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Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780226653631, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
360 pp., 23x15 cm
Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, "Miss Cutler and the Case of the Res...
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£51,00
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Storytelling and Conversation Discourse in Deaf Communities
ISBN: PB: 9781563685316, Gallaudet University Press, December 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, tables, figures
In this intriguing book, renowned sociolinguistics experts explore the importance of discourse analysis, a process that examines patterns of language to understand how users build cooperative understanding in dialogues. It presents discourse analys...
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£52,50
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Good Body Asceticism in Contemporary Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300183092, Yale University Press, November 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
What are the reasons for the current epidemic of eating disorders, the increasing obsession with exercise, diet, and cosmetic surgery, the constant exhortations to look and feel good? This engrossing book examines our concern with the "good body" fro...
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£18,00
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Adoption, Identity, and Kinship The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records
ISBN: PB: 9780300183061, Yale University Press, November 2011
188 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Members of adoption triangles-adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents-must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-disco...
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£14,00
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Tilted Playing Field Is Criminal Justice Unfair?
ISBN: PB: 9780300183023, Yale University Press, November 2011
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Although evenly matched adversaries make for a more exciting athletic contest, and a level playing field is essential to a fair game, is the same true in a criminal trial? In this compelling new book, H. Richard Uviller argues that a criminal trial i...
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£25,00
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Informant The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
ISBN: PB: 9780300184136, Yale University Press, November 2011
450 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In "The Informant", historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965...
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£30,00
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Relapse and Recovery in Addictions
ISBN: PB: 9780300182996, Yale University Press, November 2011
434 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In this book leading experts in the field of addictions report on key aspects of addictive disorders. They focus particularly on relapse, the long-term course of addiction to drugs or alcohol, and interventions to prevent relapse and promote recovery...
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£28,00
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Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America
ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...
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£25,00
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Ethnic Power Mobilized Can South Africa Change?
ISBN: PB: 9780300184051, Yale University Press, November 2011
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This study questions conventional wisdom about the nature and outcome of the South African conflict. Avoiding both wishful thinkiong and mere moralizing, Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee critically examine the applicability of such concepts as colo...
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£22,50
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Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite
ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...
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£27,00
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£65,50
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