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Jackpot Nation
by Richard Hoffer  Publisher Comments Is this a great country or what? You can bet on the turn of the card, a roll of the dice—but also the NFL, the NCAA, and which Olson twin marries first. We bet $80 million a year, the amount growing wildly as more and more people gain access to...
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Rice as Self: Japanese Identies Through Time
by Emiko Oknuki-Tierney Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the...
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The Politics of Sexual Harassment
by Kathrin S. Zippel Publisher Comments Sexual harassment, in particular in the workplace, is a controversial topic which often makes headline news. What accounts for the cross-national variation in laws, employer policies, and implementation of policies dealing with sexual harassment in the...
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Adobe Reader Ebooks: $70.26 Electronic List Price $73.00
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Citizens Abroad
by Laurie A. Brand Publisher Comments Despite the fact that the majority of emigration today originates in the global south, most research has focused on the receiving states of Europe and North America, while very little attention has been paid to the policies of the sending states toward...
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Horsemen of the Esophagus
by Jason Fagone Publisher Comments “To be up on stage, shoving food in your face, beats everyday existence for most people.” —David “Coondog” O’Karma, competitive eater “Hungry” Charles Hardy. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis. Sonya “The...
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Adobe Reader Ebooks: $32.38 Electronic List Price $35.00
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Roma and Egyptians in Albania : From Social Exclusion to Social Inclusion
by Hermine De Soto Publisher Comments 'This report provides key insights into the social exclusion processes that affect Roma and Egyptian communities in Albania - two of the most vulnerable minority communities in Albania. It offers advice on the design of concrete actions to facilitate the...
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Commissioning and Purchasing
by Terry Bamford Synopsis This guide to commissioning and purchasing in social care provides case studies, guidelines, and checklists to help readers to assess need, develop care plans and select suppliers of care....
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Microsoft Reader Ebooks: $5.33 Electronic
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Swift Solutions!
by Carkan Moil Publisher Comments Written by Carkan Moil, a man of moderate spleen and a great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandvotery of Jonathan Swift, Swift Solutions is an homage to Jonathan Swift that offers original insights using macabre Swiftian solutions to many of...
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Prom Night
by Amy L. Best Publisher Comments As lame as school dances can be, there's always that one moment. Dawson's Creek It was a crazy night because many of us did things we never expected. Some of us got drunk for the first time and others lost their virginity, like me. I look back on it and...
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Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights
by Stephen May Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. For the first time, it brings together leading international authorities on ethnicity, nationalism...
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Poverty
by John Dixon Publisher Comments Poverty is one of the most persistant and long-standing problems facing governments and populations all over the world. This book addresses poverty in ten different countries and discusses the attitudes and solutions for it....
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by Manfred Cierpka Publisher Comments Die Diskussion über eine zunehmende Gewaltbereitschaft von Kindern und Jugendlichen ist allgegenwärtig. Wie sind die ganz unterschiedlichen Phänomene von Gewalt in dieser Altersgruppe zu erklären und wie lässt sich dem...
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Pharmaceutical Reason
by Andrew Lakoff Publisher Comments Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric...
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The Sociology of Norbert Elias
by Steven Loyal Publisher Comments Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s...
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'Race', Class and Gender in Exclusion From School
by Publisher Comments This book provides a compelling account and analysis of the delicate balance between power and resistance and the ways in which developing conceptions of 'self' must be entered into any theoretical model....
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Rejuvenile
by Christopher Noxon Publisher Comments Once upon a time, boys and girls grew up and set aside childish things. Nowadays, moms and dads skateboard alongside their kids and download the latest pop-song ringtones. Captains of industry pose for the cover of BusinessWeek holding Super Soakers. The...
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Risk and Resilience
by Ingrid Schoon Publisher Comments What factors enable individuals to overcome adverse childhoods and move on to rewarding lives in adulthood? Drawing on data collected from two of Britain's richest research resources for the study of human development, the 1958 National Child Development...
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Social Work and Minorities
by Charlotte Williams Publisher Comments Migration and multiculturality are not new phenomena to Europe but recent periods of unprecedented human movement have established new and evolving diasporic configurations. Social Work and Minoritiescritically examines key concepts such as assimilation,...
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One Day the Soldiers Came
by Charles London Publisher Comments Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty. This is their story . . . and ours. In this powerful and unforgettable book—by turns painful, funny...
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A Review of Books, Studies and Journal Articles Published in the U.S.A. from 1955-1995 Relating to the Sociological Impact of Corporate Relocation o
by Barbara W. Cummings Publisher Comments America is a mobile nation and frequent relocation is a way of life for many corporate families. This qualitative review of literature relating to the sociological impact of relocation on the corporate family appears to show that relocation has short...
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