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- "Being down" : challenging violence in urban schools
- "Catching up" : the limits of rapid economic development
- "Course it's not like being at home" : aging in place at Shady Acres, a residential care facilty
- "Pariah states" & sanctions in the Middle East : Iraq, Libya, Sudan
- "Tell me more" : listening to learners explain
- "The coolest school in America" : how small learning communities are changing everything
- --No lies
- 100 ways to create a great ad
- 102 days of war : how Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda & the Taliban survived 2001
- 13 famous patients
- 1914-1918 : essays on leadership & war
- 24 days : how two Wall Street Journal reporters uncovered the lies that destroyed faith in corporate America
- 49 Up
- 5 girls
- A German community under American occupation: : Marburg, 1945-52
- A Nazi past : recasting German identity in postwar Europe
- A New England town : the first hundred years : Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636-1736
- A big and a little one is gone : crisis therapy with a two-year-old boy
- A business and labour history of Britain : case studies of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- A century of genocide : utopias of race and nation
- A child of Christian blood : murder and conspiracy in Tsarist Russia : the Beilis blood libel
- A city divided : race, fear and the law in police confrontations
- A classroom of her own : how new teachers develop instructional, professional, and cultural competence
- A country called Amreeka : Arab roots, American stories
- A dark room in Glitter Ball City : murder, secrets, and scandal in Old Louisville
- A deadly wandering : a tale of tragedy and redemption in the age of attention
- A death in Belmont
- A death in the Sánchez family
- A death retold in truth and rumour : Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward murder
- A few months to live : different paths to life's end
- A ghost's memoir : the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Motors"
- A hard straight
- A history of modern American criminal justice
- A hundred little Hitlers : the death of a black man, the trial of a white racist, and the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in America
- A life and death decision : a jury weighs the death penalty
- A lion in the house
- A long goodbye : the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
- A married couple
- A matter of character : inside the White House of George W. Bush
- A murder over a girl : justice, gender, junior high
- A place of their own : family farming in eastern Finland
- A political space : reading the global through Clayoquot Sound
- A promise to ourselves : a journey through fatherhood and divorce
- A record of natural and social disasters and their political implications : an new issue for public policy planners
- A return to the village : community ethnographies and the study of Andean culture in retrospective
- A revolution of their own : voices of women in Soviet history
- A secession crisis enigma : William Henry Hurlbert and "The diary of a public man"
- A surprise out of Zion? : case studies in Israel's decisions on whether to alert the United States to preemptive and preventive strikes, from Suez to the Syrian nuclear reactor
- A touch of greatness
- A tragic legacy : how a good vs. evil mentality destroyed the Bush presidency
- Access of the poor to agricultural services : the role of farmers' organizations in social inclusion
- Accommodating rising powers : past, present, and future
- Accounting for sustainability : practical insights
- Action, talk, and text : learning and teaching through inquiry
- Activating the unemployed : a comparative appraisal of work-oriented policies
- Adapting to teaching and learning in open-plan schools
- Admissions : student stories from undocumented America
- Adolescent lives in transition : how social class influences the adjustment to middle school
- Adolescent portraits : identity, relationships, and challenges
- Adolescents at school : perspectives on youth, identity, and education
- Adolescents at school : perspectives on youth, identity, and education
- Adoption and surrogate pregnancy
- Advancing electoral integrity
- Adventures of charter school creators : leading from the ground up
- Advocacy in conflict : critical perspectives on transnational activism
- African American men in college
- African American middle-income parents : how are they involved in their children's literacy development?
- African pastoralism : conflict, institutions and government
- African-American power and politics : the political context variable
- After independence : making and protecting the nation in postcolonial & postcommunist states
- After the eclipse : a mother's murder, a daughter's search
- After the revolution : gender and democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala
- Aftermath : the unintended consequences of public policies
- Against all odds : the struggle for racial integration in religious organizations
- Against the odds : politicians, institutions and the struggle against poverty
- Agents of change : crossing the post-industrial divide
- Aging and work in the 21st century
- Aging within transnational families : the case of older peruvians
- Agrarian change, gender and land rights
- Ain't no makin' it : aspirations & attainment in a low-income neighborhood
- Alcohol, drinking, drunkeness : (dis)orderly spaces
- Aldersgate and Athens : John Wesley and the foundations of Christian belief
- Alef is for Allah : childhood, emotion, and visual culture in Islamic societies
- All American Yemeni girls : being Muslim in a public school
- All at sea : the policy challenges of rescue, interception, and long-term response to maritime migration
- All else equal : are public and private schools different?
- All girls : single-sex education and why it matters
- All our kin: strategies for survival in a Black community
- Alternadad : the true story of one family's struggle to raise a cool kid in America
- Alternative routes to the sustainable city : Austin, Curitiba, and Frankfurt
- Alternative worlds in Hollywood cinema : resonance between realms
- America : sovereign defender or cowboy nation?
- America and guerrilla warfare
- America's fight over water : the environmental and political effects of large-scale water systems
- America's new downtowns : revitalization or reinvention?
- America's role in nation-building : from Germany to Iraq
- American Indian environmental ethics : an Ojibwa case study
- American Indian policy and American reform : case studies of the campaign to assimilate the American Indians
- American Muslim women : negotiating race, class, and gender within the Ummah
- American dream
- American dream : three women, ten kids, and a nation's drive to end welfare
- American exorcism
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American holocaust films : a case study in Jewish American Identity (1937-1993)
- American honor killings : desire and rage among men
- American in disguise
- American independent cinema : an introduction
- American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- American made : what happens to people when work disappears
- American negotiating behavior : wheeler-dealers, legal eagles, bullies, and preachers
- American odyssey
- American silence
- Amnesties, accountability, and human rights
- Among empires : American ascendancy and its predecessors
- Amori crudeli : quando si uccide chi si ama
- An exclusive love
- An injury to one
- An interracial movement of the poor : community organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
- An introduction to psychohistory : theories and case studies
- An unexpected minority : white kids in an urban school
- Anasazi America : seventeen centuries on the road from center place
- Ancient affections : ethnic groups and foreign policy
- And still we rise : the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted inner-city high school students
- Anger and reconciliation : relations between the United States and India, 1953-1956
- Archaeological science : an introduction
- Archaeologies of art : time, place, and identity
- Archaeology and memory
- Archaeology and the postcolonial critique
- Archaeology as a tool of civic engagement
- Archaeology as political action
- Archaeology below the cliff : race, class, and Redlegs in Barbadian sugar society
- Architects of power : Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American century
- Architectural regeneration
- Architecture : fundamental issues
- Argentina's partisan past : nationalism and the politics of history
- Aristocracy in Provence : the Rhône Basin at the dawn of the Carolingian Age
- Armed for life : the Army of God and anti-abortion terror in the United States
- Arms, country, and class : the Philadelphia militia and "lower sort" during the American Revolution, 1775-1783
- Art museum libraries and librarianship
- Asian Americans and the shifting politics of race : the dismantling of affirmative action at an elite public high school
- Asian and Pacific American education : learning, socialization, and identity
- Assessing academic library performance : a handbook
- Assessing and restoring natural resources in post-conflict peacebuilding
- Assessing liaison librarians : documenting impact for positive change
- Assimilation blues : Black families in a white community
- Asymmetric autonomy and the settlement of ethnic conflicts
- At the root of this longing : reconciling a spiritual hunger and a feminist thirst
- Auctions : theory and practice
- Audacious reforms : institutional invention and democracy in Latin America
- Augustus : image and substance
- Authentic ethnicities : the interaction of ideology, gender power, and class in the Italian-American experience
- Authoritarian legacies and democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe
- Authoritarianism and polarization in American politics
- Autism, the musical
- Averting global war : regional challenges, overextension, and options for American strategy
- Avoiding war : problems of crisis management
- Awakenings
- Axiomatic
- Bad city : peril and power in the City of Angels
- Balancing jobs and family life : do flexible work schedules help?
- Barack Obama : political frontiers and racial agency
- Basic needs : a year with street kids in a city school
- Battling the elements : weather and terrain in the conduct of war
- Becoming biliterate : a study of two-way bilingual immersion education
- Becoming critical researchers : literacy and empowerment for urban youth
- Becoming president : the Bush transition, 2000-2003
- Betrayed : the assassination of Digna Ochoa
- Between a rock and a hard place : African NGOs, donors and the state
- Between city and country : Brookline, Massachusetts, and the origins of suburbia
- Between heaven and earth : the religious worlds people make and the scholars who study them
- Between state and nation : diaspora politics and kin-state nationalism in Hungary
- Beyond "bilingual" education : new immigrants and public school policies in California
- Beyond pleasure : Freud, Lacan, Barthes
- Beyond relief : food security in protracted crises
- Beyond smart cities : how cities network, learn and innovate
- Beyond the boycott : labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism
- Beyond the traditional family : voices of diversity
- Bigger than life : a murder, a memoir
- Bill Clinton : mastering the presidency
- Billion dollar loser : the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
- Binge : what your college student won't tell you : campus life in an age of disconnection and excess
- Biomass energy at Colby College
- Biotechnology and agricultural development : transgenic cotton, rural institutions and resource-poor farmers
- Black and Brown leadership and the promotion of change in an era of social unrest
- Black and brown : race, ethnicity, and school preparation
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black student achievement : how much do family and school really matter?
- Black-brown relations and stereotypes
- Blacks in the white elite : will the progress continue?
- Blood and borders : the responsibility to protect and the problem of the kin-state
- Blood and flesh : Black American and African identifications
- Blood on the doorstep : the politics of preventive action
- Blood royal : a true tale of crime and detection in medieval Paris
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood will out : the true story of a murder, a mystery, and a masquerade
- Bloodlines : the true story of a drug cartel, the FBI, and the battle for a horse-racing dynasty
- Blue architecture : water, design, and environmental futures
- Body, movement, and culture : kinesthetic and visual symbolism in a Philippine community
- Bones : brothers, horses, cartels, and the borderland dream
- Bordered cities and divided societies : humanistic essays of conflict, violence, and healing
- Borderland Russians : identity, narrative, and international relations
- Born in the big rains : a memoir of Somalia and survival
- Boundaries of dissent : protest and state power in the media age
- Boundaries of love : interracial marriage and the meaning of race
- Boyhood rituals in an African society : an interpretation
- Boys and schooling in the early years
- Bradley
- Brazil, 1960-1990 : structures of power and processes of change
- Breaking the mold of education : innovative and successful practices for student engagement, empowerment, and motivation
- Bridging worlds : emerging models and practices of U.S. academic libraries around the globe
- Bridled ambition : why countries constrain their nuclear capabilities
- Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society
- Bringing the Internet to school : lessons from an urban district
- Brown boys and rice queens : spellbinding performance in the Asias
- Building a co-operative community in public housing : the case of the Atkinson Housing Co-operative
- Building a global bank : the transformation of Banco Santander
- Building bridges with the grassroots : scaling-up through knowledge sharing
- Building technology transfer within research universities : an entrepreneurial approach
- Bureaucracy's masters and minions : the politics of controlling the U.S. bureaucracy
- Bureaucrats, politics, and the environment
- Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson : a study in character
- Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict
- Business in Asia
- Business not as usual : how to win managing a company through hard and easy times
- Business power and conflict in international environmental politics
- Byromania and the birth of celebrity culture
- CEO-speak : the language of corporate leadership
- Cabinets, ministers, and gender
- Calculating credibility : how leaders assess military threats
- Campaigns and elections : issues, concepts, cases
- Can intervention work?
- Can't find my way home : America in the great stoned age, 1945-2000
- Candidates, issues and strategies; : a computer simulation of the 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
- Capital consequences : families of the condemned tell their stories
- Capitalism and legal change : an African transformation
- Caribbean competitiveness through global value chains
- Caribou and Conoco : rethinking environmental politics in Alaska's ANWR and beyond
- Case histories in business ethics
- Case research in public management
- Case studies in Jewish business ethics
- Case studies in suburban sustainability
- Case studies of minority student placement in special education
- Cataloguing culture : legacies of colonialism in museum documentation
- Catalunya, one nation, two states : an ethnographic study of nonviolent resistance to assimilation
- Ceremonial violence : a psychological explanation of school shootings
- Challenges of command in the Civil War : generalship, leadership, and strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and beyond
- Challenging gender norms : five genders among Bugis in Indonesia
- Challenging racism in the arts : case studies of controversy and conflict
- Changing classes : school reform and the new economy
- Changing members : the Maine Legislature in the era of term limits
- Changing welfare services : case studies of local welfare reform programs
- Chasing the devil : my twenty-year quest to capture the Green River Killer
- Chicana adolescents : bitches, 'ho's, and schoolgirls
- Chicanas and Chicanos in school : racial profiling, identity battles, and empowerment
- Chicanas in charge : Texas women in the public arena
- Child sexual abuse and the Catholic Church : gender, power, and organizational culture
- Child survival, health and family planning programmes and fertility
- Childhood and society
- Children of divorce : stories of loss and growth
- Children of the city : at work and at play
- Children on the streets of the Americas : homelessness, education, and globalization in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba
- Children with special needs : lessons for early childhood professionals
- Children's dreams : notes from the seminar given in 1936-1940
- Children's lives, children's futures : a study of children starting secondary school
- China's new urbanization : inequality and the new Chinese dream
- Chinese Communist society: : the family and the village
- Choosing war : presidential decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay incidents
- Christian environmental ethics : a case method approach
- Christianity and incest
- Cinema off screen : moviegoing in socialist China
- Citizens abroad : emigration and the state in the Middle East and North Africa
- City kids : transforming racial baggage
- City transformed : urban architecture at the beginning of the 21st century
- Civil society & development : a critical exploration
- Civil society under strain : counter-terrorism policy, civil society, and aid post-9/11
- Civil-military relations in Latin America : new analytical perspectives
- Civilian jihad : nonviolent struggle, democratization, and governance in the Middle East
- Class matters
- Class, nation, and identity : the anthropology of political movements
- Classroom action : human rights, critical activism, and community-based education
- Clearly invisible : racial passing and the color of cultural identity
- Closing time : a memoir
- Cochabamba! : water war in Bolivia
- Coercive military strategy
- Collaborating for impact : special collections and liaison librarian partnerships
- Collaboration : using networks and partnerships
- Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
- Collective preventive diplomacy : a study in international conflict management
- Colonial frames, nationalist histories : imperial legacies, architecture and modernity
- Colormute : race talk dilemmas in an American school
- Coma
- Come and see : Presbyterian congregations celebrating weekly communion
- Come on children
- Command of office : how war, secrecy, and deception transformed the presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush
- Commitment to connection in a culture of fear
- Communal organization and social transition : a case study from the counterculture of the sixties and seventies
- Communist agriculture : farming in the Far East and Cuba
- Community : pursuing the dream, living the reality
- Community action for school reform
- Community colleges and their students : co-construction and organizational identity
- Comparing Asian politics : India, China, and Japan
- Comparing Asian politics : India, China, and Japan
- Comparing media systems beyond the Western world
- Compassionate confinement : a year in the life of Unit C
- Competitive authoritarianism : hybrid regimes after the Cold War
- Competitive cities in the global economy
- Complex ethnic households in America
- Compugirls : how girls of color find and define themselves in the digital age
- Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty
- Confronting domination while confronting domination : a look at the bureaucratization of an activist group and the "contradistory character of social movements"
- Confronting ethnic conflict : the role of third parties in managing Africa's civil wars
- Confronting past human rights violations : justice vs. peace in times of transition
- Confronting the coffee crisis : fair trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America
- Confronting the truth
- Congress at the grassroots : representational change in the South, 1970-1998
- Congress declares war : rhetoric, leadership, and partisanship in the early Republic
- Conjured bodies : queer racialization in contemporary Latinidad
- Connectionist representations of tonal music : discovering musical patterns by interpreting artificial neural networks
- Conscience and power : an examination of dirty hands and political leadership
- Consent : a memoir of unwanted attention
- Constructing a policy-making state? : Policy dynamics in the EU
- Constructing justice and security after war
- Constructing patriotism : teaching history and memories in global worlds
- Constructing power and place in Mesoamerica : pre-Hispanic paintings from three regions
- Containing conflict : cases in preventive diplomacy
- Contentious lives : two Argentine women, two protests, and the quest for recognition
- Contested lands : Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka
- Contested lives : the abortion debate in an American community
- Contradictions in women's education : traditionalism, careerism, and community at a single-sex college
- Control and protect : collaboration, carceral protection, and domestic sex trafficking in the United States
- Controlling governments : voters, institutions, and accountability
- Conundrum
- Convent autobiography : early modern English nuns in exile
- Convention center follies : politics, power, and public investment in American cities
- Coping with crisis in African states
- Corn is our blood : culture and ethnic identity in a contemporary Aztec Indian village
- Corporate security responsibility? : corporate governance contributions to peace and security in zones of conflict
- Corruption by design : building clean government in mainland China and Hong Kong
- Cosmopolitan power in international relations : a synthesis of realism, neoliberalism, and constructivism
- Countries at the crossroads : a survey of democratic governance
- Countries at the crossroads : a survey of democratic governance
- Couple found slain : after a family murder
- Cowardly lions : missed opportunities to prevent deadly conflict and state collapse
- Cracks in the consensus : debating the democracy agenda in U.S. foreign policy
- Creating learning without limits
- Crested kimono : power and love in the Japanese business family
- Crime and violence in Latin America : citizen security, democracy, and the state
- Crime beat : a decade of covering cops and killers
- Crisis in autocratic regimes
- Critical approaches to comparative education : vertical case studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas
- Critical approaches to credit-bearing information literacy courses
- Critical regionalism : connecting politics and culture in the American landscape
- Cross & scepter : the rise of the Scandinavian kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation
- Crossing the color line : race, parenting, and culture
- Cruel attachments : the ritual rehab of child molesters in Germany
- Cruel justice : three strikes and the politics of crime in America's golden state
- Cultivating development : an ethnography of aid policy and practice
- Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education
- Cultural capital : the problem of literary canon formation
- Cultural identity in kindergarten : a study of Asian Indian children in New Jersey
- Culturally contested literacies : America's "rainbow underclass" and urban schools
- Culture and crisis in the Arab world : art, practice and production in spaces of conflict
- Culture and identity in a Muslim society
- Culture and structure at a military charter school : from school ground to battle ground
- Culture, literacy, & learning : taking bloom in the midst of the whirlwind
- Curating America's painful past : memory, museums, and the national imagination
- Curriculum reform in Ontario : 'common sense' policy processes and democratic possibilities
- Cyber strategy : the evolving character of power and coercion
- Cybernetic revolutionaries : technology and politics in Allende's Chile
- Cyclical city : five stories of urban transformation
- DIY style : fashion, music and global digital cultures
- DSM-5 clinical cases
- Dangerous exits : escaping abusive relationships in rural America
- Dark harbor : the war for the New York waterfront
- Darkest before dawn : sedition and free speech in the American West
- Data information literacy : librarians, data, and the education of a new generation of researchers
- Daughters and sons : experiences of non-sexist childraising
- Days of honey, days of onion : the story of a Palestinian family in Israel
- Deaf adolescents : inner lives and lifeworld development
- Dealing with dictators : dilemmas of U.S. diplomacy and intelligence analysis, 1945-1990
- Dealing with dysfunction : innovative problem solving in the public sector
- Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond
- Decentralizing development : the political economy of institutional change in Colombia and Chile
- Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky campaign : the twenty-seven critical decisions that defined the operation
- Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign : the twenty-one critical decisions that defined the operation
- Deepening local democracy in Latin America : participation, decentralization, and the left
- Deficit and debt in transition : the political economy of public finances in Central and Eastern Europe
- Defining the national interest : conflict and change in American foreign policy
- Defunct federalisms : critical perspectives on federal failure
- Degrees of equality : abolitionist colleges and the politics of race
- Delivering on the promise of democracy : visual case studies in educational equity and transformation
- Demanding the land : urban popular movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990-2005
- Democracies divided : the global challenge of political polarization
- Democracy : a case study
- Democracy and the Internet : allies or adversaries?
- Democracy from above : regional organizations and democratization
- Democracy in Latin America : surviving conflict and crisis?
- Democracy in hard places
- Democracy in retreat : the revolt of the middle class and the worldwide decline of representative government
- Democratic discord in schools : cases and commentaries in educational ethics
- Democratic governance and social inequality
- Democratic revolutions : Asia and Eastern Europe
- Democratizations : comparisons, confrontations, and contrasts
- Democratizing the hegemonic state : political transformation in the age of identity
- Demon possession in Elizabethan England
- Denying the spoils of war : the politics of invasion and nonrecognition
- Deradicalizing Islamist extremists
- Deregulating property-liability insurance : restoring competition and increasing market efficiency
- Deregulation and liberalisation of the airline industry : Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania
- Design for aging : international case studies of building and program
- Designing peace : Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies
- Developing healthy stepfamilies : twenty families tell their stories
- Development projects observed
- Diaspora, politics, and globalization
- Diasporas, development and peacemaking in the Horn of Africa / edited by Liisa Laakso and Petri Hautaniemi
- Diasporic citizenship : Haitian Americans in transnational America
- Different mothers : sons and daughters of lesbians talk about their lives
- Difficult transitions : foreign policy troubles at the outset of presidential power
- Difficulties African women face in accessing education : the plight of school girls in Kakamega, Kenya
- Digging for Richard III : how archaeology found the king
- Digital entrepreneurship, gender and intersectionality : an East Asian perspective
- Digital images and art libraries in the twenty-first century
- Disability, culture, and development : a case study of Japanese children at school
- Disarming manhood : roots of ethical resistance
- Disaster pedagogy for higher education : research, criticism, and reflection
- Disciplining gender : rhetorics of sex identity in contemporary U.S. culture