Spring/Summer 2010

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    The DeMarco Factor
    Transforming Public Will into Political Power
    Michael Pertschuk
    Vinny DeMarco might be a latter-day Don Quixote except that he tilts his lance at real obstacles to social justice: lobby-locked state legislatures and Congress, stonewalling the public will. And h...
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    The DeMarco Factor
    Transforming Public Will into Political Power
    Michael Pertschuk
    Vinny DeMarco might be a latter-day Don Quixote except that he tilts his lance at real obstacles to social justice: lobby-locked state legislatures and Congress, stonewalling the public will. And h...
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    The American Impressionists in the Garden
    May Brawley Hill
    At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists demonstrated a preference for gardens as artistic motifs as well as a growing appreciation of the art of gardening itself. The range of color ...
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    Chasing Polio in Pakistan
    Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail
    Svea Closser
    The number of global polio cases has fallen dramatically and eradication is within sight, but despite extraordinary efforts, polio retains its grip in a few areas. Anthropologist Svea Closser follo...
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    Chasing Polio in Pakistan
    Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail
    Svea Closser
    The number of global polio cases has fallen dramatically and eradication is within sight, but despite extraordinary efforts, polio retains its grip in a few areas. Anthropologist Svea Closser follo...
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    Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
    Edited by Chloe E. Bird
    Edited by Peter Conrad
    Edited by Allen M. Fremont
    Edited by Stefan Timmermans
    Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In additio...
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    Handbook of Medical Sociology, Sixth Edition
    Edited by Chloe E. Bird
    Edited by Peter Conrad
    Edited by Allen M. Fremont
    Edited by Stefan Timmermans
    Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness. In additio...
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    Living on the Edge in Suburbia
    From Welfare to Workfare
    Terese Lawinski
    Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a temporary assistance program for poor families wi...
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    Living on the Edge in Suburbia
    From Welfare to Workfare
    Terese Lawinski
    Westchester County, New York, is thought of as suburban and affluent, but welfare reform hit hard here, too. The radical 1996 legislation created a temporary assistance program for poor families wi...
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    Locked Up, Locked Out
    Young Men in the Juvenile Justice System
    Anne M. Nurse
    Locked Up, Locked Out follows forty juvenile male offenders, from their first-time admissions to the Ohio system through their incarceration and reentry into the community. The author conduc...
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    Locked Up, Locked Out
    Young Men in the Juvenile Justice System
    Anne M. Nurse
    Locked Up, Locked Out follows forty juvenile male offenders, from their first-time admissions to the Ohio system through their incarceration and reentry into the community. The author conduc...
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    Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire
    Kristine Ibsen
    In Maximilian, Mexico, and the Invention of Empire, the cultural legacy of the Second Mexican Empire is examined as essential to modern understandings of empire and nation. The Second Empire...
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    New Spain, New Literatures
    Edited by Nicholas Spadaccini
    Edited by Luis Martin-Estudillo
    This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debat...
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    New Spain, New Literatures
    Edited by Nicholas Spadaccini
    Edited by Luis Martin-Estudillo
    This volume, which includes essays on Catalonia, the Basque country, Galicia, and literature written by African immigrants, focuses on issues of "difference" that are at the center of current debat...
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    Reconstituting Whiteness
    The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
    Jenny Irons
    In Reconstituting Whiteness, sociologist Jenny Irons explores the tactics and legacy of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, an agency of the state that existed from 1956 to 1977 an...
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    The Story of the Sacred Harp, 1844-1944
    George Pullen Jackson
    The Sacred Harp is the most famous of the shape-note hymnals, a collection of over five hundred four-part a cappella hymns dating back over a hundred and fifty years. Shape-note singing itse...
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    Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar
    Simon Rodriguez and the American Essay at Revolution
    Ronald Briggs
    In Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolivar, Ronald Briggs shines a much-needed light on the writings and life of Simon Rodriguez, early tutor to the hero of Latin American independence...
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    Willing and Unable
    Doctors Constraints in Abortion Care
    Lori R. Freedman
    Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide. The author interviewed physicians of obstetrics and gynecology around the United States ...
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    Willing and Unable
    Doctors Constraints in Abortion Care
    Lori R. Freedman
    Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide. The author interviewed physicians of obstetrics and gynecology around the United States ...
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    Seeds of Change
    The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Organizing Group
    John Atlas
    "There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitli...
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    Seeds of Change
    The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group
    John Atlas
    "There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a year's worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers." --Todd Gitli...
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