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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
by Barbara Ehrenreich  Publisher Comments “Important and provocative . . . There are many tempting reasons to pick up Global Woman.” —The New York Times Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are...
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China Boy
by Gus Lee Synopsis Warm, funny, and deeply moving, Gus Lee's semi-autobiographical account of growing up in a conflict-ridden family, unable to fully embrace either American or Chinese culture, is an enthralling story of family relationships, the perils of boyhood, and the...
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The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 7, 1899 - 1924: Essays, Books Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles in the 1912-1914 Period, and Interest and Effort i (Collected Works of John Dewey)
by John Dewey Publisher Comments Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian...
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Eros and Civilization (55 Edition)
by Herbert Marcuse Publisher Comments A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud "A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased...
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Mothers Without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform
by Lynn Fujiwara Publisher Comments In August 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that fulfilled his campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it,” and one month later the Illegal Immigration Reform and...
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations Book)
by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholarship has defined the stakes in the Middle East today...
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I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion
by Paul Budnitz Publisher Comments In barely a decade, the designer toy craze, which originated in Hong Kong, has taken the world by storm. Children and adults, celebrities and design aficionados now line up to pay anywhere from five dollars to thousands of dollars for these highly...
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Spatial Water Management: Creating Local Support for Regional and National Planning Issues
by Hasse Goosen Publisher Comments Spatial Water Management addresses the constraints in water policy implementation and proposes a platform approach that strikes a balance between top-down regulation and bottom-up solutions. The book contributes to the understanding of how decision...
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Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time
by Paul Rogat Loeb Publisher Comments Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions. A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of...
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Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty
by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough...
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Looking Out / Looking in (12TH 07 Edition)
by Ronald B. Adler Publisher Comments Used by more than a million students, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, Twelfth Edition, continues its outstanding tradition of combining current information with a fun, reader-friendly voice that links course topics to your everyday life. You'll discover the...
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Evil Paradises : Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (07 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places-alternate realities being constructed as utopias in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments-in...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky 
Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their...
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The Book of Snobs
by William Makepeace Thackeray Publisher Comments England may not have a monopoly on snobbery, but the nation is a past master in its practice, as Thackeray realized when he embarked on his priceless satirical account of the snobs of England. Serialized in Punch in 1846/47, his hilarious portraits...
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Changing Values, Persisting Cultures: Case Studies in Value Change (European Values Studies)
by Thorleif (edt) Pettersson Synopsis Based upon the data collected by values surveys since 1981, this volume presents detailed analyses of cultural change and stability in a number of key countries around the globe. Democratization, individualization, modernization and secularization are...
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his...
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Poverty and Inequality
by David B. Grusky Publisher Comments “This slim volume offers ample food for thought to scholars with a serious interest in social or economic inequality. The star contributors— economists, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers—present concepts, theories...
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty...
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The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess
by Lou Schuler Publisher Comments If you believe what most women's magazines tell you, muscles can be shaped, toned, and sculpted with nothing more than a little dumbbell that weighs less than a can of peas. But muscles aren't modeling clay, and the only way to transform them is to...
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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger Publisher Comments “Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about [the] second-generation Web.”—Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the...
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