Sociology
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Tim Wise

Nothing, of course, serves to inflate uncritical nationalistic hubris like nostalgia, nor does anything else so perfectly play to white fears concerning a changing nation, and it is this commodity, ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:David Margolick

* Schmeling had originally planned to travel to America via the Hindenburg, arriving on May 7. But at Joe Jacobs’s insistence—Jacobs wanted him in New York when the boxing commission ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:MacKinnon, Rebecca [MacKinnon, Rebecca]

CHAPTER 10 Facebookistan and Googledom In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, ...
( Category: Social Aspects March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Rebecca MacKinnon

CHAPTER 10 Facebookistan and Googledom In May 2010, Hong Kong–based university professor and communications scholar Lokman Tsui decided to delete his Facebook account. In a blog post explaining his decision, ...
( Category: Social Aspects March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Bageant, Joe [Bageant, Joe]

Recalling Ed and Charlie in their funky old guys’ lair by the creek, it occurs to me that not once did we mention the Second Amendment. But then not many ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-09 | Author:Jim Baggott

But does this necessarily mean that, once my neural pathways have been formed, my thoughts are anything other than entirely my own, independent of the features of the world around ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-14 | Author:Duane Elgin

Growing Self-Organizing Systems Assuming the universe is a completely dynamic living system, a core question emerges: How does the transparent aliveness of the Mother Universe enter into material form and ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-04 | Author:Peter Berger; Anton Zijderveld

AREN’T THERE SOME TRUTHS THAT ARE ABSOLUTE? The fact that truth stands open to falsification doesn’t mean that there’s no “doubtless” truth at all. There are, to begin with, the ...
( Category: Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1951-09-02 | Author:Eric Hoffer

68 We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for ...
( Category: Compulsive Behavior March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-24 | Author:The Freedom Writers

Diary 68 Dear Diary, This is my first year to have Ms. Gruwell as my English teacher. I am one of the transfers, or the “lucky ones,” on “Gruwell’s List.” ...
( Category: Teenagers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-12-01 | Author:Dossie Easton; Janet W. Hardy

Help Is Available You don’t have to do all this on your own—many wonderful books, classes, workshops, and other resources are available. It’s a good idea to put aside some ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Ken Auletta

Management Lee Oberst supposedly knows something about management. When the telephone company was in hot water with consumers in the late sixties, it summoned Oberst to become V.P. of the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Judith R. Blau

Part VI Structures: Stratification, Networks, and Firms 21 Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility Donald J. Treiman Introduction Social stratification refers to the unequal distribution of the rewards society has to offer ...
( Category: Marriage & Family March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Randall Kennedy

Like every other significant feature of American life—including cigarettes, guns, pornography, drugs, stock trading, sex, religion, and money—nigger is thoroughly enmeshed in litigation. The disorderly diversity of the conflicts in ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Alexander, Michelle [Alexander, Michelle]

Boxed In Aside from figuring out where to sleep, nothing is more worrisome for people leaving prison than figuring out where to work. In fact, a study by the Vera ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )