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Honky
University of California Press 2000; US$ 12.95This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view--the streets, buses, and playgrounds--Honky poignantly illuminates the usual... more...
Elsewhere, U.S.A.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A. , acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day experiences with occasionally overlooked sociological changes,... more...
The Pecking Order
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing ? or so we like to think. But if that?s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley shatters our notions of how our childhoods affect... more...
After the Bell
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on schools. With contributions from such figures as Jeanne Brooks-Gunn,... more...
The Starting Gate
University of California Press 2003; US$ 25.95Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never know?challenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into adulthood in the form of health and developmental problems. Because low birth weight is often accompanied... more...
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