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The Risk Society and Beyond by Barbara (edt) Adam Publisher Comments Ulrich Beck's best selling Risk Society established risk on the sociological agenda. It brought together a wide range of issues centering on environmental, health and personal risk, provided a rallying ground for researchers and activists in a variety of... (read more) Your price $43.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Society and freedom :an introduction to humanist sociology by Joseph A Scimecca Publisher Comments This book is a thoughtful examination of the discipline of sociology from a humanistic perspective. It contends that dispassionate observation and analysis are not enough; rather, sociologists must actively challenge views and conditions that restrain... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City by Gerald D Suttles Publisher Comments While he did the research for this book, Gerald Suttles lived for almost three years in the high-delinquency area around Hull House on Chicago's New West Side. He came to know it intimately and was welcomed by its residents, who are Italian, Mexican... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection by Michael G. Zey Publisher Comments Some people understand the potential for technological advances to foster real social and personal change. Among them is Michael Zey, whose groundbreaking predictions about superlongevity -- humans living up to 150 years -- are detailed in "Ageless... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity by Albert Murray Publisher Comments Murray is "an all-purpose, all-American literary intellectual." In "From the Briarpatch File, " he writes as engagingly about "New York in the Twenties" as about the beginnings of his career as a writer. He is as profound in his assessment of the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth by Marc Egnal Publisher Comments Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Times, Ancient Hours: Working Lives in the Twenty-First Century by Pietro Basso Publisher Comments It is a commonly expressed view that the sickness of our society is unemployment. Less frequently argued is the fact that we are, at the same time, suffering from overwork. It is even more rare to hear that the two sicknesses, unemployment and overwork... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $6.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy: , by Richardson Dilworth Publisher Comments Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price $38.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis Publisher Comments "Graced with a bold political and environmental vision, much splendid phrasemaking and a multitude of facts. . . . A truly eccentric contribution."--The New York Times Book Review <BR>Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to Al Qaeda (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) by Mark Juergensmeyer Publisher Comments Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to the Christian militia to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imagination of political rebels around the world... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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   Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) by Martin Gilens Publisher Comments Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. "Why Americans Hate Welfare" shows that the public's views... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City by Mark Kingwell Publisher Comments An exploration of urbanism, personal identity, and how the space we live in shapes us According to philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell, the transnational global cityNew York and Shanghaiis the most significant machine our species has ever... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation by Jim Nelson Black Publisher Comments Exposing the liberal bias in today's universities, this book provides hard evidence that shows how today's colleges are covertly and overtly proselytizing with leftist slants on sexuality, politics, and lifestyles.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Growing up Poor by Terry Williams Publisher Comments No descriptive material is available for this title.... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum Publisher Comments Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my mom's in Brooklyn, thinking I'd eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nun's mustache and wondering where I was going to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Importance of Being Lazy by Al Gini Publisher Comments Drawing upon in-depth case studies of vacation habits and the observations of philosophers, writers, and sociologists such as Aristotle, Mark Twain and Thorstein Veblen, Al Gini argues why vacations are so venerated and why 'doing nothing' is a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Common purpose :strengthening families and neighborhoods to rebuild America by Lisbeth Schorr Publisher Comments In-depth stories of large-scale social programs that are successfully transforming troubled inner-city neighborhoods and communities -- and the reasons they are successful. In her previous book, Within Our Reach, now with over 85,000 copies in print... (read more) Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Metro Futures: Economic Solutions for Cities and Their Suburbs (New Democracy Forum) by Dan Luria Publisher Comments Current political campaigning has catapulted urban issues into the spotlight, but this is the first book to shift the discussion from despair over inner-city problems to solutions that recognize the essential link between urban and suburban well-being... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change by Rene J Dubos Publisher Comments 'Complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living, ' Rene Dubos asserted in this classic essay on ecology and health. All the accomplishments of science and technology, he argued, will not bring the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-Technological Society by Terence Riley Publisher Comments In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted "The Universitas Project," a two-day conference sponsored by the Museum's International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The distinguished participants, from a wide range of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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