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  • The Politics of Community Policing

    Rearranging the Power to Punish

    by William (Bill) Thomas Lyons ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    In this in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William T. Lyons, Jr. explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operation of community policing, an increasingly popular method for organizing law enforcement in this country.Stories about community policing appeal to a nostalgic vision of traditional community life. Community policing carries with it the image ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Paradox Lost

    by Thomas Lyons ...
    Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th century philosopher and critic of Christianity was right, "God is dead."He believed that modern man disposed of the need for the religious domain. He argued that as a result, it would usher in an oscillation between totalitarianism and nihilism, hierarchy and equality. It would produce horrors only found in descriptions of hell.Here we sit on the other side of the 20th ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Punishing Schools

    Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education

    by William (Bill) Thomas Lyons, Julie Drew ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, Punishing Schools argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and an instrument for the punishment of children. William Lyons and Julie Drew analyze the connections between state sanctions against our schools (the diversion of funding to charter schools, imposition of unfunded mandates, and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Projecting Environmental Trends from Economic Forecasts

    by Peter Meyer, Thomas Lyons, Tara Clapp ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Sustainable development offers visions of the future, but implementation of new sustainable policies seems slow. This text presents a forecasting method directed to overcome some barriers to the implementation of more sustainable economic policy. Using a case study, the authors describe how economic and environmental forecasts can be developed that are ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Good Cop/Bad Cop

    Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies toward Business

    Edited by Thomas Lyon ...
    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they operate is changing rapidly. Markets, and direct engagement with industry, rather than traditional government regulation, are often the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Rich, Free, and Miserable

    The Failure of Success in America

    by John Brueggemann ...
    Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable-at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface.From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • No Citizen Left Behind

    by Meira Levinson ...
    Series series Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ;
    While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

    The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

    by Peter Levine ...
    Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Institutional Racism

    A Primer on Theory and Strategies for Social Change

    by Shirley Better ...
    Many people associate racism with bigoted individuals and radical groups on the fringes of society. Shirley Better argues that racism is much larger than negative attitudes and that it touches the very core of our lives as Americans. In this enhanced second edition, Better explores the historical origins of institutional racism, details its devastating effects on contemporary society such as the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Sociology

    by John E. Farley, Michael W. Flota ...
    This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The text continues to frame sociological debates around the major theoretical perspectives of sociology and focus on capturing ... Read more

    $120.99 USD