
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Marriages and Families : Diversity and Change (5TH 07 Edition)
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Marriages and Families : Diversity and Change (5TH 07 Edition)
by Mary Ann Schwartz

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Taking an historical, cross-cultural, and global approach, this book focuses on the link between social structure and the "everyday lives" of people's diverse experiences of marriages, families, and intimate relationships. It shows how contemporary...
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Searching the Heart : Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-century America (89 Edition)
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Searching the Heart : Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-century America (89 Edition)
by Karen Lystra

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This is well-argued study of romantic love between men and women in nineteenth-century America. Lystra discusses middle-class ideas of love in terms of their contribution to American individualism, to the secularization of American life, and to women's...
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Evidence-based Social Work Skills Book (04 Edition)
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Evidence-based Social Work Skills Book (04 Edition)
by Barry Cournoyer

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During the 21st Century, social workers will increasingly use evidence-based knowledge to plan, implement, and evaluate the quality of their own professional activities. This book explores the skills needed for evidence-based social work (EBSW). This...
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Introduction To Social Work and Social Welfare : Empowering People - Text Only (8TH 04 - Old Edition)
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Introduction To Social Work and Social Welfare : Empowering People - Text Only (8TH 04 - Old Edition)
by Charles Zastrow

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Zastrow's INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE: EMPOWERING PEOPLE, NINTH EDITION looks at today's society with a realistic view of social problems, and gives you a comprehensive overview of the profession. By presenting positive strategies in...
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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots (2ND 07 Edition)
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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots (2ND 07 Edition)
by George Ritzer

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This text is the teaching solution for instructors who need a brief, accessible text for sociological theory. An affordable alternative to a standard text, this volume still includes a range of pedagogical features; it is concise yet comprehensive...
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Applied Sociology : Terms, Topics, Tools and Tasks (2ND 07 Edition)
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Applied Sociology : Terms, Topics, Tools and Tasks (2ND 07 Edition)
by Stephen F. Steele

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This concise, user-friendly book by award-winning sociology professor Stephen F. Steele of Anne Arundel Community College and Jammie Price of the University of North Carolina Wilmington addresses a common question many introductory sociology students...
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Abnormal Psychology : Essentials Cases and Reading (02 Edition)
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Abnormal Psychology : Essentials Cases and Reading (02 Edition)
by Thomas Bradbury

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This new casebook has fifteen chapters covering all the major facets of the field. It is designed to provide students with deeper analysis of topics typically mentioned only briefly in abnormal psychology textbooks. Each chapter includes four readings...
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Public & Private Families a Reader 5TH Edition
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Public & Private Families a Reader 5TH Edition
by Andrew J Cherlin

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This reader examines the family through two lenses--the familiar private family, in which we live our personal lives, and the public family, in which we deal with broader societal issues, such as raising the next generation, and the care of the elderly...
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Proud Shoes : the Story of an American Family (99 Edition)
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Proud Shoes : the Story of an American Family (99 Edition)
by Pauli Murray

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Originally published in 1956, Pauli Murray tells the story of her grandparents, delving into the realities of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the pre-Civil War/Reconstruction era in the South. "A significant contribution to our understanding of...
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Rural Communities : Legacy and Change (3RD 08 Edition)
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Rural Communities : Legacy and Change (3RD 08 Edition)
by Jan L. Flora

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Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures struggling to survive by implementing innovative approaches to their problems. These people range from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants...
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Social Capital : a Theory of Social Structure and Action (01 Edition)
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Social Capital : a Theory of Social Structure and Action (01 Edition)
by Nan Lin

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Social Capital explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or...
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Republic of Signs : Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture (93 Edition)
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Republic of Signs : Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture (93 Edition)
by Anne Norton

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Republic of Signs 2: Culture of Consumption 3: The President as Sign 4: Our Homeland the Text 5: Before the Law 6: Representation and the Silences of Politics Afterword: Democratic Excesses Notes...
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How To Win As a Stepfamily 2ND Edition
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How To Win As a Stepfamily 2ND Edition
by Emily Visher

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Attempts to guide readers towards forming the remarried family, considering such issues as former spouses, new grandparents, and legal issues involving custody, visitation, adoption and financial arrangements....
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Empowering and Healing the Battered Woman : a Model for Assessment and Intervention (92 Edition)
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Empowering and Healing the Battered Woman : a Model for Assessment and Intervention (92 Edition)
by Mary A. Dutton

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The book spells out in practical, concrete terms what it really means to place the pathology outside the battered woman. The novelty in this approach lies in the implications for practice: battered women are not sick - they are in a sick situation...
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Sociology - Study Guide (10TH 07 Edition)
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Sociology - Study Guide (10TH 07 Edition)
by Rodney Stark

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By Robert Wortham of North Carolina Central University. This student study tool contains extended abstracts (chapter summaries), key learning objectives, chapter outlines, key terms and key research studies (with page references), InfoTrac College...
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Four Sociological Traditions
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Four Sociological Traditions
by Randall Collins

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The updated version of Collins's critically-acclaimed Three Sociological Traditions, this text presents a concise intellectual history of sociology organized around the development of four classic schools of thought: the conflict tradition of Marx and...
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Poor People Politics : Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (00 Edition)
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Poor People Politics : Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (00 Edition)
by Javier Auyero

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"Other people write about patronage politics as a form of organization, as a scourge to eradicate, or as a necessary evil on the way to full democracy. Javier Auyero writes about it as a raucous, improvised, crucial way of surviving poverty and...
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