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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated by Voice Of Witness Pro Publisher Comments Beverly Monroe spent seven years in prison for murdering her companion of thirteen years; even though he had killed himself. Christopher Ochoa was persuaded to confess to a rape and murder he did not commit, and served twelve years of his life sentence... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Word on the Street: Homeless Men in Las Vegas by Kurt Borchard Publisher Comments Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city's homeless people are largely invisible... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia by Andrew Micha Cohill Publisher Comments Here's a revealing look at the five-year evolution of the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) -- the ground-breaking venture that has linked the citizens of Blacksburg to each other and to the rest of the world. The book explains how BEV has developed... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hope Springs Maternal, Revised and Updated Edition: Homeless Mothers Talk about Making Sense of Adversity by Jill Gerson Publisher Comments Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc./ Gordian Knot Books This revised and updated edition of Hope Springs Maternal incorporates the latest data on homeless mothers, changes to laws and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Fox and the Flies: The Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal by Charles Van Onselen Publisher Comments This masterwork of historical reconstruction recounts the life and times of Joseph Silver, an arch criminal who may well have been Jack the Ripper. A meticulous researcher, Van Onselen offers an account as rich in history as it is in the detail and drama... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ready or Not: Precocious Children, Uncertain Adults, and the Shrinking of the American Spirit by Kay S Hymowitz Publisher Comments "Children today grow up so fast!" How often we hear those words, uttered both in frustrated good humor and in dumbfounded astonishment. Every day the American people hear about kids doing things, both good and bad, that were once thought to be well... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers by Thomas Hine From Powells.com Read an exclusive essay from Thomas Hine: Even Prophets Have to Shop.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The global crisis of violence :common problems, universal causes, shared solutions by Dorothy Van Soest Book News Annotation Contributions grew out of a project designed to educate US social workers about the interrelatedness of violence and development, and to foster partnerships between schools of social work and NASW chapters. Their authors highlight home-grown... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sociology: Your Compass for a New World by Robert J Brym Publisher Comments This balanced, mainstream, beautifully written and totally up-to-date text is unrivalled in its ability to get students to see the connection between themselves and the social world. It teaches students "how" to think sociologically, not just "what" to... (read more) List Price $78.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Citizen Perspectives on Community Policing: A Case Study in Athens, Georgia (Suny Series, New Directions in Crime & Justice Studies) by Brian N Williams Publisher Comments This book examines the perspectives of inner-city residents in Athens, Georgia and focuses on policing, community policing, and the co-production of law enforcement. A qualitative, non-experimental research design with focus-group interviewing is used to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.00 (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   From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society by Krishan Kumar Synopsis Beginning where "Prophecy and Progress" ended, this work by Krishan Kumar provides an introduction to three new theories of industrial society: the information society, post-Fordism, and postmodernism.... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Next: Trends for the Near Future by Marian Salzman Publisher Comments "Next is a book for everyone, explaining that what already exists technologically is about to change the way we live, not the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow - and not necessarily the way one would expect."--BOOK JACKET. "A non-fiction armchair journey... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Luncheonette It's a very slow Friday night. I've had precious few tables and the evening promises to be a bit of a wash. I check my watch for the tenth time. Only eight-thirty. Although the night drags interminably, I know better than to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States by Gary Younge Publisher Comments With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation. Combining insight and panache, he has precisely captured the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Within Our Reach by Lisbeth B Schorr Publisher Comments In this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle by Peter Coyote Publisher Comments In this intelligent memoir, actor Peter Coyote relives his 15-year ride through a fascinating period in American history. illustrations.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1994 #42: Individual, the Family, and Social Good: Personal Fulfillment in Times of Change by Gary B Melton Publisher Comments The question of whether personal gratification is compatible with social good is one of the fundamental problems of motivation. The family, an institution that has undergone extraordinary change in the last generation, is perhaps the most profound... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective by David B Grusky Publisher Comments The study of poverty and inequality has been thrust into the foreground as scholars, politicians, and policymakers respond to the spectacular increase in economic inequality and the slowing, stalling out, or even reversal of long-standing downward trends... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ecstasy: Its History and Lore by Miriam Joseph Publisher Comments Drugs are both vilified -- in newspaper headlines and public health broadcasts -- and glorified -- in film, music and fashion. They continue to fascinate and horrify, in equal measure, and remain perhaps the issue of the twentieth century. This series... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America by Janet M Fitchen Publisher Comments Rural America as a place and a way of life is undergoing major transformation. The farm crisis and the decline of manufacturing dealt a double blow in the 1980s to rural communities, which continue to lose farms, factories, and young people. Rural lands... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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