Urban Behavior

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Solomon Getnet Ayalew
The Amhara People: A Structural Diagnosis of a Nation Within a Nation
The Amhara People: A Structural Diagnosis of a Nation Within a Nation This book is a sweeping, interdisciplinary study of the Amhara people of Ethiopia — not as a single, uniform cultural entity, but as a constellation of diverse social groups , each shaped by its own histories, moral frameworks,...
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Anna Muraco
Odd Couples: Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation
Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these “intersectional” friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco’s...
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C Walls
Be the Hero Anyway
Be the Hero Anyway is a powerful, emotional urban educational fiction novel told through the eyes of Ms. Celeste Walls, a quiet force in a loud school system. As a behavior modification technician in a struggling urban elementary school, Ms. Walls works with students labeled "difficult," "disrespec...
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J -MEE$Y
Rules And Regulations: Respect First, Then Money
Unlock the secrets to thriving in the trenches by reading "Rules and Regulations: Respect First, Then Money." This comprehensive self-help manual is your road map to becoming an expert player and closing the distance between expert and rookie players. Become the Culture's Voice: This book teaches y...
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John Canavan
MBA in Hospitality Finance: The Real-World Guide to Hotel & Resort Profitability
MBA in Hospitality Finance The Real-World Guide to Hotel & Resort Profitability Integrating the Financial Fundamentals of Successful Hotels & Resorts Most hotels don’t fail because of the market. They fail because the fundamentals were never aligned. Across boutiques, luxury resorts, lifestyl...
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C. Craig Farquhar
Raptors of Texas: A Natural History of Diurnal Birds of Prey (Myrna and David K. Langford Books on Working Lands)
Winner, 2023 Outstanding Book Publication Award of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society Diurnal raptors—birds of prey that hunt during the day—include easily recognizable birds like eagles, hawks, or falcons. They may be seen perched on highway signs, electrical poles, or soaring overhea...
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James Garbarino
Lost Boys: Why our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
In the first book to help parents truly understand youth violence and stop it before it explodes, national expert Dr. James Garbarino reveals how to identify children who are at risk and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior. After more than a decade of relentless increase in the urba...
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Michele Renee Salzman
The Falls of Rome (Adventures in Music)
Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally considered these crises as defining events, and thus ...
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Michele Renee Salzman
The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity
Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally considered these crises as defining events, and thus ...
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Brett L. Savage
California Politics Is Local (Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance)
In California Politics Is Local , Brett L. Savage and Jacob Sutherland argue that California politics should be viewed through a local lens due to the unique nature of the principal–agent relationship present in local governments around the state. Local governments make up the most common form of...
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Erick Guerra
Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of US Highway Construction
The world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering. President Eisenhower’s 1956 Interstate Highway Act is often praised as a mode...
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Carla P. Davis
Girls and Juvenile Justice: Power, Status, and the Social Construction of Delinquency
This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system. Based on rich, narrative accounts, the girls at the center of the study are viewed as confronted with the power of simultaneous race, class, and gender hierarchies. Through this framework, we see how the gir...
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Lisa Dieker
Strategies for Teaching Content Effectively in the Inclusive Secondary Classroom (Pearson Professional Development)
Strategies for Teaching Content Effectively in the Inclusive Secondary Classroom provides classroom applications, school-wide recommendations and content-specific strategies to support students with disabilities in secondary general education settings. Learn how to develop inclusive climates in the...
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Herbert J. Gans
The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (Legacy Editions)
In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners . The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work ...
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Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome)
The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-relat...
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Patricia Briggs
Fair Game (Alpha and Omega)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs' third Alpha and Omega novel brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could turn the hunters into the prey… It is said that opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Co...
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Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy
U.N. Agenda 21 has been in the works for decades, spearheaded by environmentalists, foreign individuals, third world countries, and non-profit organizations around the world. In the name of protecting the environment, socialist global governance has been quietly implemented at all levels of governme...
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Paul G. Young
Promoting Positive Behaviors: An Elementary Principal’s Guide to Structuring the Learning Environment
"Paul Young identifies key elements of school structure that every principal must have in place before strides in student achievement and parent engagement can be fully realized." ―Bonnie Tryon, Principal Golding Elementary School, Cobleskill, NY President, School Administrators Association of N...
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Shana POPLACK
BORROWING P: Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar
Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another. This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in thei...
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Elijah Anderson
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Provides an in-depth, insider's look at the life of inner-city black America by delving into the codes that exist among peers and the overwhelming control the code has had continuously on the community throughout recent times. As sociologist Elijah Anderson shows in the detailed and devastating Cod...
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