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Praxis for the Poor: Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare by Sanford F. Schram 9780814798171 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Praxis for the Poor puts the relationship of politics to scholarship front and center through an examination of the work of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward. Piven and Cloward proved that social... -
Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion by James V. Spickard 9780814798027 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Over the last decade the sociology of religion and religious studies have experienced a surge of ethnographic research. Scholars now use ethnography, as anthropologists have long done, as a valued... -
After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy by Sanford F. Schram 9780814797549 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Do contemporary welfare policies reflect the realities of the economy and the needs of those in need of public assistance, or are they based on outdated and idealized notions of work and family life?... -
Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant by Drew Whitelegg 9780814794074 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Get ready for takeoff. The life of the flight attendant, a.k.a., stewardess, was supposedly once one of glamour, exotic travel and sexual freedom, as recently depicted in such films as Catch Me If... -
Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America by Michael Thompson 9780814782989 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today's neoconservatives"confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned with... -
The Makings of Maleness: Men, Women, and the Flight of Daedalus by Peter H. Tatham 9780814782033 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Not only a highly significant contribution to the debate about masculinity, this outstanding volume breaks new ground in psychological theorizing generally. Tatham's passionate and disciplined text... -
Race Against the Court: The Supreme Court and Minorities in Contemporary America by Girardeau A. Spann 9780814779637 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52"Must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court's role in race relations policy." Choice "Beware! Those committed to the Supreme Court as the ultimate defender... -
Outside the Lines: African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League by Charles K. Ross 9780814774953 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Explores the often overlooked role of the NFL in the American civil rights movement Watching a football game on a Sunday evening, most sports fans do not realize the profound impact the National... -
Flirting with Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination by Lynn Phillips 9780814766576 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51How young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting messages on female sexuality and sexual agency In Flirting with Danger, Lynn M. Phillips explores how young women make sense of,... -
Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform by Alejandra Marchevsky 9780814757093 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, "work" means pleading with... -
Inner City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community by Alice McIntyre 9780814756355 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas... -
Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City by Andrea McArdle 9780814756317 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York... -
Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion by Larry Murphy 9780814755808 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11An introductory overview of the development of African American religion and theology Down by the Riverside provides an expansive introduction to the development of African American religion and... -
Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture by Linda Layne 9780814751541 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Our consumer culture sets exacting standards and norms for what constitutes an ideal child. The tough realities of life often create children and child-bearing and rearing circumstances that are... -
New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept by Sharon Lamb 9780814751527 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51It is increasingly difficult to use the word "victim" these days without facing either ridicule for "crying victim" or criticism for supposed harshness toward those traumatized. Some deny the... -
The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues by Fred E. Foldvary 9780814747766 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51The Half-Life of Policy Rationales argues that the appropriateness of policy depends on the state of technology, and that the justifications for many public policies are dissolving as technology... -
The Calculus Collection: A Resource for AP and Beyond by Caren L. Diefenderfer 9780883857618 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The Calculus Collection is a useful resource for everyone who teaches calculus, in secondary school or in a college or university. It consists of 123 articles selected by a panel of veteran secondary... -
Americas Jews by Chaim I. Waxman 9780877223290 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02The book is a social history and sociology of American Jewry. It provides an up-to-date analysis of the contemporary American Jewish community, an analysis that includes educational, occupational,... -
Six Essays on Erasmus: And a Translation of Erasmus' Letter to Carondelet, 1523. by John C. Olin 9780823210244 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $3.35This volume comprises four previously published Erasmian studies and two new works. All are attempts at understanding Erasmus' aims, his influence, and his historical image. Professor Olin's earlier... -
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture by Lisa Rofel 9780822339359 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate... -
Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad by Tejaswini Niranjana 9780822338284 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Descendants of indentured laborers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify... -
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 by Libby Schweber 9780822338253 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation... -
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century by Gregory Mann 9780822337553 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $1.38For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia,... -
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott 9780822334330 [USED COPY]
RRP: $109.88Booksplease Price: $10.99At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history-when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism-David Scott argues the... -
The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia by Daniel M. Goldstein 9780822333609 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city's outskirts only to... -
The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece by Alexandra Halkias 9780822333111 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53During the 1990s, Greece had a very high rate of abortion at the same time that its low birth rate was considered a national crisis. The Empty Cradle of Democracy explores this paradox. Alexandra... -
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9780814757277 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted... -
Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era by Angelina Snodgrass Godoy 9780804785600 [USED COPY]
RRP: $112.56Booksplease Price: $11.26Central American countries have long defined health as a human right. But in recent years regional trade agreements have ushered in aggressive intellectual property reforms, undermining this... -
Battleground Africa: Cold War in the Congo, 1960-1965 by Lise Namikas 9780804784863 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $1.77Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War II decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a... -
The Eclipse of Equality: Arguing America on <I>Meet the Press</I> by Solon Simmons 9780804777988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $3.35Red state vs. blue state. Republican vs. Democrat. Fox News vs. The Daily Show. The so-called culture wars have become such a fixture of American politics that dividing the country into rival camps... -
Breaking Through the Noise: Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media by Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha 9780804777063 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81Modern presidents engage in public leadership through national television addresses, routine speechmaking, and by speaking to local audiences. With these strategies, presidents tend to influence the... -
Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness by Molly Dunigan 9780804774581 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private... -
Voice and Vote: Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru by Stephanie L. McNulty 9780804773980 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.68In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands. The newly elected government that came together in mid-2001 faced a... -
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South by Helen B. Marrow 9780804773089 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American debates over immigration... -
New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South by Helen B. Marrow 9780804773072 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American debates over immigration... -
Mexico's Democratic Challenges: Politics, Government, and Society by Andrew D. Selee 9780804771627 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62Only a decade ago, Mexico saw the end of seventy years of single-party hegemonic rule and the first free and fair election in its history. How has the country evolved since then, and what is the... -
Faces of Aging: The Lived Experiences of the Elderly in Japan by Yoshiko Matsumoto 9780804771481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implications for the future, we do not know much about the actual aging process... -
Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China's Capitalist Transformation by Scott Kennedy 9780804769570 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of... -
Ethnic Europe: Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World by Roland Hsu 9780804769471 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies,... -
Ethnic Europe: Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World by Roland Hsu 9780804769464 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies,...