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by Alvin Toffler  Publisher Comments Toffler argues that while headlines focus on shifts of power at the global level, equally significant shifts are taking place in our everyday world--supermarkets, hospitals, banks, television, and politics. As old antagonisms fade, Toffler identifies... (read more)  List Price $7.99 Your price $2.00 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies 
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by Lewis Yablonsky Publisher Comments "Part memoir, part sociology, Yablonsky's story hooks readers from the start." —Booklist "Yablonsky writes in an exceptionally readable idiom, frequently introducing autobiographical excerpts from his extensive files of working with gangs." &mdash... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Carlson Publisher Comments We now live in a time of comfort, convenience and opportunity such as mankind has never known. With all the great things we are provided, we also get many side effects that some thrive on and others do not welcome. Some of these are expectations, added... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alvin Kernan Publisher Comments In this candid and delightful memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during turbulent decades of change in the hallowed halls of Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. His vividly remembered account is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles W Smith Publisher Comments Smith tells how the straight capitalist economic law of supply and demand rarely governs the auction process, and how the beliefs and actions of the auction participants determine values.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Haley Publisher Comments Fulfills some or all of the high school national curriculum standards for social studies, English, science, and health.... (read more) List Price $28.70 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Perrucci Publisher Comments This provocative book refocuses our attention on class interests that are rapidly polarizing American society. It redefines the terms of class analysis by arguing that the distribution of resources critical to class membership is shaped by large... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by P Li Chase Lansdale Publisher Comments Escape from Poverty addresses the recent increase of child poverty within the USA and suggests specific modes of change.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael H Tonry Publisher Comments The imprisonment rate in America has grown by a factor of five since 1972. In that time, punishment policies have toughened, compassion for prisoners has diminished, and prisons have gotten worse-a stark contrast to the origins of the prison 200 years... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Adna Hill Publisher Comments When this study was undertaken, women comprised some 20 percent of the American labor force. Yet only one previous effort had been made to determine the social characteristics and occupations of the female work force. In terms of its comprehensive detail,... (read more) List Price $92.95 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel B Klein Publisher Comments This book proposes that urban transit be brought into the fold of market activity by establishing property rights not only in vehicles, but also in curb zones and transit stops. Market competition and entrepreneurship would depend on a foundation of what... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments The Overspent American explores why so many of us feel materially dissatisfied, why we work staggeringly long hours and yet walk around with ever-present mental "wish lists" of things to buy or get, and why Americans save less than virtually anyone in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Ohmann Publisher Comments An inside look at cultural industries, featuring interviews with key players from such companies as Twentiety-Century Fox, National Public Radio, and Coca-Cola.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert I Rotberg Publisher Comments The essays in this book examine how the West modernized and what that modernization meant to human society, particularly in Western Europe and the United States. Within that frame are several distinct subthemes: the process of industrialization in Europe... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert J Pellegrini Publisher Comments Explore the tensions and tenderness between fathers and sons in this masterpiece of narrative psychology We live in a story-shaped world, as the editors say, and Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men's Lives... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pekka Himanen Synopsis On the heels of the Protestant work ethic comes a new, opposing cultural logic, born of the Information Age and rapidly gaining force--the Hacker Ethic as outlined by Pekka Himanen. "Hackers are the warriors, explorers, guerrillas, and joyous adventurers... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nathaniel Popkin Publisher Comments <div>During the last quarter of the 20th century, many American cities were in a state of decline. The automobile paved the way for suburban sprawl and white flight, leaving cities with crumbling infrastructures and high crime rates. A... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pablo De Greiff Publisher Comments Society's drug problem will persist, and debates over how to solve it will continue, getting nowhere, until we define our terms. This book is an effort to do just that -- to parse the legal, moral, and philosophical underpinnings for any discussion of... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price $12.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil Thompson Publisher Comments Provides an overview of the key issues involved in promoting workplace learning. This text covers developments in traditional practice learning, and various aspects of workplace learning, such as coaching and mentoring, and the development of a learning... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Stengel Publisher Comments From the primates to the ancient world all the way to Hollywood, "You're Too Kind" presents a primer on flattery--where it originated, its development through the ages, and its myriad uses in contemporary culture.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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