Engaging strangers civil rites, civic capitalism, and public order in Boston / by Monti, Daniel J.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Engaging Strangers and the Banality of Civility / by Zane Miller -- "Lost in Boston" -- Boston by the Numbers -- Brahmins Don't Eat Here Anymore -- Ritualized Crises and Institutional Strangers -- Neighbors Make Good Fences -- The Enchanted Trolley Tour -- "At First We Were Just Civic Friends" -- A Crowded Mother's Day on the Leonard P. …”
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Faithful to Fenway believing in Boston, baseball, and America's most beloved ballpark / by Borer, Michael Ian

Table of Contents: “…Boston believes : Fenway Park, a "lyrical little bandbox" -- The birth of an urban ballpark : leisure, nostalgia, and the baseball creed -- The ballpark at rest : the civic partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway faithful -- Objects of faith and consumption : souvenirs, replicas, and other representations of Fenway Park -- Some diamonds are not forever : debating the future of Fenway Park -- Believe in Boston : Red Sox nation and the cultural power of place.…”
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Can't catch a break : gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility / by Sered, Susan Starr, Norton-Hawk, Maureen

Subjects: “…Abused women Massachusetts Boston Social conditions.…”
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Evangelicals at a crossroads revivalism and social reform in Boston, 1860-1910 / by Hartley, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Loren)

Subjects: “…Evangelicalism Massachusetts Boston History 19th century.…”
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Under construction making homeland security at the local level / by Fosher, Kerry B.

Subjects: “…Civil defense Government policy Massachusetts Boston Metropolitan Area.…”
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The horse as cultural icon the real and symbolic horse in the early modern world /

“…Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;…”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

“…Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)…”
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Fallout shelter designing for civil defense in the Cold War / by Monteyne, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hypothetical Hiroshimas : city, suburb, and shelter in 1950s civil defense -- Surveying the Cold War landscape : the national fallout shelter program fallout protection -- Sheltering communities : city and social planning for civil defense -- Design intellectuals : professional architects and civil defense -- Performing architectural expertise : designs for fallout shelter fallout shelter design -- Cold War constructions : fallout shelter in new buildings -- Bunker architecture for the Cold War : Boston City Hall -- Epilogue.…”
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From Russia with Code : Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times /

Table of Contents: “…Before the collapse : programming cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko -- From lurker to ninja : creating an IT community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova -- For code and country : civic hackers in contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina -- At the periphery of the empire : Vladivostok's IT industry / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva -- Kazan connected : "IT-ing" up a province / Alina Kontareva -- Hackerspaces and technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova -- Siberian software developers / Andrey Indukaev -- E-Estonia reprogrammed : nation branding and children coding / Daria Savchenko -- Post-Soviet ecosystems of IT / Dmitry Zhikharevich -- Migrating step by step : Russian computer scientists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk -- Brain drain and Boston's "upper-middle tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West -- Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova -- Russian programmers in Finland : self-presentation in migration narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina.…”
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The excitement of science / by Platt, John Rader

Business and society : managing corporate social performance / by Carroll, Archie B.

The corporate social challenge : cases and commentaries / by Sturdivant, Frederick D.

Taking sides : clashing views in science, technology, and society /

Catastrophes : a history and theory of an operative concept /

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Healing corrections : the future of imprisonment / by Innes, Chris

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Conflict, culture, change : engaged buddhism in a globalizing world / by Sulak Sivaraksa

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Good humor, bad taste : a sociology of the joke / by Kuipers, Giselinde

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Pragmatics of discourse /

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The last dance : encountering death and dying / by DeSpelder, Lynne Ann

The last dance : encountaring death and dying / by DeSpelder, Lynne Ann