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Global Social Issues by James Ciment; Christopher G. Bates
ISBN: 9780765682925
Publication Date: 2012
Key Concepts in Family Studies by Rosalind A. Edwards; Jane Ribbens McCarthy
ISBN: 9781412920063
Publication Date: 2010

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Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, Craig Haney, and Curtis Banks carried out a psychological experiment to test a simple question: What happens when you put good people in an evil place – does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph?
disLocation
Chronicles the lives of tenants in one building as they move through a six-month relocation process

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