This masterfully told story of a horrific yet beautiful journey of transformation gives voice to those who have traveled this ground; Ronald Bassman's personal metamorphosis and resilient spirit will inspire those struggling down a similar path, enlighten those unaware of the everyday atrocities perpetrated in the name of treatment, and finally will frighten--yet reward--those 'mental health'; professionals who have the courage to face the harsh truth of abuse, oppression, and other violations inflicted on individuals for 'their own good'.

"Innovative, current research and discussion related to bioaerosols, fungi, bacteria, mycotoxins and human health. This book contains over 500 pages of peer-reviewed, original research, clinical and epidemiological studies and technical reports from the 5th International Bioaerosol Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York, held in the fall of 2003".

ISBN: 0-9709915-1-7

Initially published in 1990, this book documented the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. But as the authors point out in their new prologue, the world is a very different place from when this survey of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing firms first appeared and the latter are now moving closer to the American "market individualist" model.

"Why shouldn't I go for my dream, do what I want and take risks!?" is how one woman Ripskis interviewed justified her dramatic lifestyle change. "Life is too short and unpredictable to be hanging onto a frustrating, stifling job, waiting to be downsized."

ISBN: 0-9651892-0-1

The sociology of deviance was in its heyday when John Lofland published this book in 1969. The author traces the field from pre-World War II to the late sixties and pioneers the application of "grounded theory" to the study of deviant behavior. In his new prologue, Joel Best writes, "More than thirty years after the book first appeared, we have no better synthesis of the labeling approach."

ISBN: 0-9712427-9-8

Finally getting that promotion takes hard work and sacrifice. Having a girlfriend to help you celebrate--priceless! Read the new book that celebrates women's friendships. It's called the Friendships Between Women and is a compilation of letters by women, for women on how they triumphed over tragedies with the help of a girlfriend. It's 250 pages of poignant, motivating and inspiring stories.

This is television reporter Elaine Houston's first book and in an act of friendship, she is using the proceeds from her book to help a group of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, triumph over their own tragedies.

ISBN: 0-9753429-0-8

The availability and delivery of health care is one of the most important issues on the contemporary American public policy agenda. The authors analyze the social, psychological, and bureaucratic boundaries that define health care in the United States, discuss how organizational change affects these boundaries, and suggest broad strategies for managing them. A new introduction contributes to the currency of this 1993 book.

ISBN: 0-9712427-7-1

Over millions of years, nature -- to insure our survival -- hard-wired into our brains extremely powerful reward pathways that demand satisfaction at almost any cost through varied pleasure sources -- from food to drink, from socializing to sex. Each day we need our quota of pleasure via serotonin and other neurotransmitters to stimulate our reward pathways or else we feel out of sorts, not up to par or depressed -- a condition brain scientists call "Reward Deficiency."

ISBN: 0-9651892-1-X

Initially published in 1968, this volume focuses on the nature of schooling and its links with the family, occupations, and politics. The author emphasizes the relationship between school structure and learning outcomes, the importance of these outcomes to other social institutions, and the contrasts between school structure and other socializing agencies. A new prologue places the book into the context of subsequent developments in sociology of education.

ISBN: 0-9719587-0-X

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

--Mohandas K. Gandhi

In the spirit of Gandhiís message, Ripples of Peace describes 111 ways we can help create peace in the world by first creating peace in our own lives. The author weaves together simple and profound ideas for developing and sustaining inner and outer peace with beautiful photographs, peace prayers, meditations, and hundreds of books and organizations as resources.

Ripples of Peace gives us a template for being and sharing peace. It contains inspiring and practical ways each of us can create peace for ourselves, among family and friends, and throughout our world. The book provides thoughtful options for anyone interested in helping to replace the fear, despair, hatred, and terror felt by so many people of all ages around the globe with faith, joy, love, and peace--one person and one day at a time.

As each one of us dwells within peace, we automatically radiate peace to those around us who, in turn, pass peace along, like ripples in a pond.

ISBN: 0-9743094-0-0

This volume honors the outstanding and influential contributions of Robert Dreeben to the field of sociology of education. Chapters by his colleagues, students, and even one of his mentors address schooling and socialization, school organization and effects, teaching as an occupation, and other areas of sociology of education where Dreeben has had a profound impact. These chapters reflect on Dreeben's influence and extend his work in many directions.

ISBN: 0-9719587-8-5

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In order to see how the West got where we are today, the first thing you need is a map of the evolution of "enlightened thinking." The Age of Unenlightenment lays out that map, bringing a currency of context to the marketplace of ideas. The path leads through Washington and Lincoln, relativity and relativism, Darwin and Dead White Men, Shakespeare and deconstruction, socialism and Socrates, Orwell and Huxley, ecological panic and utopianism. The Age of Unenlightenment tracks down enlightened ideas and ideologies through 200 years of Western intellectual history for the general reader. .

ISBN: 0-9759038-0-2

To learn more about The Age of Unenlightenment, go to http://www.unenlightenment.com

The only scholarly journal in the world devoted to F. Scott Fitzgerald studies. Publishes scholarly essays, reviews of current books, and a bibliography of current works on Fitzgerald.

ISSN 1543-3951

Published once a year

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In this 1982 book, author Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. His new prologue updates the work in the context of significant changes in the American response to mental illness, including the process of psychiatric diagnosis, conceptions of mental illness, and the dynamics of the mental health professions.

ISBN: 0-9712427-6-3

New scholarly essays on all aspects of literature written in the twentieth century.

ISSN 0041-462X

Published four times a year by Hofstra University

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