天山放歌--新疆各族人民幸福生活主题摄影展览

A photo exhibition highlighting the lives of people,from all ethnic groups,in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region opened in Beijing on March 22.More than 100 photographs,showcasing the picturesque natural scenery,cultural diversity and poverty-alleviation efforts in Xinjiang,were on display until the end of March.     

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Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social Relations edited and with an introduction by Helmut R. Wagner Fhenomenology, Language and Sociology, Selected Essays of Maurice Merleau-Fonty edited by Jobn O'Neill     

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‘Ideological Variations of Realized Socialism: Scientific-Technological “Humanism”’ by Guido D. Neri. Aut Aut, Nos. 145–6, January-April 1975, n.p.     

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Basic Dilemmas in the Social Sciences, by Hubert Blalock     

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As rates of self-employment and entrepreneurial activity grow in the U.S., sociologists are beginning to consider the causes and consequences of this form of employment more seriously. While the sociological contributions to entrepreneurial research take seriously the social context in which self-employment occurs, few studies focus explicitly on the effects of social and economic contexts on rates of self-employment in particular regions. I fill this gap by examining the effects of a variety of local labor-market, population, and economic characteristics on county-level self-employment rates in three predominantly rural states: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. I find that counties with higher proportions of their labor forces in extractive industries and that have experienced greater declines in the primary sector had higher rates of poverty and unemployment; however, self-employment is negatively related to county-level poverty rates, indicating that self-employment may provide opportunities for those in rural counties undergoing economic transformations.     

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THE NEW UPROOTED: SINGLE MOTHERS IN URBAN LIFE. Elizabeth A. Mulroy. Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1997, 188pages. Reviewed by Alfrieda Daly.     

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TREATING SLEEP DISORDERS: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BEHAVIORAL SLEEP MEDICINE. Michael Perlis and Kenneth Lichstein, Editors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003, 485 pp., $75 hardback, ISBN 0-471-44343-3. Reviewed by Renee Natvig.     

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PASSIONATE MARRIAGE: SEX, LOVE, AND INTIMACY IN EMOTIONALLY COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP. Schnarch, David. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1997. 426 pp. Reviewed by Sharon Smith.     

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HUMANISTIC DESIGN OF ASSISTED LIVING. By John P. Marsden. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-8018-8031-9, MSP $49.95 Reviewed by Doris L. Milke     

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