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Drawing on examples from across the social sciences, this book offers the information you need to know to plan, implement, and analyze the results of population-based survey experiments. Suitable for social scientists across the disciplines, it reexamines issues of internal and external validity.

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What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic This title examines the role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact.

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Traces the origins of post-modernism in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. This book shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields.

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Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism.

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A history of public relations, this work begins with World War I, when Ivy Lee, one of America's first corporate PR men, helped create a new climate in which public relations and corporate image management would become paramount in American society.

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The third and final book in Stanley's three-volume group for all grade levels, this work simplifies teaching the research process with step-by-step instructions that are adaptable and comprehensive, geared especially for your youngest students.

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Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously considerwhat a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be.

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This "inspiring, informative, mind-opening book" (New York Times) provides a new vision on aging, retirement, and the role of older Americans in the 21st century

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This book looks at the routine taken-for-granted features of work as experienced by professional women in bureaucratic environments.

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Organization theories have given only brief attention to the role of professionals in the workplace. She also found that many professionals within an organization had as much in common with staff from other disciplines as they had with professional colleagues.

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In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of domestically born infants being placed for adoption.

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Adding a new dimension to the history of mentalites and the study of popular culture, Thomas Brennan reinterprets the culture of the laboring classes in old-regime Paris through the rituals of public drinking in neighborhood taverns. He challenges the conventional depiction of lower-class debauchery and offers a reassessment of popular sociability.

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Beginning with a brief history of public education in the U.S., Public Schooling in America examines traditional and progressive movements and the current goal of combining educational excellence with equality of access.

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This history of the punk movement in the United States shows how punk music, fashion, art, and attitude clashed with and ultimately influenced mainstream culture.

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Using two longitudinal survey projects as examples, the authors describe how to use organizational surveys to assesses employee attitudes and to develop and improve quality of work life programs.

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This scheme builds on Gorard's previous book, "Quantitative Methods in Educational Research". He has revised the original book in the light of experience and feedback and reworked it so that it includes more social science examples and four entirely new chapters.

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This all-in-one resource guides readers through issues and events at the intersection of race and sports in the USA.

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