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""We Are Not Garbage!"": The Homeless Movement in Tokyo 1994-2002
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95This book offers a full history of a homeless movement in Tokyo that lasted nearly a decade. It shows how homeless people and their external supporters in the city combined their scarce resources to generate and sustain the movement. The study advocates a more nuanced analysis of movement gains to appreciate how poor people can benefit by acting collectively.... more...
The "BASIC Ph" Model of Coping and Resiliency
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2012; US$ 39.95The â??BASIC Phâ?? model of coping and resiliency, developed by Prof. Mooli Lahad, was the first to describe coping as an on-going effort to manage life challenges. This is the first book to be published on this world-renowned approach, widely used as an effective resiliency assessment, intervention, and recovery model. more...
An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy?
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 89.99Adolescent pregnancy is a problem which arouses strong feelings. This book attempts to put the matter as it affects the USA into a historical framework and to discuss the social and policy issues raised. more...
$20 Per Gallon
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99Imagine an everyday world in which the price of gasoline (and oil) continues to go up, and up, and up. Think about the immediate impact that would have on our lives. Of course, everybody already knows how about gasoline has affected our driving habits. People can't wait to junk their gas-guzzling SUVs for a new Prius. But there are more, not-so-obvious... more...
(Re)Constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria
Berghahn Books 2008; US$ 75.00For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different,... more...
(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 119.95Drawing together the latest research from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, (Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings engages with the work of critical theorists such as Bourdieu, Butler, Foucault, Latour, and iek, amongst others, to address the issue of violence and theorise its workings in creative and controversial ways. more...
12 Going on 29
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00A popular mother/daughter team, incorporating insights and quotes from interviews with 100 more mother/daughter pairs, shows us how to handle those testy times that follow when around age 11 daughter becomes a "tween," raising issues from body piercings, cell phones, makeup and suggestive clothes to awful behavior, and awful boyfriends. more...
12 Steps That Can Save Your Life
Red Wheel Weiser 2009; US$ 12.95Clean and sober twenty days or twenty years -- it makes no difference. We all need a little help every once in a while. Barb Rogers has been sober for a long time. And she knows that doesn?t make a difference -- what makes a difference is that she?s clean and sober today. Rogers' newest book offers true stories from real life people. Their addictions... more...
The 12 Steps Unplugged
Hazelden Publishing 2011; US$ 13.95Like many alcoholics and addicts, when John R. began his recovery at age seventeen, he was given a Big Book. At first he was reluctant to wade through the old-fashioned language and the stories about people he didn't think he could relate to. But, over time, he realized that the best way to get sober--and to stay sober--is to learn from those who... more...
12 Steps on Buddha's Path
Wisdom Publications 2006; US$ 12.9512 Steps on Buddha's Path is the extraordinary spiritual journey of a woman once trapped in the downward spiral of alcoholism. Misdiagnosed, Laura Keene was put in a mental hospital and given more than 40 electroshock treatments. Left incapable by the treatments of even speaking a coherent sentence, Keene was released against medical advice and... more...









