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    Luke Tolbert - Tales of a Texas Ranger

    A Classic Western

    by John Thurmond ...
    Narrated by Michael R. Welte ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 46 min

    Me and Beacher rode south from my cabin in the general direction of Cairo, Illinois. I remembered Pop saying there was a horse-shoe bend in the river as it turned back north. It was still and always shallower, easy to cross and not too many tree snags, as most of them would pile up on the south side of the bend. Wagons had been crossing there for years and it was a lot safer than other places. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems

    by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Richard Aniskiewicz, Jerald G. Backman, Grace M. Barnes, Kellie E.M. Barr, Katherine Beckett, Philippe Bourgois, Michael P. Farrell, Charles E. Faupel, Joseph R. Gusfield, Denise Herd, Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Carl B. Klockars, Mark Lettiere, James Quesada, Timothy P. Rouse, Joseph W. Schneider, Murray A. Straus, J Blake Turner, Prabha N. Unnithan, John M. Wallace Jr., D Lawrence Weider, John W. Welte, David Wright, Earl Wysong, Don H. Zimmerman ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems, a collection edited James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy, includes 14 clearly written articles that exemplify the best of sociological scholarship on drug and alcohol problems. The readings strike a balance between constructionist, epidemiological, and ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, and related problems such as domestic violence, crime ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Black Horse Saloon

    A Classic Western

    by John Thurmond ...
    Narrated by Michael R. Welte ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 26 min

    US Marshal Sam Bass, the first black marshal, was living an easy life. He'd retired from riding the trails and chasing outlaws, and was comfortable with just being Judge Isaac Parker's right hand. While at the saloon one evening, he met up with a traveling whiskey salesman, who offered to sell him two guns.When Bass saw the old Colt .45, its bluing gone and the nick in the barrel, he knew it was ... Read more

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    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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  • Bipolar Expeditions

    Mania and Depression in American Culture

    by Emily Martin ...
    Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's ... Read more

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    The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

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  • Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis

    by Clif Flynn ...
    Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, ... Read more

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  • Why I Burned My Book

    by Paul Longmore ...
    Series series American Subjects
    This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic ... Read more

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    Chemical Incarceration under Community Treatment Orders

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    $34.99 CAD

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    On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

    by Anne McGuire ...
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    by Gil Eyal ...
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  • Criminology

    The Essentials

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    In Criminology: The Essentials, authors Anthony Walsh and Cody Jorgensen introduce students to major theoretical perspectives and criminology topics in a concise, easy-to-read format. This straightforward overview of the major subject areas in criminology thoroughly covers the most up-to-date advances in theory and research, while challenging students to consider the applications of these theories ... Read more

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