This edition draws upon recent findings of sociological research about a rapidly changing society, upon both classical and contemporary theoretical debates and upon public controversies over social policy in fields ranging from the health service to the future of industry. The book begins with an assessment of sociology as a discipline, which is then set against the background of the history of global development and of contemporary divisions in the world, especially the Third World. Successive chapters introduce the reader to the special problems involved in researching society: the issues of sex, gender and the family, especially those raised by the women's movement; changing patterns of health and illness and of medical therapy; the explosive growth of the world's cities and changes in community life; the transformations of industry and of the nature of work in an epoch of mass unemployment; ethnic and racial conflicts both at world level and within our own society; the persistence of social order despite deep inequalities; and the many ways in which people deviate from respectable models of behaviour. The book ends with an overview of the main varieties of sociological theory.

The New Introducing Sociology

BROWN, Richard

Bechhofer, Frank

Newby, Howard

McIntosh, Mary

WORSLEY, Peter

Jefferys, Margot

Penguin??Books

Lack of learner motivation is the single greatest challenge before American schools and colleges. When students are self-motivated, they invest more and work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. Jackson Kytle's provocative book argues that students and teachers waste time and human energy because the conventional curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Hope for change requires a searching critique of modernity as well as expanded theories of human motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies. After consideration of existentialism and choice of life purposes, and the dynamics of psychological involvement, Kytle closes his ambitious, interdisciplinary book with ten considerations for better learning.

To Want to Learn: Insights and Provocations for Engaged Learning

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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The Grapes Of Wrath

STEINBECK

JOHN

J. Steinbeck

The book that fired the first shot in the sexual revolution Not too long ago only “bad” girls had a good time in bed. “Good” girls endured—and wondered what they were missing. Then along came “J” and suddenly everything was different. She opened the eyes—and minds—of millions of American women with her explicit step-by-step account of her pursuit of the ultimate in sexual pleasure. Now here’s the book that has set off fireworks in bedrooms across America, the book that will teach every woman how to free her body, train her senses, and tap her own hidden sensual resources. The book designed to make you the woman every man yearns to make love to—the woman you yearn to be.

The Sensuous Woman

Self-Help

Happiness

Dell

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Common Entrance

STITT

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Sensuous Woman

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Dell Books

Exellent compilation of legal short stories from greats such as Kafka, Greene, Melville, and O'Connor. Published in the U.K. A great gift for any lawyer.

Legal Fictions: Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Quartet Books

This collection of essays is designed to challenge working administrators and researchers to look more closely at their operations and consider again how they develop people and the organizations in which they work. It leads off with an article on skill development in reference service using a holistic approach to analyze reference in context. Then comes an article on the importance of organizational culture in defining service organizations in general and libraries in particular. It argues that when one considers libraries in this light, the importance of a strong ethical framework becomes evident in our institutions. The third article looks at advice networks, and addresses the importance that contacts within and outside of the library in which we work and within and outside of our profession play on individual's receptivity to innovation. The next three articles relate to personnel matters. The first discusses issues relating to the relationship between faculty status and tenure and salaries in academic libraries. This is followed by a piece that looks at the development of leaders for small, rural libraries, most of whom will not have formal training in librarianship. A third piece analyzes the criteria for selecting academic library directors that are considered important by those administrators who oversee this key leadership position. We then close with an article that looks at the validity of SERVQUAL as applied to a large public library system. LibQUAL+, an adaptation of SERVQUAL designed for use in academic libraries has become a staple in our literature for years, but there is little available that really turns a critical eye to the use of this important tool. This article will perhaps begin a healthy discussion about how this tool is applied in our libraries and how the results have been used in library operations. As always, this volume of Advances attempts to look at what it is we do as managers and to bring research and theory into our operations. It is designed to combine the practical and the theoretical in a way that will inform working managers and provide interesting questions for those engaged in research about library organizations.

Advances in Library Administration and Organization (Advances in Library Administration and Organization, 26)

E.D. Garten

D.E. Williams

Reference

Emerald Publishing Limited

The first and only modernization of the "bible" of Alcoholics Anonymous, A Simple Program provides an accessible, gender-equal translation for today's readers while maintaining the book's complete core text, which serves as the basis of all 12-step programs.

A Simple Program: A Contemporary Translation of the Book, Alcoholics Anonymous

Teen & Young Adult

Hyperion

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