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Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
by David Grossman  Publisher Comments Recent essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and best-loved voices Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors...
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The Limits to Travel: How Far Will You Go?
by David Metz Publisher Comments As affluence grows, it gets easier to travel faster and further. But research shows that, despite this, the average daily travel time in all societies remains steady at roughly an hour. The implication is that people are for shorter journey times. While...
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There's a Riot Going on There's a Riot Going on: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '6revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise
by Peter Doggett Publisher Comments Between 1965 and 1972, students and other political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark...
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Classic Edition Sources: Sociology (Classic Edition Sources)
by Kurt Finsterbusch Publisher Comments This reader provides over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--classic articles, book excerpts, and research studies--that have shaped the study of sociology and our contemporary understanding of it....
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Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World: The National Write Here, Write Now Project
by Pat O'connor Publisher Comments This book provides an engaging and informative insight into the experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in contemporary Ireland. O'Connor analyzes a unique data set: a random sample of 4,100 texts drawn from roughly 34,000 texts written...
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Community Work (Practical Social Work)
by Alan C. Twelvetrees Publisher Comments In the fourth edition of this book Alan Twelvetrees has brought thoroughly up to date his international best seller Community Work . He describes both theory and practice in a highly readable and honest way, drawing on his own professional experience and...
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Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down Boundaries
by Miriam T. Stark Publisher Comments How and why people develop, maintain, and change cultural boundaries through time are central issues in the social and behavioral sciences in generaland anthropological archaeology in particular. What factors influence people to imitate or deviate from...
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Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in Lgbt Activist Organizations
by Jane Ward Publisher Comments For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site...
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A History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, New and Fully Updated Edition
by Norman Klein Publisher Comments Los Angeles is a city that has long thrived on the continual re-creation of its own myth. In this extraordinary work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA. Using a provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an...
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
by R. Buckminster Fuller Publisher Comments Buckminster Fuller (1895a 1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his...
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African Americans and Popular Culture [Three Volumes]
by Todd Boyd Publisher Comments The African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, black artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs managed to forge deep relationships within...
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Global Environmental History
by I. G. Simmons Publisher Comments The global environment has been in a state of change since the height of the last glacial maximum of the Pleistocene. Examining this state of flux of both the natural environment and the living organisms that inhabit it, I. G. Simmons’s Global...
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Working with Violence: Policies and Practices in Risk Assessment and Management
by Steve Myers Publisher Comments Practitioners are faced with a wide range of theories of violence that influence policy development, training and professional responses to managing violence. This book examines current explanatory theories of violence, how these theoretical positions...
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Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
by Zachary Shore Publisher Comments How to prevent history from repeating itself: learn the seven cognition traps that undermine success. Where Malcolm Gladwell's Blink considers rapid cognition, Zachary Shore's Blunder identifies seven cognition traps, those insidious yet avoidable...
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Food: The Key Concepts (Key Concepts)
by Warren Belasco Publisher Comments This book offers an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to the study of food studies for the beginning reader. Food choices, the author argues, are the result of a complex negotiation among three competing considerations: the consumers'...
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Security: Sociology and Social Worlds
by Sophie Watson Publisher Comments This textbook provides the first introductory sociological analysis of security in the 21st century. Students will find one of the central issues of modern times--security--analyzed in all its different aspects, from global geo-politics to intimate...
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The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
by Eric Nuzum Publisher Comments The Dead Travel Fast is about vampires, death, chickens, fear, things that smell bad, the love of a good woman, and germs... but mostly it's about vampires. The undead are everywhere. They're not just in movies and books, but in commercials, fetish clubs,...
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Becoming a Behavioral Science Researcher: A Guide to Producing Research That Matters
by Rex B. Kline Publisher Comments Students and beginning researchers often discover that their introductory statistics and methods courses have not fully equipped them to plan and execute their own behavioral research studies. This indispensable book bridges the gap between course work...
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African Ceremonies: 2009 Wall Calendar
by Carol Beckwith Publisher Comments Based on Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher's critically acclaimed and popular book African Ceremonies, this calendar features breathtaking images of the amazing traditional rituals of Africa. Beckwith and Fisher have made their lifes' work documenting and...
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Hellions: Pop Culture's Women Rebels
by Maria Raha Publisher Comments Who is the iconic rebel? Is it a character from the legacy of James Dean or Clint Eastwood, or maybe a Beat Generation writer? Is it a woman? Modern pop culture and the media have distorted the notion of rebellion. Classic male rebels appear sexy...
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