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Green consumerism is on the rise, but many of us are confused by an avalanche of information - much of it conflicting. We want to do the right thing to help save energy and resources, but where can we start as everyday consumers? Can we do anything to...

There is a growing movement among corporations to provide family benefits in order to attract and retain women workers. They recognize that these benefits have become a cost of doing business. Many of these benefits, like child care and older care, are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886290627Author Bruce Alden CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University...

The thirty-year period examined was characterized in West Germany by a number of inconsistent trends. While income and consumption levels increased as part of a "silent revolution," poverty also increased, especially during the 1980s. People's...

The Bottom Rung presents an in-depth investigation of a population that is becoming extinct in American society: the black farmer. Tracing patterns of marriage and childbearing among both whites and blacks during the first decades of this century,...

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The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Very little has...

Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822364115Author Tani E. BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University Press

A prominent feature of the social revolution in France has been the decline of the great national institutions -- the Republic, the Army, the church, and the schools -- which are losing their symbolic value and are no longer the targets of ideological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231010Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639234653Author By Harold Waldwin PercivalFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 259g

This title marks the launch of We Are What We Do, a national movement that aims to inspire people to use everyday actions to change the world. It has illustrations of 50 everyday actions presented with directness, whimsy and wit.Book InformationISBN...

The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is and isn't, how it works, and what gets in the way of understanding and doing something about...

Why do so many people around the world appear willing to give up freedoms in return for security or prosperity? For the past 60 years it had been assumed that capitalism was intertwined with liberal democracy. But what happens when both are undermined?...

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...

In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be...

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears...

The 1920s and 30s were key decades for the history of American social science. The success of such quantitative disciplines as economics and psychology during World War I forced social scientists to reexamine their methods and practices and to consider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252018879Author Hyman BogenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

William Henry Davies's working tour of the USA brought him into contact with the harsher side of American life and some of its more remarkable characters. Back in Britain, though resident in various doss-houses, he became the darling of the London...

In this wide-ranging collection Bryan Wilson explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society. He examines the controversial social, political, and religious issues that arise as sects seek to pursue a way of...

'Stylish and wittily written . a brilliant read that should encourage us all to challenge the cult of youth, and learn to love ourselves a little more along the way.' My WeeklyThere's nothing middle-of-the-road about middle age. From coping with bodies...

Punk has traditionally been theorised within cultural studies and sociology as a male-dominated subculture within which women are marginalized. In line with feminist research values and epistemologies, Punk, Gender and Ageing gives voice to a previously...

How and why war and military culture have a traumatic impact on families and memoryBook InformationISBN 9781592139613Author Lori E. AmyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

Communities organizing to end Brazil's urban war on drugsCommunities organizing to end Brazil's urban war on drugsAbout the AuthorMaria Helena Moreira Alves is retired from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. She twice received a Tinker...

The feminist ethic of care has received much attention in scholarly circles recently. An ethic of care is concerned most of all with contextualizing the human condition, being responsive to people’s individual differences through a particular form of...

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Part of the TED series: How We'll Live on MarsIt sounds like science fiction, but award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. We'll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes...

Would you risk your life to save your soul? Colombia in the 1990s was a country on the brink. A weak government battled in vain against billion-dollar cocaine cartels, run with cold-blooded violence by warring gangsters Pablo Escobar in Medellin and the...

In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school,...

First criminals could easily get away with murder. Then a killer was caught out by a bloody thumbprint. Now even microscopic clues can be used to collar crooks. This crafty guide gives you the low-down on how the experts crack crime. Sneak a peek inside...

It was hailed as a miracle. A cheap, effective solution to India's food shortages, the American pesticide, Sevin, promised the world. And Union Carbide's state-of-the-art factory would provide jobs for the thousands of refugees who came from far and wide...