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Provides a dramatic and revealing exposT of domestic violence against well-to-do and well-educated women that also offers a provocative condemnation of the social service system that fails to protect them. 35,000 first printing.
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'Race' and Racism: The Development of Modern Racism in America
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This study examines the origins and development of racism in North America through addressing the inception and persistence of the concept of “race” and the biology of human variance.
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'Stretching' Exercises for Qualitative Researchers
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Using dance and yoga metaphors to illustrate the idea of stretching one's potential as a researcher, Janesick (educational leadership and policy studies, U. of South Florida) explains how qualitative researchers and graduate students in methods courses can develop strong habits of mind and observation as well as interview skills to improve their research skills. This edition has a new focus on narrative and poetic writing, analysis, presentation of data, and reflective journaling. It uses…
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10 Smart Moves for Women Who Want to Suc
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CEED IN LOVE & LIFE* Self-help for women.
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In this cultural history, Shanken (architectural history, U. of California at Berkeley) explores the relationship between architecture, planning, and consumer culture in the postwar United States. He first describes how planning became a social paradigm, akin to engineering in the 19th century, for realms as diverse as the building industry, psychology, sociology, and family planning over the course of the 1930s and 1940s. He then addresses the Keynesian economic theory embedded in the cu…
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A discussion of the politics & economics of the coming century by the Editor in Chief of 'The Economist,' the world's leading current affairs weekly.
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2099: A Eutopia (Prospects for Tomorrow)
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A novel set in 2099 offers a glimpse into a utopian society and challenges the reader to question what changes the future will bring.
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40 Watts from Nowhere: A Journey Into Pirate Radio
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An account of pirate radio broadcasting by the woman behind KPBJ San Francisco & KBLT Los Angeles, which broadcast from her apartments in those cities for three & a half years before the FCC caught up with her.
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44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World
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This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear. And we, the inhabitants of this world in flux, feel the need to adjust to its tempo by being 'flexible' and constantly ready to change. We want to know what is going on and what is likely to happen, but what we get is an avalanche of information …
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"In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of "simply" possessing five grams of crack--the equivalent of a few sugar packets--had been required by law to serve no less than five years in prison. In this highly original work, Dimitri A. Bogazianos draws on various sources to examine the profound cons…
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9 Highland Road
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An inside look at a group home for the mentally ill traces the lives of five residents--along with their families and the counselors, social workers, and psychologists with whom they work--over the course of three years of treatment. 17,500 first printing.
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A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism In Crisis
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A discussion of international humanitarian & relief organizations & the problems they face, drawing on firsthand reporting from war zones around the world.
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