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The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes - most notoriously the Nazis in 1936.

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Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disability, technology and the role of the past and the future in sport.

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Sports are inspiring and uplifting. They can also bring out some of the worst characteristics in human nature: narcissism, prejudice, greed. This book looks at the major sports scandals in modern American history, from the Black Sox fix of 1919 to the current concussion crisis in the NFL.

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Arizona has gone wild-over immigration, guns, healthcare, the Tea Party, and vigilantism. Award-winning author and Arizona local Jeff Biggers reports on what's troubling our 48th state, and how a radicalized Arizona has become a national bellwether.

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Among the issues receiving new or expanded coverage are the amount of time husbands spend doing household tasks, the concept of equal pay for equal work, parents' interaction with children, child abuse, household income, and fathers' participation in child care.

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This book presents a detailed and accessible discussion of multiple regression and limited-dependent variable models in the context of policy analysis.

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Pasley and Ihinger-Tallman provide a critical analysis of the current literature on stepparenting and summarize the progress made in research, theory, and practice related to stepfamilies. research related to relationships within stepfamilies and the development of new roles within stepfamilies;

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A critical analysis of the current literature on step-parenting. Early chapters treat theoretical concerns and present models useful to the study of step-parenting. Later chapters summarize research related to relationships within step-families and the development of new roles within step-families.

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This book explores the experience of home and what home says about the people we become. It benefits students and scholars of communication, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gender studies, diaspora studies, and anthropology; it stands as an exemplar in qualitative, interpretive, critical, and auto-ethnographic methodology courses.

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This is the ideal starting point for all introductory students of sociology. The author takes the reader through the 'story' of sociology: how it developed as a discipline, its key characteristics and its most important theoretical contributions. Written by one of the world's leading sociologists, it is a key companion to any sociology degree.

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Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.

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Moving from first hand interviews with dancers and others, this book broadens into an accessible examination of the popularity of "striptease culture," with sex-saturated media imagery, and stripper aerobics at your local gym. It aims to scrutinize the truth of a industry whose norms are increasingly at the center of contemporary society.

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"Structure, Agency, Biotechnology" argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.

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Structure, Agency, Biotechnology argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.

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Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place this responsibility within all sectors of society, arguing that social policies and their absence have affected the status of black family structures.

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Introducing readers to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers, this book reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in life.