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George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986 by Karal Ann Marling Publisher Comments In her quest for the unhistorical George Washington, Marling has examined the subculture of American life--magazine fiction, historical romances, movies, and journalism. She traces the descent of high art into such popular forms as posters, billboards... (read more) List Price $57.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Media Unlimited: The Torrent of Sounds and Images in Modern Life by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments A provocative new exploration of our media-saturated lives-a worthy successor to Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. Everyone knows that the media is all around us, but no one quite understands its effect on our lives. Critics and analysts focus on... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Guantanamo: The War on Human Rights by David Rose Publisher Comments - Senior counterintelligence officials disclose how interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo have led many detainees to make false confessions and accusations - Never-before-published government documents reveal the camp's secret rules, belying the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions in American History #156: The Moment of Decision: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity by Randall M Miller Publisher Comments Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the "historical moment" in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Death to Birth: Mortality Decline & Reproductive Change by Mark R Montgomery Book News Annotation Not a guide to the journey between lifetimes, but a collection of 11 papers from a November 1995 workshop in which researchers from different disciplines pool their knowledge and ideas about how changes in infant and child mortality affect... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $13.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Do or Die by Leon Bing Publisher Comments One Camp Kilpatrick As you travel the northbound 101 out of Los Angeles heading toward Malibu, you leave a vista of faded bungalows and crumbling apartment houses. Youdrive past Koreatown, Sunset Boulevard, and the Hollywood Bowl, past Studio City... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Age Through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society by Laura Katz Olson Publisher Comments An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Families, No Families by France Goldscheider Publisher Comments Is the American family a thing of the past? Almost anyone can tell a story that illustrates how dramatically things have changed in the past decades. Nonmarriage, childlessness and divorce are commonplace. Most children leave their parents' home and live... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sociological Methodology Volume 33 2003 by Ross M Stolzenberg Publisher Comments Measurement and analysis are the key analytic tasks in empirical sociological research. "Sociological Methodology Volume 33 "includes a wide range of fresh solutions to old and new measurement and analysis problems, including the "reference category... (read more) List Price $142.95 Your price $40.00 (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   The Power of One: Heroes Forging America's Civic Reawakening from Sea to Shining Sea by Debra Schweige Berg Publisher Comments Can average Americans solve the country's social problems? Absolutely! Thirty-five altruistic Americans with 25 working solutions are featured as part of a new trend now saving taxpayers millions while changing lives worldwide.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America by George De Stefano Publisher Comments "Invites Italian-Americans of all backgrounds to the family table to discuss how mob-related movies and television shows have affected the very notion of what their heritage still means in the 21st century." --Allen Barra, "The New York Sun <BR>""A... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Execution of Officer Becker: The Murder of a Gambler, the Trial of a Cop, and the Birth of Organized Crime by Stanley Cohen Publisher Comments A small-time gambler shot dead in the heart of Times Square. Gangland gunmen and conspirators running for cover. A cop on the take charged with murder and facing execution. New York in 1912, a city in transformation. Award-winning journalist and author... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working Couples Caring for Children and Aging Parents: Effects on Work and Well-Being (Applied Psychology) by Margaret B Neal Publisher Comments As the baby boomer generation approaches midlife, many dual-earner couples are struggling with issues of simultaneously caring for children while tending to aging parents. This timely book uncovers the circumstances faced by these workers, known as the &#... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price $75.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis by Doug A Timmer Publisher Comments This book is the first to combine a cogent explanation of the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families on the streets, in soup lines, and in shelters. The human side of the story, told from ethnographies... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Annual Review of Sociology Volume 24 1998 by John Hagan Book News Annotation A collection of articles reviewing significant developments in sociology, with papers organized in sections on theory and methods, social processes, institutions and culture, formal organizations, political and economic sociology, differentiation and... (read more) Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 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 $35.00 Your price $2.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list At the Edge of History and Passages about Earth by William Thompson Synopsis Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood by Jim Harper Publisher Comments The advance of identification technology biometrics, identity cards, surveillance, databases, dossiers threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demands for identification in the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Confronting Poverty: Prescriptions for Change by Sheldon H Danziger Publisher Comments 'Confronting Poverty' proposes thoughtful reforms in employment and training, child support, health care, education, welfare, immigration, and urban policies, all crafted from the successes, as well as the failures, of policies over the past three... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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