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by Bennett M Berger  Publisher Comments All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family... (read more)  List Price $35.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments From the author of the unforgettable "Autobiography of A Face" comes a collection of wonderfully unexpected essays on life, love, sex, God and politics. Whether she is contemplating promiscuity or" The New Testament," lamenting about what she should... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Rodwell Publisher Comments This is the first textbook to offer a clear, concise articulation of the dimensions of constructivism relevant to social work practice and research. Professor Rodwell recognizes the need to systematize a process of knowledge building and presents... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis Lopilato Publisher Comments This book demonstrates how communities can harness main street's dynamic forces and make them work to their advantage. In the 21st century, those downtown marketplaces that meet the exacting standards of demanding shoppers will realize success.... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $6.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen M Staller Publisher Comments Drawing on period sources, Karen Staller investigates the emergence of public concern for runaway youth, the countercultural communities that supported them, and how those communities converged to shape the policies that guide our response to runaway... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sanford F Schram Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "Schram poses an important challenge for those who would like to restore to political science its sometime concern with power and inequality." — American Politics Book Review " I... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Agger Publisher Comments The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have changed the ways in which people conduct their family lives, raise children, and navigate the blurry boundary between work and home. Private life is colonized by employers, teachers, corporations... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Barson Publisher Comments When did those awkward, tormented creatures known as teenagers first crawl out of the primordial ooze and into American culture? Believe it or not, they didn't always exist. It was not until World War II, with grown men off fighting and grown women... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Curtis White Publisher Comments Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rune J Simeonsson Book News Annotation Focusing on a wellness model--on educating and influencing children at risk before problems manifest themselves--Simeonsson (Professor of Education and Research Professor of Psychology, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) details the guiding principles,... (read more) Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments This book examines the production of "human waste" - or more precisely, wasted lives, the "superfluous" population of migrants, refugees, and other outcasts - as an inevitable outcome of modernization.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lauren Langman Publisher Comments Building on the Marxian view of alienation as the inevitable consequence of wage labor that divests human beings of control over their life forces, The Evolution of Alienation provides new insights into contemporary conditions. Contributors explore how... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $20.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Strasser Publisher Comments Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Iddings Bell Publisher Comments In Crowd Culture, a remarkably prescient work originally published in 1952 (before the words "dumbing down" had ever been uttered), Bell excoriated the complacent and conformist egalitarian ethos that he believed was undermining American education... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Kristin Luker Publisher Comments Introducing readers to the young women who are the object of so much opprobrium--teenage mothers ("babies having babies")--this powerful book goes behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to reveal the complex reality... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Indergaard Publisher Comments The 1990s dawned with a belief that the digital revolution would radically transform our traditional notion of cities as places of commerce and industry. Many predicted that digital technology would render cities--or at least their economies--obsolete... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Valentine Publisher Comments The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully and extensively documented, the book is based largely on... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Christoph Faircloth Publisher Comments Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism; the first examines the physical body and the second focuses upon psychological and social aspects of aging. Christopher A. Faircloth's edited volume of original pieces... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Coles Publisher Comments In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chandra Mukerji Publisher Comments Rethinking Popular Culture selects some of the best and most important recent work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and the exciting new techniques of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $8.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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