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This is a collection of characterizations of such significant southern leaders as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Aycock, Joel Chandler Harris, Booker T. Washington, and others. They were leaders whose contributions resulted from hard work and devotion to...

Many questions concerning adoption are discussed by the authors after many years of keeping in close touch with adoptive parents, child-placing agencies, social workers, and all the professions interested in the physical, psychological, and legal aspects...

This is a statistical study designed to analyze the trend of illiteracy in the United States and its present relation to sex, age, urban and rural environment, race and nationality, and school systems, together with its quantitative effect on the...

From varying fields of interest, not always with complete unanimity, twelve members of the faculty of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro make their thoughtful contributions on the subject of democracy as a way of life...

With its broad scope, its sound viewpoint, and its ripened judgment, this book is as valuable to the experienced social worker as to the beginner in the field. The author deals with topics concerning the prerequisites for the social worker, modern social...

Perhaps there is no field in which accurate information and dependable direction are more eagerly sought by old and new officials, legislative bodies, civic and social agencies, and citizens in general than in public welfare. This volume is an effort to...

This book, combining as it does the method of the broad survey with the careful consideration of detailed fact, presents, from a lay point of view, a complete synthesis of the varied aspects of social work. It will serve to orient the social worker to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826304391Author Vada F. CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press

This book goes beyond the concept of power and studies the structure of relations among nations as a stratified system in terms of economic, prestige, and power variables that determine relative superiority and inferiority. It identifies some of the...

This is a collection of thirty essays presented to Professor S. Chandrasekhar to honour his lifelong devotion to population and family planning. From distinguished scholars all over the world, the essays cover anthropology, medical and public health,...

Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question examines the image of "the Jew" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the intellectual in France and the politics and ethics of existentialism. It explores more broadly how French...

Violence: most of us would be happy if we never had to experience it, and many are driven by the belief that nonviolent spaces exist. In Violent Affect, however, Marco Abel starts from a different, potentially controversial assumption: namely that...

The Progressive Era, falling between the conspicuous materialism of the Gay Nineties and the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science and progressive reform. The zeal to modernize business,...

Roell uses company records and the popular press to chronicle the piano industry through changing values, business strategies, economic conditions, and technology. For Roell, as for the industry, music is a byproduct. Originally published in 1991. A UNC...

The most comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the rent control issue to date, this volume addresses: the conditions that provoke interest in rent control, the outcome of implementing the policy, the instruments used for evaluating the program,...

Social case work is a young and rapidly changing profession in which differences of method and technique have been prominent. The author approaches this difficulty by a careful examination of fundamental aims. The psychological concepts of ambivalence,...

These studies present the achievements and hopes of the Institute for Research in Social Science in its efforts to upgrade the resources and culture of the South. They emphasize the extraordinary wealth and variety of the South's resources and urge the...

Four distinguished scholars discuss our development during the last four hundred years in the arts, in politics, in science and invention, and in the intangible values of personality. For those who are interested in the more important aspects of our...

The author discusses important questions of social differentiation and relates them to the problems of democracy. Following his belief in the essential unity of the social sciences, he has drawn upon materials from the fields of psychology, economics,...

William Walker traces British and American attempts to control the Asian opium trade from the fall of the Manchu dynasty in China in 1912 to the French withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. Analyzing the moral, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, and...

Donaldson studies how and why the United States contributed to the increase in contraceptive use from 1965 to 1980 by promoting family planning throughout the developing world. He argues that the people and institutions they supported overseas started a...

This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or...

A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.""-- American Political Science Review ""These well-integrated...

In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power,...

The authors argue that the long-standing national debate about the proper role of the government in providing low-income housing needs to be clarified because older approaches and solutions are no longer appropriate. They review the history of public...

The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement. The Enclosed Garden explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to...

The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997653151Author Laverne Hillis McLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Purple Feather PressPublisher Purple Feather PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996586733Author Dr Jason H JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Jackson Development Initiative CoPublisher Jackson Development Initiative...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984561315Author Mack StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Dissenter PublishingPublisher Dissenter PublishingWeight(grams) 467g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977108251Author Andre M EggelletionFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Professional PublishingPublisher Professional PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976358305Author David HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Negro Publishing, LLCPublisher Negro Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976290643Author Doug StringhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Deaf Studies Today!Publisher Deaf Studies Today!Weight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873864251Author Rebecca StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint January Productions, IncorporatedPublisher January Productions,...

Written by Jacques Derrida's leading English-language translator and collaborator, this invigorating and intelligent volume displays the continuing power and versatility of deconstruction, presenting it as the most important intellectual movement of our...

This is a new and revised edition of a book which has established itself as a basic text in social theory. The first section of the work provides a concise critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy, giving particular...

For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the...

Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom and beauty from the famed anthropologist. It describes...