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 | Exploring Human Behavior and the Social EnvironmentThis book is about the human 'ocean.' Its goal is to introduce students to the notion that individual's behaviors are a function of their interactions with the bio-psycho-social contexts in which they are situated.On Sale |
 | Perspectives on Crime and DevianceOrganizes chapters theoretically and provides a multiview perspective for a sound, balanced treatment, with a solid integration of theory, research, and social policy throughout. Emphasizes 'crime' as a specific form of deviance, and now uses actual research...On Sale |
 | Four Sociological Traditions : Selected ReadingsThis book is text presents a concise intellectual history of sociology organized around the development of four classic schools of thought:On Sale |
 | Sociology of Aging, The: A Social Problems PerspectiveB> Using a sociological perspective, book book examines how aging is asocial construct, rather than a specific chronological age or set of conditions. KEYTOPICS: Covers all facets of aging, and how aging is a consequence of various socialstructural...On Sale |
 | Signs in Society : Studies in Semiotic AnthropologySigns in Society takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the 'life of signs in society' by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. Richard J. Parmentier explicates Peirce's fundamental semiotic concepts and evaluates their...On Sale |
 | The Moral Economy of the Peasant; Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast AsiaThe Moral Economy of the Peasant; Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast AsiaOn Sale |
 | Racism : An American CauldronThis brief paperback provides an analysis of racism, not race relations. Using a powerful and direct writing style, Racism uses two decisive levels of analysis the broad macro-level analysis of forces producing racism, and the micro-level focus on case-study...On Sale |
 | Fantasy City : Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern MetropolisFantasy City : Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern MetropolisOn Sale |
 | Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane SocietiesPsychiatrist Sandra Bloom interweaves the individual and the social, the personal and the political, by presenting the story of how she and a group of colleagues created a unique psychiatric milieu based on social psychiatric principles. Illustrated with...On Sale |
 | The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American WestFor decades, the Nevada desert's rugged beauty has veiled its use as a nuclear weapons testing site. Now another crisis looms over the Yucca Mountains--their consideration as the proposed national repository for nuclear waste. Kuletz combines scientific...On Sale |
 | Abortion Wars - A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000Taking the reader into the trenches of the battle over abortion rights, contributors zero in on the key moments and turning points of this ongoing war. ABORTION WARS places critical issues such as medical practice, activism, legal strategies, and the...On Sale |
 | Searching for Life - The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of ArgentinaSearching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who challenged the ruthless dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Acting as both detectives and human rights advocates in an effort...On Sale |
 | Persuasions of the Witch's Craft : Ritual Magic in Contemporary EnglandTo find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Luhrmann immersed herself in the arcane world of Londoners who call themselves magicians. Her report is as fascinating as the esoteric world itself....On Sale |
 | Science in Action : How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through SocietyScience in Action : How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through SocietyOn Sale |
 | Slavery and Social Death : A Comparative StudySlavery and Social Death : A Comparative StudyOn Sale |
 | Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony BrownPBS television commentator and syndicated radio talk-show host Tony Brown has been called an 'out-of-the-box thinker' and, less delicately, and 'equal opportunity ass kicker.' Those who attempt to pigeonhole him do so at their own peril. This journalist,...On Sale |
 | Mea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and ReconciliationMea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and ReconciliationOn Sale |
 | Open the Social Sciences : Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social SciencesConcerned about the worldwide state of the social sciences-the relations among disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciences-the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1933 the Gulbenkian...On Sale |
 | The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial MexicoIn this innovative study of gender relations in late colonial Mexico (ca. 1760-1821), Steve Stern analyzes the historical connections between gender, power, and politics in the lives of peasants, Indians, and other marginalized peoples. Through vignettes...On Sale |
 | Casing a Promised Land : The Autobiography of an Organizational Detective As Cultural EthnographerNow available for the first time in paperback and expanded by a new chapter and an afterword entitled ''Surrendering to the Mystery, ' or The Sooner You Arrive, the Further You Have to Go', this ground-breaking study by H. L. Goodall, Jr., examines what...On Sale |
