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Pieces of White Shell
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Pieces of White Shell
by Terry Temp Williams

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Introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller....
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The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (Foundation Directory Part 2)
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The Foundation Directory, Part 2 (Foundation Directory Part 2)
by David G. Jacobs

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The Directory Part 2 features the next 10,000 largest U.S. foundations to broaden your funding base. The latest edition includes over 2,100 new entries and more than 40,000 sample grants to help you find those funders most likely to support your...
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Families : Applications of Social Learning To Family Life (Rev 75 Edition)
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Families : Applications of Social Learning To Family Life (Rev 75 Edition)
by Gerald R. Patterson

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Helps parents recognize the crucial role they play in shaping their children's behavior. The first half of the book examines reinforcement and contracts as the basis for behavior management programs. The second half focuses on applications of social...
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Rising from the Dead: Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety (Haworth Pastoral Press Religion and Mental Health)
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Rising from the Dead: Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety (Haworth Pastoral Press Religion and Mental Health)
by Patricia D Nanoff

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Help bridge the gap between the non-religious recovering community and the religious community Rising from the Dead: Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety details the recovery stories of alcoholic women in long-term sobriety and the role...
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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics : Pan-maya Activism in Guatemala (98 Edition)
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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics : Pan-maya Activism in Guatemala (98 Edition)
by Kay B. Warren

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In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging...
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The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
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The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
by Hillel Schwartz

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The Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented attempt to make sense of our Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. Through intriguing historical analysis and case studies in contemporary culture, Hillel Schwartz investigates most...
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Medicalization of Society (07 Edition)
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Medicalization of Society (07 Edition)
by Conrad

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Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems -- birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity -- are now viewed as medical conditions....
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Depression
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Depression
by Aaron T Beck

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The principal work on the subject and a valuable source of reference.--J.R.M. Copeland, M.D., British Journal of Psychiatry Pioneering in its cognitive approach to psychotherapy, this broad survey of all aspects of depression is considered...
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Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
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Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
by Cheikh Anta Diop

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Translated by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi Represents the late Senegalese scholar's final contribution to rethinking African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective....
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Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
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Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
by Richard Weaver

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This classic work by the author of Ideas Have Consequences boldly examines the Intellectual roots of our current cultural crisis....
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Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule
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Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule
by Vicente L. Rafael

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In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580-1705) of...
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Conflicts and Tensions : Cultures and Globalization Series Volume 1 (07 Edition)
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Conflicts and Tensions : Cultures and Globalization Series Volume 1 (07 Edition)
by Anheier And Raj Isar (eds.)

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The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation, and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood. This book is designed to fill this glaring gap in our knowledge. Analyzing the...
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The Sensuous Woman
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The Sensuous Woman
by J

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Not too long ago only "bad" girls had a  good time in bed. "Good" girls endured  -- and wondered what they were missing. Then along came "J" and suddenly  everything was different. She opened...
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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
by Rebecca Mead

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The 160-billion dollar behemoth that is the American wedding industry and the psychology behind the expense, stress, and folly associated with the typical American wedding Using the American wedding as a rosetta stone, in One Perfect Day writer Rebecca...
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Atlantic Slave Trade (99 Edition)
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Atlantic Slave Trade (99 Edition)
by Herbert S. Klein

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This survey synthesizes the economic, social, cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave trade. It details the current scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The book examines the 400...
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The Idea of Poverty
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The Idea of Poverty
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Spicker (public policy, Robert Gordon U., UK) examines debates over how poverty is defined in the developed and developing parts of the world, whether people define it by such dimensions as material deprivation, lack of money, dependency on benefits...
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G-dog and Homeboys -updated Edition ((Rev)04 Edition)
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G-dog and Homeboys -updated Edition ((Rev)04 Edition)
by Celeste Fremon

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This paperback edition updates the story of Father Boyle and his ongoing work with gang members in East L.A....
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Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
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Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland
by Jeremiah Curtin

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Twenty folk tales representing hundreds of years of the collective Irish imagination transport readers to a world where everything is alive and anything can happen! Vivid descriptions of battles with giants, dead men who come back to life, humans...
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Mother Camp : Female Impersonators in America (79 Edition)
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Mother Camp : Female Impersonators in America (79 Edition)
by Esther Newton

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For two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens—homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton spent time in the noisy bars, the chaotic dressing rooms, and the cheap apartments and hotels that make up the...
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Worlds Apart : Why Poverty Persists in Rural America (99 Edition)
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Worlds Apart : Why Poverty Persists in Rural America (99 Edition)
by Cynthia M. Duncan

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Over five years, sociologist Cynthia Duncan visited remote rural areas across the U.S. and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with the residents to unravel the ways in which poverty is perpetuated--and what can be done to alleviate the problem...
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