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Washington by Meg Greenfield Publisher Comments The national bestseller is now in paperback. Written by the illustrious longtime editorial page editor of "The Washington Post" before her death in 1999, this book provides a portrait of the U.S. capital at the end of the American century.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oxford Book of Work by Keith Thomas Publisher Comments Primal curse or sacred duty? Painful drudgery or the only sure route to human happiness? Work has always evoked conflicting reactions. Yet whether we view it as a tedious necessity or embrace it as a compulsive addiction, it remains an inescapable and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $1.74 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Misunderstanding Cults by Benjamin Zablocki Publisher Comments The collection also includes contributions on the controversial and much misunderstood topic of brainwashing, as well as discussions of cult violence, children brought up in unconventional religious movements, and the conflicts between alternative... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $7.70 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Studies on the History of Society and Culture #34: Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions Study Society Cult by Victoria E Bonnell Publisher Comments A collection of engaging essays that look specifically at the effect of culturalism on history and sociology and propose new directions in the theory and practice of research.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Think Twice Sociology Looks At Current S by Lorne Tepperman Publisher Comments This book lets students realize for themselves that a "sociological imagination" can help them understand the burning questions of today's society, and that this kind of thinking is within their grasp. It illustrates how understanding society means... (read more) List Price $30.80 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Making Social Policy Work Essays in Hono by John Hills Book News Annotation Social policy, whether in its identification, construction, or negation, is central to politics in the UK. This collection of 12 articles, written by leading academics, defines the aims of social policy, the means of delivering social policy, and the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Governance on the Ground: Innovations and Discontinuities in Cities of the Developing World by Patricia Mccarney Publisher Comments Governance on the Ground describes people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment. This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Communication & Aging 2ND Edition by Jon F Nussbaum Publisher Comments This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On the Outside Looking in: A Year at an Inner-City High School by Cristina Rathbone Publisher Comments The story of inner-city students who come from poverty, dysfunctional homes, and drug-riddled neighborhoods and of an underfunded school and its devoted principal, who represent their last slim connections to mainstream society.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.71 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crime in Literature: Sociology of Deviance and Fiction by Vincent Ruggiero Publisher Comments Crime in Literature addresses the issues of crime and crime control through the reading of several classical literary works. It is not a work of literary criticism, but a book written by a sociologist who reads fiction sociologically. Vincent Ruggiero's... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $8.98 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   Politics of Force: Media & Construction Police Brutality by Regina G Lawrence Publisher Comments This is a study of incidents of police violence as they were reported in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times over a ten year period (1981-1991) and how the media's portrayal of these incidents impacted and shaped public policy discourse.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years by James Canton Publisher Comments Dr. James Canton, a renown futurist, CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, and Fortune 1000 advisor, charts a course to steer you through the volatile changes that lie 5, 10, and 20 years ahead. The Extreme Future is this generation's Future Shock... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Branded the Buying & Selling of Teenager by Alissa Quart Synopsis This title takes the reader into the world of teen marketing, showing how teens are taught to market to each other and adults build careers out of insinuating their way into "friendships" with teens in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to and... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list German Library #0060: Sociological Writings by Max Weber Synopsis Some of Weber's most trenchant essays on sociology and economic issues. Many of these works have been translated expressly for this volume and include: "The Concept of Social Action," "Power, Authority, and Imperative Control," "Bureaucreatic Authority,"... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action (Studies in Government and Public Policy) by Mara S Sidney Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-180) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Future of Marriage 1982 Edition by Jessie Bernard Publisher Comments When "The Future of Marriage" was published a decade ago it was immediately acclaimed as a classic contribution to the literature of marriage and of sex roles. In it, the eminent sociologist Jessie Bernard argued that in every marriage there are actually... (read more) Your price $20.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Preserving Families: Evaluation Resources for Practitioners & Policymakers by Ying Ying T Yuan Publisher Comments Providing excellent insights into evaluation, Preserving Families examines the issues related to describing and evaluating social programs for families and children. The focus is on keeping the family intact, rather than those programs that emphasize... (read more) Your price $21.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The City: An Urban Cosmology by Joseph Grange Publisher Comments Continuing the argument of Grange's highly acclaimed Nature, this book develops a theory of good urban growth and development that involves both the physical and the cultural dimensions of city life. The City offers a "Cityscape" that illuminates the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization by Walter Anderson Publisher Comments Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change - economic, political, cultural, biological - all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time by Richard Weaver Publisher Comments This classic work by the author of Ideas Have Consequences boldly examines the Intellectual roots of our current cultural crisis.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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