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Urban Enclaves: Identity and Place in America (Contemporary Social Issues) by Mark Abrahamson Publisher Comments This brief, readable supplement asks the question, "How do communities which are as distinct as Boston's Beacon Hill and Chicago's South Side form in diverse urban areas and why?"... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 (Architecture, Landscape and American Culture) by Abigail Van Slyck Publisher Comments Since they were first established in the 1880s, children's summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Price of Citizenship: Refining the American Welfare State by Michael B Katz Publisher Comments From the earliest poor laws to "the of welfare as we know it," the definitive examination of the question underlying all political debate in America: What does the government owe the individual? In The Price of Citizenship, the culmination of twenty... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America by Ann Powers Publisher Comments American bohemia is alive and well and redefining the way all of us live, love, and work: so declares Ann Powers in an invigorating blend of criticism, journalism, and autobiography that takes us into the heart of alternative America today. Powers, one... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Media Monopoly 5TH Edition by Ben H Bagdikian Publisher Comments This sixth edition of the classic work on control of the modern media describes the digital revolution and reveals startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States. An eye-opening attack on the growing concentration of major... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media by Robert W Mcchesney Publisher Comments McChesney, Americas leading media scholar, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media criticism and scholarship.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Futureshop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want by Daniel Nissanoff Publisher Comments A bold forecast of how the coming auction culture revolution will radically transform what, how, and why we buy Visionary entrepreneur Daniel Nissanoff breaks the news that the eBay auction phenomenon is about to explode in a big new way, revolutionizing... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $6.94 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today by Don Lattin Publisher Comments “ Lattin ... captures the double vision of religion, always looking forward and backward at the same time.”... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Second Shift by Arlie Ru Hochschild Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape by Joel Kotkin Publisher Comments In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   Family Communication: Nurturing and Control in a Changing World by Beth A Le Poire Publisher Comments Family Communication organizes the study of family communication around the concepts of nurturing and control which allows the consideration of communication in all family relationships within all family forms. The concepts of nurturing and control allow... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation by Clifford Winston Publisher Comments This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis of public and private sector capabilities, concluding that public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment? the Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case by Hugo Adam Bedau Publisher Comments This volume brings together seven experts--judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and philosophers--to debate the death penalty in a spirit of open inquiry and civil discussion. Here, as the contributors present their reasons for or against capital punishment... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care by Nina Bernstein Publisher Comments IIn 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system’s... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Condition of Man (Harvest Book, Hb 251) by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments This is the third volume in Lewis Mumford's superb Renewal of Life series, which also contains Technics and Civilazation, The Culture of Cities, and The Conduct of Life. The present book explores the historic development of the personality and the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Our Last Best Shot: Guiding Our Children Through Early Adolescence by Laura Stepp Publisher Comments Our Last Best Shot presents the personal stories of twelve girls and boys from across America. Their stories, and Laura Sessions Stepp's extensive research, provide real insight for parents trying to raise well-adjusted children in this difficult age... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Affluenza the All Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Dictionary of Sociology (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Gordon Marshall Publisher Comments From anomie to zietgeist, Oxford's Dictionary of Sociology, Second Edition is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of sociology availabe in a single volume. Designed to meet the needs of those new to the subject, this fully updated and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives by Anthony Giddens Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-97) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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