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Goozner, Merrill
The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs
$70.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23945-6
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24670-6
Solinger, Rickie
A Woman against the Law
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20402-7
Stevens, Rosemary
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21009-7
Penn, William S., editor
Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity
$23.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21073-8
Lalich, Janja
True Believers and Charismatic Cults
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23194-8
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24018-6
Schrag, Peter
America's High-Stakes Experiment
$35.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24436-8
Schrag, Peter
America's High-Stakes Experiment
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25405-3
Baldassare, Mark
The Changing Social and Political Landscape
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23421-5
Foner, Nancy
Work in an American Nursing Home
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20337-2
Min, Pyong Gap
Korean Communities in New York And Los Angeles
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20489-8
Sirianni, Carmen, and Lewis Friedland
Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22637-1
Honigsberg, Peter Jan
A Civil Rights Memoir
$14.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23459-8
Rowe, Michael
Encounters between Homeless People and Outreach Workers
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21883-3
Andrews, Jonathan, and Andrew Scull
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22660-9
Best, Joel
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
$19.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-21978-6
Finnegan, William
Travels with Black South African Reporters
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08979-2
Anspach, Renée R.
Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21213-8
Davis, Sam
Architecture That Works
$34.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23525-0
Ingstad, Benedicte, and Susan Reynolds Whyte, editors
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08362-2
Skogan, Wesley G.
Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07693-8
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25171-7
Eldredge, Niles
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20845-2
See, Carolyn
Hard Luck And Good Times In America
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20482-9
Rhodes, Lorna A.
The Work of an Emergency Psychiatric Unit
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20351-8
Bales, Kevin
How We Free Today's Slaves
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25470-1
$15.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25796-2
Murphy, Timothy F.
AIDS, Morality, and Culture
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-08636-4
Roughgarden, Joan
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24073-5
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24679-9
Ferguson, James
Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21702-7
Newman, Katherine S.
Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21842-0
Young, Michael, and Peter Willmott
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07897-0
Sullivan, Maureen
Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23963-0
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23964-7
Irwin, John
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06016-6
Nordstrom, Carolyn, and Antonius C. G. M. Robben, editors
Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08994-5
Massing, Michael
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22335-6
Nestle, Marion
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25403-9
Manning, Richard
The Next Green Revolution
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23263-1
Bayley, David H.
Policing Modern Japan, Revised edition
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07262-6
Menjívar, Cecilia
Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22211-3
Pierce, Jennifer L.
Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20108-8
Salzinger, Leslie
Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23539-7
Kelly, Alfred, translator, editor & introduction by
Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06124-8
Göktürk, Deniz, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes, editors
Nation and Migration, 1955-2005
$70.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24893-9
$31.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24894-6
Wiener, Jon
The John Lennon FBI Files
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22246-5
Burawoy, Michael, Joseph A. Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steve H. Lopez, Seán Ó Riain, and Millie Thayer
Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22216-8
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette
How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25724-5
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25725-2
Barlett, Donald L., and James B. Steele
How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23610-3
Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton
Individualism and Commitment in American Life
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25419-0
Gerson, Kathleen
How Women Decide About Work, Career and Motherhood
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-05745-6
Fingarette, Herbert
The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06754-7
Brodie, Janet Farrell, and Marc Redfield, editors
Cultural Studies in Addiction
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22750-7
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22751-4
Sadowsky, Jonathan
Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21617-4
Farmer, Paul
The Modern Plagues
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22913-6
Blee, Kathleen M.
Women in the Hate Movement
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24055-1
Haney, Lynne
Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23102-3
Foner, Nancy, editor
West Indian Migration to New York
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22573-2
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22850-4
Jankowski, Martin Sanchez
Gangs and American Urban Society
$23.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07434-7
Portes, Alejandro, and Rubén G. Rumbaut
The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22847-4
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22848-1
Das, Veena
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24744-4
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24745-1
Evans, Peter, editor
Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23024-8
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23025-5
Roszak, Theodore
Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20122-4
Schaller, Susan
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20265-8
Hochschild, Arlie Russell
Commercialization of Human Feeling
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23933-3
Braslow, Joel
Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-20547-5
Chávez, Ernesto
Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23018-7
Daniel, E. Valentine, and John Chr. Knudsen, editors
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08899-3
Wang, David Der-wei
History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23140-5
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23873-2
Selznick, Philip
Social Theory and the Promise of Community
$27.50 paperback; 978-0-520-08934-1
Hertz, Rosanna
Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06337-2
Davidman, Lynn
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23200-6
Landry, Bart
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06465-2
Ogasawara, Yuko
Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21044-8
Ludtke, Melissa
Unmarried Motherhood in America
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21830-7
Stone, Pamela
Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home
$45.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24435-1
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25657-6
Niezen, Ronald
Human Rights and the Politics of Identity
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23554-0
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23556-4
Lefkowitz, Bernard
The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-20596-3
Dalton, Sharron
What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic
$40.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22574-9
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24666-9
Nordstrom, Carolyn, and Joann Martin, editors
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07316-6
Henry, Neil
A Black Man's Search for His White Family
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22730-9
Lieberson, Stanley
Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-04362-6
Daniels, Douglas Henry
A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco
$26.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07399-9
Kligman, Gail
Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21075-2
Jesilow, Paul, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis
How Doctors Defraud Medicaid
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07614-3
Schultz, Bud, and Ruth Schultz
Testimonies to Political Repression in America
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22402-5
Dohan, Daniel
Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22756-9
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23889-3
Escobar, Edward J.
Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21335-7
Best, Joel
How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21572-6
Chancer, Lynn S.
Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20923-7
Edited by Das, Veena, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Reynolds
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22330-1
Pia Lara, María, editor
Contemporary Perspectives
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22632-6
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22634-0
Nestle, Marion
Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23292-1
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24223-4
Solnit, Rebecca
A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22066-9
Fairchild, Amy L., Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove
Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America
$50.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-25202-8
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25325-4
Lynn, Joanne
Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24300-2
Kleinman, Arthur, Veena Das, and Margaret Lock, editors
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20995-4
Noddings, Nel
Caring and Social Policy
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23026-2
Conley, Dalton, Kate W. Strully, and Neil G. Bennett
Birth Weight and Life Chances
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23866-4
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23955-5
Waldinger, Roger, editor
New Immigrants in Urban America
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23093-4
Cohen, Shirley
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24838-0
Glantz, Stanton A., and Edith D. Balbach
Inside the California Battles
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22286-1
Borovoy, Amy
Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24451-1
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24452-8
Greenhalgh, Susan
Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22398-1
Bales, Kevin
A Reader
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24507-5
Jadhav, Narendra
My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25263-9
Edited by Das, Veena, Arthur Kleinman, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Reynolds
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21608-2
Biehl, João
Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24277-7
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24278-4
Glantz, Aaron
Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25612-5
Eckstein, Susan Eva, and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, editors
Fighting for Fairness in Latin America
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-23744-5
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23745-2
Fine, Gary Alan, and Patricia A. Turner
Rumor and Race in America
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22855-9
Rothenberg, Daniel
The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22734-7
Bettie, Julie
Girls, Race, and Identity
$23.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23542-7
Hertz, Rosanna, and Nancy L. Marshall, editors
The Transformation of the American Home
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22649-4
Kefalas, Maria
Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22787-3
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23543-4
Murray, Thomas H.
$31.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-08836-8
Kleinman, Arthur
Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20965-7