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Ain't No Makin' It
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Jay MacLeod
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Aspirations and Attainment in a
Low-Income Neighborhood
Jay MacLeod brought us to the "Clarendon Heights" public housing development and introduced us to Jinx and Mokey and their teenage friends -the "Hallway Hangers" and the "Brothers" - in 1987 with the first edition of Ain't No Makin' It.
This third edition chronicles the lives of the Brothers and Hallway Hangers into middle age. Having renewed relationships with the men, MacLeod allows them to speak for themselves in thirteen new interviews that are by turns heartbreaking and uplifting.
Sociologists Katherine McClelland and David Karen analyze these stories in a concluding chapter, ensuring that Ain't No Makin' It remains an admired and invaluable testament to how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next ...
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Money In the House
Campaign Funds and Congressional Party Politics
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Marian Currinder
Author Marian Currinder presents a compelling and empirically grounded look at how internal campaign finance practices have come to dominate congressional party politics
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Man the Hunted
Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution, Expanded Edition
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Robert Wald Sussman, Donna Hart
A provocative view of human evolution that contends early humans occupied a far more vulnerable position in the food chain than we like to imagine
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Africa in World Politics
Reforming Political Order
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John W Harbeson, Donald Rothchild
Top contributors in the field of African politics write on the issues concerning this marginalized continent and its relationship to the global political and economic orders
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Mistaking Africa 2E
Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind, Second Edition
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Curtis A Keim
An engaging and now newly updated exploration of the origins of American stereotypes about Africa, where they appear in our culture, and why they persist
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Feminist Thought
A More Comprehensive Introduction, Third Edition
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Rosemarie Putnam Tong
A critical introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, now with new considerations of care-focused, postcolonial, and third-wave feminism
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Metaphysics
Third Edition
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Peter van Inwagen
This core text introducing readers to the field of metaphysics is now revised and updated with a new chapter on being
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