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The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas by Patricia C. Marquez 9780804745529 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62What does it mean to be a child or an adolescent growing up on the streets or in a state institution? How do children define their everyday lives in the midst of global processes? This ethnographic... -
The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective by Manus I. Midlarsky 9780804741705 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22This book studies the structural inequalities between states as they evolve and influence the political process. Through the prism of inequality, it analyzes various forms of political violence... -
Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity by Niklas Luhmann 9780804741224 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. The first... -
The Protoliterary: Steps Toward an Anthropology of Culture by K. Ludwig Pfeiffer 9780804734639 [USED COPY]
RRP: $112.56Booksplease Price: $11.26This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Central to the author's argument is the proposition... -
Solomon's Child: Method in the Early Royal Society of London by William T. Lynch 9780804732918 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.76Booksplease Price: $8.58This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon's program for the methodological reform of... -
The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 by Joel H. Silbey 9780804723381 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the... -
Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal by Walter Edwards 9780804715126 [USED COPY]
RRP: $112.56Booksplease Price: $11.26A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804715126Author Walter EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint -
International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements, Second Edition by Coit D. Blacker 9780804712224 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $4.69A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804712224Author Coit D. BlackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint -
Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood by Dawn Prince-Hughes 9780804010795 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $3.75The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration,... -
Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change by Carolyn Pope Edwards 9780803248090 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $6.43Ngecha is the monumental and intimate study of modernization and nationalization in rural Africa in the early years following Kenyan independence in 1963, as experienced by the people of Ngecha, a... -
Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition by Nancy J. Parezo 9780803237599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $61.64Booksplease Price: $6.16World's fairs and industrial expositions constituted a phenomenally successful popular culture movement during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to the newest technological... -
The Doctor Dilemma: Public Policy and the Changing Role of Physicians Under Ontario Medicare by Sam Shortt 9780773517936 [USED COPY]
RRP: $132.66Booksplease Price: $13.27The Doctor Dilemma provides a timely discussion of policy issues in five key areas of physician-related public policy in Ontario: physician payment schemes, regulation of physician numbers and... -
The Ironies of Freedom: Sex, Culture, and Neoliberal Governance in Vietnam by Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo 9780295988658 [USED COPY]
RRP: $144.65Booksplease Price: $1.59In the late 1980s, Vietnam joined the global economy after decades of war and relative isolation, demonstrating how a former socialist government can adapt to global market forces with their... -
Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia by Edward Snajdr 9780295988559 [USED COPY]
RRP: $121.94Booksplease Price: $1.34As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to... -
Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination, 1770-1850 by Richard T. Gray 9780295988368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $144.65Booksplease Price: $1.59In Money Matters, Richard Gray investigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. The transition in Germany... -
The Grateful Dead: THE HISTORY OF A FOLK STORY by Gordon Gerould 9780252068829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62In this classic study, originally published in 1908, Gordon Hall Gerould explores a body of literature devoted to the ghosts of the departed, lost souls who showed gratitude to those who took care of... -
Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual by Jane Juffer 9780814742792 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work policies, often hailed as the new spokesperson for... -
A New Introduction to Poverty: The Role of Race, Power, and Politics by Louis Kushnick 9780814742389 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Since the end of the Second World War, poverty in the United States has been a persistent focus of social anxiety, public debate, and federal policy. This volume argues convincingly that we will not... -
The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen by Ange-Marie Hancock 9780814736586 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the... -
Moral Imperialism: A Critical Anthology by Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol 9780814736135 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11In the controversy over female genital mutilation, Congress was quick to condemn practices throughout Africa and the Middle East and to take action criminalizing the practice domestically. Yet at the... -
Essential Papers on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Mardi Horowitz 9780814735589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11A collection of the most important writings on understanding and treating PTSD Essential Papers on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder collects the most important writings on the comprehension and... -
Citizenship Rites: Feminist Soldiers and Feminist Antimilitarists by Ilene Rose Feinman 9780814726884 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11In the United States, the question of women in the armed services has been continuously and hotly debated. Among feminists, two fundamentally differing views of women in the military have developed... -
We Are What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals by Amitai Etzioni 9780814722268 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11How did Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a national holiday? Why do we exchange presents on Christmas and Chanukah? What do bunnies have to do with Easter? How did Earth Day become a global... -
Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy by Zillah R. Eisenstein 9780814722053 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Bill Gates builds a $50 million mansion while... -
Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race by Arlene M. Davila 9780814720066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Follows the Latino public image and its impact on U.S. national identity Illegal immigrant,... -
Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution by E. Melanie DuPuis 9780814719602 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Who gets to breathe clean air? Who benefits from the cheaper products produced with dirty air? The answers, as the contributors to Smoke and Mirrors tell us, are sometimes as gray as the air itself. ... -
The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Corey Dolgon 9780814719589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $84.42Booksplease Price: $8.44Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology A portrait of the contentious, controversial history of the Manhattan elite's favorite fabled summer playground In this... -
Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism by Arnaldo Cruz-Malave 9780814716236 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Scholars of postcolonial and LGBT studies examine the validity of the globalization of queer cultures Globalization has a taste for queer cultures. Whether in advertising, film, performance art, the... -
Warriors and Peacemakers: How Third Parties Shape Violence by Mark Cooney 9780814715147 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms... -
Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation by Janis S. Bohan 9780814713242 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Psychology's approach to sexual orientation has long had its foundation in essentialism, which undergirds psychological theory and research as well as clinical practice and applications of psychology... -
Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line by Kimberly McClain DaCosta 9780804755467 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81When in 1997 golfer Tiger Woods described his racial identity on Oprah as "cablinasian," it struck many as idiosyncratic. But by 2003, a New York Times article declared the arrival of "Generation E.A... -
Hawai'i Politics and Government: An American State in a Pacific World by Zachary A. Smith 9780803287501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.08Hawai'i is in many ways the most unique of the American states. Distinguished by its unusual beauty, ethnic diversity, and lingering image as a paradise, Hawai'i is special for other important, but... -
Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent by Thomas E. Emerson 9780803220874 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.08Archaeologists across the Midwest have pooled their data and perspectives to produce this indispensable volume on the Native cultures of the Late Woodland period (approximately A.D. 300-1000)... -
Transcendent in America: Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion by Lola Williamson 9780814794494 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11Yoga, karma, meditation, guru-these terms, once obscure, are now a part of the American lexicon. Combining Hinduism with Western concepts and values, a new hybrid form of religion has developed in... -
They're All My Children: Foster Mothering in America by Danielle F. Wozniak 9780814793473 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02The first book on foster care written from foster mothers' perspectives, They're All My Children voices the often painful experiences of contemporary U.S. foster mothers as they struggle to mother... -
From Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones: The Life Experiences of Fifty Professional African American Women by Kathleen F. Slevin 9780814781005 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $3.48Whether in popular culture, academic research, or public consciousness, African American women are often defined by their presumed poverty or lack of education. In this unique antidote to public... -
Black Gay Man: Essays by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775028 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52The landmark book that established Robert Reid-Pharr as one of America's most exciting and challenging left intellectuals At turns autobiographical, political, literary, erotic, and humorous, Black... -
The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide by Eileen O'Brien 9780814762141 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O'Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial... -
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Jennifer Nelson 9780814758212 [USED COPY]
RRP: $95.14Booksplease Price: $9.51Uncovers the truth behind the ideas, struggles, and eventually success of Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists regarding key feminist issues of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s While most people believe... -
The Rights of Women: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Women's Rights, Fourth Edition by Lenora M. Lapidus 9780814752296 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02The Rights of Women is a comprehensive guide that explains in detail the rights of women under present U.S. law, and how these laws can be used in the continuing struggle to achieve full gender...