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by Howard Chudacoff  Publisher Comments In this fascinating and enlightening book, Chudacoff presents a history of childrens play in the U.S. He highlights the transformations of play that have occurred and provides fresh historical depth to current discussions about topics like childhood... (read more)  List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Robert M Solow Publisher Comments The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jackie Krasa Rogers Publisher Comments Now firmly established as fixtures of the American workplace, temporary employees comprise a much-discussed but still poorly understood segment of the labor force. In this consciousness-raising book, Jackie Krasas Rogers explores the realities of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joel F Handler Publisher Comments Current welfare reforms -- including recently enacted federal legislation -- are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tracey Meares Publisher Comments Meares and Kahan raise explosive questions in their discussion of the new movement for community policing. Revisiting a controversial clash between residents of a Chicago housing project and the ACLU, they challenge us to revisit our national... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin J Smith Publisher Comments < p> Americans' failures are as spectacular as their successes: bridges that collapse; flying cars that crash; sports promotions run amok; deodorant that nearly destroyed the earth; and even failures that failed to happen < /p> < p>... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.94 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jay Walljasper Publisher Comments Praised by The New York Timesas "one of the most distinctive voices in magazine journalism, " the Utne Reader's mission has been to uncover the important and inspiring news that the major media overlooks. Now, with that same dedication, the editors of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Melville C Branch Publisher Comments Planning by civil governments, businesses, and the military services has been considered separately in both theory and practice. Those concerned with each of these applications have had little contact with those in the others, despite the common concerns... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Keit Wallace Synopsis This book describes the world's most ancient homeland defense from the Vedic tradition of India (the source of Yoga). This secret knowledge of the Himalayas has been revived by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This is not merely a theoretical approach.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Seabrook Publisher Comments "The inspirational Jeremy Seabrook beats any celebrity radical in the art of speaking hard truths through fine prose." -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent"Jeremy Seabrook [has] a preacher's talent for prophesy and a capacity for righteous indignation reminiscent... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Candace Clark Publisher Comments Introductory reader (40 readings) which uses a social interactionist perspective and parallels core texts.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Miscellaneous) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn M Bryant Publisher Comments Living within a "Black World" and coming to know racism first-hand is rarely the path traveled by the average white American. Lynn Markovich Bryant shares her story of living within a black environment and dealing with racism.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Elster Publisher Comments This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that offers a tool box of mechanisms--nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels--that can be used to explain complex social phenomena... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steve Allen Publisher Comments Critics have raved about this delightful book! Allen addresses the muddleheadedness (or "dumbth") that pervades all segments of American life and work, and offers 81 "rules" for good thinking.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Buchanan Publisher Comments The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people’s choices be predicted by a single theory? How can any... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Colette Brooks Publisher Comments Winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for a distinguished nonfiction work in progress, " In the City" is an unclassifiable, thoroughly original consideration of modern urban life as Brooks's eye traverses an unnamed contemporary city committing "random... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Randy Albelda Publisher Comments In the mid-1980s, the popularity of Charles Murray's anti-welfare treatise "Losing Ground" signaled the rising influence of the right-wing critique of welfare. In "Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond," a respected array of social scientists... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vincenzo Dinicola Book News Annotation Offers a model of cultural family therapy for working with families across cultures, particularly immigrants, refugees, and minorities in mainstream society. The author draws together several emerging trends in therapy and the human sciences... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Black Publisher Comments Each year billions of dollars are spent by people who want to be inspired to change their lives. From giants like Tony Robbins and Zig Ziglar, to lesser knowns like Dale Irvin (the Professional Summarizer) and Russ Stolnack (the Executive Imposter) just... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alf H Walle Publisher Comments Elements of popular culture (such as literature and films) are major industries. If scholars are to fully understand how popular culture evolves and functions, techniques for dealing with the impact of business need to be factored into the analysis. The... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $8.73 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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