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The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
by Michael Mann  Publisher Comments This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and...
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Evolution of American Urban Society (6TH 05 Edition)
by Howard P. Chudacoff Publisher Comments This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with the urban environment, struggle to make a living, participate in communal institutions, and influence the...
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The Devil's Notebook
by Anton Szando La Vey Publisher Comments Wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan. LaVey ponders such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, erotic politics, the "Goodguy badge," demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions....
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Jewish Identitites in Amercan Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity
by Lisa Bloom Synopsis Ghosts of Ethnicity explores the place of Jewishness in feminist art in the United States. It considers how the unspoken and unacknowledged issue of race, this "ghost" of the artists' Jewish ethnicity, has affected, even haunted, their art work. Lisa...
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Black Metropolis : a Study of Negro Life in a Northern City ((Rev)93 Edition)
by St. Clair Drake Publisher Comments Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with...
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Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out
by Mike Gray Publisher Comments Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco...
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Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading, Otherwise
by Shoshana Felman Synopsis The provocative ideas set forth in this volume will interest students in fields ranging from French, English, literary theory, and psychoanalysis to history, philosophy, and women's studies....
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Immigrant America a Portrait 3RD Edition
by Alejandro Portes Publisher Comments This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the...
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The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
by Kenneth M. Pollack Publisher Comments In his highly influential book The Threatening Storm, bestselling author Kenneth Pollack both informed and defined the national debate about Iraq. Now, in The Persian Puzzle, published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran hostage...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner 
Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear...
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Policing for a New South Africa
by Mike Brogden Synopsis Mike Brogden and Clifford Shearing examine the state police force of South Africa, an organization that, since its formation, has acquired massive notoriety. Its officers have a reputation for routinely provoking violence and torturing suspects. As the...
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Seen and Heard: The Women of Television News
by Nichola D. Gutgold Synopsis This book chronicles the careers, communication styles, and lives of twelve prominent women in television broadcasting and discusses the obstacles and opportunities in the television broadcasting field as they relate to women. The importance of the role...
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Systemic Action Research - a Strategy for Whole System Change
by Book News Annotation Action research can be conducted on a variety of scales, and Burns (social and organizational learning, U. of the West of England) shows how to apply it to social and organizational issues to reveal opportunities for whole system change, including...
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Book of Tea
by Kazuko Okakura Publisher Comments Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler. "Provocative and entertaining, this edition is...
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Freemasonry & Its Etiquette
by W. P. Campbell-everden Publisher Comments Handy guide for Masons everywhere. This complete reference gives a concise history of Freemasonry plus its rules, regulations, ceremonies, rituals, duties, etc....
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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community
by Lois Parkinson (edt) Zamora Publisher Comments Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical...
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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
by Mizuko (edt) Ito Publisher Comments The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as andquot;something you carry with youandquot;), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant...
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Hollywood Goes to High School Cinema, Schools, and American Culture (Contemporary Social Issues)
by Robert C. Bulman Publisher Comments In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how they reflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality. By looking at...
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The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World
by Leslie Garrett Publisher Comments Is laminate flooring good or bad? Should one buy beverages in plastic bottles or cans? And how can one crack the code of little numbers in triangles on the bottom of plastic containers? Virtuous Consumer is for busy people who want to buy responsibly but...
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