By Best, Joel

In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produce ...

By Owen, David

A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future.In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass ...

By Aarons, John

A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways th ...

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Teaching Research Methods in the Social Sciences ...

By Crittenden, Danielle

Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right?

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By Freeman, John

"The computer and e-mail were sold to us as tools of liberation, but they have actually inhibited our ability to conduct our lives mindfully, with the deliberation and consideration that are the hallmark of true agency.The first e-mail was sent less than forty years ago; ...

By Rennison, Nick

Freud was one of the giants of 20th century thought. His ideas have been hugely influential not only in psychology but in all the social sciences and the arts. even those who have never read a word of his writings are familiar with his concepts of the id, the ego, the Oedipu ...

By De Mente, Boye Lafayette

This manual provides teenagers, singles, husbands and wives with rules that, if followed, will dramatically improve the quality of life-not only of those who adhered to them but also of others whose lives they touch. It covers specific aspects of male-female relations among ...

By Quinn, Daniel

Beyond Civilization ...

By Gross, Michael

By Mehta, Suketu

Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s other work has been published in the< ...

By Awosan, Joshua

Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community focuses on research findings further enriched in the realm of the emergent, indigenous African sociology within a global context. An authentic guide, it has potential to expose readers to the intricacy of rese ...

By Woods, Teri

James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in New Jersey. From his early skill as a car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to rule the streets and he seized it. Feared by all, and completely fearless, Dutch and his dangerous clique take over ...

By Dalton, Sharron

The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of "gro ...

By Best, Joel

In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produce ...

By Foth, Marcus

Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly researched fiel ...

By Veitch, Jonathan

American Superrealism: Nathanael West And The Politics Of Representation In The 1930S ...

By Carrin, Guy / Buse, Kent / Heggenhougen, Kristian

Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization ...

By Crittenden, Danielle

Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right?

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By Gross, Michael

740 Park ...

By Callanhan, Gerald N

Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains dozens of intersex conditions-such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome-and includes personal interviews with people living wi ...

By Shriver, Maria

When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation. At one level, ever ...

By Weininger, Otto

Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspe ...

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This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by ...

By Ellis, Amanda / Manuel, Clare / Cutura, Jozefina

Vanuatu is a traditionally male dominated and largely patriarchal society. Women have extremely low representation in parliament and in other decision making bodies. Despite this, women are increasingly involved in private sector development and in the market economy. Availa ...

By Rudacille, Deborah

The Riddle of Gender ...

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Africa After Gender? ...

By Wijngaard, Marianne Van Den

Reinventing the Sexes ...

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A groundbreaking collection of essays that mutually engage Jewish and feminist philosophy. ...

By Rubin, Henry

SelfMade Men: Identity and embodiment among Transsexual Men ...

By Shriver, Maria

When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation. At one level, ever ...

By Berg, Barbara J., Ph.D.

Debunking the many myths about how far women have come and the pervasive belief that American society is postfeminist, this account traces women's status and the assault on their rights from the 1950s-when Newsweek declared, "for the American girl, books and babies don't mix ...

By Bashir, Sajitha

This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enroll ...

By Rudacille, Deborah

The Riddle of Gender ...

By Green, Jamison

Becoming a Visible Man ...

By Rubin, Henry

SelfMade Men: Identity and embodiment among Transsexual Men ...

By Ames, Jonathan

But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. -- Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-ebing At the time the passage above was w ...

By Callanhan, Gerald N

Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains dozens of intersex conditions-such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome-and includes personal interviews with people living wi ...

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This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by ...

By Ellis, Amanda / Manuel, Clare / Cutura, Jozefina

Vanuatu is a traditionally male dominated and largely patriarchal society. Women have extremely low representation in parliament and in other decision making bodies. Despite this, women are increasingly involved in private sector development and in the market economy. Availa ...

By Berends, Mark / Lucas, Samuel R. / Sullivan, Thomas

Summarizes likely challenges to US interests in the Persian Gulf and highlights the implications of trends in the region for the United States. ...

By Hargrave, Andrea Millwood / Livingstone, Sonia

Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the evidence ...

By Zimmer, Ron / Gill, Brian / Booker, Kevin

The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph present ...

By Davis, Lois M. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Schultz, Dana

The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different str ...

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Cross Cultural Perspectives in Child Advocacy: Research in Global Child Advocacy, Volume 1. ...

By Owens, T. J.

Produced under the auspices of the "Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association", this volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions ref ...

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Childhood in South Asia: A Critical Look at Issues, Policies, and Programs ...

By Stecher, Brian M. / Epstein, Scott / Hamilton, Laura S.

Decisionmaking within the Future Battle Command structure will demand an increasing ability to comprehend and structure information on the battlefield. Decision aids must be modified accordingly. Using information about friendly and enemy forces and the t ...

By Davis, Lois M. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Schultz, Dana

Kefaya was an indigenous movement for political reform organized in late 2004 in opposition to the regime of egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This examination of Kefaya's birth, accomplishments, and decline is based on an analysis of the work of egyptian ...

By Caulkins, Jonathan P. / Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo / Paddock, Susan M.

This survey defies the idea that Americans have lost interest in foreign affairs. It reveals that support for international economic assistance is at its highest since the 1970s and that the majority of Americans favour US funding for family planning prog ...

By Davis, Lois M. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Schultz, Dana

The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different str ...

By Zellman, Gail L. / Perlman, Michal / Le, Vi-Nhuan

What are the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act's effects on the market for terrorism insurance? What would be the effect of enhancing provisions for nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (NBCR) attacks? The authors conclude that the program yields po ...

By Davis, Lois M. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Schultz, Dana

Kefaya was an indigenous movement for political reform organized in late 2004 in opposition to the regime of egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This examination of Kefaya's birth, accomplishments, and decline is based on an analysis of the work of egyptian ...

By Maestas, Nicole / Gaillot, Sarah

Description of a methodology and a prototype tool, Building Blocks To Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying investment options for defense capability areas. It ensures that a broad range of options is considered initially, then uses a screening t ...

By Stecher, Brian M. / Epstein, Scott / Hamilton, Laura S.

Decisionmaking within the Future Battle Command structure will demand an increasing ability to comprehend and structure information on the battlefield. Decision aids must be modified accordingly. Using information about friendly and enemy forces and the t ...

By Zimmer, Ron / Gill, Brian / Booker, Kevin

The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph present ...

By Berends, Mark / Lucas, Samuel R. / Sullivan, Thomas

Summarizes likely challenges to US interests in the Persian Gulf and highlights the implications of trends in the region for the United States. ...

By Caulkins, Jonathan P. / Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo / Paddock, Susan M.

This survey defies the idea that Americans have lost interest in foreign affairs. It reveals that support for international economic assistance is at its highest since the 1970s and that the majority of Americans favour US funding for family planning prog ...

By Owens, T. J.

Produced under the auspices of the "Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association", this volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions ref ...

By Hargrave, Andrea Millwood / Livingstone, Sonia

Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the evidence ...