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by Martin E Seligman Synopsis "Abnormal Psychology" explores the interactions between the psychological and biological influences on human behaviour. This 4th edition contains 1800 new references and highlights important contemporary trends in the field. This resource also includes a... (read more) List Price $140.50 Your price $96.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Diane Mcwhorter Publisher Comments "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation. A few months later, Ku Klux... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Richard T. Schaefer Publisher Comments This is a low-cost, paperback, condensed version of Sociology: A Brief Introduction, Sixth Edition. The conciseness, readability, and highly focused coverage of Sociology Matters are designed to appeal to instructors who rely on several texts rather than... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms the world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Theresa Funiciello Publisher Comments Now in paperback, Tyranny of Kindness is an authoritative indictment of America's welfare system--by a former welfare mother. Theresa Funicello--who has appeared on Donahue and other programs talking about her ideas--reveals the injustices and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nancy L. Stokey Publisher Comments This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied. After... (read more) List Price $85.50 Your price $53.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Pipher Publisher Comments In The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher does for the American family what she did for adolescent girls and their parents in her bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: she opens our eyes wide to the desperate realities we are facing and shows us a way out... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gerald C. Davison Publisher Comments Kring, Davison, Neale, and Johnson's Abnormal Psychology sets the standard for clarity, cutting-edge coverage, authoritative content, and clinical emphasis. The authors invite students to examine the many different facets of psychopathology -- to search... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price $39.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jeff Goodwin Publisher Comments The Contexts Reader collects over sixty of the best articles from the award-winning magazine Contexts in one affordable anthology. Recognized by Library Journal as one of the "Top 10 Best New Magazines of 2002," Contexts magazine is highly regarded for... (read more) List Price $38.75 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mary Jo Hatch Publisher Comments Second edition with numerous figures and tables to help explain theories.... (read more) List Price $67.95 Your price $51.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Glenn T. Eskew Publisher Comments Historian Glenn Eskew describes the changing face of Birmingham's civil rights campaign, from the politics of accommodation practiced by the city's black bourgeoisie in the 1950s to local pastor Fred L. Shuttlesworth's groundbreaking use of nonviolent... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ethan Watters Publisher Comments The numbers can't be ignored: the current generation of young Americans is delaying marriage longer than any other generation in history. But while the media trumpets this fact in a way that seems designed to scare us, until now no one has really taken... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas More Publisher Comments The first volume to offer students the original English translation of "Utopia" with an explanation of its historical and intellectual context, this volume will help students better understand the reception of one of the most influential books in the... (read more) Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Elaine H. Kim Publisher Comments In more than 30 powerful, candid interviews, individuals from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles render a portrait of the Korean-American community grappling with racial tensions, class and gender differences, and differing notions of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jay Macleod Publisher Comments With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and "Hallway Hangers." Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Herbert J. Gans Publisher Comments In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term “underclass” to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ubiquitous label has relegated a wide variety of people—welfare recipients, the working... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Bestselling author Tom Wolfe introduces the 1960s through essays about extravagant new styles of life, the Beatles, bouffant hairdos, Kar Kustomizers, and much more.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Arlie Russell Hochschild Publisher Comments The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joel M. Charon Publisher Comments What does it mean to be human? Are human beings free? Why is there misery in the world? TEN QUESTIONS: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE examines the philosophies of the classical sociologists such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Mead, and Berger and looks at how the... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Butcher Publisher Comments Finally, a briefer version of the most authoritative and respected introductory book on abnormal psychology. As in their more comprehensive version, the esteemed author team of Butcher, Mineka and Hooley offers readers a thoroughly researched and up-to... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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