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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (Dover Books on Art, Art History) by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $1.49 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ego Psychology & Social Work Practic 2ND Edition by Eda G Goldstein Publisher Comments When Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice was first published in 1984, it met the challenge of filling a void in the field. A decade later, it is still being widely used in the classroom and by practitioners and supervisors. While ego psychological... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future by Peggy Holman Synopsis This is a one-stop guide to 18 proven change strategies for tapping human potential in organizations and communities. It features chapters from highly respected change experts, including Marvin Weisbord and Masaaki Imai, and provides practical answers to... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $29.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Perfect Madness by Judith Warner Publisher Comments This paradigm-shattering "New York Times" bestseller investigates how women have fallen into the trap of "total motherhood," and how that mindset damages them and their relationships with their husbands and children.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman Publisher Comments Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 (Architecture, Landscape and American Culture) by Abigail Van Slyck Publisher Comments Since they were first established in the 1880s, children's summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation by Clifford Winston Publisher Comments This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis of public and private sector capabilities, concluding that public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? the Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case by Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher Comments This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and philosophers--to debate the death penalty in a spirit of open inquiry and civil discussion. Here, as the contributors present their reasons for or against capital punishment... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (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

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   Handbook for Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Hispanic Populations by Robert C Freeman Publisher Comments This volume, with accompanying CD-ROM, is a compendium of information providing practical guidelines for individuals doing drug abuse research with Hispanic populations. Aimed at graduate students and researchers or service providers initiating programs... (read more) List Price $97.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution and Global Politics) by Manuel Castells Publisher Comments Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life--or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven Review "Uncompromising and provocative....By mixing history, political interpretation and sociological analysis, Piven and Cloward provide the best explanation to date of our present situation...no future discussion of welfare can afford to ignore them."--Peter... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake: The Failure of American Housing Policy by Howard Husock Publisher Comments Low-income housing programs and lesser-known initiatives have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage, Mr. Husock argues. He emphasizes the deep but unappreciated importance to American society of economically diverse... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Heath Street Stories: A Look Back at 1950's Innocence in Suburban America by Gehla S Knight Publisher Comments 1950, and the cookie-cutter houses in the slipstream of a paper mill promise new beginnings for the families moving to Heath Street. From the tragicomedy of Atom Bomb drills to the wonder of glitzy gadgetry, Dyanflow transmissions and automatic canasta... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Contested City by John H Mollenkopf Review John Mollenkopf has written the most comprehensive book to date on the political analysis of contemporary American urbanization.... The result is a tightly presented, well-written text that conveys forcefully several key ideas on the evolution of cities... (read more) Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 Media Monopoly 5TH Edition by Ben H Bagdikian Publisher Comments This sixth edition of the classic work on control of the modern media describes the digital revolution and reveals startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States. An eye-opening attack on the growing concentration of major... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media by Robert W Mcchesney Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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