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by Bill Stumpf  Publisher Comments A playful look at how effective design can restore civility, community, and joy to modern society. In Bill Stumpf's incisive book, he argues that good design is not about fashion, but about quality of life. The ice palace of the title refers to an... (read more)  List Price $17.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Mary Ellen Brown Publisher Comments William Motherwell (1797-1835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in 1827. His views on authenticity, editorial practice, the nature of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Hall Publisher Comments Every city-dweller has seen them, ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian D Smedley Publisher Comments Eight sparkling essays by leading thinkers on how to give all americans a fair shake, published with a hot new social change group. "If we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Otomar J Bartos Publisher Comments From family feuds to labor strikes and international warfare, human conflict is an ever-present and universal social problem and the methods to manage it are a challenge for everyone, from average citizens to policymakers and social theorists. This study... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony M Orum Publisher Comments Changing Societies offers a fresh, timely approach to sociology. Based upon nested theory, the book explains sociology through processes of global and local change-showing how social change occurs in larger global or national structures and influences... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price $6.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert W Weinbach Synopsis This acclaimed statistics text requires no prior knowledge of statistics, emphasizing a conceptual understanding of the topic and its usefulness to social work practice and research. Rather than focusing on mathematical computation, "Statistics for... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joshua Meyrowitz Publisher Comments How has television affected our everyday experience? This question has generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Meg Meeker Publisher Comments Sexually transmitted diseases among teens has become a full blown epidemic-- a national emergency that's killing our kids. In this groundbreaking book Dr. Meeker uncovers the story of this serious epidemic and the pattern of political correctness and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Hewlett Publisher Comments Sylvia Ann Hewlett, noted feminist scholar and child advocate, and Cornel West, Harvard philosopher and well-known human rights leader, join in a rare partnership to explore one of the most painful problem of our times. Why are hundreds of thousands of... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $1.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas L Whitman Publisher Comments Despite a growing body of scholarship on the phenomenon of adolescent parenting, minimal attention has been given to investigating systematic changes in adolescent mothers' and their children's psychological functioning over time. This book reports on a... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price $5.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leonard D Cain Publisher Comments In A Man's Grasp Should Exceed His Reach, author Leonard Cain delivers a biographical study of Austin Porterfield, a noted sociologist from a small university. This erudite work traces the life of Porterfield from his meager upbringing in an impoverished... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $36.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Burnett Publisher Comments "Useful Toil" engages freshly and directly with the "ordinary" people of the 19th century. John Burnett has assembled 27 telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people--wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Mantell Publisher Comments Creating Successful Communities is a practical compendium of techniques for effective land use and growth management. It offers a framework for land use decision making and growth management: techniques for protecting key resources such as agricultural... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Ellis Gordon Publisher Comments Gordon's account of teaching writing in Washington prisons is aided by essays and stories contributed by the prisoners themselves. Together, Gordon and his students provide revealing glimpses of this vast, secret-laden subculture of incarcerated... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Brooks 
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments In this new book Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $54.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Sernau Publisher Comments Rapid economic changes throughout the world economy offer new possibilities for economic development. Yet the multitude of people in an impoverished underclass often find the burst of economic development in their country continues to exclude them. As... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Strauss Publisher Comments Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Akiko Hashimoto Publisher Comments The Gift of Generations is a comparative study of aging and the social contract in Japan and the United States. By using original, systematically comparable data collected in these countries, the book explores the different cultural definitions of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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