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This book uses ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing to sociologically analyze the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011, finding lessons for how social order is formed and explaining the social dynamics that shaped one of the largest sustained protests in US history.

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This book uses ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing to sociologically analyze the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011, finding lessons for how social order is formed and explaining the social dynamics that shaped one of the largest sustained protests in US history.

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Comparing global experiences of childhood, this book examines children as social actors and citizens. Looking at theories around the social construction of childhood and substantive examples of the active contributions of children to society, this is an essential introduction to how the social sciences conceptualise childhood.

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Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and are the focus of intense debates regarding concepts of personhood. This book discusses these issues, drawing on social and cultural theory and research.

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Documents the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. This book investigates the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. It explains how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students.

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A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative. It deserves to become a classic....This text needs to be understood and performed at least as regularly as Thornton Wilders Our Town.Sandy Primm, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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A collection of essays, which historicize the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. It focuses on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg.

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This book strives to create awareness and understanding of the mind and idiosyncrasies of autistic people and all who struggle to fit in, using animal characters to aid our understanding of the autistic mind.

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This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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Discusses mother-daughter relationships in urban China. This book reflects on how women make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives, and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices.

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Two veteran journalists tell the inside story of convicted hate-monger Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die and kill for their cause

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The attempted modernization of Central Asia by the central Soviet government in the 1920's was a dramatic confrontation between radical, determined, authoritarian communists and a cluster of traditional Moslem societies based on kinship, custom, and religion. The Soviet authorities were determined to undermine the traditional social order through t

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This text examines how many, in the waning years of the 20th century, are attempting to forget or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation. It focuses on anti-Semitism and its re-emergence among the "Skinheads" of the 1980s.

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Focusing on the subject of the themed space, this work addresses a range of themed spaces, including restaurants, casinos, theme parks and other spaces like airports and virtual reality ones. It is organized into four sections - theming as authenticity, theming as nation, theming as person and theming as mind.

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This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is "conspicuous consumption", a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes among us.

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Introducing the concept of the Third Career, this book analyzes the goals, motivations, and expectations of women who want to enter the labor force after having spent most of their adult lives as homemakers and mothers.

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A young boy, Zeno, navigates tumultuous waters from his troubled childhood through the labyrinth of adolescence.
A prism of sexuality refracts his perceptions, not merely as contemporary society understands it, but as a profound quest for self-assertion through the mysterious other--a poignant attempt to fill an uncharted void.

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This book features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, which the author uses to explore how the tiny house movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home.

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This book features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, which the author uses to explore how the tiny house movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home.