Product Description: Published since 1977 and updated every two years, the Almanac of Virginia Politics is the leading source of information on the legislative process and key players in Virginia government. The 2008 volume is invaluable for those tracking the changing demographics that are bringing about historical shifts in the state...read more

Product Description: "The Almanac of Virginia Politics: 2006" provides raw data for political analyses of Virginia's legislators. Data from the 2005 legislative session is combined with the latest results from the November 2005 election, and personal and political information is provided for each legislator...read more

Product Description: The Meaning of Difference is a text-reader about the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. The book is based on the conviction that similar processes are at work in the construction of differences of color, sex and gender, class, and sexuality and that these processes likely also apply to other master statuses such as disability...read more

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