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Women & Men at Work by Barbara Reskin Publisher Comments This book provides students with an in-depth examination of the world of work at the beginning of a new century. It compares women's and men's work status, addressing contemporary issues within a historical perspective, incorporating comparative material... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B Rubin Publisher Comments An eloquent and powerful sequel to Worlds of Pain, this book takes readers into the daily lives of America's working class, providing an up-close look at their dreams, disappointments, insecurities, successes, and failures. With compassion and skillful... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Walls and Bridges: Social Justice and Public Policy (Suny Series in Public Policy) by Anthony Jos Cortese Publisher Comments This useful classroom resource for professors wishing to incorporate notions of justice into their courses examines a variety of America's most challenging social issues (education, poverty, homelessness, crime, and health care), interwoven with racial... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Falling Room (American Lives) by Eli Hastings Publisher Comments Coming of age poor in spirit in the America of plenty is an old story that is yet endlessly new, beginning afresh every time a confused teenager tries to make sense of his privileged place in the world. Eli Hastings got a head start on this when his... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Identities in North America :the search for community by Robert L Earle Publisher Comments This is a wide-ranging inquiry into the forces that define the nations of North America and that are bringing North America's peoples and institutions closer together. A collaborative effort on the part of thirteen scholars from Canada, Mexico, and the... (read more) List Price $62.95 Your price $8.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America In by David Harsanyi Publisher Comments Harsanyi offers a convincing argument that government intervention in its citizens private lives not only denies them freedom of choice, but also erodes their national character by promoting a culture of victimhood and dependence.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Previews and Premises by Alvin Toffler Publisher Comments A highly personal look at jobs, identity, sex roles, information age politics, hidden forces driving the economy, and the pitfalls and promises of social change.... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Family Mediation: Managing Conflicts, Resolving Disputes by Robert Coulson Publisher Comments Details the rapidly growing field of dispute resolution This nuts-and-bolts guide offers a blueprint for developing the skills you need to master the often complex and emotionally charged process of family mediation. In a lively and entertaining style... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hope for a Better World!: The Small Communities Solution by J Donald Walters Publisher Comments Challenging Western intellectual views, Walters shows how small communities can help solve our greatest life challenges.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where's It Going? (Prospects for Tomorrow) by Ian Pearson Publisher Comments Computers will talk to one another; new textiles will control the body's temperature; and smart buildings will monitor and alter heat, light, music, decoration and mood. People will work in local technology centres, while retail outlets will give way to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.00 (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   Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes (Prairie State Books) by Jane Addams Publisher Comments This is the first annotated edition of Jane Addams's superb autobiography. "An indispensable classic of American intellectual and social history." - Berenice A. Carroll, editor of "Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays". "After... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Road to Southend Pier: One Man's Struggle Against the Surveillance Society by Clark Ross Synopsis A chance encounter with a talking lamp-post got Ross Clark thinking: is there any escape from Britain's growing surveillance society? He set himself a challenge: could he get to Southend without Big Brother knowing where he had gone? In this entertaining... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Putting on the Dog: A Guide to American Sophistication by Ahme Riahi Belkaoui Publisher Comments Sophistication is as much a state of mind as it is a state of being - an elusive quality that sets one apart from the crowd. According to professor and author Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui, a little "sophistication" can go a long way toward making life more... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pleasure Wars by Peter Gay Publisher Comments In uncovering the roots of modernism, a master historian shows us a hidden side of the Victorian era, the role of the bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. "In the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $6.58 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list With Man in Mind an Interdisciplinary PR by Constance Perin Publisher Comments Although a responsible and welcome critical literature in the social sciences has in recent years been measuring the human costs of urban renewal and environmental degradation, telling the designer what to avoid does not necessarily enlighten him about... (read more) Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shading Our Cities: A Resource Guide for Urban and Community Forests by Gary Moll Publisher Comments This handbook helps neighborhood groups, local officials, and city planners develop urban forestry projects, not only to beautify their cities, but also to help reduce energy demand, improve air quality, protect water supplies, and contribute to... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list House Lust: America's Obsession with Our Homes by Daniel McGinn Publisher Comments A rich narrative that blends social commentary with incisive reporting, House Lust offers an astute, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of the behaviors that drove the greatest real estate boom in history—and its eventual bust. Owning a home... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason by Conor Obrien Publisher Comments A distinguished statesman and man of letters deplores the mounting attacks on Enlightenment values that jeopardize the very survival of the democratic institutions they inspired. Enlivening his grim predictions with dry wit, O'Brien nevertheless conveys... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Celebration, U.S.A: Living in Disney's Brave New Town by Douglas Frantz Publisher Comments What is it like to start a new community-not a suburb or a subdivision, but a town, intended to be a self-supporting community that combines the best of the new technological innovations and the most cherished nostalgic elements of American towns? In... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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