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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 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 People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia by Michael I Niman Publisher Comments Since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote forests to pray for world peace and create a model of a functioning utopian society. In People of the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.50 (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 The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for Poor America (New Democracy Forum) by Richard B Freeman Publisher Comments 'A wake-up call on the new American inequality and what to do about it Harvard economist Richard B. Freeman launches this provocative book with the idea that in equality is the one problem from which all crises in America flow. He contends that... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life by Janet M Todd Publisher Comments This biography of the mother of feminism recreates her legacy and retells the story of her fascinating life for a new generation of admirers, arguing that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list All God's Children: The Bosket Family & the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield Publisher Comments From the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea comes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Overselling of Population Ageing by Ellen Gee Publisher Comments This volume tackles a number of popular misconceptions about the social and economic impact of an aging population. It emphasizes the specific demographic and policy changes taking place in Canada and focuses on trends in social policy that affect... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America by Gwendolyn Wright Publisher Comments This book is concerned essentially with the model of domestic environment in this country, as it has evolved from colonial architecture through current urban projects.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $11.95 (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   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 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 $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $31.00 (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 Busted: Stoned Cowboys, Narco-Lords, and the Failure of Washington's War on Drugs by Mike Gray Publisher Comments Thirty years ago Richard Nixon called drugs "the modern curse of youth" and launched the modern "War on Drugs" as we know it. Thirty years later, even the conservative National Review has said, "The War on Drugs has failed." Spanning three decades... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone by Laura Pappano Book News Annotation Pappano, a journalist who writes an education column for , draws on personal experience as well as academic studies and observations of media and consumer habits to ponder modern life, when people are hyperconnected through e-mail, voice mail, cell... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.73 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare by Jason Deparle Publisher Comments An acclaimed New York Times reporter offers the definitive look at the collision between social policy and the gritty reality of post-welfare America. Bill Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it" in his first run for president in 1992. Four... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $13.46 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dead Cities and Other Tales by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Davis explores the combat zone that is contemporary urban America, a ceaseless battle waged both within cities and against nature. Photos.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Invisible City: Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism by John In Gilderbloom Publisher Comments A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and community... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex, Politics, & Society the Regulation by Jeffrey Weeks Synopsis A study of the regulation of sexuality in Britain since 1800. It examines changes in ideas, the law, sexual morality, the family, birth control and sexual practice. It also includes discussion of feminism, socialism, Freud, eugenics, the "permissive... (read more) List Price $42.20 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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