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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman  
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (51 Edition)
by Eric Hoffer Publisher Comments A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President...
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The Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling Review Against the backdrop of the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s, Thomas Schelling's book The Strategy of Conflictset forth his vision of game theory as a unifying framework for the social sciences. Schelling showed that a party can strengthen its...
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Social Psychology (9th Edition)
by David G. Myers Publisher Comments David Myers' Social Psychology continues to set the standard by which other Social Psychology texts are judged. Its renowned authors engaging writing style and unique, intimate voice make the text compelling without being simplistic. The organization...
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. Discussions of social techniques are based upon detailed research and observation of social...
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Social Construction of Reality (Large Format) (66 Edition)
by Peter L. Berger Publisher Comments This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as well false consciousness, propaganda, science and art....
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Privilege, Power, and Difference (2ND 06 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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Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook
by Susan Lukas Synopsis Intended to help therapists and beginning students organize their approach to the initial phase of treatment, this book offers all the necessary tools for gathering information from the client and provides a framework for thinking about that information...
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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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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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Fire From Within (85 Edition)
by Carlos Castaneda Publisher Comments Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a brilliant and tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien...
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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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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
by Michael T Klare Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-274) and index....
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What Are People For? (90 Edition)
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called “the prophetic American voice of our day,” conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry...
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Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
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Unequal Childhoods : Class, Race, and Family Life (03 Edition)
by Annette Lareau Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index....
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My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (American Ways)
by John A Salmond Synopsis A lively, compact narrative, concentrating on the years between the Brown decision and the Fair Housing Act. Most impressive....Salmond manages a surprising amount of detail in such a small space....A powerful education that deserves a wide audience...
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I Don't Want To Talk About It : Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (97 Edition)
by Terrence Real Publisher Comments Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convincedpsychotherapist Terrence Real that depression is a silent epidemic in men -- thatmen hide their condition from family, friends, and themselves to avoid the stigmaof depression's "un...
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Reframing Organizations : Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (3RD 03 Edition)
by Lee G. Bolman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-457) and indexes....
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