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by Robert Kuttner  Publisher Comments In the years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it," millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $4.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stuart Hall Publisher Comments Understanding Modern Societies is a new sociology textbook which provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the history, sociology and ideas of modern society. It has been written for students and readers who have no prior knowledge of... (read more) List Price $68.95 Your price $52.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Froma Walsh Publisher Comments Since its original publication two decades ago, this widely adopted text has been acclaimed as a milestone in the clinical literature. Surveying the vast diversity of family forms, life challenges, and value systems in our rapidly changing society, the... (read more) List Price $79.75 Your price $54.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gareth Morgan Publisher Comments In the twenty years since its first publication, Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise: that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price $48.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Giddens Publisher Comments Offers a new analysis of the ideas of the 3 authors who have contributed most to the establishment of the basic framework of contemporary sociology.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juliet Schor Publisher Comments This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Collins Publisher Comments Jim Collins answers the social sector with a monograph to accompany Good to Great. 30-50% of those who bought Good to Great work in the social sector. This monograph is a response to questions raised by readers in the social sector. It is not a new... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sherrod Brown Publisher Comments This third edition of Congress from the Inside adds an entirely new section that discusses topics such as the Florida election in 2000; September 11, 2001; the 107th Congress; redistricting in Ohio; and the war in Iraq. Congress from the Inside has... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janet Thomas Publisher Comments November 30, 1999, is seen as a day of infamy -- the day the World Trade Organization was battled head-on in Seattle. Media coverage, with its images of gas masks, tear-gas victims, bullying cops, rampaging hoodlums, and ruffled WTO dignitaries... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pamela Moro Publisher Comments This comparative reader takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an... (read more) List Price $60.35 Your price $49.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose B. Ashford Publisher Comments Ashford, LeCroy, and Lortie's ground-breaking book offers students a balanced, integrated introduction to human behavior in the social environment. Lively and comprehensive, this book succeeds by helping students connect foundation knowledge with... (read more) List Price $137.95 Your price $89.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Virginia M. Satir Publisher Comments Revised and expanded seminal work on families, with over a million copies sold in 12 languages. The New Peoplemaking expresses Satir's most evolved thoughts on self-worth, communication, family systems, and the ways in which people relate to one another.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy S. Wharton Publisher Comments Gender is one of the most important topics in the field of sociology, and as a system of social practices it inspires a multitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Gender offers an introductory overview of gender theory and research, offering a... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carlos Castaneda Publisher Comments "A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived."--don Juan In 1961 a young anthropologist subjected himself to an extraordinary apprenticeship to bring back a fascinating glimpse of a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elliot Sober Publisher Comments No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In Unto... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas C. Schelling Review Against the backdrop of the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s, Thomas Schelling's book The Strategy of Conflictset forth his vision of game theory as a unifying framework for the social sciences. Schelling showed that a party can strengthen its... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Hurst Publisher Comments 'Social Inequality is all around us, and its impact on our lives and the social structure of the United States is unmistakable. Changes brought about by technology and globalization have affected international inequality and the socioeconomic position of... (read more) List Price $73.15 Your price $59.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith S Wallerstein Publisher Comments A ten-year study of sixty middle-class families served as the basis for this book. Twenty-five years after the original breakup, Wallerstein discovers unexpected changes in the children, now mostly adults.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Ehrenreich 
Publisher Comments In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us on an original journey from the elaborate human... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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