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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
by Barbara Ehrenreich  
Publisher Comments In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us on an original journey from the elaborate human...
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Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages
by Patricia A. Gozemba Publisher Comments 'The inspiring story of America's only successful battle for gay marriage—the court cases, the protests, and finally, the weddings! On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted equal marriage benefits to same-sex...
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The Natural Superiority of Women
by Ashley Montagu Publisher Comments Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first...
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Fascist Spectacle: Aesthetics of Power Mussolini's Italy
by Simonetta Falasca-zamponi Publisher Comments This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts...
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The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
by James Canton Publisher Comments A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology...
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Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
by Claude Fischer Publisher Comments "The authors of this compelling new study rebut the wrong-headed work of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein by mobilizing powerful evidence to demonstrate that inequality is a structural problem, not a hereditary condition. One of the most important...
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Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America
by Christophe Sterling Publisher Comments When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of...
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The Art of Growing Older: Writers on Living and Aging
by Wayne C. Booth Publisher Comments "Culled chiefly from great literary works, this unusual compendium of prose and poetry ... highlights the physical and emotional aspects of aging.... The thoughtful commentary with which Booth connects the selections reminds readers that physical decay...
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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
Publisher Comments President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In Living Faith, a huge bestseller, he recounted the values and experiences that shaped his personal and political life. In his companion book Sources of Strength, also a...
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
by Kevin Bales Publisher Comments "A well-researched, scholarly, and deeply disturbing expose of modern-day slavery with well-thought-out strategies for what to do to combat this scourge. None of us is allowed the luxury of imagined impotence. We can do something about it."--Desmond...
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Drifters
by James A Michener Publisher Comments In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the...
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Damned Lies and Statistics (01 Edition)
by Joel Best Publisher Comments Does the number of children gunned down double each year? Does anorexia kill 150,000 young women annually? Do white males account for only a sixth of new workers? Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these...
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Differences That Matter (06 Edition)
by Dan Zuberi Publisher Comments Compares how low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada....
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How Societies Change (94 Edition)
by Daniel Chirot Synopsis The only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates which describes how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. Shows how industrial societies, even though they have been a great success, have created a new...
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Desert Exile
by Yoshiko Uchida Publisher Comments Autobiographical account of the internment of the Japanese American author's family in 1942....
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Secret Societies...and How They Affect Our Lives Today
by Sylvia Browne Publisher Comments Fresh from the success of her book Secrets & Mysteries of the World, Sylvia Browne now writes about the clandestine world of secret societies. Sylvia’s research, combined with her amazing communication with her spirit guide Francine, has...
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Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that even the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means....
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Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World
by David Solnit Publisher Comments The attacks of 9/11 have renewed a hunger for ideas about how to effect change. The strategies and hard-won victories of dedicated activists from global justice and community struggles can provide vision and hope, and in this collection of 33 articles...
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Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expections
by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: waht was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century. The book quickly became a...
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Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying...
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