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An outcome of the SSRC working group on Immigration, Religion and Civil Life, this volume brings together the perspectives of leading scholars of migration and religion . . .
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The Measure of America is the first-ever measure of the status of human development in the United States or any developed nation . . .
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In recent years, new disease threats—such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis—have garnered media attention and galvanized political response . . .
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In Laid Off, Laid Low economists, sociologists, and public policy experts reveal the ever-growing perils of the American labor market . . .
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Written by America’s leading social scientists and healthcare policy experts, Health at Risk brings the latest research to bear on questions of healthcare policy and dysfunction . . .
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Rachel Dorothy Tanur (1958—2002) was not trained as a social scientist, but she cared deeply about people and their lives . . .
The result of an SSRC Working Group on “Law and Culture,” Just Schools examines schools with widely divergent methods of fostering equality . . .
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Co-written by Program Director Alex de Waal, this book is the definitive guide to Darfur. Newly updated and hugely expanded . . .
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This newly updated and revised 2008 edition of Interdisciplinary Research for 2008 is a practical guide to the most effective avenues for collaborative and integrative research in the social, behavioral, and bio-medical sciences . . .
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Co-edited by Abe Fellow Watanabe Yasushi, Soft Power Superpowers analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century . . .
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