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A Short History of the American Stomach
by Frederick Kaufman  Publisher Comments The extremes of American eating — our separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves — are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold...
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All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
by Winona Laduke Publisher Comments This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people...
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Karl Popper and the Social Sciences (Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)
by William A Gorton Publisher Comments In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and...
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Conscientious Objections (88 Edition)
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with...
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Dilemmas of Engagement
by Saville (edt) Kushner Publisher Comments In our public institutions it sometimes feels as though the tectonic plates of social and political contracts are shifting. The economic revolution embraced by neo-liberals and conservatives found its counterpart in a governance revolution in the very...
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A Civilian Response To Ethno-religious Conflict
by Mehmet Kalyoncu Publisher Comments This extensive analysis of the Mardin conflict in southeast Turkey considers the likelihood that socioreligious movements, such as the popular Gülen movement, could effect positive change in ethnoreligious disputes, even those decades old. By...
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Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (Console-Ing Passions)
by Lynn Spigel Publisher Comments In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television's changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual...
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Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences
by Laura M Carpenter Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "Well written and engaging, Virginity Lost is an extremely valuable contribution, giving us in depth and moving descriptions of how first sexual experiences changed men's and women's...
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David Bowie: Fame, Sound and Vision (Celebrities)
by Nick Stevenson Synopsis This culturally sensitive re-reading of the life, image and music of David Bowie offers a detailed understanding of his importance to modern times. It is a subtle and accessible exploration of the complex cultures of celebrity....
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People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science
by Terry Daniel Publisher Comments Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for future catastrophic fires. Forest settings are a magnet for recreational opportunities and for rapidly growing residential development&mdash...
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A Rose for Her Grave: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 1
by Ann Rule Publisher Comments Ann Rule's Crime Files books have delivered the very best in true crime reading since A Rose for Her Grave, first in the acclaimed series, made its debut. Distinguished by the former Seattle policewoman's razor-sharp eye for telling detail and her...
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Just and Unjust Wars : a Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations (4TH 06 Edition)
by Michael Walzer Publisher Comments From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war. He studies a variety of...
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Hmong in Minnesota (People of Minnesota)
by Chia Youyee Vang Publisher Comments Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in...
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Another Chance 2ND Edition
by S Wegscheider Cruse Synopsis This edition, winner of a Marty Mann Award as an outstanding contribution on alcoholism communications, updates and expands the original classic on how the alcoholic family system works....
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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
by Michael Denning Synopsis Michael Denning, a leading cultural historian, analyses the historical role of culture during the period that the first, second and third world rose, and then merged into one. This is a major study by a respected cultural historian....
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Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education
by Jeanne H. (edt) Ballantine Publisher Comments A comprehensive overview using an open systems approach Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education, Third Edition, now published by Pine Forge Press, features original readings and article excerpts by leaders in the area of Sociology of...
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The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
by Diana West Publisher Comments Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single ...
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The New Conscientious Objection: From Sacred to Secular Resistance
by Charles C Moskos Publisher Comments Although conscientious objection is a long-standing phenomenon, it has only recently become a major factor affecting armed forces and society. The only comprehensive, comparative scholarly study of conscientious objection to military service, this book...
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Geisha: The Life, the Voices, the Art
by Jodi Cobb Publisher Comments The first paperback edition of the first book to capture in words and in photographs -- 77 in full color -- the private world of the geisha. Here, in remarkable detail, and through the cooperation of geisha in Kyoto and Tokyo, a precious icon of Japanese...
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Dominion
by Matthew Scully Publisher Comments "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."--...
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