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Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence by James Garbarino Publisher Comments Childhood is ideally a time of safety, marked by freedom from the economic, sexual, and political demands that later become part of adult life. For many children, however, particularly those who live in our inner cities, childhood is increasingly a time... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Max Weber: Politics & the Spirit of Tragedy by John Patric Diggins Publisher Comments Max Weber is a fresh look at the life and work of one of the greatest social and political thinkers of the modern era, and the first book to focus on Weber from an American perspective.Ever since World War II, Max Weber has been regarded as a monument to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Execution's Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned by Leslie Lytle Publisher Comments Execution's Doorstep tells the true stories of five lives trapped in a living nightmare: sentenced to die for a crime they didn't commit. Since capital punishment was reinstated in the mid-1970s, over 120 individuals have been proven wholly innocent of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 by Amy Neustein Publisher Comments A powerful expose of the family court system's prejudice against mothers trying to protect their sexually abused children.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stress, Culture, and Aggression by Arnold S Linsky Publisher Comments 'A fascinating attempt to understand the relationship between the social environment, stress, and violent and maladaptive behaviors. The innovative use of large-scale national statistics to examine social behaviors is timely, interesting, and provocative.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis by John Hannigan Publisher Comments Following a wave of de-industrialization and cutbacks in public spending, American downtowns are reinventing themselves in the image of Disneyland and Las Vegas. "Fantasy City" looks at the changing face of the city and what it means for its citizens and... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank Publisher Comments Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, "Richistan" looks behind the glitz to find the real story behind new money and its impact on the richest nation in the world.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Patrons, Clients and Friends: Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society (Themes in the Social Sciences) by S N Eisenstadt Publisher Comments 'The analysis, of several types of interpersonal relations of central concern to social scientists, draws on a wide range of examples from diverse societies.'... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exploring Urban America: An Introductory Reader by Roger W Caves Publisher Comments This collection of seminal articles will introduce undergraduate students to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and urban affairs. It investigates a variety of areas including: cities and urbanism, urban history, urban policy, economic... (read more) List Price $61.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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   Small Is Powerful: The Future as If People Really Mattered (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century) by John Papworth Publisher Comments The author has found the true villain of the 20th century, and it is a concept--bigness. The answer to such disparate questions as why do we experience global wars, mass dictatorships, economic tornadoes, a population explosion and a mounting resource... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Urban History: An Interpretive Reader with Commentaries by Alexander B Callow Review "Still one of the most complete and varied readers on urban history."--Kurt Leichtle, University of Wisconsin, River Falls "The best reader available in Urban History of the U.S. It has a broad base incorporating pertinent studies in disciplines other... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime by Terry L Leap Book News Annotation Primarily addressing business students, but integrating perspectives from sociology, psychology, public policy, and business, Leap (management, Clemson U.) presents an introduction to the economics of white-collar crime. He describes an integrative... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of Families that Left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era by Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest Book News Annotation Acs and Loprest, both affiliated with The Urban Institute, review research on the fate of welfare recipients who left the welfare rolls ("leavers") following the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Revisiting the Use of Self: Questioning Professional Identities by Deena Mandell Synopsis In recent years, several developments have stimulated new ways of thinking about the social worker's "self" or "selves?" in all aspects of practice. The focus on practice with diverse populations and the emphasis of ?anti-oppressive? practice have... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics of Psychopharmacology (Leary Library) by Timothy Leary Publisher Comments In this brief, lively book of reminiscences, the man Allen Ginsberg called "a hero of American consciousness" describes his transformation from bohemian professor to avatar of the new age. In his typically wry, provocative style, Timothy Leary gives... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann Synopsis This critique of the new American imperialism analyses the action in Afghanistan, the war against terrorism and the warnings to "rogue states". It shows that American foreign policy exaggerates American power and fails to understand that the US has much... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth by Juan Enriquez Publisher Comments If you think the world has changed dramatically in the last five years, you haven't seen anything yet. You will never look at the world in the same way after reading "As the Future Catches You," Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante Powells.com Staff Pick While not crime fiction per se, Low Life is a great ride through the history of New York's underclass. Thieves, grifters, and skin-poppers abound, colossal gang wars destroy entire boroughs, and Sante's descriptions of life in the slums of the 1800's... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Studies in Religious Education: No. 15: Millhands and Preachers: A Study of Gastonia by Liston Pope Publisher Comments Liston Pope describes the historical background and surrounding events of a strike which occurred in a single cotton mill in the small city of Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1929. No strike has received more penetrating analysis, and seldom has one... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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