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Book of Vice, The
by Peter Sagal Publisher Comments Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are. Or so everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated NPR host--the man who put the second L in vanilla--decided to find out if it's true. From...
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Frauen sehen besser aus - Frauen und Fernsehen
by Barbara Sichtermann Publisher Comments In welchen Rollen erscheinen Frauen im Fernsehen? Was schauen Frauen und warum? Und was treiben die "Macherinnen" hinter den Kulissen? Ein ebenso unterhaltsames wie informatives Buch über Frauen vor, hinter und auf dem Bildschirm....
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Choosing White-Collar Crime
by Neal Shover Publisher Comments For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs. Although it has been applied to an array of street crimes, white-collar crime and those...
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Autorit
by Haim Omer Publisher Comments Praktische Anleitung für die Wiedergewinnung der elterlichen Präsenz auf Basis des gewaltlosen Widerstands. Diese Art von Autorität macht es möglich, die verloren gegangene Beziehung zum Kind wiederherzustellen. Autorität ist...
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"Are we there yet?" One Man's Journey
by Paul L Peck Publisher Comments You will likely recall, either as a child or in rearing your own children, when on a trip, one pipes up from the back seat, Are we there yet? In many ways Are we there yet? is an extension of Worth the Room, my autobiography. It is a potpourri of essays,...
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A Comparative Investigation of Economic Systems & Corresponding Environmental Effects
by M J Davern Publisher Comments The world today is in need of dire reflection. Amongst the many problems that plague our planet, is the inability to effectively handle our own species. For centuries we have been gaining further independence from nature, and it seemed like we were...
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The Perfect Thing: How the Ipod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
by Steven, Levy Publisher Comments On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology -- if not necessarily for its dominant market share -- launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was...
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven, Johnson Publisher Comments The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating...
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The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States
by Christopher Howard Publisher Comments Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government...
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Knowledge for Tomorrow
by Quinton Douglass Crawford Publisher Comments Questions...... Why are there so many problems on our world? Are the children of the world going to be okay? What about the other holocausts Why is everyone getting so sick? If there is so much money in the world, why are there poor people? Why are so...
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Language and Society in Japan
by Nanette Gottlieb Publisher Comments A broad-ranging exploration of the Japanese language in relation to Japanese society and identity formation....
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After Adorno
by Tia DeNora Publisher Comments Guide to how to do music sociology that argues for a reassessment of Adorno's work....
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Growing Up Chicanao
by Bill Adler Publisher Comments A collection of stories of coming-of-age in America from such accomplished Chicana/o writers as Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Marta Salinas, Gary Soto and others....
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The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony
by Pamela Paul Publisher Comments Why are today's twenty-and thirtysomethings -- the first children-of-divorce generation -- so eager to get married, and so prone to failure? In today's matrimania culture, at a time when marriage at age twenty-five can mean a sixty-year active commitment,...
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The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon Publisher Comments The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of...
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The Crowd, A Study of the Popular Mind
by Gustave Le Bon Publisher Comments The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds....
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Washington, DC's Challenges
by Abdul K Bangura Publisher Comments This is the fourth in a series of books dealing with Washington, DC. Like the first three, this also is the outgrowth of special seminars conducted in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. We examine Washington, DC's challenges...
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When Father Kills Mother
by Jean Harris-Hendriks Publisher Comments Brings to public knowledge information about the effects of psychological trauma and bereavement on children....
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Brute Rationality
by Joshua Gert Publisher Comments This book presents a new account of normative practical reasons and the way in which they contribute to the rationality of action. Rather than simply 'counting in favour of' actions, normative reasons play two logically distinct roles: requiring action...
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Explanation and Human Action
by Alfred Louch Publisher Comments Alfred Louch argues that there is no scientific theory of social behavior like that found in the natural sciences. In this rich and profound book, he shows why human actions can only be explained ad hoc, and cannot be detached from moral judgments....
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