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New Third Edition! The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson's response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is and isn't, how it works, and what gets in the way of under...

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Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to d...

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The autobiography of a legendary swing dancer

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Democracys Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucratic hierarchies and community networks meet and often collide. These hidden heroes struggle to align universal rules and complian...

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The defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state

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This is a textbook for teachers that demonstrates how philosophical thinking can be used in teaching children. It begins with the assumption that what is taught in schools is not (and should not be) subject matter but rather ways of thinking. The ...

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Practitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the two theories in tandem rather than attempting to hierarchize or ...

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Few artists have ever been so belovedor so controversial among art criticsas Andrew Wyeth. The groundbreaking book Artists of Wyeth Country presents an unauthorized and unbiased biographical portrait of Wyeth, based on interviews with family, frie...

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As communities face new social and economic challenges as well as political changes, the responsibilities for social services, housing needs, and welfare programs are being placed at the local government level. But can community-based organization...

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Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a...

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Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, o...

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Author's note: Alfred J. Kahn is Project Director of cross-national Studies of Social Service Systems at the Columbia University School of Social Work. He also teaches social policy and social planning at the Columbia University School of Soc...

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The movement that changed religion and social policy in America is presented through primary resources

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Various perspectives in the increasingly complex field of social work

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Joan W. Moore is Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of "Mexican Americans" and co-author (with Leo Grebler) of "The Mexican American People."

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The Mahapuranas embody the received tradition of Hindu mythology. This anthology contains fresh translations of these myths, only a few of which have ever been available in English before, thus providing a rich new portion of Hindu mythology. The ...

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"Sufficiency of Hope."

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The essays in "Ethical Issues in Government", written specifically for this volume by nationally known philosophers, consider four questions of the sort that will face America in the coming years: Should legislators serve constituents or...

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A theoretical and practical guide for human service professionals who seek to influence administrative decision-making

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All the facts about common and uncommon birds in the Delaware Valley

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This volume in the series "Policy and Politics in Industrial States" examines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite conse...

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This volume in the series "Policy and Politics in Industrial States" examines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite conse...

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Most human service professionals, social workers, teachers, nurses, and other professionals work in large and increasingly centralized bureaucracies where decision makers are for the most part removed from the processes and problems associated wit...

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Today's executive in human services must be concerned with efficiency. Pressure to develop greater managerial and financial expertise threatens the professional's primary commitment to people and their problems. This book is especially u...

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'We've been married for thirty-three years and now Roy wants a divorce. I don't know what to do'. 'The principal says my children are acting out at school and I'd better get help for them'. 'I finally found ...

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Today, William Penn's town is the living history of 300 years of architecture told in outstanding examples of Colonial, Federal, Italianate, and other early styles, and in the twentieth-century innovations of LeCorbusier, Kahn, and Wright. Th...

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Author note: Dennis Clark is a Philadelphian who has written a number of books on urban problems, race relations, and immigrant history. "The Irish of Philadelphia" is the first of several volumes produced by the author tracing the histo...

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A comprehensive, in-depth look at the origins, development, and themes of the new citizen movement

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