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by Dana Thomas  Publisher Comments Thomas, the style and cultural reporter for "Newsweek," takes a hard-hitting look at the world of new luxury, and argues that globalization and corporate greed have ensured that old-time manufacturing has bowed to sweatshops and wild profits to produce... (read more)  List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard A Fabes Publisher Comments The family is the place where minds come in contact with one another--Buddha Emotions and the Family reflects the dramatic change in how professionals and practitioners working with today's families view the role of emotions in general family and marital... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments “A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times.”—San Francisco Chronicle In this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments From the writer whom James Atlas has deemed "the liveliest, most erudite, and engaging essayist we have," Friendship is a sharply entertaining examination of those complex and wonderful relationships without which we'd all be lost. Joseph... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex F. Schwartz Publisher Comments "Housing Policy in the United States "is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marc Mauer Publisher Comments An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population. In this revised edition of his seminal book on race, class, and the criminal justice system, Marc Mauer, executive director of one of the United States' leading criminal justice... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Tilly Publisher Comments "Readers will find this book stimulating, amusing, enlightening, and engaging. The veteran analyst of political conflict and change has shifted the scale and style of his analysis once again. The result is a tour de force."--Viviana Zelizer, Princeton... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cass R Sunstein Publisher Comments As the dire history of planned economies highlights, small well-informed groups of people will often make far worse decisions than large numbers of people, acting independently, would make. In Infotopia, Cass Sunstein looks at the "wisdom of the many... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Calthorpe Publisher Comments Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Husock Publisher Comments Low-income housing programs and lesser-known initiatives have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage, Mr. Husock argues. He emphasizes the deep but unappreciated importance to American society of economically diverse... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Murray Publisher Comments Murray offers a plan to eliminate all federal welfare programs and to substitute a $10,000 annual cash grant for everyone age 21 to 50.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments Bursting with practical ideas about when, where, and how America and the world are changing, "Revolutionary Wealth" provides a clear, coherent framework that gives readers powerful tools for thinking about--and preparing for--what the Tofflers call the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexandra Robbins Publisher Comments A fast-paced, behind-the-scenes book that blows the lid off the intriguing world of mainstream sorority life, by a New York Times bestselling author. Alexandra Robbins wanted to find out if the stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, so she... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols Publisher Comments A revised, updated, and expanded edition of McChesney and Nichols's bestselling "It's the Media, Stupid! "The authors critique the U.S. media system, examine alternatives at work in other countries, and conclude with a proposal for meaningful reform.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dolores Hayden Publisher Comments A lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live, Building Suburbia chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America’s metropolitan regions. From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joel Best Publisher Comments Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by National Research Publisher Comments This volume presents an eye-opening look at what millions of the nation's youths confront every day of their lives, addressing: how the decline in economic security for young working parents affects their children's life chances; how dramatic changes in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen E Rosenblum Publisher Comments "The Meaning of Difference" is a text-reader about the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. The book is based on the conviction that similar processes are... (read more) List Price $68.15 Your price $46.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas L Whitman Publisher Comments Despite a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of adolescent parenting, minimal attention has been given to investigating systematic changes in adolescent mothers' and their children's psychological functioning over time. This book reports on a... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price $5.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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