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The author examines classic American community studies written during the past fifty years, such as Robert Park on Chicago, the Lynds on Muncie (Middletown), Lloyd Warner on Newburyport, to formulate a theory of American community development. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to

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Other topics added to this edition include the proposed new way of measuring poverty, new economic implications of demographic aging, the concept of `productive aging', an update on reverse annuity mortgages, hybrid pension plans and pension privatization, and current information on Social Security.

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Other topics added to this edition include the proposed new way of measuring poverty, new economic implications of demographic aging, the concept of `productive aging', an update on reverse annuity mortgages, hybrid pension plans and pension privatization, and current information on Social Security.

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An overview of concepts, theories and methods related to the study of household consumption. It summarizes recent data on consumption patterns and trends, together with factors that influence consumption, and examines how consumption data are used by business, government and other organizations.

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An overview of concepts, theories and methods related to the study of household consumption. It summarizes recent data on consumption patterns and trends, together with factors that influence consumption, and examines how consumption data are used by business, government and other organizations.

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The Economies of Queer Inclusion explores the formation of relationships between US-based transnational human rights actors and grassroots LGBTI activists in Kampala, Uganda. In doing so, it exposes the unintended consequences of finance-based connections and proposes alternative forms of transnational activism.

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This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life.

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This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life.

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This edited collection builds on the editors' previous works Drug Abuse Treatment: The Implementation of Innovative Approaches (Greenwood, 1994) and Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse: Program Models and Strategies (Greenwood, 1993).

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Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. This book argues that the technical and philosophical Hermetica, apparently so different, might be seen as aspects of a single "way of Hermes."

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Based on ethnographic material and the life histories of indigenous women, the volume establishes a bridge between the classical anthropological studies on kinship and the contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution to the study of border territories.

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In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough

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This study of Manchester football during the period 1840 to 1919, by leading sports historian Gary James, contextualises the sport's emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city's leading team sport, and identifies the communities who developed football. -- .

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"Explores a crucial - yet largely neglected - aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality' of literature, a medium that remains today on the margins of the theoretical discussion of media"--

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They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant.

The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'

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Examination and resource on apartheid and its demise in South Africa.

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A ground-breaking book on how women have been shortchanged by the Howard Government - one of the hottest and most contentious issues the nation faces in the first decade of the 21st century.

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