Социология
5875 кн.
Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consumers? What did it seem to provide over and above a decent cup of coffee? Why at the moment of Starbucks' profit-generating peak did the company lose its way, leaving...
| Автор | Bryant Simon |
Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie...
| Автор | Allison Pugh |
“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I’m moving backward. And I can’t do anything about it.” –Esperanza Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades...
| Автор | Roberto G. Gonzales |
In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
| Автор | Michel de Certeau |
The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers’ pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Patricia M. Speck, DNSc и др.
200 pages, 153 images, 7 contributors<BR><BR> <B>Child Sexual Abuse Assessment</B> provides self-directed exercises that guide readers through the process of identifying documented injuries and developing a plan of action for evidence collection and subsequent medical care unique to each case. Readers will have the opportunity to analyze case histories of child sexual abuse and accompanying photographs of the patients’ physical examinations.<BR><BR> Features...
| Автор | Patricia M. Speck, DNSc и др. |
Don’t trash that stash! Ask Ed: Marijuana Gold—Trash to Stash offers some little-known ways to get more magic out of each and every plant.This book shares some highly efficient and successful methods for transforming leaf or trim, into THC treats, naturally. Rescue unused parts from the garbage safely with equipment from your own kitchen. Ask Ed: Marijuana Gold is conversational in style, explaining each method in down-to-earth language that anyone can understand and follow....
| Автор | Ed Rosenthal |
Are you letting your past rob you of your future? Vulnerability, insecurity, anger, resentment and depression led Mistie into the arms of cocaine. Held hostage by addiction for ten years, she fell from becoming a surgeon in medical school to sporting black eyes, committing crimes and facing forty years in prison for taking someone’s life. Left BROKEN, DEPRESSED and LOST, she found strength to PULL HERSELF UP by sharing the RAW TRUTH about addiction, domestic abuse, and shame to IMPACT others. In...
| Автор | Mistie Layne |
In 1948, the Orioles, a Baltimore-based vocal group, recorded «It's Too Soon to Know.» Combining the sound of Tin Pan Alley with gospel and blues sensibilities, the Orioles saw their first hit reach #13 on the pop charts, thus introducing the nation to vocal rhythm & blues and paving the way for the most successful groups of the 1950s. In the first scholarly treatment of this influential musical genre, Stuart Goosman chronicles the Orioles' story and that of myriad other black...
| Автор | Stuart L. Goosman |