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  • I'm Afraid of That Water

    A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

    Edited by Luke Eric Lassiter, Brian A. Hoey, Elizabeth Campbell ...
    Weatherford Award Winner, NonfictionOn January 9, 2014, residents across Charleston, West Virginia, awoke to an unusual licorice smell in the air and a similar taste in the public drinking water. That evening residents were informed the tap water in tens of thousands of homes, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of schools and hospitals—the water made available to as many as 300,000 citizens in a ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $11.59 USD

  • The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class

    Reports from the Field

    by Alesia F. Montgomery, Lawrence S. Root, Brian A. Hoey, Conrad P. Kottak, Diana M. Pash, Riché Jeneen Daniel Barnes, Sallie Han, Todd L. Goodsell, Carolyn Chen, M Eugenia Deerman, Kathryn M. Dudley, Alford A. Young Jr., Tom Fricke, Erin N. Winkler ...
    This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established scholars contributed chapters based on their original field research, following each chapter ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Opting for Elsewhere

    Lifestyle Migration in the American Middle Class

    by Brian A. Hoey ...
    "Do you get told what the good life is, or do you figure it out for yourself?" This is the central question of Opting for Elsewhere, as the reader encounters stories of people who chose relocation as a way of redefining themselves and reordering work, family, and personal priorities. This is a book about the impulse to start over. Whether downshifting from stressful careers or being downsized from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring

    by Harry C. Denny ...
    In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores the pedagogical dynamics and implications of identity within the writing center.The face of the ... Read more

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  • Red Brother, White Brother

    A Time for Atonement

    by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...
    Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

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  • Hegemony How-To

    A Roadmap for Radicals

    by Jonathan Smucker ...
    A guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about power. While many activists gravitate toward mere self-expression and identity-affirming rituals at the expense of serious political intervention, Smucker provides an apologia for leadership, organization, and collective power, a moral argument for its cultivation, and a discussion of dilemmas that movements must ... Read more

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  • Black Faces, White Spaces

    Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

    by Carolyn Finney ...
    Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Who Cares?

    How to Reshape a Democratic Politics

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    Series series Brown Democracy Medal
    The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"—that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves—she asks us to ... Read more

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  • The Forest and the Trees

    Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

    by Allan Johnson ...
    New Third Edition!If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.This Third Edition features:• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, ... Read more

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  • Ethics and Business

    An Introduction

    by Kevin Gibson ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    In this lively undergraduate textbook, Kevin Gibson explores the relationship between ethics and the world of business, and how we can serve the interests of both. He builds a philosophical groundwork that can be applied to a wide range of issues in ethics and business, and shows readers how to assess dilemmas critically and work to resolve them on a principled basis. Using case studies drawn from ... Read more

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  • The Power of Bridging

    How to Build a World Where We All Belong

    by john a. powell ...
    A bold guide for connecting across differences—even those that seem impossible“Wise and visionary, powell helps us find the courage to forge connections with others, the earth, and ourselves in order to transform the world from the inside out.” —Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger and Sage WarriorWe don’t want to live in a society in turmoil. In fact, 93 percent of people in the US ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Those Who Work, Those Who Don't

    Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America

    by Jennifer Sherman ...
    When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic understanding of poor rural Americans, persuasively arguing that the growing cultural ... Read more

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