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Dalton ConleyPublication Details
Book1st edPantheon Books2009Links
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Urban Transformation : Understanding City Design And Form
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by Peter BosselmannPublication Details
BookIsland Press2008Description
How do cities transform over time? cities anew.Bosselmann organizes the book around seven ?activities?: comparing, observing, transforming, measuring, defining, modeling, and interpreting. Using Copenhagen, Denmark, as an example, he teaches us to observe without prejudice or bias.He demonstrates how cities transform by introducing the idea of ?urban morphology? by evaluating aerial images of the San Francisco Bay Area taken in 1962 and those taken forty-three years later.Bosselmann has a unique understanding of cities and how they ?work.? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT110 .B67 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Dimensions Of Human Behavior : Person And Environment
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[edited by] Elizabeth D. HutchisonPublication Details
Book3rd edSage Publications2008Links
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In this text, you will meet social workers and clients from a variety of work settings and situations who bring the passion and power of social work to life through engaging case studies found throughout the text. Intended Audience (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM1033 .D56 2008 AVAILABLE
Dimensions Of Human Behavior. The Changing Life Course
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[edited by] Elizabeth D. HutchisonPublication Details
Book3rd edSage Publications2008Links
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The Third Edition of this powerful text aims to examine the human life course in nine age-graded periods, which include: 1) conception, pregnancy, and childbirth 2) infancy and toddlerhood 3) early childhood 4) middle childhood 5) adolescence 6) young adulthood 7) middle adulthood
late adulthood and 9) very late adulthood. Students can review chapter highlights and summaries, take practice quizzes, and study via student flash cards on the Web. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM1033 .D553 2008 AVAILABLE
The Corpse Walker : Real Life Stories, China From The Bottom Up
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Liao Yiwu ; translated from the Chinese by Wen HuangPublication Details
Book1st edPantheon Books2008Description
Here are a professional mourner, a trafficker in humans, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a former landowner, a mortician, a feng shui master, a former Red Guard, a political prisoner, a village teacher, a blind street musician, a Falun Gong practitioner, and many others–people who have been battered by life but who have managed to retain their dignity, their humor, and their essential, complex humanity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD8736.5 .L56 2008 AVAILABLE
Keywords For American Cultural Studies
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edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn HendlerPublication Details
BookNew York University Press2007Links
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Explore the Keywords Collaborative interactive website at keywords.nyupress.org View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction ?Keywords for American Cultural Studies can and should be used as an essential handbook, but it really is more like a treasury of the intellect, bulging with sharp insights and lasting revelations.? Keywords for American Cultural Studies offers these features and more to its readers, providing indispensable meditations on terms and concepts used in cultural studies, American studies, and beyond. Here are essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PE1449 .K49 2007 AVAILABLE
Worlds Within Worlds : Structures Of Life In Sixteenth- Century London
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Steve RappaportPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2002Description
The enormous growth of London during the early modern period brought with it major social problems, yet, as Steve Rappaport demonstrates in this innovative study, Tudor London was essentially a stable society, subject to stress but never seriously threatened by widespread popular unrest or other forms of instability. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN398.L7 R37 2002 AVAILABLE
The Rule Of Mars : Readings On The Origins, History And Impact Of Patriarchy
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edited by Cristina BiaggiPublication Details
BookKnowledge, Ideas & Trends2005Description
This outstanding collection, brought together by Cristina Biaggi, includes essays by an outstanding field of writers from several disciplines such as Riane Eisler (author of The Chalice and the Blade), anthropologists Peggy Reeves Sanday and James DeMeo, biologist Mary Clark, historian Mark Kann of Stanford University, linguist Harald Haarman, writer Donna Henes, artist Suzanne Bellamy, psychiatrist Glenda Cloughley, and several others. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN479.6 .R85 2005 AVAILABLE
New Keywords : A Revised Vocabulary Of Culture And Society
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edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan MorrisPublication Details
BookBlackwell Pub2005Links
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that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams?s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) PE1580 .N49 2005 AVAILABLE
After Habermas : New Perspectives On The Public Sphere
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edited by Nick Crossley and John Michael RobertsPublication Details
BookBlackwell Pub2004Description
Critiquing Habermas, this volume bring fresh perspectives and ideas to bear on debates about the public sphere. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM585 .A44 2004 DUE 12-21-09
The McDonaldization Of Society
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George RitzerPublication Details
BookRev. new century edPine Forge Press2004Links
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“The book provides a theoretical and analytical framework that both reflects reality and helps college students understand the reality of the world in which they grew up, live in, and are likely to continue to experience not only in the United States but throughout the world.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM706 .R58 2004 AVAILABLE
On Being Different : Diversity And Multiculturalism In The North American Mainstream
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Conrad Phillip Kottak, Kathryn A. KozaitisPublication Details
Book2nd edMcGraw-Hill2003Links
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On Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN550 .K67 2003 AVAILABLE
The Color Of Justice : Race, Ethnicity, And Crime In America
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Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, Miriam DeLonePublication Details
Book3rd edWadsworth/Thomson Learning2004Links
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Comprehensive and balanced, THE COLOR OF JUSTICE is the definitive book on current research and theories of racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination within America’s criminal justice system. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV9950 .W33 2004 AVAILABLE
Culture, Race, And Class In The Commonwealth Caribbean
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by M.G. Smith ; with a foreward by Rex NettlefordPublication Details
BookSchool of Continuing Studies, University of the West Indies1990Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HN195.2.S6 S65 1990 AVAILABLE
The Paradoxical Kingdom : Saudi Arabia And The Momentum Of Reform
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Daryl ChampionPublication Details
BookColumbia University Press2003Description
The major player in the OPEC international oil industry cartel, Saudi Arabia is also the homeland of the Prophet Muhammad and the center of the Muslim world with the most sacred Islamic sites located in and around the cities of Mecca and Madina. But the rise of a new type of international terrorism, personified by exiled Saudi Osama bin Laden and with extensive roots in post- Gulf War Saudi Arabia, testifies to a volatile underground of discontent within the kingdom. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HC415.33 .C475 2003 AVAILABLE
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