Immigrant Narratives

Wail S. Hassan

Since the work of Edward Said first appeared, countless studies have shown the ways in which Western writers--sometimes unwittingly--participate in the oversimplified East/West dichotomy of Orientalism. Yet no study has considered how writers from the so-called Orient...

Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

Lee A. Smithey

In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation. Lee A. Smithey offers a grassroots view of that transformation, drawing on interviews, documentary evidence, and extensive field research. He offers essential models for how...

Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men

David M. Brodzinsky , Adam Pertman

The practice of adoption has changed dramatically over the past half century, with profound implications for children and families. Perhaps the most remarkable and controversial transformation during this time has been the growing willingness of adoption professionals...

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Cynthia Franklin , Wallace J. Gingerich , Eric E. Mccollum , Terry S. Trepper

The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice

Donna M. Bishop , Barry C. Feld

Over the last two decades, researchers have made significant discoveries about the causes and origins of delinquency. Specifically, we have learned a great deal about adolescent development and its relationship to decision-making, about multiple factors that contribute...

Nonviolent Revolutions

Sharon Erickson Nepstad

In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the...

Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy

Lisa D. Brush

Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and battering. Brush contrasts conventional wisdom with illuminating analyses of social change and social...

A Match on Dry Grass

Karen L. Mapp , The Community Organizing And School Reform Project , Mark R. Warren

The persistent failure of public schooling in low-income communities constitutes one of our nation's most pressing civil rights and social justice issues. Many school reformers recognize that poverty, racism, and a lack of power held by these communities undermine...

Child Victims and Restorative Justice

Tali Gal

Changed for Good

Stacy Wolf

From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre -...

Improving Performance in Service Organizations

Tatiana Bogatova , Bruce Carnohan , Joyce Ann Miller

Improving Performance in Service Organizations guides professionals through the application of lean concepts and methods in the service sector. Agencies can use this innovative approach to analyze operations and determine ways to eliminate activities that are wasteful...

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning

Randall Crane , Rachel Weber

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world. Edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane, professors at two leading planning institutes in the...

The Explanation of Social Action

John Levi Martin

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear...

The Use of Self

Raymond Fox

The finest teachers attempt to make direct connections between classroom knowledge and its application to the varieties of practice. Ray Fox emphasizes that a teacher of future practitioners must expand upon lectures and mere memorization; the interaction between...

Habits of Change

Carole Garibaldi Rogers

A collection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habits of Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringing together women from more than forty different religious...

Contradictory Lives

Lisa I. Knight

In literature and popular imagination, the Bauls of India and Bangladesh are characterized as musical mystics: orange-clad nomads of both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds. They wander the countryside and entertain with their passionate singing and unusual behavior, and they...

Child Protection Systems

Neil Gilbert , Nigel Parton , Marit Skivenes

Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and...

The Ruin of the Eternal City

David Karmon

Latinas Attempting Suicide

Luis H. Zayas

Since 1991, surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown that Latina teenagers attempt suicide at a far higher rate than other American youth in the same age group; one in seven Latinas attempt suicide while one in ten black and white...

Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity

Joshua Fishman , Ofelia Garcia

Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts,...