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2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology by Joseph F Coates Publisher Comments Tapping the worlds of science and technology, this penetrating look at the years ahead paints a fascinating picture you're sure to enjoy. Looking backward from the year 2025, fifteen scenarios reflect a well-focused view of what life will be like in the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Courage of Children: My Life with the World's Poorest Kids by Peter Dalglish Publisher Comments A powerful story of the world's forgotten children from the founder of Street Kids International At 27, Peter Dalglish, a Stanford-educated lawyer and a son of affluence, was poised to enter the corporate world. He dreamed of owning an Alfa Romeo with a... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall Mcluhan Publisher Comments with a new introduction by Lewis H. LaphamThis reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as andquot... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Comeback Cities: Four Trends That Are Reviving Urban Neighborhoods by Paul Grogan Publisher Comments Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation’s urban ills have produced results beyond anyone’s expectations, reawakening America’s toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Social Ecology and Communalism by Murray Bookchin Publisher Comments An astute observer of the theoretical and practical limitations of the traditional left, Murray Bookchin sought to develop a refreshingly new political framework. Developing from his earlier works on social ecology-which combined ecological principles... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future by Ben J Wattenberg Publisher Comments "Fewer" tells a monumental human story, largely ignored, but which promises to starkly change the human condition in the years to come. Never before have birth and fertility rates fallen so far, so fast, so low, for so long, in so many places. Wattenberg... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers Are Running from the Family Courts -- And What Can Be Done about It (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, & Law) by Amy Neustein Synopsis A powerful expose of the family court system's prejudice against mothers trying to protect their sexually abused children.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Harpercollins Dictionary of Sociology by David Jary Publisher Comments This complete and timely sourcebook provides professionals and the more than 490,000 students annually enrolled in sociology courses with the terms and concepts used in every area of sociology, and with related terms in psychology, economics, political... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Local Attachments the Making of an Ameri by Alexand Von Hoffman Publisher Comments In Local Attachments Alexander von Hoffman explores the emergence of the modern urban neighborhood in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining Boston's outer-city neighborhood, Jamaica Plain. Like other... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents by Anne L Alstott Publisher Comments Having a child, it has been said, is the greatest risk one can take. Marriages may come and go but parenthood endures. There is simply no escape--no exit--from the emotional and practical responsibilities of parenting. Nor should there be. While certain... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.95 (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   Ordering Lives: Family Work and Welfare (Introduction to the Social Sciences) by Ross Fergusson Synopsis Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions--the family, work and welfare--this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950s to... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright Publisher Comments Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century — a time of unprecedented progress — has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Peasant Moorings: Village Ties & Mobility Rationales in South India by Jean Luc Racine Publisher Comments Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented... (read more) Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities) by Clare Mckanna Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square by Daniel Makagon Publisher Comments During the 1990s, Times Square changed its colors, from a notoriously seedy--some would say sleazy--urban center to a family-friendly, corporate-sponsored entertainment district. Whether this was a renaissance or a loss of soul, a dream fulfilled or just... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Davis and Monk have assembled an extraordinary group of urbanists, architects, historians, and visionary thinkers to reflect upon the trajectory of a civilization whose deepest ethos seems to be to consume all the resources of the Earth within a single... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Work and the Evolving Self by Steven D Axelrod Publisher Comments "Work and the Evolving Self" is very much a psychoanalytic study of our time, since it demonstrates the adaptability of the psychoanalytic perspective to a range of treatments - from psychoanalysis to psychotherapy to vocational counseling - as... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Companion to Weber by Stephen Turner Publisher Comments This Companion introduces Max Weber, one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences.... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture) by Philip Scranton Publisher Comments Historians explore how our ideas of "attractiveness" are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They illuminate the ways in which beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America through studying examples such as the sexual... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out by Suzanne W Helburn Publisher Comments "America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out" explains why most children in America receive care that is mediocre - or worse - in quality. The authors outline the kind of help Americans need from their government if their children are to get the early care... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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