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  | | Hunger in the Land of Plenty A Critical Look at Food Insecurity by James D. Wright, Sara Strickhouser Vega, Amy M. Donley Hardcover, 183 Pages, Published 2018 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-62637-765-3, ISBN: 1-62637-765-0 "In the United States today, 50 million people don't have enough food. How is this possible in one of the world's wealthiest countries? Why hasn’t the problem been solved? Is it simply an economic issue? Challenging conventional wisdom, the authors of Hunger in the Land of Plenty explore the causes and consequences of food insecurity; assess some of the major policies and programs that have been designed to reduce it; and consider altern ..." |
 | | A Florida State of Mind An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State by Professor James D. Wright Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Thomas Dunne Books ISBN-13: 978-1-250-18565-5, ISBN: 1-250-18565-3 "A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes.There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent―and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on the internet posts it in response. Why are we so ready to wave goodbye to the Sunshine State? In A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our We ..." |
 | | Lost Souls Manners and Morals in Contemporary American Society: The Seven Deadly Sins in a Secular World by James D. Wright Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2018 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-138-48179-4, ISBN: 1-138-48179-3 "Lost Souls emerges, then, as a meditation on contemporary sin, concluding that the line between guilt and innocence, right and wrong, is often very thin." |
 | | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition(2nd Edition) by James D. Wright, Professor James D. Wright, Wrightj.D. Hardcover, 23,185 Pages, Published 2015 by Elsevier ISBN-13: 978-0-08-097086-8, ISBN: 0-08-097086-9 "Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available in both print and online editions, it comprises over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive ..." |
 | | Armed and Considered Dangerous(2nd Edition) New Second Edition by James D. Wright, Dr Peter H. Rossi, Nicholas E. Libby, Wright And Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2008 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-36242-7, ISBN: 0-202-36242-6 ""Armed and Considered Dangerous" is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. "Armed and Considered Dangerous" is the most ambitious survey ever undertaken of criminal acquisition, poss ..." |
 | | The Global Enterprise Social Scientists and Their Work around the World (Hardback) by James D. Wright 189 Pages, Published 2018 by Taylor Francis Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-6551-7, ISBN: 1-4128-6551-4 "Filipino remittances -- Can tourism solve the poverty problem?" |
 | | Hard Lives, Mean Streets(1st Edition) Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law) by Jana L. Jasinski, James D. Wright, Jennifer K. Wesely, Elizabeth E. Mustaine Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Northeastern ISBN-13: 978-1-55553-721-0, ISBN: 1-55553-721-9 "Although homelessness is a serious social problem in the United States, there is little direct information about the actual experiences of violence, past and current, among homeless people. This volume, based on the Florida Four-City Study, brings together interview material from 737 women, including structured quantitative interviews as well as in-depth qualitative interviews. The authors investigate how many homeless women have experi ..." |
 | | Handbook of Survey Research, Second Edition(2nd Edition) by Peter V. Marsden, James D. Wright Hardcover, 906 Pages, Published 2010 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-84855-224-1, ISBN: 1-84855-224-6 ""The Handbook of Survey Research, Second Edition" builds on its widely-recognized 1983 predecessor by updating its previous historical account of the development of survey research and the evolution of social science before going on to examine new and expanded usages of survey research during the past half century. Editors Peter Marsden (Harvard University) and James D. Wright (University of Central Florida), long-time editor of Elsevie ..." |
 | | Address Unknown The Homeless in America (Social Institutions and Social Change Ser.) by James D. Wright Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 1989 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30365-9, ISBN: 0-202-30365-9 "SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE An Aldine de Cruyter Series of Texts and Monographs Series Editors ... Targ Beliefs About Inequality: Americans ' Views of What Is and What Ought to Be James R. Kluegel and Eliot R. Smith ..." |
 | | State of the Masses Sources of Discontent, Change and Stability by Richard F. Hamilton, James D. Wright, Hamilton And Wright Paperback, 482 Pages, Published 2008 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-36187-1, ISBN: 0-202-36187-X "Is the consciousness of Americans in the midst of dramatic transformation? Or do people think and feel much the same as they have always thought and felt? Do most people enjoy their work, or hate it? Is the American family being replaced by new institutional forms, or is it much the same as it was in the 1950's? Have material values been replaced by a "postmaterial consciousness" in a postindustrial society? Are Americans becoming more ..." |
 | | Handbook of Survey Research by Peter H. Rossi, James D. Wright, Andy B. Anderson Hardcover, 755 Pages, Published 1983 by Academic Press Import ISBN-13: 978-0-12-598226-9, ISBN: 0-12-598226-7 "A volume in the series titled "Quantitative Studies in Social Relations" edited by Peter H. Rossi. Published by Academic Press, 1983." |
 | | Covenant Marriage The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America by Professor James D. Wright, Professor Steven Nock, Steven L. Nock, Laura Ann Sanchez, Professor Laura Sanchez Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2008 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4326-0, ISBN: 0-8135-4326-6 "Regardless how you interpret the statistics, the divorce rate in the United States is staggering. But, what if the government could change this? Would families be better off if new public policies made it more difficult for couples to separate?This book explores a movement that emerged over the past fifteen years, which aims to do just that. Guided by certain politicians and religious leaders who herald marriage as a solution to a ra ..." |
 | | Beside the Golden Door Policy, Politics, and the Homeless by James D. Wright, Beth A. Rubin, Joel A. Devine 238 Pages, Published by Transaction Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-202-36428-5, ISBN: 0-202-36428-3 "Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences Rand D. Conger and Glen H. Elder, Jr., Families in Troubled Times: ... Joel A. Devine and James D. Wright, The Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass G. William Domhoff, ... Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence Paula S. England, Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory R. G. Evans, M. L. ... The Satanism Scare Alice S. Rossi and Peter H. Rossi, Of Human Bonding: Parent- ..." |
 | | The Global Enterprise Social Scientists and Their Work around the World by James D. Wright 200 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-29486-7, ISBN: 1-351-29486-5 "In James Wright (editor in chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, volume 23, pp. 533–538. Oxford: Elsevier. 3 Javier Rio Navarro, Julien Cohen, Eva Rocillo Arechaga, Edgardo Street Children in ..." |
 | | Lost Souls(1st Edition) Manners and Morals in Contemporary American Society by James D. Wright Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-48180-0, ISBN: 1-138-48180-7 "What is the state of contemporary American morality? From their original conception in Christian scripture to their assimilation into Western culture, the 'Seven Deadly Sins' – lust, greed, envy, pride, and all the rest – have guided human morality, steering human behavior and psychology away from evil and toward a full embrace of the good. But their hold on modern life is increasingly tenuous. Indeed, one may observe that these days, d ..." |
 | | Armed and Considered Dangerous A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms (Hardback) by James D. Wright Hardcover, Published 2017 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-138-51893-3, ISBN: 1-138-51893-X |
 | | Handbook of Survey Research by Peter H. Rossi, James D. Wright, Andy B. Anderson 774 Pages, Published 2013 by Academic Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-7630-4, ISBN: 1-4832-7630-9 "Applying Heise and Bohrnstedt's (1970) model, in which they adopt Lord and Novick's definition of reliability as the ratio of true score to observed variance, to ( 3.46) yields their estimate of reliability, called Q. Specifically - X'.1V(y) – X-IV(y)h: #-l X'-1C(yi, yj) where h is the communality" of item i. Although it is easy to demonstrate that Q is a better estimate of reliability than Cronbach's (1951) a ( Greene & Carmines, 19 ..." |
 | | In the Line of Fire(1st Edition) Youth, Guns, and Violence in Urban America (Social Institutions and Social Change) by James D. Wright, Joseph Francis Sheley Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1995 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30549-3, ISBN: 0-202-30549-X " Drawing upon their research in the most extensive study to date, the authors here describe the means and methods of gun-related violence among urban youth. Using data collected from juvenile male inmates and male students in inner-city high schools, Sheley and Wright focus on the number, type, and method of acquisition of firearms, as well as the varying reasons given for carrying arms. The book concludes by challenging some stereotyp ..." |
 | | Drugs As a Social Problem (Hot Topics in Sociology) by James D. Wright, Joel A. Devine Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 1994 by Harpercollins College Div ISBN-13: 978-0-673-99399-1, ISBN: 0-673-99399-X |
 | | The Middle of Somewhere Stories of Life on the High Plains (Paperback) by Professor James D. Wright Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2004 by Iuniverse ISBN-13: 978-0-595-33364-6, ISBN: 0-595-33364-8 "From the war-torn foothills of the Little Bighorns to the tragedy that is modern ranch life, this spellbinding collection of short fiction celebrates ordinary people struggling to do what's right. A cavalry trooper dismisses his premonitions of disaster for the fort, but as winter deepens, he can hardly deny the grisly precision of his dreams. Two brothers separated by circumstance must reconcile the ways they have grown apart. A young ..." |
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