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Cross-Cultural Comm. and Aging PR (Computers, Cognition, and Work) by Hana S Noor Al Deen Publisher Comments This volume focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures. This book is designed as a reader or supplementary text for college students in communication, gerontology, anthropology and sociology.... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $6.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty by Rebecca Blank Publisher Comments "Anyone seeking to understand the breadth and depth of the challenges we face in reshaping our nation's antipoverty policies will benefit immensely from reading this book."--Daniel Friedlander, The Manpower Demonstration Research... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Evolution of Work by Richard Donkin Publisher Comments Blood, Sweat & Tears is a captivating history of work, from prehistoric times to the present day. It offers fascinating and intelligent analyses of the individuals, assumptions, theories, developments, and practices that have so much changed work... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy, and Apocalypse by David Toole Publisher Comments In the summer of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, an event which led to the horror of World War I and which many historians suggest marked the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1992, Sarajevo again lurched into prominence... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Population Fix Breaking Americas Addicti by Edward C Hartman Publisher Comments "One billion Americans!" That is the heart-stopping census prediction that drives The Population Fix. The only available book describing America's persistent population growth as an addiction--a destructive, but treatable addiction. Alarming, provocative,... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City by John Chase Publisher Comments In this free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, from movie-star mansions to the alleys of the homeless, urban planner John Chase combines gossip, anecdote, archival research and tabloid-worthy self-revelation, grounding... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.45 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology (Sloan Technology) by Robert Pool Publisher Comments We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Creating a World That Works for All by Sharif Abdullah Publisher Comments Exclusivity--the desire to stay separate from other people--is at the root of most of the world's problems, according to Abdullah, who then presents a unique blueprint for social justice.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Megamall on the Hudson Planning Wal Mart by Chester L Mirsky Publisher Comments A detailed case study of one community's efforts to use the environmental assessment process to oppose a "big-box" megamall. Analysis of requirements and tactics at each process stage and of the major obstacles to grassroots participation in this process... (read more) Your price $26.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.50 (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   City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (Object Lessons Series) by John A Jakle Publisher Comments Today's cities shine brightly at night, illuminated by millions of street lamps, neon signs, and incandescent and fluorescent bulbs burning in the windows of office blocks, apartment buildings, and homes. Indeed, the modern city is in large part defined... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century by Norman Birnbaum Publisher Comments The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end, while socialism remained a vibrant force in European... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family by James S. Fishkin Publisher Comments A brief survey and brilliant critique of contemporary liberal political theory. Fishkin raises provocative issues, locates them within a broader theoretical framework, and demonstrates a urgent need for liberals to set certain priorities.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Clublife: Thugs, Drugs, and Chaos at New York City's Premier Nightclubs by Rob The Bouncer Publisher Comments On the surface, New York City's nightclub scene is a world of glamour and glitz-- a playground where the wealthy rub shoulders with celebrities while the "bridge and tunnel" crowd clamor to get in. But Rob the Bouncer knows the truth about what really... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cultural Resistance Reader by Stephen Duncombe Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-431).... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age by Kay S Hymowitz Publisher Comments A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. The results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they are bad news for children and for the country as a whole. The family upheaval has... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism by Mike Davis Publisher Comments An extraordinary group of thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of City of Quartz, explore future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism. Filled with "stories of greed, exploitation and enough conspicuous consumption to make a hedge... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker Publisher Comments In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet by Martha Shirk Publisher Comments In Lives on the Line, Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber meld affecting personal profiles with sophisticated demographic analysis to create a vivid portrait of what life is like for more than 14 million American children growing up below... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Basic Needs by Julie Landsman Publisher Comments Here Julie Landsman chronicles one year as a teacher in a program for students in such serious trouble they are asked to leave their middle schools and attend a special program for disruptive students. She allows her readers to get to know the students... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $4.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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