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Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States by Fred Harris Publisher Comments Cities in America are becoming poorhouses for blacks and Hispanics, and city life incubates hopelessness borne of un- and underemployment, criminal victimization and racial discrimination, especially against non-white males. In an update of the original... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Welfare Debate (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America) by Greg M. Shaw Publisher Comments "Welfare politics" have now been part of American life for four centuries. Beyond a persistent general idea that Americans have a collective obligation to provide for the poorest among us, there has been little common ground on which to forge political... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia (in Contract) by Nurul Islam Book News Annotation Islam, whose academic associations include Yale U. and Oxford U., concentrates on conditions in rural Asia and finds encouraging results from rural non-farm microenterprise, giving case studies from Bangladesh and India and reviewing the experiences... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture #15: Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder by Max R Sherman Synopsis Revered by Americans across the political spectrum, Barbara Jordan was the most outspoken moral voice of the American political system, in the words of former President Bill Clinton, who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. Throughout... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What I Have Learned: Thinking about the Future Then and Now by Michael Marien Publisher Comments This unique collection of thoughtful and provocative essays brings together the personal retrospectives of seventeen of the most prominent American futurists. Their reflections on how the reality of the 1980s differs from what was anticipated, and what... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do about It by Joseph A Califano Publisher Comments Subtitled, "How Substance Abuse Is Destroying America & We Can Change It".... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Price of Citizenship: Refining the American Welfare State by Michael B Katz Publisher Comments From the earliest poor laws to "the of welfare as we know it," the definitive examination of the question underlying all political debate in America: What does the government owe the individual? In The Price of Citizenship, the culmination of twenty... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Understanding Violence 2nd Ed PR by Elizabeth Englander Publisher Comments What impels human beings to harm others--family members or strangers? And how can these impulses and actions be prevented or controlled? Heightened public awareness of and concern about what is widely perceived as a recent explosion of violence, on a... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques by Nathan J Gordon Publisher Comments they interview.... (read more) Your price $150.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Social Movements: Critiques, Concepts, Case-Studies (Main Trends of the Modern World) by Stanford M Lyman Publisher Comments Social movements have shown themselves to be one of the most dramatic and effective forms of political action. America, founded as the result of a challenge to one kind of political order, has been, in part, recreated as a result of movements of... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $14.95 (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   They're All My Children: Foster Mothering in America by Danielle Wozniak Publisher Comments Through in-depth interviews and participant observation, Wozniak argues that we have not gone far enough in understanding the experiences of these women whose life work lies outside the usual boundaries. Nor have child welfare gone far enough in revising... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study by Barbara Kat Rothman Publisher Comments The much heralded "completion" of the human genome project in the year 2000 raises urgent questions: Do we now have a map of who we are? How will we control the uses of the potentially healing but also likely destructive and highly marketable information... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The World in 2020 by Hamish Mcrae Publisher Comments In The World in 2020, acclaimed commentator and best-selling author Hamish McRae paints a vivid competitive landscape in which culture and values will be the new sources of advantage for the industrialized nations. In the year 2020, all having embraced... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy & the Well-Being of Children & Families by Sarah S Brown Book News Annotation A report by the Committee on Unintended Pregnancy of the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences. Explores the extent (57%) and causes of unintended pregnancy, its consequences, and measures to reduce it among both teenagers... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Housing Policy in the United States: An Introduction by Alex F. Schwartz Publisher Comments "Housing Policy in the United States "is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reworking Success by Robert Theobald Publisher Comments Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millenniumis an eloquent call for fundamental social change in the face of the overwhelming challenges facing humankind at the start of the new millennium. Well-known futurist Robert Theobald argues that we must... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Understanding Media Critical Edition by Marshall Mcluhan Publisher Comments A new, beautifully packaged, critical edition of 'one of the half-dozen seminal works of twentieth century thought'.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance by Rachel F. Moran Publisher Comments As late as the 1960s, states could legally punish minorities who either had sex with or married persons outside of their racial groups. In this first comprehensive study of the legal regulation of interracial relationships, Rachel Moran grapples with the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unreasonable Men by Victor J Seidler Publisher Comments In "Unreasonable Men," Victor Seidler argues that the conflation of masculinity and reason has influenced and distorted Western concepts of modernity as well as the dominant forms of social theory and philosophy. This alliance of masculinity and reason... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Era by Philip M Taylor Publisher Comments A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest definition it has also been part of a process of persuasion at the heart of human communication... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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