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China (Global Studies)
by Suzanne Ogden  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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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
by Roger Davies Publisher Comments In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored...
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Coming to America (Second Edition): A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-491) and index....
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
by Kris Holloway Publisher Comments Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This...
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Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
by Helen Prejean Publisher Comments In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman...
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The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by Lori Schiller Publisher Comments Schiller's gripping, heart-rending and ultimately triumphant story of her journey into madness and back to reality is told through the voices of Lori and her family, friends and doctor, and captures a rare, astoundingly vivid view into the inner life of...
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Bookseller of Kabul (03 Edition)
by Asne Seierstad 
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives...
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A Match to the Heart
by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments After nature writer Gretel Ehrlich was struck by lightning near her Wyoming ranch and almost died, she embarked on a painstaking and visionary journey back to the land of the living. With the help of an extraordinary cardiologist and the companionship of...
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin Publisher Comments A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing...
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
by Robert Jensen Publisher Comments In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: How does it feel to be a problem? In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the...
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Critical Race Theory (01 Edition)
by Richard Delgado Publisher Comments Read Chapter One . Unlike other theorists, these people mean to change the world, not merely to 'ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it for the better.' This book has served as my introduction to a...
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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
by Esmeralda Santiago Publisher Comments Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in...
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The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
by Robert M Entman Publisher Comments Winner of the Frank Luther Mott Award for best book in Mass Communication and the Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology. Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships...
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Up from Slavery (Signet Classics)
by Booker T Washington Publisher Comments A MAN WHO OVERCAME THE BONDS OF SLAVERY TO BECOME A SPOKESMAN FOR HIS PEOPLE.<P>Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a...
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I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments A private citizen who transformed the world around him, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arguably the greatest American who ever lived. Now, after more than thirty years, few people understand how truly radical he was. In this groundbreaking examination of...
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Global Studies: China
by Suzanne Ogden 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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Examinations of Anne Askew (96 Edition)
by Ann Askew Publisher Comments In this vivid first-person narrative, Anne Askew (1521-1546), a member of the Reformed church, records her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state in the last days of Henry VIII. She represents herself arguing...
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Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
by Laurie Notaro
Publisher Comments The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and...
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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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Asian Mind Game (91 Edition)
by Chin-ning Chu Publisher Comments This is the first book to reveal secret of the Asia psyche that influence behavior in business, diplomacy, lifestyles, and basttle. Americans seldom realize that Asians regard the marketplace as a battlefield, but now successful East-West trade...
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