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13th Gen : Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?by William Strauss, Neil Howe, Ian Williams, R. J. MatsonISBN 0679743650 (0-679-74365-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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1997 County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Bookby George E. Hall, Deirdre A. GaquinISBN 0890590710 (0-89059-071-0)
Hardcover, Bernan Assoc
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The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apartby Stanley J. WilderISBN 078900951X (0-7890-0951-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart'Book summary:The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians: A Profession Apart discusses the current demographics of librarianship in North America and examines how a huge retiree rate will affect the profession. With the average age of librarians increasing dramatically since 1990, this book examines the changes that will have to take place in your library, such as recruiting, training, and working with a smaller staff. The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians provides you with insights on how to make your librarys transition easier when several of your colleagues leave your library. Valuable and intelligent, The Age Demographics of Academic Librarians discusses trends through easy-to-read charts, tables, and comprehensive data analysis. Exploring possible reasons for the anomalies of this trend, this book explores several surprising facts, such as:
- 16 percent of the 1995 American Research Libraries population of librarians will retire by the year 2000, another 16 percent between 2000 and 2005, 24 percent between 2005 and 2010, and 27 percent between 2010 and 2030, leaving the ARL lacking seasoned librarians
- the number of ARL cataloging librarians are decreasing, but the number of reference librarians seems to be increasing
- 54 percent of all ARL librarians who have twenty or more years of professional experience have worked at only one library in the course of their careers
- Canadian ARL librarians are older than their United States counterparts
- in 1990, 48 percent of ARL librarians were 45 years old or older; in 1994, the number increased to 58 percentThe Age Demographics of Academic Librarians provides you with valuable insight into the unusual shape and movement of the academic librarian age profile as well as some speculation on its possible effects so you can predict how it will affect your library in the future and help you prepare to take preventative actions.
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America Alone: The End of the World As We Know Itby Mark SteynISBN 0895260786 (0-89526-078-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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The American Almanac 1993-1994: Statistical Abstract of the United Statesby U.S. Bureau of the CensusISBN 1878753304 (1-878753-30-4)
Softcover, Hoovers Inc
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclassby Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. DentonISBN 0674018214 (0-674-01821-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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American Families and Householdsby Larry L. Bumpass, James A. SweetISBN 0871541491 (0-87154-149-1)
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The Asian Databookby David GaroogianISBN 1592370446 (1-59237-044-6)
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Atlas of Contemporary America: Portrait of a Nation Politics, Economy, Environment, Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Health Issues, Demographic Patby Rodger Pirnie DoyleISBN 0816025452 (0-8160-2545-2)
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Atlas of World Population Historyby Colin McEvedy, Richard JonesISBN 0140510761 (0-14-051076-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas of World Population History'Book summary:The book details population changes in every region of the planet from 400 BC to 1978 AD. McEvedy and Jones used seventy line graphs and accompanying commentary text to describe population changes in seventy regions. The only negative aspect of this book is that the authors estimates of pre-European, Native American populations are considerably lower than most other estimates and seem somewhat outdated. While many books describe population changes, few cover such a huge breadth of space and time and few give so much information so directly. This book is much appreciated and other books like this would certainly be welcome. [via]
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Lifeby Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayISBN 0684824299 (0-684-82429-9)
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Beyond The Gateway: Immigrants In A Changing Americaby Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Susan Forbes MartinISBN 0739106368 (0-7391-0636-8)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Birth Dearthby Ben J. WattenbergISBN 0886875676 (0-88687-567-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got Thereby David BrooksISBN 0684853787 (0-684-85378-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There'Book summary:It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.
But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the countercultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos.
Are you a Bobo?
Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature?
Does your newly renovated kitchen look like an aircraft hangar with plumbing? Did you select your new refrigerator on the grounds that mere freezing isn't cold enough?
Would you spend a little more for socially conscious toothpaste -- the kind that doesn't actually kill germs, it just asks them to leave?
Do you work for one of those hip, visionary software companies where everybody comes to work in hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a 400-foot wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot?
Do youthink your educational credentials are just as good as those of the shimmering couples on the "New York Times" weddings page?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are probably a member of today's new upper class. [via]
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Boom, Bust and Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shiftby David K. Foot, Daniel StoffmanISBN 0921912978 (0-921912-97-8)
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Communityby Robert D. PutnamISBN 0743203046 (0-7432-0304-6)
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Drawing on vast new data from the Roper Social and Political Trends and the DDB Needham Life Style -- surveys that report in detail on Americans' changing behavior over the past twenty-five years -- Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and social structures, whether the PTA, church, recreation clubs, political parties, or bowling leagues. Our shrinking access to the "social capital" that is the reward of communal activity and community sharing is a serious threat to our civic and personal health.
Putnam's groundbreaking work shows how social bonds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction. For example, he reports that getting married is the equivalent of quadrupling your income and attending a club meeting regularly is the equivalent of doubling your income. The loss of social capital is felt in critical ways: Communities with less social capital have lower educational performance and more teen pregnancy, child suicide, low birth weight, and prenatal mortality. Social capital is also a strong predictor of crime rates and other measures of neighborhood quality of life, as it is of our health: In quantitative terms, if you both smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to which is the riskier behavior.
A hundred years ago, at the turn of the last century, America's stock of social capital was at an ebb, reduced by urbanization, industrialization, and vast immigration thatuprooted Americans from their friends, social institutions, and families, a situation similar to today's. Faced with this challenge, the country righted itself. Within a few decades, a range of organizations was created, from the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, and YWCA to Hadassah and the Knights of Columbus and the Urban League. With these and many more cooperative societies we rebuilt our social capital.
We can learn from the experience of those decades, Putnam writes, as we work to rebuild our eroded social capital. It won't happen without the concerted creativity and energy of Americans nationwide.
Like defining works from the past that have endured -- such as "The Lonely Crowd" and "The Affluent Society" -- and like C. Wright Mills, Richard Hofstadter, Betty Friedan, David Riesman, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Theodore Roszak, Putnam has identified a central crisis at the heart of our society and suggests what we can do. [via]
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The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Areby Michael J. WeissISBN 0316929204 (0-316-92920-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Clustering of Americaby Michael J. WeissISBN 0060915994 (0-06-091599-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the Worldby Paul H. Ray, Sherry Ruth AndersonISBN 0609808451 (0-609-80845-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World'Book summary:Do you "give a lot of importance to helping other people and bringing out their unique gifts?" Do you "dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and 'making it,' on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods?" Do you "want to be involved in creating a new and better way of life for our country?" If you answered yes to all three of these questions--and at least seven more of the remaining 15 in Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson's questionnaire--then you are probably a Cultural Creative.
Cultural Creative is a term coined by Ray and Anderson to describe people whose values embrace a curiosity and concern for the world, its ecosystem, and its peoples; an awareness of and activism for peace and social justice; and an openness to self-actualization through spirituality, psychotherapy, and holistic practices. Cultural Creatives do not just take the money and run; they don't want to defund the National Endowment for the Arts; and they do want women to get a fairer shake--not only in the United States, but around the globe.
On the basis of Ray and Anderson's research, about 50 million Americans are Cultural Creatives, a group that includes people of all races, ages, and classes. This subculture could have enormous social and political clout, the authors argue, if only it had any consciousness of itself as a cohesive unit, a society of fellow travelers. The husband and wife team wrote the book "to hold up a mirror" to the members of this vast but diffuse group, to show them they are not alone and that they can reshape society to make it more authentic, compassionate, and engaged. It is an idealistic call for a new agenda for a new millennium. --I. Crane [via]
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Does Age Matter: Law and Relationships between Generations Discussion Paperby Law Commission of CanadaISBN 0662677730 (0-662-67773-0)
Hardcover, Law Commission of Canada
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The Emerging Democratic Majorityby John B. Judis, Ruy TeixeiraISBN 0743226917 (0-7432-2691-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Emerging Democratic Majorityby Ruy Teixeira, John B. JudisISBN 0743254783 (0-7432-5478-3)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emerging Democratic Majority'Book summary:ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD
Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era.
In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations.
As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order. [via]
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The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dreamby Sheryll CashinISBN 1586483390 (1-58648-339-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream'Book summary:Published for the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: If "separate, but equal" has been illegal for fifty years, why is America more segregated than ever?. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently "unequal" and, as such, violate the 14th Amendment. The landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education , sounded the death knell for legal segregation, but fifty years later, de facto segregation in America thrives. And Sheryll Cashin believes that it is getting worse. The Failures of Integration is a provocative look at how segregation by race and class is ruining American democracy. Only a small minority of the affluent are truly living the American Dream, complete with attractive, job-rich suburbs, reasonably low taxes, good public schools, and little violent crime. For the remaining majority of Americans, segregation comes with stratospheric costs. In a society that sets up "winner" and "loser" communities and schools defined by race and class, racial minorities in particular are locked out of the "winner" column. African-Americans bear the heaviest burden. Cashin argues that we n [via]
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Fewer: How The New Demography Of Depopulation Will Shape Our Futureby Ben J. WattenbergISBN 1566636736 (1-56663-673-6)
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Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experienceby CsikszentmihalyiISBN 1428800271 (1-4288-0027-1)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780060920432 [via]
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The Fountain of Ageby Betty FriedanISBN 0671898531 (0-671-89853-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fountain of Age'Book summary:Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her own voyage of discovery, and that of others, into a different kind of aging.
Friedan found ordinary men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies, discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed, then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood."
The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us, all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own authentic terms.
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Fragmented Godsby Reginald W BibbyISBN 0772516669 (0-7725-1666-9)
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From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960by Susan Cotts WatkinsISBN 0691094519 (0-691-09451-9)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Gay & Lesbian Atlasby Gary J. Gates, Jason Ost, Elizabeth BirchISBN 0877667217 (0-87766-721-7)
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Generation Xby Douglas CouplandISBN 1417706643 (1-4177-0664-3)
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Growing Older, Working Longer: A New Face of Retirementby Not AvailableISBN 0886274737 (0-88627-473-7)
Softcover, Renouf Pub Co Ltd
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 061318114X (0-613-18114-X)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companionby Jared DiamondISBN 1586638637 (1-58663-863-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion'Book summary:Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:- Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?
- Why is geography the most important factor in human history?
- How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?
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The Hispanic Databook: Detailed Statistics and Rankings on the Hispanic Population, including 23 Ethnic Backgrounds from Argentinian to Venezuelan, for 1,266 U.S. Counties aISBN 159237008X (1-59237-008-X)
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How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Marketby Gerald ZaltmanISBN 1578518261 (1-57851-826-1)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Human Mosaicby Terry G. Jordan-BychkovISBN 0716763842 (0-7167-6384-2)
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Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geographyby Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, Mona DomoshISBN 0716739062 (0-7167-3906-2)
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In Search of Americaby Peter Jennings, Todd BrewsterISBN 0786867086 (0-7868-6708-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of America'Book summary:eter Jennings and Todd Brewster conceived of this fascinating book long before the events of September 11th. But watching America respond to one of the worst attacks in its history deepened the meaning of their project. Now, more than ever, Americans need to treasure their way of life, and to reacquaint themselves with the founding ideas that united and sustained this country in its struggle for independence two hundred and twenty-five years ago. In Search of America explores the basic ideals that drive and define the American character. Exquisitely designed, lavishly illustrated with photographs, and peppered with fascinating sidebars, this superb blend of eyewitness reporting and history is a significant, timely achievement. In Search of America is a splendid and provocative journey, one that will assure each and every American that though the principles of our great nation may be shaken, molded, adapted, and assaulted, remarkably, they endure. [via]
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The Influentials: One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buyby Ed Keller, Jonathan L. BerryISBN 0743227298 (0-7432-2729-8)
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Inventory of Family-Supportive Policies and Programs in Federal, Provincial and Territorial Jurisdictions: Repertoire Des Politiques Et Programmes D'aide a La Famille Dans Les Juridictions Federale, Provinciales Et Territorialesby Terrance Hunsley, Vanier Institute of the FamilyISBN 0919520472 (0-919520-47-2)
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Latin American Women: Compared Figuresby Spain, FLACSO (Organization), Teresa Valdes, Instituto de la Mujer (Spain), Arturo Leon, Enrique Gomariz, Ninoska DamianovicISBN 9562050823 (956-205-082-3)
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Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversityby Trudy A. Suchan, United States Bureau of the Census, Cynthia BrewerISBN 1589480147 (1-58948-014-7)
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Measuring Mortality, Fertility, and Natural Increase: A Self-Teaching Guide to Elementary Measuresby Robert W. Gardner, James A. PalmoreISBN 0866381651 (0-86638-165-1)
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The Money Men : The Real Story of Political Power in the U.S.A.by Jeffrey BirnbaumISBN 081293119X (0-8129-3119-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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New State of the World Atlasby Michael Kidron, Ronald Segal, Swanston Graphics LimitedISBN 0671745565 (0-671-74556-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurbby Nancy L. EieslandISBN 0813527384 (0-8135-2738-4)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb'Book summary:[via]A Particular Place tells the story of the dramatic changes that take place in the religious lives of a community faced with urban restructuringin this case, Dacula, Georgia, a once-quiet small town on the outskirts of Atlanta. The demographics of Dacula were changed dramatically by the population inflow, service sector development, and housing expansion brought on by the growing metropolis.
Nancy L. Eiesland provides a qualitative study of how the local religious congregations altered themselves, their relations with one another, andover timetheir community in light of this disruption to their social order. Eiesland accounts for these changes by examining the lives of area newcomers and long-time residents, discussing the responses of locals to the emergence of a megachurch in their community, investigating the wrenching processes of congregational birth and deaths, and studying responses to community conflicts.
Applying population ecology approaches to the study of religious organizations within their local contexts, A Particular Place addresses together two types of restructuring that are often mutually implicatedurban and religious restructuring. This book demonstrates all that can be learned from studious attention to a particular place.More editions of A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb:
Places Rated Almanacby David Savageau, Ralph B. D'AgostinoISBN 0028634470 (0-02-863447-0)
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Places Rated Almanac : Your Electronic Guide to Finding the Best Places to Live in North Americaby David Savageau, Geoffrey LoftusISBN 0028612337 (0-02-861233-7)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Places Rated Almanac: Your Guide to Finding the Best Places to Live in North Americaby David Savageau, Richard BoyerISBN 067188395X (0-671-88395-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Places Rated Almanac: Your Guide to Finding the Best Places to Live in North America'Book summary:Looking to live somewhere where houses are cheap? Head to Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa, where the average home costs $75,700, and annual property taxes for that home are about $960. Perhaps a good job market is a higher priority. In that case, pick Phoenix, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; or Riverside, California, as they top the list of places projected to have the highest-percentage increase in new jobs by 2005. Most of those jobs, by the way, are expected to have above-average pay. This and other detailed information can be found in the sixth edition of Places Rated Almanac, a helpful resource for people thinking of relocating as well as those with a desire to learn about cities and towns. Metropolitan areas are rated in nine categories: costs of living, job outlook, transportation, education, health care, crime, the arts, recreation, and climate. But don't go looking for statistics on Podunk--the focus remains on 354 metro areas, metro defined as a city or urbanized population of at least 50,000, located in a county with a total population of at least 100,000.
Places Rated is laced with intelligent and, unexpectedly, witty writing. The whole concept of judging places, the author notes, may seem the utmost of brass. "Yet everyone does it, privately. Some suspect that culture in Omaha or Des Moines or Saskatoon is a contradiction. Others surmise that daily life in Miami consists of surviving drug-trade shoot-outs..." Organized intelligently, Places Rated acknowledges that "livability" and "quality of life" are moving targets. Livable for whom? The artist who wants mountain vistas? The entrepreneur who wants low taxes and no red tape? With these limitations in mind, the book ends with a chapter titled "Putting It All Together," where the reader is invited to rate cities with a customized list of priorities. Arriving at your customized list, however, requires answering 72 questions that force you to decide once and for all what you value most--a low cost of living or good school districts or mild winters or some other criterion. And should you find that climate matters most, head for Santa Barbara, California, where winters and summers are mild and natural hazards are few, and stay away from Rochester, Minnesota, unless you're willing to endure 35 days when it's 0 degrees Fahrenheit, and 165 days of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, annually. --John Russell [via]
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Pocket World in Figures 2002by Economist BooksISBN 1861973519 (1-86197-351-9)
Hardcover, Bernan Assoc
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Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issuesby John Robert WeeksISBN 0534553052 (0-534-55305-2)
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Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issuesby John R. Weeks, John Robert WeeksISBN 0534264603 (0-534-26460-3)
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Population Bombby Paul R. EhrlichISBN 1568495870 (1-56849-587-0)
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The Postponed Generation: Why America's Grown-Up Kids Are Growing Up Laterby Susan LittwinISBN 0688048900 (0-688-04890-0)
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Redefining Urban And Suburban America: Evidence From Census 2000by Bruce Katz, Alan BerubeISBN 081570884X (0-8157-0884-X)
Hardcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000by Robert E. Lang, Bruce KatzISBN 0815748590 (0-8157-4859-0)
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Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zoneby Patricia O'Connell Killen, Mark SilkISBN 0759106258 (0-7591-0625-8)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Lifeby Richard FloridaISBN 1417632518 (1-4176-3251-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life'Book summary:The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy.Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant. Millions of us are beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always have-with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing. Leading the shift are the nearly 38 million Americans in many diverse fields who create for a living-the Creative Class.The Rise of the Creative Class chronicles the ongoing sea of change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change. The Creative Class now comprises more than thirty percent of the entire workforce. Their choices have already had a huge economic impact. In the future they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or wither.[via]More editions of The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life:
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The Roaring 2000's : Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in Historyby Dent, Harry S., Jr.ISBN 0684838184 (0-684-83818-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Roaring 2000s: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in Historyby Harry S. DentISBN 0684853108 (0-684-85310-8)
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Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Milleniumby Michael AdamsISBN 0670871737 (0-670-87173-7)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Southern Strategyby Hal Gulliver, Reg MurphyISBN 0684123762 (0-684-12376-2)
Hardcover, Scribner
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The State of the World Atlas : A Unique Visual Survey of Global Political, Economic and Social Trendsby Michael Kidron, Ronald SegalISBN 0670865451 (0-670-86545-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Study of Generations: Report of a Two-Year Study of 5,000 Lutherans between the Ages of 15-65, Their Beliefs, Values, Attitudes, Behaviorby Merton P. StrommenISBN 080661207X (0-8066-1207-X)
Hardcover, Augsburg Pub. House
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Trading Up: The New American Luxuryby Michael Silverstein, John Butman, Neil FiskeISBN 1591840139 (1-59184-013-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Middle-market consumers have more discretionary income than ever before and are willing to pay extra for "new luxury" goods and services-items that deliver higher quality, technical advantages, and superior performance to conventional products. Above all, consumers are looking for emotional engagement-they look to products to help them manage the stresses of everyday life, and to help them realize their aspirations. A new luxury good may be as simple as a shampoo ($9 from Aveda, versus $3 from Suave) that brings moments of comfort and sensual pleasure, or as complex as a car ($26,000 for a bottom-of-the-line Mercedes, versus $20,000 for a Pontiac) that delivers feelings of safety and excitement.
Clothing, cars, beer, coffee, kitchen appliances, lingerie, personal care, pet food, restaurants-in dozens of categories, new luxury goods occupy a sweet spot in the market, because they can sell in much higher unit volumes than "old luxury" goods, but command much higher profit margins than ordinary products. But new luxury leaders-such as Callaway Golf, Victoria's Secret, Panera Bread, Belvedere vodka, Whirlpool Duet, and Williams-Sonoma-create andmarket their goods very differently than do conventional companies. Trading Up explores what's driving this move to premium goods, tells the inside stories of many New Luxury companies and their leaders, and offers insights and methods that can help the reader take advantage of this remarkable phenomenon. The book is based on the authors' experience in helping clients create billions of dollars worth of New Luxury products as well as on exhaustive supporting research. [via]More editions of Trading Up: The New American Luxury:
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Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods... And How Companies Create Themby Michael Silverstein, John Butman, Neil FiskeISBN 1591840805 (1-59184-080-5)
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The Tribes of Britainby David MilesISBN 0753817993 (0-7538-1799-3)
Softcover, Phoenix
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Understandingby Richard Saul WurmanISBN 0967453607 (0-9674536-0-7)
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Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitmentby Ethan WattersISBN 1582342644 (1-58234-264-4)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment'Book summary:The numbers can't be ignored: the current generation of young Americans is delaying marriage longer than any other generation in history. But while the media trumpets this fact in a way that seems designed to scare us, until now no one has really taken the time to understand what people are doing instead.[via]
Driven by his personal desire to understand why his single life stretched far into his thirties, Ethan Watters explores the cultural and social forces that have steered his generation away from the altar-and discovers many reasons to be optimistic about the course his generation has chosen. Central to his thinking is the idea of Urban Tribes: the closely knit communities of friends that spring up during the ever-increasing period of time between college and married life. Tribes are revealed to be the key to understanding this generation, explaining not only why its members are putting off marriage, but also why singles often live outside of families so happily. In the end, Watters makes the case that the tribe years engender the self-respect critical to successful partnerships.
A funny, deeply insightful, and compulsively readable book that dares to suggest that the generation in question just might be interested in more than buying the latest SUV and drinking lattes at the local coffeehouse, Urban Tribes is destined to become one of the most talked-about books of the year.
"This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. Urban Tribes redefines the debate over the nature of community and social cohesion in society today. Ethan Watters provides powerful insight into the rise of new kinds of cities and support structures for the growing class of creative, single people inhabiting leading urban centers in the United States and around the world." -Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday LifeMore editions of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment:
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Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?by Ethan WattersISBN 1582344418 (1-58234-441-8)
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WAC Stats : The Facts about Womenby Women's Action Coalition StaffISBN 1565841220 (1-56584-122-0)
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What Brown V. Board of Education Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Landmark Civil Rights Decisionby J. M. BalkinISBN 081479890X (0-8147-9890-X)
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Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the Twenty-first Centuryby Sam RobertsISBN 080507080X (0-8050-7080-X)
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Whose Religion Is Christianity?: The Gospel Beyond the Westby Lamin SannehISBN 0802821642 (0-8028-2164-2)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steelby Jared DiamondISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
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Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afectaby Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. LevittISBN 8466625127 (84-666-2512-7)
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Les Amants Mauditsby Katia GranoffISBN 2264002190 (2-264-00219-0)
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