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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1996. Scholarly text brings together seven research studies to provide a profile of the HIV prevention, surveillance and treatment needs of migrant workers. The three editors combine their own extensive work with that of nationally and internationally recognized experts to provide a comprehensive analysis of the HIV epidemic among migrant workers, looking at perceptions of risk, sexual beliefs and practices, effects of migration on changing risk profiles, prevention efforts, and policies and programmes that may stem the spread of HIV among this population. The book includes, in addition to researchers' views, the perspectives of migrant workers and policy-makers on HIV prevention policies and programmes. 214 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baltimore,MD.: Gateway Press, 2004. Comprehensive reference text presents a documentary of the family ancestry of Eleanore and Ann Louise Miles; including ancestral families of Brosius, Dillman, Ebling, Fahl, Hassler, Jaeger, Manley, Miles, Palm, Richert, Rick, Shaner, Scheidi, Schneider, Shuman, Wildermuth; and families Augustine, Dillman, Dunn, Gaughan, Hobbs, Kramer, Manley, McDowell, Miles, Riess, Shaner, Shuman, Tierney, Upcavage. The geneology is presented in family format, not the traditional generation format. Includes numbering, generation superscript numbering, reference notation, and a detailed historic introduction on the family. 468 pgs. Gilt spine and front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1991. Comprehensive scholalrly text presents a thorough study of demographic variables and analyze their impact on specific private and public sector interests. Includes applications of a wide range of demographic techniques to such areas as real estate, marketing, and regional and services planning. 299 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half-title page. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Scholarly multidisciplinary text attempts to bridge the diversity that exists in the social sciences by demonstrating that social science can aid in the process of environmental planning. Drawing on case studies and displaying a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the authors address the transition from theory to practice in environmental planning, local-level contributions to the planning process, socioeconomic development and planning needs, and socioenvironmental planning and mitigation procedures. 278 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half title page. Minor slight scuff on front cover. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1992. Comprehensive highly acclaimed preeminent text presents a thorough, integrated view of British population characteristics and dynamics, including recent and prospective patterns and trends in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Topics covered include population trends 1500- to the present day; decline of mortality and fertility; agriculture, diet and death-rate; changing distribution of population in the UK; fertility trends; marriage, divorce, and remarriage; households and families; mortality trends and patterns; supply and demand for labor; international and internal migration; ethnic minority populations; political economy of demographic change;etc. 680 pgs. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .

New York: Halsted Press/John Wiley & Sons, 1976. Comprehensive empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, and the general theory of status hierarchy among union officialdom, and the division of the union into districts and special occupational sections. Includes comparative and theoretical framework and case studies in opposition. 378 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1999. Scholarly text presents a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a "free market society" in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties provoked by crime. It offers an evaluation of the theoretical schools in social theory and in criminology which continue to dominate the academy, but whose purchase on contemporary realities is everywhere slipping. Crime in Context begins with an analysis of nine different crises or transformations which define the parameters of social and economic change. It then develops an alternative criminology for analysing crime and the fear of crime in current circumstances, including specific chapters on youth crime (with analyses of the pressing issues of drugs, alcohol and violence, as well as of the victimization of young people by crime), the social and cultural geography of urban crime and urban fear, the temptations of crime in free market societies, and the significance of… Read More

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1998. Scholarly text provides a cogent and accessible explanation of critical social theory, including a detailed introduction to the Frankfurt School, postmodernism, theories of multiculturalism and difference, feminist theory, and cultural studies. Arguing for an integration of these theories, Critical Social Theories is a useful supplement to social theory texts. Throughout the book, Agger considers implications of critical social theory, making the book highly relevant to mainstream sociologists seeking theoretical guidance. 216 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Westport, CT.: Praeger, 1993. In this scholarly text, Beckstrom explores how discoveries in evolutionary science can help people achieve, but not establish, social goals. Beginning with the principle that human behavior is, to some degree, influenced by genetics, the author considers how conduct can be modified in large population groupings using identified behavioral mechanisms. Aid-giving behavior common to human populations is established as a key factor that is fundamental to an understanding of its flip side involving abuse and neglect. The universal objectives of reducing child abuse, rape, incest, and war are explicitly addressed, as are such areas as intestate property distribution, street crime reduction, and the fostering or discouragement of patriotism. This book is a clear treatment of what practical implications neo-Darwinism can have for contemporary societies. 173 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New York University Press, 1991. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of the way in which two sharia courts in Libya deal with questions of divorce in an almost exclusively tribal, and largely nomadic environment. Topics include unilateral divorce; divorce by consent; judicial divorce; consequences of divorce; Sharia and custom in the Cyrenaican family; Quadis and divorce; Arabic legal and technical terms; etc. 236 pgs. Spine title slightly faded. Very minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Free Press, 1980. Classic text contains Durkheim's own contributions to L'Annee in English, classified and explained by Nandan, a Durkheim scholar. Text is organized according to Durkheim's own classification system, with major sections on the concepts and methodologies of general, moral, juridic sociology; criminal sociology; and the statistics of morals. Subdivisions address issues in law, suicide, political sociology; social, political and domestic organization, etc. 522 pgs. Dustjacket has a few tiny closed tears on upper spine edge; in mylar. Minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, 2007. Urban history, an interdisciplinary field that includes architects, planners, sociologists, environmentalists, political scientists, and economists, is a phenomenon of the post–World War II period. This encyclopedia has more than 300 contributors from colleges and universities across the country as well as corporations and government agencies. Editor Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and is author or editor of 13 other books on the history of the American South. The encyclopedia approaches the rise of urban areas in America from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology. Focus is mainly on the twentieth century, a period during which the most dramatic change occurred in the U.S. in its move from more rural to mostly urban patterns of settlement. Arrangement is alphabetical, and each entry has one to four pages of… Read More

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1981. Scholarly text presents an outline of various approaches to the self-organization of matter and information, focusing on the general laws governing evolutionary dynamics across all levels of evolution, including the evolution of humans and human systems. The resulting transdisciplinary view of reality emphasizes creativity over adaptation and survival, openness over determinism, and self-transcendence over security. 222 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the front endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly text focuses on fertility and family transitions in selected Third World countries, exploring critical aspects of the relationship between population and development. The essays examine population processes as they unfold and develop over time, highlighting the need to go beyond economic explanations and identifying the priorities among social structural and cultural factors. Several of the contributors discuss the changing roles of women and the family, which provides an important context for understanding demographic transitions. The book concludes with an examination of the implications of fertility and family patterns now emerging in Third World countries in the context of population planning and development policies. 283 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half title page. Tiny bump to lower front corner.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1993. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of Iran, beginning with the rise of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 and tracing the transformation of Iran'a social structure, offers an interpretive synthesis of Iranian history. It argues that Iranian social structure is historically the product of both internal and external dynamics and that growing dependence on the West has produced a series of resistance movements that have been built on fragile social bases. 452 pgs. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1996. Scholarly text presents a fascinating account of how illegal drugs are transported into and around the United States and throughout its neighborhoods. Criminologist and geographer George F. Rengert takes a unique approach to the problem of illegal drug distribution and U.S. drug markets. Using maps and charts to illustrate his findings, Rengert applies spacial diffusion models to the illegal drug trade and explains why certain drugs are transported and found in different parts of the country. For example, the highest concentration of marijuana plants is not on either coast, but rather across the middle of the United States—throughout what is known as the corn belt. At the local level Rengert assesses the patterns and processes that interconnect drug sales and neighborhood deterioration and change.The book also addresses the important issues of how illegal drugs in this country operate on wholesale and retail levels and ways in which law enforcement at the… Read More

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Scholarly text emphasizes the development of an analytic approach and theoretical framework that can be applied to the assessment of very diverse events- changes in the natural environment, the local economy, or the dominant technology. The guide, based on a sociological perspective that highlights the importance of community social organization in analyzing social change, research, analysis, and presentation. 322 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half title page. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1991. Scholarly text describes the tenacity and the vulnerability of pastoral societies faced with environmental instability, political strife, and social collapse and sets forward a new model for understanding how herding-based societies respond to local conditions and act as autonomous agents in political and economic systems. Includes case studies of the Tswana and the San; the Intralacustrine pastoralists; the Maasai and Mursi of Eastern Africa; the Moors of the Sahel; and the multiethnic regional systems of Lake Turkana, the Upper Nile, and the Lake Chad Basin. 338 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half title page.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987. Scholarly text presents a comprehensive study of Canada's reserve army, the Militia, and focuses on the regiment as both a civic and military institution that has declined in status and visibility since the country's armed services were unified in 1967. The author uses social history and a sociological framework to explore the major problems that have beset the Militia in its attempts to maintain its strength and efficiency in peacetime. 269 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on the half title page. Minor rubbling to rear cover edges. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982. In this scholarly, highly acclaimed text, Dr. Chany defines the awesome normality of man's destructive tendancies and shows how evil is a natural potential at every level of human experience- individual, family, and group. Nevertheless, he argues forcefully that actual destructiveness is not inevitable, that a better understanding of its sources can open the door to effective strategies against violence and genocide. This extraordinary book chronicles the evil we have been and are capable of, yet also justifies a hope for a better future. Contains a major proposal by Dr. Chany for a Genocide Early Warning System which has been commended, among others, by the1985 Whitaker Commission Report to the U.N. Includes a forward by Elie Wiesel. 430 pp. Brand-new in shrinkwrap. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.