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Race, Class and Gender : Anthology (6TH 07 Edition)
by Margaret L. Andersen  Publisher Comments RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive...
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Mahabharata (73 Edition)
by William Buck Publisher Comments William Buck's stirring retelling of a classic Indian epic--in its original Sanskrit, probably the largest epic ever composed....
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White Privilege (2ND 05 - Old Edition)
by Paula S. Rothenberg Publisher Comments Studies of racism often focus on its devastating effects on the victims of prejudice. But what about the other side--the ways in which some people or groups actually benefit, deliberately or inadvertently, from racial bias? White Privilege, Second...
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American Apartheid : Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (93 Edition)
by Douglas S. Massey Publisher Comments significance in the United States today....
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Teaching Community : Pedagogy of Hope (03 Edition)
by bell hooks Publisher Comments Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical...
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Black Elk Speaks ((Rev)04 Edition)
by John G. Neihardt Publisher Comments "Black Elk Speaks" is the powerful and inspirational story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his people during the momentous twilight years of the 19th century, as told to distinguished poet, writer, and critic Neihardt in 1930....
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After Silence : Rape and My Journey Back (98 Edition)
by Nacy Vernable Raine Publisher Comments "Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words "shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing,...
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Impossible Subjects
by Mae M. Ngai Publisher Comments This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race,...
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Ramayana
by William Buck Publisher Comments The classic Sanskrit epic retold by William Buck....
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Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence
by Maria (edt) Ochoa Publisher Comments How do so many women survive the violence of their daily lives? Where do they find hope? How can this violence be allowed to continue? A long-needed book, Shout Out contains a powerful collection of writing by women who are contemplating and striving to...
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Japan and the Pacific Rim : Global Studies (9TH 07 Edition)
by Annual Editions Publisher Comments Our GLOBAL STUDIES Series provides students with comprehensive background and current information shaping regional cultures and countries of the world today. Each volume features country report essays and maps as well as relevant articles from world-wide...
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass (Vintage International)
by Isak Dinesen Publisher Comments At the age of twenty-seven, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. From 1914 to 1931 she managed the...
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America
by Stephen G Bloom 
Powells.com Staff Pick "You have got to read this book. The clash of cultures portrayed in this small town in Iowa is illuminating and riveting. When Orthodox Jews move into Postville and open a kosher slaughterhouse, local (and non-Jewish) Iowans figure this is just...
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Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts
by Gary Paul Nabhan Publisher Comments The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientists—and have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking...
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (99 Edition)
by Janisse Ray
Publisher Comments Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural...
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Ethnicity (96 Edition)
by John Hutchinson Publisher Comments Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an...
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China : Global Studies (12TH 08 Edition)
by Annual Edition Publisher Comments GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites...
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True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by...
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Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
by Elizabeth Wa Fernea Publisher Comments A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman....
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