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  • Social Problems across the Life Course

    by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Christine Bowditch, Spencer E. Cahill, Sheldon Goldenberg, Robert Granfield, Thomas Koenig, Zella Luria, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Susan E. Martin, Frances B. McCrea, Madonna Harrington Meyer, David L. Morgan, Allan Schnaiberg, Jay D. Teachman, Barrie Thorne, David R. Unruh, Susan Walzer ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    The human life course is filled with and subject to a wide range of personal difficulties, many of which are shared by others. Life events and processes such as birth, childhood, training for and entering an occupation, marriage, and procreation, growing older, death and dying are all subject to dilemmas, obstacles, and barriers. Social Problems across the Life Course offers accessible readings ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Blindspot

    Hidden Biases of Good People

    by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald ...
    “Accessible and authoritative . . . While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one. . . . What if we’re not the magnanimous people we think we are?”—The Washington PostI know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The War Against Boys

    How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men

    by Christina Hoff Sommers ...
    An updated and revised edition of the controversial classic—now more relevant than ever—argues that boys are the ones languishing socially and academically, resulting in staggering social and economic costs.Girls and women were once second-class citizens in the nation’s schools. Americans responded with concerted efforts to give girls and women the attention and assistance that was long overdue. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Impact of Inequality

    How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

    by Richard Wilkinson ...
    A "powerful and provocative" inquiry into the relationship between societies' inequality and their citizens' health, happiness and well-being (Lisa Berkman, Harvard School of Public Health).Comparing the United States with other market democracies, and one American state with another, this book presents irrefutable evidence that inequality is a driver of poor health, social conflict, and violence. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

    Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap

    by Paul C. Gorski ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This influential book describes the knowledge and skills educators need to recognize and combat the bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty. This edition features revisions based on new research and lessons from the author’s professional development work, including the dangers of “grit” and deficit perspectives.“A must-read for educators in schools ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cultivating Conscience

    How Good Laws Make Good People

    by Lynn Stout ...
    How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperityContemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Violence Against Women

    Myths, Facts, Controversies

    by Walter S DeKeseredy ...
    In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem. He starts by outlining the scope of the challenge and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. He then lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Sociology of Gender

    An Introduction to Theory and Research

    by Amy S. Wharton ...
    Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to one of the most important topics in the field of sociology.Features extensive revisions and updates, and incorporates recent cross-national ... Read more

    $41.00 USD

  • Ethics, Aging, and Society

    The Critical Turn

    by Martha B. Holstein, PhD, Mark Waymack, PhD, Jennifer A. Parks, PhD ...
    "Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular social contexts."--Choice"This new research-based book, by experts in the field of ethics, is ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Against the Wall

    Poor, Young, Black, and Male

    by Cornel West ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleTypically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given rise to wider stereotypes that limit the social capital of all young black males.Edited and with an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Generation Unbound

    Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage

    by Isabel V. Sawhill ...
    Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage.In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change ""drifters"" into ""planners."" ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Irrationality in Health Care

    What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why

    by Douglas E. Hough ...
    The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make us better off?" Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative to the standard tools of health economics, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD