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Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics
by Mona Harrington
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Who is caring for America's children, for the elderly, the sick and the disabled? This book argues that in practical terms, the answer is - nobody. It is a clear, feminist reassessment of these issues that moves beyond stop-gap solutions like flexi-time... ( read more)
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Reading for Life: Beauty, Pluralism, and Responsibility
by Margaret Ruth Miles
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In this book, Margaret Miles proposes that the richest human life develops two interdependent qualities: enjoyment and generosity. By discussing the books that have taught her this, Miles shows that it is not enough to read books in the best possible... ( read more)
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Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System
by Susan Sheehan
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With the same acute observation, humor, and compassion she brought to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Is There No Place on Earth for Me?. Sheehan tells the story of one family's passage through the child-welfare system. A searing account of poverty, addiction,... ( read more)
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Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media
by Robert W Mcchesney
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McChesney, Americas leading media scholar, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media criticism and scholarship.... ( read more)
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Granite Garden Urban Nature & Human Desi
by Anne Whiston Spirn
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This award-winning book by a Harvard landscape architect proves how important it is to understand the natural settings of cities—their air, water, geology, plant, and animal life—to create better, more habitable urban environments.... ( read more)
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Development & Social Change 3RD Edition
by Philip Mcmichael
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Third edition.... ( read more)
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Food Security in a Global Economy: Veterinary Medicine and Public Health
by Gary Smith
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the health and productivity of the livestock and poultry industries and the safety of foods of animal origin in the United States were severely compromised by infectious diseases. Bovine tuberculosis was a widespread... ( read more)
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The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America (Columbia Histories of Modern American Life)
by Jon C Teaford
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This vivid history traces the evolution of American metropolitan life from the end of World War II to the present, a period of time that has seen the amorphous sprawl of freeways and shopping centers replace racially and economically integrated cities.... ( read more)
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Killing as Punishment: Reflections on the Death Penalty in America
by Hugo Adam Bedau
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One of the most respected (and ardent) opponents of the death penalty collects his highly acclaimed essays on capital punishment.... ( read more)
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Clubland the Nocturnal Carnival of Ecsta
by Frank Owen
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In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on “Special K,” a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted... ( read more)
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Bargaining with Uncertainty: Decision-Making in Public Health, Technologial Safety, and Environmental Quality
by Merrie G Klapp
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In this intriguing volume, Merrie G. Klapp explains how regulatory decisions in such crucial areas as public health, technological safety, and environmental quality are molded and recast. She finds that "scientific uncertainty" is a key factor, with... ( read more)
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Critical Issues for Future Social Work Practice with Aging Persons
by Sheila M Neysmith
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Written by social work theorists and specialists from the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand, the chapters focus on topics of long-term care as they affect vulnerable groups -- women in particular -- as they age. Subjects include constructing community... ( read more)
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J Anthony Lukas
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Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.... ( read more)
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Durkheim Is Dead!
by Arthur Asa Berger
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In this sociology textbook/mystery novel, students can join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory. In 1910, the most prominent social theorists in the world gather in London for a conference... ( read more)
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Faithful Angels
by James O. (edt) Billups
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Special Features- Describes creative interventions that go beyond conventional micro-oriented practice.- Illustrates work in community and social development, social policy formulation, and social action.- Presents examples of exceptional activism for... ( read more)
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Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions
by John W Creswell
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This book explores the philosophical underpinnings, history and key elements of each of five qualitative inquiry traditions: biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography and case study. John W Creswell relates research designs to each of the... ( read more)
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
by Eric Klinenberg
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over... ( read more)
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Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market
by Pierre Bourdieu
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Pierre Bourdieu, described by The Nation as "worthy of the militant mantle of Sartre and Foucault," here continues the themes advanced so successfully in his previous book Acts of Resistance. Firing Back is an eloquent dissection of globalization's... ( read more)
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Water for Gotham: A History
by Gerard T Koeppel
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Water for Gotham tells the spirited story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element--clean water. Drawing on primary sources, personal narratives, and anecdotes, Gerard Koeppel demonstrates how... ( read more)
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Introducing the World of Education: A Case Study Reader
by Robert K Yin
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Introducing the World of Education: A Case Study Reader is a unique and invaluable anthology that addresses both primary and secondary phases of education. Edited by the best-selling author of Case Study Research and Applications of Case Study Research... ( read more)
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