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by L Lynch Publisher Comments A unique volume of studies that deals with the impact of cultural conditioning on health attitudes, health practices, and the whole concept of health. Consists of articles by 24 authorities, with the cultural groups studied representing the Americas... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jon Miller Publisher Comments In this book John Miller demonstrates that access to networks of organizational communication is in fact fundamentally influenced by race and gender.... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Raphae Riemer Publisher Comments Every year, the welfare system in America absorbs billions of dollars--money that could be used to eliminate poverty by creatingjobs and subsidizing wages. The Prisoners of Welfare proposes a comprehensive alternative to America's fundamentally flawed... (read more) List Price $67.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard Godden Book News Annotation With a cover featuring Dorothea Lange's famed "Migrant Mother" photograph, this collection of a dozen essays offers fresh perspectives on the area that FDR called "the nation's number one economic problem." This image (one of many featured) that came... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $25.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Douglas Frantz Publisher Comments A prize-winning reporter, his wife, and their two kids describe life in Disney's vision of the future. In 1997, six months after the first residents had moved into Celebration, Florida-Disney's town of the future with its distinctly retro link to a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark Robert Rank Publisher Comments - Presents compelling reasons why poverty should be a cause for national concern... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dana Thomas Publisher Comments Once luxury was available only to the rarefied and aristocratic world of old money and royalty. It offered a history of tradition, superior quality, and a pampered buying experience. Today, however, luxury is simply a product packaged and sold by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John R Short Publisher Comments Traditional models, radical interpretations and post-modern concerns are synthesized in this accessible and evocative account of the central issues of contemporary urbanism and city life.... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steven Barkan Book News Annotation Draws on sociology and the other social sciences to address types of collective and political violence committed by cults, survivalist and militia groups, hate groups, terrorists, police and other governmental agents, rioters, and revolutionaries... (read more) List Price $32.20 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lillian B Rubin Book News Annotation Results of Rubin's (sociology, Queens College and UC Berkeley) intensive interviews or questionnaires with some 1,000 heterosexuals aged 13 to 48 and members of all social classes. She studies the generation of the sexual revolution, that which came... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Adrienne Sti Butler Publisher Comments The Oklahoma City bombing, intentional crashing of airliners on September 11, 2001, and anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001 have made Americans acutely aware of the impacts of terrorism. These events and continued threats of terrorism have raised... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Fabrizio Butera Publisher Comments How can the results of social influence and social psychology research be applied in solving real social issues? That is the main question that this ground-breaking book seeks to answer. This book represents an important step forward in bridging social... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $5.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joe R Feagin Publisher Comments One of the tragedies of any society is the failure of its people and leaders to understand the real social problems confronting them. Over the coming decades the United States is demonstrably on a path of increasing social conflict, accentuated class and... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jean Bertr Aristide Publisher Comments In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when "free" trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Carol Brightman Publisher Comments Brightman explores the myth of American omnipotence as she takes readers through the various stages of the war in Iraq.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Catherine Riessman Publisher Comments Sociology and psychology are experiencing an increase of interest in qualitative methods, yet existing literature emphasizes quantitative methods. Qualitative Studies in Social Work Research provides actual examples of social work investigators working... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Cynthia F Epstein Publisher Comments In this important book a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender research in a range of disciplines, showing how distinctions between the sexes are maintained by ideology and social controls.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Philip Ball Publisher Comments Are there “natural laws” that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of atoms and planets? Unlikely as it may seem, such laws now seem to be emerging from... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Barbara Schneider Publisher Comments "A fascinating account of how the lives and dreams of American teenagers have changed in the past 50 years" (Mihaly Csikszentmihali), this landmark study offers practical, specific advice about how parents and teachers can better direct and support... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jane Samuels Publisher Comments * Applies the work of Amartya Sen to urban development* Sets the agenda for new urban development policy In this book Amartya Sen's concept of Development as Freedom is applied for the first time to the challenges of urban governance across the globe... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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