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Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children by Ann Hulbert Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-434) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $3.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform by Bruce A Weber Book News Annotation Weber (Rural Policy Research Institute), Greg Duncan (Joint Center for Poverty Research), and Leslie Whitener (Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture) present 16 contributions to a joint research conference jointly sponsored by... (read more) Your price $6.73 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The McDonaldization Thesis: Explorations and Extensions by George Ritzer Publisher Comments In this major new book, the author of the bestselling McDonaldization of Society provides an exploration of one of the most innovative and imaginative sociological theses of the last decade of the twentieth century - `McDonaldization'. </p> <p... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $28.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contemporary Social Theory #3: Critical Theory and Methodology by Raymond Morrow Synopsis Recipient of Choice Magazine's 1996 Outstanding Academic Book Award Author Raymond Morrow outlines and recounts the development of the major tenets of critical theory, exemplifying them through the works of two of their most influential, recent adherents:... (read more) Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy by Robert Forrant Publisher Comments How can cities and regions foster sustainable development? What role can universities play in this process? These are the central questions addressed in this interdisciplinary collection of essays.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cities in Our Future, C by Robert Geddes Publisher Comments By the year 2000, half of humanity will live in urban areas. The problems of large-scale urbanization are profound, and coping with growth in the world's cities will be the most pressing challenge of the 21st century. In June 1996, the third in a series... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Broken Hearth Reversing the Moral Colla by William J Bennett Publisher Comments Best-selling author William Bennett calls Americans to make defending and preserving the traditional nuclear family their highest priority. The nuclear family–both within and outside of the Christian community–is under siege as never before... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $4.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood & Sustain by Peter Evans Publisher Comments This innovative, coherent, and positive-thinking collection builds on the idea of "livability": the attainment of decent livelihoods as well as ecological sustainability. Throughout their examination of eight major Third World cities, the contributors... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Critical Theory and Public Life (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by John Forester Publisher Comments Jurgen Habermas's critical communications theory of society has excited widespread interest in recent years. The essays in this book explore the research implications of Habermas's theory for the analysis of modern problems of public life. Spanning the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scientific Geography Series #48: Managing Human Services Personnel by Peter J Pecra Synopsis "If this guide is read by managers and supervisors in social work agencies on both sides of the Atlantic in conjunction with the growing recognition of the need for more professional managerial activity within both the private and public sectors, then it... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $6.00 (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   Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings, Thirteenth Edition by James M Henslin Publisher Comments For more than thirty years and through twelve editions, James Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world. Now in its thirteenth edition, the most popular anthology in all of sociology includes... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein Publisher Comments IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Communicating for Cultural Competence by James W Leigh Book News Annotation Explains and demonstrates a model for social workers to communicate with persons of color by casting them in the role of experts on their own lives. Emphasis is placed on the beginning stage of the helping process, the information-gathering stage... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education, & Family from the 1820s to the 1920s by John Burnett Publisher Comments In this companion volume to "Useful Toil," John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred prviously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of 19th... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race Relations in the United States, 1960-1980 Volume Four by Thomas Upchurch Publisher Comments Few decades in American history were as full of drama and historical significance as the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1960s, a revolution in race relations occurred, seeing the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, the American Indian Movement, and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $34.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock Publisher Comments The literary debut of the funniest and most incisive new voice to come along since Michael Moore — and the acclaimed director of the film phenomenon of the year. Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For thirty... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Field Instruction 3RD Edition by David Royse Synopsis A helpful book that addresses the most common questions, concerns, and problems social work students encounter in their field work. Field Instruction uses a practical question and answer format to present need-to-know information such as: preparing for... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $8.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century by Judith Sealander Publisher Comments Charts the effort to use state regulation to guarantee health and security for America??'s children.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #30: Test Item Bias by Steven J Osterlind Synopsis Steven J. Osterlind discusses five strategies for detecting bias: analysis of variance, transformed item difficulties, chi square, item characteristic curve, and distractor response.... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book of Probes by Marshall Mcluhan Publisher Comments Until now, no book has explored the full expanse of Marshall McLuhan's thinking. Here we have assembled alongside his most prescient aphorisms excerpts from the full range of his astounding life's work. One revolutionary book distills the wisdom and wit... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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