Authors:Alfreda P. Iglehart, Rosina M. Becerra,
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Keywords: community, ethnic, services, social
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2000-01-10
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1577661036
ISBN-13: 9781577661030

Iglehart and Becerra’s well-documented, well-organized examination of the history, evolution, and current state of social services to ethnic communities in the United States reveals vital pieces to the puzzle of ethnic-sensitive practice and multicultural service delivery. Now available from Waveland Press, this much-needed synthesis of existing empirical and theoretical literature, case studies, and interviews with key informants will empower social service providers to respond effectively to the needs of ethnic communities.

Author: Philip Gerard
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Keywords: real, life, stories, crafting, nonfiction, researching, creative
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 157766339X
ISBN-13: 9781577663393

Nonfiction is in the facts. Creative nonfiction is in the telling. It reads like fiction, but stays loyal to the truth. Philip Gerard walks this fine line with confidence, style, and utter zeal, looking at the world with a reporter?s unflinching eye and offering it up with all the skill of a master storyteller. With the same clarity and passion, Gerard offers instruction and advice to help aspiring and experienced writers create pieces so compelling, so engaging, that readers will never forget them.

Author: Steven C. Chapra
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Keywords: modeling, quality, water, surface
Number of Pages: 844
Published: 2008-12-31
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1577666054
ISBN-13: 9781577666059

National and international interest in finding rational and economical approaches to water-quality management is at an all-time high. Insightful application of mathematical models, attention to their underlying assumptions, and practical sampling and statistical tools are essential to maximize a successful approach to water-quality modeling. Chapra has organized this user-friendly text in a lecture format to engage students who want to assimilate information in manageable units. Comical examples and literary quotes interspersed throughout the text motivate readers to view the material in the p

Authors:Frank J. Zulke,  Jacqueline P. Kirley,
Publisher: Waveland Pre
Keywords: science, social, eyes
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1577662261
ISBN-13: 9781577662266

The revised and expanded Sixth Edition of Through the Eyes of Social Science maintains the quality and breadth of thought provoking articles that have distinguished previous editions. All areas of social science anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, history, and geography are covered in accessible, readable selections. Half of the chapters are new to this edition and reflect current issues such as gender discrimination in schools, racial profiling, and the effects of poverty on families. The theme of multiculturalism that ran through past successful editions is mad

Authors:Brigitte Jordan, Robbie Davis-Floyd,
Publisher: Waveland Pre
Keywords: holland, sweden, united, states, yucatan, childbirth, four, cultures, crosscultural, investigation, birth
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1992-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 088133717X
ISBN-13: 9780881337174

While the process of childbirth is, in some sense, everywhere the same, it is also everywhere different in that each culture has produced a birthing system that is strikingly dissimilar from the others. Based on her fieldwork in the United States, Sweden, Holland, and Yucatan, Jordan develops a framework for the discussion and investigation of different birthing systems. Illustrated with useful examples and lively anecdotes from Jordan’s own fieldwork, the Fourth Edition of this innovative comparative ethnography brings the reader to a deeper understanding of childbirth as a culturally g

Author: Philip Carl Salzma
Publisher: Waveland Pre
Keywords: theory, anthropological, introduction, culture, understanding
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 2001-03-13
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 1577661796
ISBN-13: 9781577661795

Are cows sacred to Indian Hindus because they stand for nature and life, as symbolic analysts explain, or because they pull plows and fertilize the land, providing people with food, as cultural materialists argue? Do Muslim Sufi Orders incorporate the lower classes and stabilize the cultural status quo, as functionalists would assert, or are they dynamic forces reshaping society and culture, as processualists claim to illustrate? Are witchcraft accusations a scapegoating of the powerless by the elite to maintain their ascendancy, as materialist class theorists argue, or are they social express

Author: Deirdre McCloskey
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Keywords: second, writing, economical
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1577660633
ISBN-13: 9781577660637

Anyone who cares about direct, clear expression should read this lucid, delightful gem by an author who practices what she advises.