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This is an ethnographic study of predominantly Puerto Rican low-income people on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who have been involved in the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings through sweat-equity urban homesteading from 1978 to 1993.

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This is an ethnographic study of predominantly Puerto Rican low-income people on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who have been involved in the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings through sweat-equity urban homesteading from 1978 to 1993.

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Honduras in Dangerous Times is a historical and ethnographic study of the evolution of popular resistance in modern Honduras. This book contributes to understanding societal change in dangerous contexts, connecting everyday lives to broad societal movements, and emphasizing popular resistance as both critical and creative.

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Honduras in Dangerous Times is a historical and ethnographic study of the evolution of popular resistance in modern Honduras. This book contributes to understanding societal change in dangerous contexts, connecting everyday lives to broad societal movements, and emphasizing popular resistance as both critical and creative.

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Providing practical assistance to readers and their loved ones, this title incorporates the abstract and theoretical analysis essential to examining how we die in contemporary Western society. The author also presents the backgrounds of the Hospice and Right-to-Die ("Hemlock") Movements.

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This book is a selection of edited papers, most of which were initially presented at an international conference held under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International Sociological Association.

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This book explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians and social scientists. It finds that parents and siblings cultivate a family identity that both defines who they are and influences who they become.

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This book explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates generated by politicians and social scientists. It finds that parents and siblings cultivate a family identity that both defines who they are and influences who they become.

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The history of Asian immigrants in Canada is more than a century old, and the number of persons of Asian descent has more than doubled over the past fifteen years, yet until now there has been no systematic study of these Asian-born Canadians.

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This book exploresthrough myths, fairy tales, parables, and trickster figureshow everyday storytelling operates as a powerful cultural practice that shapes identity, exercises influence, and reveals the deep interplay between leadership, desire, and narrative power.

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How Nonprofits Work looks at nonprofit organizations through a sociological lens, identifying characteristics that make some nonprofits successful and characteristics that cause challenges, focusing on nonprofits in the health services sector. It opens with helpful background information, and then shares case studies of specific organizations.

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An in-depth and accessible unraveling of the complex relationships between race, biology, culture, inequality, and power

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An in-depth and accessible unraveling of the complex relationships between race, biology, culture, inequality, and power

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How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility.

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How the other half lives interrogates contemporary social and spatial inequalities in housing, urban design, place-making, austerity, notions of deservedness and transnational mobility.

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This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate - such as 'society' and the 'individual' - have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. -- .

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In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Maher and Harrison have compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to the area of study.

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The birth rate in late-nineteenth century Russia was high and virtually constant, but by 1970 it had fallen by about two-thirds. Although similar reductions have occurred in other countries, the decline in Russian fertility is of particular interest because it took place in a setting of great ethnic heterogeneity and under economic and social insti