A guide to improved communication shows readers how to avoid the most common conversational disasters, listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy, and use a simple, easily remembered strategy to communicate point of view..
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. ...
This expanded Fourteenth Edition of Taking Sides: Social Issues" provides two additional current controversial issues. All of the issues are presented in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript ...
HOWARDS END is a vivid portrait of life in Edwardian England, centered on an old country house in Hertfordshire, the object of an inheritance dispute. When the bohemian Schlegel sisters, Helen and Margaret, meet the Wilcox family, convention gives way to a more complex set of standards and emotions in this beloved and remarkable novel. The ...
Problems that "just won't go away" can be settled through methods developed by one of America's leading experts in conflict resolution. In clear language, Weeks shows readers how to turn conflict into lasting partnerships and ensure a fruitful outcome.
Can a country known for its radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness? More than a decade after the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government has released tens of thousands of murderers back into the communities they ravaged. Survivors and perpetrators have had to learn to live again as neighbors. Inspired by the ...
Covering the whole range of conflict settings-interpersonal, group, and organizational-Working Through Conflict, Fourth Edition, provides an introduction to conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory and research. Encompassing a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives, the text includes an abundance of real life case studies ...
In three stories, this book depicts the wrenching conflicts ordinary Irish people feel as a result of their colonial Troubles, focusing on the tensions between people's attempts to live normal lives and the insistent reminders of the Troubles all around them.
The fifth edition of Theoretical Criminology, the standard text in its field, has been extensively revised and completely updated. It includes new sections on causation in scientific theories, Sampson's theory of collective efficacy, and Anderson's "code of the street." A new chapter on Contemporary Classicism includes sections on deterrence ...
The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of life stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portugese colonial regimes ...
In this volume, Peter Ackerman, an authority on non-violent strategy, and Jack DuVall, a veteran writer, show how popular movements used non-violent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. A cavalcade of far-flung locations and history-changing crises, the ...
For freshman - sophomore level courses in Social Problems taught from the conflict perspective. This book's major contribution is that it develops the critical power--conflict perspective as a necessary first step to making sense of the many crucial problems facing United States society. The book provides a well-organized application of the ...
Drawing material from dozens of divided societies, this text constructs a theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination.
In this adventure in the Seafort saga, a guilt-ridden politician, an earnest young boy and a sick old man eking out a living in the streets are faced with preventing humanity from destroying itself in urban Armageddon. As war brews, Philip Seafort searches for his lost friend.
Harold Kerbo continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the economic and social divisions in human societies. While the book is grounded in the nature of social stratification in the United States, this edition maintains a commitment to keeping a global perspective. Extensive comparative information, as well as an overview of ...
Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that were to follow its publication and provided ...
Organized along the same lines as Three Sociological Traditions, Four Sociological Traditions is Randall Collins' updated guide to the development of modern sociology. Explaining in a brief, readable format the 4 main schools of sociological thought, this book represents a concise intellectual history of the development of sociology. Widely ...
Georges Sorel's Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could grasp why a retired civil servant had written such a book then the modern age could be understood. It heralded the political turmoil of the decades that were to follow its publication and provided ...
Bring a fresh approach to the bargaining table Tap the transformative potential of mediation and discover the full promise of the mediation process. In this insightful work, the authors present an alternative theoretical framework that affords a deeper understanding of conflict and mediation ---- one based on respect for personal strength and ...
A collection of readings from the major thinkers in sociology - from classics to contemporaries - to accompany Collins's Four Sociological Traditions. Four Sociological Traditions, Selected Readings chronicles the development of modern sociology, highlighting the 4 main schools of sociological thought. This edition adds a new section on the ...
"Social Conflict" can be used as a supplement in social psychology courses, or as a main text in interdisciplinary courses on social conflict and negotiation - found in psychology, communication, sociology, and international relations departments. This text provides sophisticated coverage of all the key research on social conflict and its ...
Harold Kerbo continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date exploration of the economic and social divisions in human societies. While the book is grounded in the nature of social stratification in the United States, this edition maintains a commitment to keeping a global perspective. Extensive comparative information, as well as an overview of ...
For undergraduate/graduate courses in International Relations, World Politics, American Foreign Policy, Peace Studies, and Global Issues. This text comprehensively covers the debatable issues regarding the definitional characteristics of the post-September 11th wave of terrorism, the multiple roots of this deadly new form of international ...
Groundbreaking, authoritative, eye-opening--and certain to rekindle, and permanently alter, the discussion of race relations today--this book explores racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods.
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