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The Portion Teller Plan
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.99The Portion Teller Plan is a sensible eating guide and the end of diet deprivation. No forbidden foods, no calorie counting. Welcome to diet liberation. Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel is more like it, right? Well, your morning bagel is equivalent to... more...
An Introduction to the Sociology of Health & Illness
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 57.00New edition of this best-selling textbook for students in the Sociology of Health & Illness. more...
Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 28.00This book provides an account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of exponential random graph models (ERGMs). more...
Cities and Climate Change
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world?s cities. Now home to over half the world?s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Responding to climate change is a profound... more...
Stuart Hall
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 24.95James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as to his critics and his intellectual legacy. Stuart Hall has been pivotal to the development of cultural studies during the past forty years. Whether as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural... more...
The Jacket
Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2002; US$ 5.99Phil is on a mission. His absentminded little brother forgot his lunch money. All kinds of thoughts are running through Phil's mind as he searches for Jimmy in the throngs of fourth and fifth graders crowding the school hallway: ...if I'm late for math today, then I might not be allowed to take the test -- and then I could flunk math! I might even... more...
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00Esteve examines crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve analyses the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. more...
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 63.00This handbook provides comprehensive information about expert performance. It describes the processes, knowledge, and methods by which people climb to the highest possible levels of human performance. It highlights the research techniques and approaches that investigators use to gain insights about such extraordinary performance. more...
Outcasts United
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world?s... more...
Satchel
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy ?Satchel? Paige. Through dogged research and extensive interviews, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down... more...









