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The
Unfinished Revolution
How a New Generation is
Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America
Kathleen
Gerson
The vast changes in family life-the rise of single,
same-sex, and two-paycheck parents-have often been blamed for
declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon
pioneering research with the children of the gender
revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it is not a lack of
family values, but rigid social and economic forces that make
it difficult to live out those values. The Unfinished
Revolution makes clear recommendations for a new
flexibility at work and at home that benefits families,
encourages a thriving economy, and helps women and men
integrate love and work.
Hardback | 308 pages
£15.99 | 14
January 2010 | 978-0-19-537167-3
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Theories
of Delinquency
An Examination of Explanations of
Delinquent Behavior
Donald J. Shoemaker
Theories of Delinquency is a comprehensive survey of
the theoretical approaches towards understanding delinquent
behavior. It includes discussions and evaluations of all major
individualistic and sociological theories, presenting each
theory in a standard format with basic assumptions, important
concepts, and critical evaluations of the relevant
research.
Paperback | 399 pages
£17.99 | 28
January 2010 | 978-0-19-537417-9
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Naked
City
The Death and Life of Authentic Urban
Places
Sharon Zukin
| Sharon Zukin shows in
Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for
authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices,
expensive stores, and closely monitored urban
streetscapes - has helped drive out the very people who
first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura:
immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces
this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New
York areas - Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village,
Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens
- and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and
the World Trade Center site. She shows that for
followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a
perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed,
Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs'
legendary 1962 book, The Death and Life of Great
American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what
gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that
over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness
has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real
estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood
"characters" that Jacobs so evocatively
idealized. |
Hardback | 309
pages
£17.99 | 7 January 2010 |
978-0-19-538285-3
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