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  • Social Problems (Third Edition)

    • ASIN: 0393283410
    • ISBN: 0393283410
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem. Updated with nine new end-of-chapter case studies and more than 50 new boxed examples, the Third Edition of Joel Best's Social Problems elucidates the complex, competitive process through which social problems emerge, paying particular attention to how resources and rhetoric affect each stag... [Read More]

  • Social Problems (Second Edition)

    • ASIN: 0393918637
    • ISBN: 9780393918632
    • Brand: Brand: W. W. Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem. Updated with over 60 new examples and case studies, Social Problems shows how activists, experts, and their opponents frame social problems through the logic that they use; the rhetoric of claims-making; and the ways that access to resources determines who gets their claims heard. Drawing on... [Read More]

  • American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World

    • ASIN: 0520296354
    • ISBN: 0520296354
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream—to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement—recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achi... [Read More]

  • Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data

    • ASIN: 0520279980
    • ISBN: 0520279980
    • Brand: Brand: University of California Press
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, eve... [Read More]

  • Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists

    • ASIN: 0520274709
    • ISBN: 0520274709
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handboo... [Read More]

  • Social Problems by Best, Joel [W. W. Norton,2012] (Paperback) 2nd Edition

    • ASIN: B00DWYQD52
    • Manufacturer: WW Norton,2012

    Social Problems by Best, Joel. Published by W. W. Norton,2012, Binding: Paperback 2nd Edition

  • Making Sense of Social Problems: New Images, New Issues (Social Problems, Social Constructions)

    • ASIN: 1588268802
    • ISBN: 1588268802
    • Brand: Brand: Lynne Rienner Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

    Internet addiction. Cell-phone-distracted drivers. Teen suicide. Economic recession. The health risks of trans fats. The carefully selected collection of case studies in Making Sense of Social Problems is designed to help students understand and critically evaluate a wide range of contemporary social issues. The cases are organized to highlight a s... [Read More]

  • How Claims Spread: Cross-National Diffusion of Social Problems (Social Problems & Social Issues)

    • ASIN: 0202306542
    • ISBN: 0202306542
    • Brand: Walter de Gruyter Inc.
    • Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction

    Best's anthology examines for the first time how diverse social issues--road rage, the metric system, gun control, and abortion are among those included--migrate across national boundaries, modifying themselves from place to place as a result of different claims, claimsmakers, and policy responses. This unique collection, assembled from new researc... [Read More]

  • Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems (Social Problems & Social Issues)

    • ASIN: 0202305392
    • ISBN: 0202305392
    • Brand: Walter de Gruyter Inc.
    • Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction

    Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a particular sort, claimsmakers can shape policymaking and public response to the problem. Th is new edition of Images of Issues addresses claimsmaking in... [Read More]

  • Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems (Social Problems & Social Issues)

    • ASIN: 0202304914
    • ISBN: 0202304914
    • Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction

    Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case studies of problems concerning preadolescent children... [Read More]

  • Social Problems and Social Problems Readings: Two Book Set

    • ASIN: 0393180883
    • ISBN: 0393180883
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    From the Publisher's site - A complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem. Updated with over 60 new examples and case studies, Social Problems shows how activists, experts, and their opponents frame social problems through the logic that they use; the rhetoric of claims-making; and the ways that access to resources determines who gets th... [Read More]

  • Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

    • UPC: 689253593899
    • ASIN: 1590593898
    • ISBN: 9781590593899
    • Brand: Brand: Apress
    • Manufacturer: Apress

    * Covers three years of the best essays. * Essays range from technical to humorous, but are always tangible. * Beautifully written and extremely timely. * Google lists 183,000 links for "Joel on Software". * Spolsky is one of the most popular programmers around today, with legions of followers.

  • Social Problems by Best, Joel(June 14, 2007) Paperback

    • ASIN: B015X51QPO
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

  • Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists

    • ASIN: 0520219783
    • ISBN: 9780520219786
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

  • Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End)

    • ASIN: B01N198VU5
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

    This discounted ebundle includes: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death’s End"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." —President Barack ObamaThe Three-Body trilogy by New York Times bestseller Cixin Liu keeps you riveted with high-octane action, political intrigue, and unexpected twists in this saga of first contact with the extraterr... [Read More]

  • The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem

    • ASIN: 0520276450
    • ISBN: 0520276450
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team―one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher―probes how we’ve reached the point at which student loan debt―now exceeding $1 trillion and predicted to reach $2 trillion by 2020―t... [Read More]

  • Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend (Social Problems and Social Issues)

    • ASIN: 0202307476
    • ISBN: 0202307476
    • Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction

    The goal of this volume is to explore the social and political dynamics of rumor and the related concept of urban or contemporary legend. These forms of communication often appear in tandem with social problems, including riots, racial or political violence, and social and economic upheavals. The volume emphasizes the connection of rumor to a set o... [Read More]

  • Social Problems: Readings with Four Questions (Wasdworth Sociology Reader)

    • ASIN: 0495504319
    • ISBN: 0495504319
    • Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing

    A unique and groundbreaking collection of 54 articles organized in 11 thematic sections, SOCIAL PROBLEMS: READINGS WITH FOUR QUESTIONS, Third Edition, combines a rigorous structural/conflict approach with a strong emphasis on the real-life experiences of those impacted by social problems. The articles include both classic and contemporary readings ... [Read More]

  • The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past)

    • ASIN: 0765386690
    • ISBN: 9780765386694
    • Brand: Liu Cixin
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

    This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been de... [Read More]

  • More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues

    • ASIN: 0520238303
    • ISBN: 0520238303
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlini... [Read More]

  • Social Problems and the Myth of Poison Halloween Candy -- Interview with Joel Best

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