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The New Urban Leaders by Joyce A Ladner Publisher Comments Based on interviews conducted in major cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and New York, this study focuses on exceptional community leaders who have developed effective solutions to the complex problems of our... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $4.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology by Donald A Schon Publisher Comments How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence the outcome? This action-oriented book identifies the key issues, explores... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California by James Diego Vigil Publisher Comments Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America by John F Bauman Publisher Comments Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Human Goodness by Yi Fu Tuan Publisher Comments In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds.       ... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Preparing for an Aging World: The Case for Cross-National Research by National Research Co Publisher Comments Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expensive to obtain, it is imperative that countries... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Whose Welfare? by Gwendolyn Mink Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, the goal of welfare reform has been to move poor families off of welfare, not necessarily out of poverty. By that criterion, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 has been successful indeed: throughout... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass by Peter Davis Publisher Comments When the acclaimed author of "Where Is Nicaragua?" went in search of America's growing underclass— the persistent poor— he discovered a frighteningly large segment of the population for whom our cherished notions of equal opportunity... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cities Without Suburbs 3RD Edition a Census 2000 by David Rusk Publisher Comments Cities without Suburbs, first published in 1993, has become an influential analysis of America's cities among city planners, scholars, and citizens alike. In it, David Rusk, the former mayor of Albuquerque, argues that America must end the isolation of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Sparb Alexiou Publisher Comments In this analysis of Jane Jacob's work and ideas, Alice Sparberg Alexiou tells the remarkable story of a woman who without any formal training in planning became a prominent and effective spokesperson for sensible urban change.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Sociology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Sharing Social Science Data: Advantages & Challenges by Joan E Sieber Publisher Comments Although major funding agencies now require social scientists to share their documented raw data, scientists have been reluctant to comply. The reasons include unwillingness to divulge all of the conditions under which the data were generated, cost in... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Defense of Elitism by William A Henry Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for "Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion to the largely unexamined myth of egalitarianism lies at the heart of the ongoing "dumbing of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Saving Our Children from Poverty: What the United States Can Learn from France by Barbara R. Bergmann Publisher Comments Saving Our Children From Poverty compares the American aversion to national assistance programs with the French commitment to child well-being. Americans' lack of faith in the federal government, a growing resistance to taxation, and a belief that... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Globalization and Its Terrors by Teresa Brennan Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-231) and index.... (read more) Your price $35.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Glass, paper, beans :revelations on the nature and value of ordinary things by Leah Hager Cohen Publisher Comments Once upon a time, we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the leather. In many parts of the world, that information... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Shame in My Game: the Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman Publisher Comments " Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer" In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Teaching Durkheim by Terry F Jr Godlove Publisher Comments Emile Durkheim's work on religion occupies a central place in religious studies classrooms today. At the undergraduate level, Durkheim is widely taught in large Introduction to Religion courses and in upper division seminars in "theory and method." His... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame by Michael Gross Publisher Comments Journalist Michael Joseph Gross takes us deep into the world of celebrities and the people who love them. Why are we so obsessed with fame? Even if we don't read People, we all crane our necks to see the stars. As a teenager, Michael Joseph Gross amassed... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $3.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Public Relations Programming and Production by E W Brody Publisher Comments Brody describes a viable public relations program as consisiting of audience analysis and selection of appropriate channels of communication. He next examines the production of materials to be distributed through those channels--both the message itself... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids by James R Vollbracht Publisher Comments Children's lives today are complex, stressful, and dangerous. Kids are overscheduled, come home to empty houses and neighborhoods where they don't know a soul, and in school, face violence-all too often from their peers. In Stopping at Every Lemonade... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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