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Sociology Matters with Connect Access Card [With Access Code]

By Richard T Schaefer

Richard T. Schaefer's Sociology Matters is a concise introduction to the discipline of sociology. Schaefer's characteristic straightforward style, a streamlined design, and highly focused coverage make it the perfect affordable, ultra-brief, introductory text for instructors who use a variety of materials in their course.

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Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology with Connect Access Card

By Mary Crawford

This groundbreaking text presents a framework for understanding how the lives of all people are shaped by gender. Instead of presenting gender as a collection of individual traits, Transformations presents gender as a social system that is used to categorize people and is linked to power and status. Mary Crawford's readable and lively style, and her presentation of a balance of classic and cutting-edge research, provide an engaging overview of the psychology of women and gender.

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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

By Mark Oppenheimer

A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the country, known for its tight-knit community and the profusion of multigenerational families.

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Stolen Cars: A Journey Through São Paulo's Urban Conflict

Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo, Brazil. Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific theme, such as the distinctions between violent robbery and the more commercial non-violent theft or the role of national borders interconnecting illegal and legal economies Provides an original theoretical framework for a rarely studied urban and transnational supply chain Draws from empirical data and a combination of different methodologies to demonstrate mechanisms of urban inequalities and violence reproduction Highlights how everyday life is entangled with structural urban transformations Uses an ethnographic narrative to show how urban development produce various forms of illegality and violent crime.

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Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal

By Richard Gallagher

"From a board-certified psychiatrist, comes the riveting account of his 25-year-career as the world's leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession, delving into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer"--

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The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By Irvin Yalom

"Includes more than twenty additional pages of new therapy tips by the author"--Cover.

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Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

By Wednesday Martin

From the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue comes a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything readers thought they knew about women and sex.