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The Future of Social Theory
by Nicholas Gane
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New interviews with the biggest names in social theory: Bauman, Sassen, Latour and Butler.... ( read more)
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The Welfare Debate (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America)
by Greg M. Shaw
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"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)
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The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study
by Barbara Kat Rothman
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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)
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Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia (in Contract)
by Nurul Islam
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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)
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Evaluation a Systematic Approach 5TH Edition
by Peter H Rossi
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The Fifth Edition of this bestselling book has been thoughtfully revised to make it the most useful and comprehensive resource in evaluation research today. New to this edition is: more coverage on meta-analysis, particularly in regard to its use in... ( read more)
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Rich Get Richer & the Poor Get Priso 7TH Edition
by Jeffrey Reiman
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What if our criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish - from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing? In this best-selling text, the author argues that actions of well... ( read more)
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The World in 2020
by Hamish Mcrae
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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)
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Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture #15: Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
by Max R Sherman
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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)
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The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation
by Jim Cullen
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The American Dream is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of... ( read more)
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Marriage and Family in a Changing Society Fourth Edition
by James M Henslin
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Organized to follow the typical development of the marital life cycle from romance and dating, to marriage (and its alternatives), to parenting, and often divorce, remarriage, and widowhood, James Henslin's Fourth Edition of
Marriage and Family in a... ( read more)
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The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy
by Leonard Steinhorn
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A look at the contributions of the Baby Boom generation describes how, with their involvement in the civil rights movement, protesting Vietnam, advocating women's and gay rights, and pursuing Watergate, they became in many ways as great if not a greater... ( read more)
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I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
by Wally Lamb
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In 2003 Wally Lamb — the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True — published Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum... ( read more)
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What I Have Learned: Thinking about the Future Then and Now
by Michael Marien
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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)
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High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do about It
by Joseph A Califano
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Subtitled, "How Substance Abuse Is Destroying America & We Can Change It".... ( read more)
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Applied Demography in the 21st Century
by Steve H Murdock
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Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century. Data bases, substantive issues and methodological approaches seldom considered just a few years ago have become mainstream... ( read more)
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Reworking Success
by Robert Theobald
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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)
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The Price of Citizenship: Refining the American Welfare State
by Michael B Katz
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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)
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Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People Are Healthier and More Attractive
by Alon Ziv
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This book combines sex, race, health and genetics in a daring new theory. Written with accessible, direct prose, anecdotes, analogies, and examples from human and animal studies, it is sure to spark debate in a massive way.... ( read more)
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Understanding Violence 2nd Ed PR
by Elizabeth Englander
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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)
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Unreasonable Men
by Victor J Seidler
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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)
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