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Harriet Tubman (83 Edition)
by Ann Petry  Publisher Comments Born a slave, Harriet Tubman dreamed of freedom. And through hard work and her willingness to risk everything-including her life-she was able to make that dream come true.But after making her escape, Harriet realized that her own freedom was not enough....
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
by Eva Hoffman Publisher Comments This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language....
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Future Is Mestizo : Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised (Rev 00 Edition)
by Virgilio Elizondo Publisher Comments Classic study of culture and religion, with a new foreword, introduction and epilogue. Speaks to the largest demographic change in 20th C U.S. history -- the Latinization of music, religion, and culture....
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From Ashes To Life : My Memories of the Holocaust (94 Edition)
by Lucille Eichengreen Publisher Comments In this disturbing but inspirational account of her experiences of the Holocaust, Lucille Eichengreen relates her journey as a young Jewish girl through Nazi Germany and Poland - including internment in the camps at Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen...
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How Race Is Lived in America: Pulling Together, Pulling Apart
by Nyt Publisher Comments Whether it's the merger of a white church with a black church in the South, the hip-hop dreams of a suburban white teenager, or the struggles of a biracial partnership in a high-tech start-up, race relations continue to permeate American lives. Powerful...
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Red Azalea
by Anchee Min Publisher Comments Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read,...
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Race Relations: A Critique
by Stephen Steinberg Publisher Comments A provocative examination of prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society....
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Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America
by James Waller Publisher Comments A bold and compelling analysis of race in America and the possibility for racial reconciliation....
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Formation of a Persecuting Society : Power and Deviance in Western Europe (87 - Old Edition)
by Robert I. Moore Publisher Comments The Tenth to the Thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition; expropriation and mass murder of Jews; the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate...
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott 
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies, Lamott's previous book on spirituality, will find here the same thoughtfulness and humor we've come to love. Whether writing about battles with her son, her mother's death, the church she's found to be home, or her loathing...
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London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology #75: Essays on Cultural Transmission
by Maurice Bloch Publisher Comments This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores thehighly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with...
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Jewish Power (96 Edition)
by J. J. Goldberg Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed in both the mainstream and Jewish press, "Jewish Power" offers an engaging and provocative portrait of the people, institutions, and ideas that make up the American Jewish community. With a mixture of anecdote and analysis, journalist...
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Everyday Life in South Asia
by Diane P Mines Publisher Comments This vivid anthology of ethnographic writing on South Asia focuses on the daily lives of people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Firsthand accounts portray the ways ordinary people live and make their worlds through growing up and...
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Mama's Girl
by Veronica Chambers Publisher Comments In 1970s Brooklyn, Veronica Chambers strove to excel in everything from double-dutch jump rope to her studies -- but her mother, a hardworking Panamanian immigrant, was too often overwhelmed by the task of singlehandedly raising Veronica and her troubled...
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher Comments Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield...
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Living for Change : an Autobiography (98 Edition)
by Grace Lee Boggs Publisher Comments "More than a deeply moving memoir, this is a book of revelation. Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese American, middle class, highly educated, discovers through her encounters with remarkable rebels, blue collars as well as philosophers, where the body is buried...
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Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
by John Borneman Publisher Comments When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a rogue state on the frontline of a clash of civilizations between the Orient and the...
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History of Europe in Twentieth Century (05 Edition)
by Eric Dorn Brose Publisher Comments Written in a vivid and accessible style, A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century examines the continent's descent into the turmoil of two world wars, the tense cold war standoff between the victors, and finally the beginning of a more tranquil and...
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Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955
by Allison Varzally Publisher Comments What happens in a society so diverse that no ethnic group can call itself the majority? Exploring a question that has profound relevance for the nation as a whole, this study looks closely at eclectic neighborhoods in California where multiple minorities...
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The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy
by Allan G Johnson Publisher Comments The author explains what gender inequality is, how patriarchy works, and how to do something about it. He shows how everyone participates in the oppressive system and how to contribute towards its dissolution....
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