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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
by Stephen L Carter

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In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on...
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Care, Community and Citizenship - Research and Practice in a Changing Policy Context
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Twenty-one international academics and researchers contribute 16 chapters examining the relationship between social care, community, and citizenship in the UK. Coverage includes key concepts, policies, issues and relationships, with contrasting...
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Heroine's Journey
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Heroine's Journey
by Maureen Murdock

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This book describes contemporary woman's search for wholeness in a society in which she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing upon cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women...
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Byting Back: Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents (Rand Counterinsurgency Study)
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Byting Back: Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents (Rand Counterinsurgency Study)
by Martin C. Libicki

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Libicki et al. argue that information collection requirements and systems for counterinsurgency are important because the community that conducts counterinsurgency crosses national and institutional boundaries and because the indigenous population plays...
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Commemorations : the Politics of National Identity (94 Edition)
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Commemorations : the Politics of National Identity (94 Edition)
by John R. (ed.) Gillis

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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies
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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies
by John W. (edt) Blassingame

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Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for...
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
by Kathryn Edin

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Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her...
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Fast Cars, Clean Bodies : Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (95 Edition)
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Fast Cars, Clean Bodies : Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (95 Edition)
by Kristin Ross

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Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a...
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Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media
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Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media
by David Edwards

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"Guardians of Power ought to be required reading in every media college. It is the most important book about journalism I can remember." - John Pilger "Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of...
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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida

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Research-driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high-value jobs from the USA. Today's most valued workers are what economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class. In his...
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Modernity and Its Futures (UK Edition)
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Modernity and Its Futures (UK Edition)
by Stuart Hall

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Modernity and its Futures is a major introductory textbook which examines the forces reshaping modern industrial societies and the new patterns, structures and relationships that are emerging in the contemporary world. The key debates about these changes...
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Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction
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Bad Girls of Pulp Fiction
by Thomas Campbell

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Bright, lurid, and enormously entertaining, the covers of adult pulp novels published from the 1940s through the 1960s constitute a pop-art genre of enduring appeal. This Miniature Edition™ collection of 60 pulp-fiction book covers includes such...
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Community Health Nursing
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Community Health Nursing
by Judith Ann Allender

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This comprehensive text provides unique coverage of vulnerable aggregate populations while using the levels of prevention approach. This edition will focus more on public health including health promotion and protection, increase the nursing application...
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A Future for Everyone: Innovative Social Responsibility and Community Partnership
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A Future for Everyone: Innovative Social Responsibility and Community Partnership
by David J Maurrasse

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Enters an ongoing debate about the need for corporate social responsibilityIncludes original pieces by a great range of contributors, from academics and community leaders to consultants, non-profit managers and business professionalsWill appeal to civic...
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Way We Really Are : Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families (97 Edition)
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Way We Really Are : Coming To Terms With America's Changing Families (97 Edition)
by Stephanie Coontz

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Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while...
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Wiley Series in Survey Methodology #538: Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology
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Wiley Series in Survey Methodology #538: Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology
by James M. Lepkowski Et Al

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Technology has changed substantially how survey firms collect data, from universal application of computer assistance to devices to record verbatim responses during interviews. The goals of the book are to bring together both the state-of-the-art...
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Genetics and Society (UK Edition)
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Genetics and Society (UK Edition)
by Ikhide Pilnick

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index....
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Twenty Ads That Shook the World : the Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How It Changed Us All (00 Edition)
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Twenty Ads That Shook the World : the Century's Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How It Changed Us All (00 Edition)
by James B. Twitchell

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In what is poised to be the seminal text on advertising, one of the country's most respected advertising and media critics offers a fascinating look at the 20 ads in the 20th century that have most shaped our buying decisions, our culture, and global...
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Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity
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Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity
by Arnold Mindell

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Using examples ranging from disputes in small organizations to large-scale conflicts in countries around the world, this volume offers practical methods for working with conflict, leadership crises, stagnation, abuse, terrorism, violence, and other...
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
by John F Kasson

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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an...
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