Monographs & Edited Collections (5,094 posts)

Introduction to the New Statistics

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Selma’s Bloody Sunday: Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality

Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor

Neoliberal Chicago: The neoliberal vision realized in an American city

The neoliberal philosophy of fiscal austerity aligned with reduced economic regulation has transformed Chicago. As pursued by mayor Rahm Emanuel and his predecessor Richard M. Daley, neoliberal thinking has led officials to gut regulations and social services, privatize everything from parking meters to schools, and promote gentrification as their default neighborhood development tool.

Winning Your Benefit Appeal: what you need to know

Pocket Piketty

Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neoliberal Economy

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Baring Witness: 36 Mormon Women Talk Candidly about Love, Sex, and Marriage

Radical Futures?: Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe

Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

The Federal Management Playbook Leading and Succeeding in the Public Sector

Biosocial Matters: Rethinking the Sociology-Biology Relations in the Twenty-First Century

Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice

Metrics That Matter for Population Health Action: Workshop Summary

The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Officious Rise of the busybody state

Accounting for Social Risk Factors in Medicare Payment: Social Risk Factors Framework

Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory

Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut

The War on Sex

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983

Mental Disorders Around the World: Facts and Figures from the World Mental Health Surveys

Contesting Elder Abuse and Neglect: Ageism, Risk, and the Rhetoric of Rights in the Mistreatment of Older People

Social Work with the Aged and Their Families

Unusual Punishment: Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985

One World Mania: A Critical Guide to Free Trade, Financialization and Over-Globalization

Invisible Nation: Homeless Families in America

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion

Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States

Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge

Drift highlights a distinctly North American form of drift—that of the train-hopping hobo—by tracing the hobo’s political history and by sharing his own immersion in the world of contemporary train-hoppers.

Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World

Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised People

The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science

The Contradictions of Neoliberal Agri-Food: Corporations, Resistance, and Disasters in Japan

Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History

Accusation: Creating Criminals

Sociology of Sexualities

Monitoring the Future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2015: Volume II, college students and adults ages 19-55

Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency

Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space

The Big Move: Life Between the Turning Points

Being required to live in an assisted living facility and learning how to really live there is the topic of Professor Helen Kivnick’s new book, The Big Move: Life Between the Turning Points.