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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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1993. Scholarly text presents a comprehensive critique and review of more than two decades of cross-disciplinary research on women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors evaluate scholarship on women and gender in specific disciplines and topical areas including history, anthropology, sociology, political economy, and literature; demonstrate how this research is reconstructing knowledge and extending… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1984. Scholarly text presents a comprehensive review and synthesis of sociological human ecology, emphasizing advances in the field since 1950, and addresses the fundamental question of how human populations survive within the constraints of a limited and changing environment. The authors examine spatial and temporal variations in the forms of social organization that evolve as populations… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1997. This detailed scholarly study maps the variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families interact with their societies. Tracing the developmental cycle of families in a wide range of times and places, Stevan Harrell shows how family members in different societies must cooperate to perform various activities and thus organize themselves… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1991. Scholarly interdisciplinary study presents a cross-cultural examination of the systematic use of terror by governments against their own citizens, and terror as a phenomenon manifesting itself in both rightist and leftist regimes and broadly varying social contexts. Includes topics covering the political processes, social experience, historical sources, and preconditions of terror. 312 pp. Publisher's stamp… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly text examines migration patterns and their implications for population policy and structure, as presented in the broad context of population and development in more-and less-developed societies. Includes topics covering internal migration patterns in industrialized nations, social and geographic mobility, circulation migration and environmental trauma, assimilation of internal migrants, and population redistribution policies. 322 pp.… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 2003. Racism, racial equity, and the race-place connections related to racial inequalities in the U.S. are the major themes of this book. The long history of U.S. White racism toward Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians is deeply rooted in the political, socioeconomic, and intellectual frameworks of America, permitting racial inequities to become expressed as cultural landscapes—the places… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor, MI.: University of Michigan Press, 1966. Classic text presents a detailed study of various phenomena of social power, including studies dealing with power and the relations among professions; situational structure,sel-esteem, and threat-oriented reactions to power; peer groups and reactions to power figures; effects of adjustment on the perception and exertion of social power; power and authority in the… Read more about this item