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Women of Beat Generation (96 Edition)
by Brenda Knight  Publisher Comments With fascinating biographies, over 40 rare photos, and never-before-published writing, "Women of the Beat Generation" captures the life and work of 40 women who broke with tradition in the uptight '50s. 50 photos....
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Blindfold Horse : Memories of a Persian Childhood (04 Edition)
by Shusha Guppy Publisher Comments A revealing memoir that describes life in Iran before the...
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Unlikely Conservative : the Transformation of an Ex-liberal (02 Edition)
by Linda Chavez Publisher Comments The rich and revealing story of a tumultuous journey from Left to Right and from poverty to prominence-by one of the most influential female conservatives in the country. When President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of Labor in...
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Knocking at Our Own Door (Columbia History of Urban Life)
by Clarence Taylor Publisher Comments The struggle for school integration in New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system, was one of the most wrenching episodes in the story of America's civil rights movement. Following a disastrous struggle in 1964 between a new...
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Radio Free Dixie : Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (99 Edition)
by Timothy B. Tyson Publisher Comments This biography tells the riveting story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists -- in the process challenging not only white...
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Race and Crime (05 Edition)
by Shaun L. Gabbidon Publisher Comments Race and Crime provides a compelling analysis of the issues of race and crime in both a historical and contemporary context. Each of nine chapters presents information on race and ethnicity and their impact on the administration of justice. Experiences...
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East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (99 Edition)
by Joanne R. (ed.) Bauer Publisher Comments The "Asian values" argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree. This position of "cultural relativism," often used by authoritarian governments in...
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Story of My Life (03 Edition)
by Helen Keller Publisher Comments THE STORY OF HELEN KELLER, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became "a symbol of the indomitable human spirit," is now considered one of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library). Yet the...
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Race and Ethnicity in Society : the Changing Landscape (2ND 09 Edition)
by Elizabeth Higginbotham Publisher Comments This engaging reader consists of 57 edited articles organized according to seven unifying themes. Part I establishes the importance of examining race as a contemporary social issue. Part II introduces the analytical frameworks that are now being used to...
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I Could Tell You Stories
by Patricia Hampl 
Powells.com Staff Pick This book of essays, focusing on the idea of memoir and memory, fell into my hands rather by accident; I started reading somewhat casually and was very happily drawn in. Hampl's voice is lovely: elegant and clear, she works through the concepts of...
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Part of My Soul Went with Him
by Winnie Mandela Publisher Comments Winnie Mandela, one of South Africa's most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a "banned" person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to address public gatherings or meet with more than one...
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Understanding Race and Ethnic Relations
by Vincent N. Parrillo Publisher Comments A brief, economical introduction to the core theories, concepts, and issues for students studying race and ethnic relations in the United States. Examines ethnic stratification, prejudice, and discrimination in the US from a sociological perspective...
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Up From Slavery (03 Edition)
by Booker T. Washington Publisher Comments "Up From Slavery"is one of the most widely read African American autobiographies in the English language. It details how prominent African American leader Booker T. Washington rose from slavery to become one of the nation's most prominent orators and...
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The Color Complex
by Kathy Russell Publisher Comments A courageous, humane, and provocative examination of how differences in color and features among African Americans have played and continue to play a role in their professional lives, friendships, romances, and families....
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African Politics in Comparative Perspective
by Goran Hyden Publisher Comments This book reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa....
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Confessions of Lady Nijo
by Nijo And Brazell Publisher Comments In about 1307 a remarkable woman in Japan sat down to complete the story of her life. The result was an autobiographical narrative, a tale of thirty-six years in the life of Lady Nijo....
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Inequality Reader : Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender (06 Edition)
by David B. Grusky Publisher Comments In this new volume noted scholars David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi have assembled a compilation of the most relevant contemporary readings on social inequality that is also backed by a select list of the most fundamental classics, all from top...
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Daughters of the Earth
by Carolyn J Niethammer Publisher Comments She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings. She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted...
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Jane Adams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life
by Jean B Elshtain Publisher Comments Jane Addams is synonymous in the American imagination with Hull-House, the legendary Chicago institution she founded, and from which she helped a generation of poor immigrants carve new lives for themselves in the midst of a desolate urban landscape. Yet...
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Gender and Power (87 Edition)
by R. W. Connell Publisher Comments Sexual politics - from economic equality to anti-gay violence - is a vast area of debate. This exceptional new book seeks to integrate gender and sexuality into the mainstream of social and political theory with the aim of challenging and transforming...
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