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Baby Wars: The Dynamics of Family Conflict by Robin Baker Publisher Comments Even the happiest families endure periods of intense conflict and emotional strife. Read this eye-opening book and find out why.What does evolution have to do with morning sickness? With the stressful sound of a baby's cry? With sibling rivalry and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $2.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty by Jill Quadagno Publisher Comments Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois) by Eric Klinenberg Publisher Comments On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizi by William Ups Wimsatt Publisher Comments Winner of the 2000 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Book, Politics.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $4.50 (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 Book News Annotation The author spends a year studying New York City's West Side High School, observing the lives of the disadvantaged youths that make up its student body, and the educators who try to offer them a way out of the crime, drugs, and poverty that are endemic... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America by Thomas A Kochan Publisher Comments Many American families have not prospered in the new andquot;knowledge economy.andquot; The layoffs, restructurings, and wage and benefit cuts that have followed the short-lived boom of the 1990s threaten our deeply held values of justice, fairness... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes by Manuel Castells Publisher Comments This is the first systematic survey of technopoles which have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Their varying developments are examined critically and guidelines are offered for future management.... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Backfire by Robert Zelnick Publisher Comments In this urgently important book, Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Buttressing his case with... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $3.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy (Yale ISPs) by C Michael Henry Publisher Comments What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? A distinguished group of scholars analyzes the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The authors examine the impact of... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents by Anne Alstott Publisher Comments In order to create a more secure world for children and their parents, Anne Alstott argues, we must fundamentally change the way we think about parents' obligations to children--and about society's obligations to parents. Drawing on the same innovative... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $10.95 (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   Untying the Knot: A Short History of Divorce by Roderick Phillips Publisher Comments A fascinating study of the rapid spread of divorce and its affect on family life in Western society.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities by Fred Siegel Publisher Comments Each of Siegel's three urban portraits--New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, -- shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they once seemed to embody. In a narrative that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Taking Parenting Public by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Publisher Comments These essays go beyond the usual chest-beating about busy parents torn between work and family demands to suggest bold solutions. Instead of the typical call for "parent replacement" - more child care, more after-school programmes and more mentors - the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Playing for Time: The Death Row All Stars (Images of Baseball) by Chris Enss Publisher Comments For Joseph Seng and the other death row inmates in the line-up for the Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars, baseball was literally a game of life or death. Based on primary source documents, some unearthed at the old prison itself, Playing for Time... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology by Bryan S Turner Publisher Comments An essential, scholarly guide to the field of sociology, with contributions from leading international academics.... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Essential William H. Whyte by Albert Lafarge Publisher Comments The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where Are All the Young Men and Women of Color?: Capacity Enhancement Practice in the Criminal Justice System by Melvin Delgado Publisher Comments This book calls attention to criminal offenders and ex-offenders in urban environments. Rather than providing a prescriptive correctional supervision model, Delgado argues that effective work can be achieved by applying the capacity enhancement, or... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases by Scott Christianson Publisher Comments Innocent graphically documents 42 recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction by David Orrell Publisher Comments For centuries, scientists have strived to predict the future. But to what extent have they succeeded? Can past events-Hurricane Katrina, the Internet stock bubble, the SARS outbreak-help us understand what will happen next? Will scientists ever really be... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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