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by Annual Edition  Publisher Comments This Thirty-Seventh Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: SOCIOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an... (read more)  List Price $27.85 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David Mayhew Publisher Comments In this second edition to a book that has now achieved canonical status, David R. Mayhew argues that the principal motivation of legislators is reelection and that the pursuit of this goal affects the way they behave and the way that they make public... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments "This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks (is) one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review" Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tim Delany Publisher Comments "Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application" begins with an examination of social theory and is followed by a review of the major schools of thought. It provides an in-depth analysis and examination of social theory and its relevancy to... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price $60.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claide S. Fischer Publisher Comments The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology--how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments "Sennett presses social theory and historical experience to his service in developing a provocative thesis: that the public world stage has been usurped by the private psychic scene to the detriment of both individual and society".--Carl Schorske... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Max Weber Synopsis Some of Weber's most trenchant essays on sociology and economic issues. Many of these works have been translated expressly for this volume and include: "The Concept of Social Action," "Power, Authority, and Imperative Control," "Bureaucreatic Authority,"... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold R Kerbo Publisher Comments Praised for its thorough research and scholarship, Social Stratification and Inequality provides a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the global economic and social divisions in human societies. While the book is grounded in the nature of social... (read more) List Price $95.50 Your price $65.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rick Fantasia Publisher Comments A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cooper Publisher Comments This primary text for advanced clinical practice courses at the core of the MSW curriculum teaches students how to integrate theory and practice on multiple levels. Building on the foundation of generalist courses, this student... (read more) List Price $105.50 Your price $69.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy F. Cott Publisher Comments We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution. <P> From the... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard P. Halgin Publisher Comments Offering state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical perspectives, A Casebook in Abnormal Psychology: From the Files of Experts features first-person accounts of compelling cases from leading experts in the field of psychopathology. These internationally... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments A bestselling author draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives bakers, a bartender turned-ad executive, and many others to call into question the terms of a new economy.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Abraham Rosman About the Author Abraham Rosman received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. His first fieldwork was with the Kamuri of Bornu Province, in northern Nigeria. He has taught at Vassar College, Antioch College, and Barndard, College, Columbia University, where he... (read more) List Price $85.75 Your price $48.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carlos Castaneda Publisher Comments Each of Carlos Castaneda's books is a brilliant and tantalizing burst of illumination into the depths of our deepest mysteries, like a sudden flash of light, like a burst of lightning over the desert at night, which shows us a world that is both alien... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Loren Cruden Publisher Comments andnbsp; Shamanism is a spiritual path that emphasizes close connections withthe immediate environment. As environments change, so too must shamanismchange, but how can one distinguish between healthy innovation and corruptionsof tradition? Coyote's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Doung Mcadam Publisher Comments In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georges Canguilhem Publisher Comments The Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early nineteenth century, showing that the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara Mclanahan Publisher Comments Nonwhite and white, rich and poor, born to an unwed mother or weathering divorce, over half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children simply will not fare as well as their peers who live with both... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elijah Anderson Publisher Comments This incisive book examines the code of decency, violence, and moral life of the inner city, and how it is a response to the lack of jobs, stigma of race, and rampant drug use. Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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