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by Geraldine Youcha  Publisher Comments Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and orphan trains, to rigid British nannies, foster care... (read more)  List Price $22.50 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by William Juli Wilson Publisher Comments "The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and all... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Linn Publisher Comments The average American child sees about 40,000 television commercials every year. Companies target younger viewers all the time, selling everything from sugar cereals to minivans, and cross-promotional marketing influences everything from the food stocked... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Madeley Publisher Comments Are Transnational Corporations the solution to poverty in the Third World or, alternatively, are they part of the problem? This is John Madeley's central concern in this exploration of a little-investigated aspect of large corporations. TNCs are usually... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Green Publisher Comments This volume draws attention to the plight of urban blacks in the contemporary world and links their situation across five key global regions. It argues that while the world's population is predominantly urban, persons of African descent are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frances Hesselbein Publisher Comments "This book of essays is full of rampant idealism. Its authors--educators, think-tankers, corporate executives, consultants, book authors, nonprofit association executives, and a German politician--share a desire to better the world through their ideas... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sonya Salamon Publisher Comments PrefacePart I Changes in the Heartland1. Community Connections, Resources, and People2. Dynamics of Small-Town ChangePart II Newcomers, Old Towns3. A Persistent Agrarian Town: Smallville4. Upscale Suburbanization: Prairieview5. Boosterism Breeds... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Herb Childress Publisher Comments Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy provides a rare glimpse into the world of teenagers, from beach parties to bedrooms, from the math class to the midnight movies. In this fascinating ethnography, Herb Childress demonstrates how our buildings and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Miller Publisher Comments Egotopia begins where other critiques of the American landscape end: identifying the physical ugliness that defines and homogenizes America's cities, suburbs, and countryside. Believing that prevailing assessments of the American landscape are inadequate... (read more) Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hubner Publisher Comments A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates. While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gabriel Publisher Comments This book puts the language used in television, the radio, the internet and press, as well as that spoken by key leaders, under the spotlight. It questions how these various mediums might be accused of constructing a language of white supremacy of ideas... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martha Shirk Publisher Comments Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Winterhalder Publisher Comments In the early 1990s, Maurice Mom Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an ex... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Lemert About the Author Charles Lemert is professor of sociology at Wesleyan University and the author of several books including Sociology After the Crisis (Westview Press 1995) and Social THeory, The Multicultural and Classic Readings, Third Edition (Westview PRess 2004).... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Theodore Roszak Publisher Comments "It is obvious that we can no longer proceed developing technologies with our eyes closed to its effects on our psychic habits, social relations and even political ideas. The best eye-opening book on the subject of the implications of a computerized... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $1.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew M Mecca Publisher Comments Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-esteem play a causal role in chronic social problems such as child abuse, school drop-out rates, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, welfare... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $2.24 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vijay Agnew Publisher Comments Racialized Women, Marginalized in the Larger Society and the mainstream women's movement, are also outsiders in women's shelters, where racially sensitive and linguistically appropriate counselling is generally unavailable. In this book, Vijay Agnew... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $10.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Press Publisher Comments Spin -- intentional manipulation of the truth -- is everywhere. It's in the White House, in the courtrooms, in headlines and advertising slogans. Even couples on dates -- not to mention book blurbs -- are guilty of spin. Here, colorful news analyst Bill... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eviatar Zerubavel Publisher Comments Why do we eat sardines, but never goldfish; ducks, but never parrots? Why does adding cheese make a hamburger a "cheeseburger" whereas adding ketchup does not make it a "ketchupburger"? By the same token, how do we determine which things said at a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pierre Bourdieu Publisher Comments “ . . . [The] value of the book lies very much in the broad sweep with which it tries to recast our understanding of masculine domination. . . . [It] opens up the field for an investigation of the gender order as an ongoing social project of both... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $33.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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