Education; Theater; Sociology

09/26/2011

Stories from novice teachers [electronic resource] : this is induction? / Lisa Scherff, Mike Daria. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Historical dictionary of contemporary American theater, 1930-2010 [electronic resource] / James Fisher. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Unequal childhoods [electronic resource] : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau. 2nd ed., with an update a decade later. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Globalization; Social work; Political sociology

09/15/2011

Globalization: encyclopedia of trade, labor, and politics / Ashish K. Vaidya, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Key concepts in anti-discriminatory social work / Toyin Okitikpi and Cathy Aymer. London: SAGE, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The handbook of political sociology: states, civil societies, and globalization / edited by Thomas Janoski … [et al.]. New York: Cambridge, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Cultural geography; Martial arts; Social research

09/14/2011

Cultural geography: a critical dictionary of key concepts / edited by David Atkinson … [et al.]. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Martial arts of the world: an encyclopedia of history and innovation / Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth, editors. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Key concepts in social research / Geoff Payne and Judy Payne. London: SAGE Publications, 2004. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Indigenous peoples

03/18/2011

Timpson, Annis May, ed. First Nations, first thoughts: the impact of indigenous thought in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Couper, Alastair. Sailors and traders: a maritime history of the Pacific peoples. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Santos-Granero, Fernando. Vital enemies: slavery, predation, and the Amerindian political economy of life. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Beard-Moose, Christina Taylor. Public Indians, private Cherokees: tourism and tradition on tribal ground. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Financial crisis, working poor, NGOs, achievement gaps

02/17/2011

World Bank Commission on Growth and Development. Post-crisis growth in developing countries: a special report of the Commission On Growth And Development on the implications of the 2008 financial crisis. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gitterman, Daniel P. Boosting paychecks: the politics of supporting America’s working poor. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Holmén, Hans. Snakes in paradise: NGOs and the aid industry in Africa. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Paige, Rod, and Elaine Witty. The Black-White achievement gap: why closing it is the greatest civil rights issue of our time. New York: AMACOM, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Electronic reference books: anti-capitalism, economic sociology, poverty

02/15/2011

Lowes, David E. The anti-capitalist dictionary. New York: Zed Books, 2006. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Smelser, Neil J., and Richard Swedberg, eds. The handbook of economic sociology. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Spicker, Paul, Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón, and David Gordon, eds. Poverty: an international glossary. London: Zed Books, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Girl power; women domestic workers in Pakistan

02/08/2011

Zaslow, Emilie. Feminism, Inc.: coming of age in girl power media culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Shahid, Ayesha. Silent voices, untold stories: women domestic workers in Pakistan and their struggle for empowerment. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Sex trafficking, sex tourism, sexual revolution

02/03/2011

Limoncelli, Stephanie A. The politics of trafficking: the first international movement to combat the sexual exploitation of womenStanford, Calif.: Stanford University press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Brents, Barbara G., Crystal A. Jackson, and Kathryn Hausbeck. The state of sex: tourism, sex, and sin in the new American heartland. New York: Routledge, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Sides, Josh. Erotic city: sexual revolutions and the making of modern San Francisco. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)


Ethics and markets, terrorism, poverty

12/08/2010

Satz, Debra. Why some things should not be for sale: the moral limits of markets. New York: oxford University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Totten, Mark. First strike: America, terrorism, and moral tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Miller, Richard W. Globalizing justice : the ethics of poverty and power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Ancient Greeks, Pope Benedict XVI, human accomplishment

09/22/2010

Camp, John, and Elizabeth Fisher. The world of the ancient GreeksNew York: Thames & Hudson, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Pope Benedict XVI. The essential Pope Benedict XVI: his central writings and speeches. New York: Harper, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Murray, Charles A. Human accomplishment: the pursuit of excellence in the arts and sciences, 800 BC to 1950. New YorK: Harper Collins, 2003. (Publisher’s description)


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